If you believe in God and the power of prayer, Lonnie Berger wants you to do something for him. He wants you to pray that Sam Brownback does well in the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames on Aug. 11.
Berger, who calls himself Brownback’s “Prayer Coordinator,” has a website called prayforbrownback.com and sent out an e-mail [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 31, 2007
Praying for Brownback and Buses
July 17, 2007
Mascot for Hamas TV Show Is a Mouse No More
By The New York Times: Jersalem, July 16 — Hamas television, which was criticized for a Mickey Mouse-like character named Farfur who spouted anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish nostrums at children, has replaced the mouse with a bee named Nahoul, who says he is Farfur’s cousin.
Farfur was beaten to death by an Israeli who wanted his [...]
July 16, 2007
How The Democrats Got Religion
Excerpt from Time article: In this campaign season, if Clinton and Barack Obama and John Edwards are any measure, there will be nothing unusual in Democrats’ talking about the God who guides them and the beliefs that sustain them. Clinton has hired Burns Strider, a congressional staffer (and evangelical Baptist from Mississippi) who is assembling [...]
July 14, 2007
Religious Republicans
The role of religious voters in the Republican Party has been highlighted by the sharp criticism of the Republican presidential front-runners – Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney – by conservative religious leaders.
Are religious Republicans abandoning President Bush and perhaps the GOP as well? The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for [...]
July 13, 2007
Christian Right Activists Disrupt Hindu Chaplain In The Senate
Source: Eric Kleefeld, TPM Cafe. Today was a historic first for religion in America’s civic life: For the very first time, a Hindu delivered the morning invocation in the Senate chamber — only to find the ceremony disrupted by three Christian right activists.
Watch the video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9To30Hz7A
The three protesters, who all belong to the Christian Right [...]
July 4, 2007
On this day, the fourth of July, 2007….
the single greatest threat to church-state separation in America is the movement known as the Religious Right. Organizations and leaders representing this religio-political crusade seek to impose a fundamentalist Christian viewpoint on all Americans through government action.Americans United, as part of our educational responsibility, regularly monitors the agenda and activities of the Religious Right. We [...]
July 3, 2007
Militant Islam’s Broad Appeal
BBC: July 3, 2007. The news that many of the suspects in the failed car bomb attacks in Britain are medical doctors from the Middle East has shocked many and raised questions about connections between class, education and militant Islam. There is a popular misperception that only the destitute or ill-educated are drawn to the [...]
July 2, 2007
HAMAS MICKEY MARTYRED
UPDATE: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children’s television program was beaten to death in the show’s final episode Friday.In the final skit, “Farfour” was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At one point, the mouse called [...]
