The NYT has written a long piece of Mike Huckabee. Who is he? Huckabee is an admirer of the late Jerry Falwell (whose son, Jerry Jr., recently endorsed his candidacy) and subscribes wholeheartedly to the principles of the Moral Majority. He also affirms the Baptist Faith and Message statement: ‘‘The…
On Bill Moyers' Journal, Bill Moyers discussed this multifaceted issue with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. This video is well worth watching for many reasons. The introduction includes a clip of John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech to Southern Baptist…
Mike Huckabee doesn't want to discuss the sermons he gave while he served as an evangelical pastor. Why not? Is he embarrasssed? Tim Grieve of Salon.com's "War Room" writes about the evolution of Huckabee's "explanation" about how people came to exist on Earth. In one of Huckabee's early documented sermons he…
Here’s how Christina Page addresses this question: 98 percent of American women have done it. 37 million Americans are currently doing it. Most of the GOP candidates oppose it. What is it? “It” is using birth control. The GOP candidates have made it clear that they oppose the right of…
Mitt Romney has made it clear that he intends to serve the law first, his religion second. That he feels he ought not to have to justify his religious beliefs in order to run for president of the United States. The parallels to John F. Kennedy’s Houston speech are dripping…