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Richard Land: Historian and Scientist 12/09/2008 by Kyle Mantyla It seems that Richard Land is not just some Religious Right leader and pundit, he's also something of a renaissance man with expertise in a wide variety of area - such as predicting the …

Land Slowly Backs Away From Palin 12/01/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Politico notes that even though Sarah Palin tops polls of Republican voters’ preferred pick for the party’s nominee in 2012, her support comes mainly from hard-core right-wing conservatives …

Land: GOP Must Eject the "Nativists" 11/21/2008 by Kyle Mantyla There's has been a lot of in-fighting and finger-pointing in Republican circles since the election as they try to figure out what went wrong and who is to blame.  While some have been blaming …

The Right's Muted Response to Their Anti-Gay Victories 11/05/2008 by Kyle Mantyla I've been having a bit of difficulty putting together a post regarding what the Right has to say about their anti-gay amendment wins in Florida, California, and Arizona not …

The Right's Response to 2008 11/05/2008 by Kyle Mantyla I had been working on this post throughout the day, but before I actually got around to writing it I found that David Waters of the Post's "On Faith" blog had already pretty much written it, so I …

SBC Can't Agree Whether Birth Control is "Murder" 10/23/2008 by Kyle Mantyla It seems as if the Southern Baptist Convention is having a bit of an internal disagreement about whether or not the use of birth control is acceptable.  Dr. Thomas White of the …

"How McCain Shed Pariah Status Among Evangelicals" 10/23/2008 by Kyle Mantyla That is the title of this good piece by NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty on how John McCain managed to go from reviled enemy of the Religious Right to panderer extraordinaire in …

The Religious Right's Odd Definition of "Endorsement" 09/23/2008 by Kyle Mantyla For some reason during this election cycle, we seem to be seeing at lot of Religious Right leaders taking clear stances in favor of Republican candiates yet insisting that …

Palin Can Be VP, Unless Her Husband Says Otherwise 09/18/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Adelle M. Banks of the Religion News Service had an interesting article the other day looking at the issue of why Religious Right leaders who tend to think that wives should …

Will McCain Poke The Right in the Eye? 08/25/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Ezra Klein predicts that John McCain will choose Joe Lieberman as his running mate and explains his reasoning: For the Republicans, however, 2008 can't be [about] mobilization. Their half …