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The drama continues to unfold.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) -- Evangelical pastor Ted Haggard confessed on Sunday to a "lifelong" sexual problem, and said he was "a deceiver and a liar," in a letter read to his New Life Church.

"There is part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it all my life," he said in ( Read more... )

zarq and sweet_ali, did you guys see this yet?
TAMPA - U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, who has made past comments that raised questions about her religious sensitivity, prayed in a telephone prayer service recently that God would "bring the hearts and minds of our Jewish brothers and sisters into alignment."A Harris spokeswoman said Friday that the Longboat Key ( Read more... )

Buh-bye!
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - The Rev. Ted Haggard was dismissed Saturday as leader of the megachurch he founded after a board determined the influential evangelist had committed "sexually immoral conduct," the church said Saturday ( Read more... )

Thanks to anne_jumps for bringing this to my attention. From Feministing:


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First there was George Allen and the "blacks can't swim" dude. Then there was the Louisiana school bus driver who thought it was ok to make the black kids sit in the back of the bus. Now we have a Nebraska State Trooper who joined the Klan and a Missisippi Baptist church expelling a twelve-year-old boy because he's biracial. They were afraid he' ( Read more... )

Certainly not the GOP!
WASHINGTON - As discontent with the Republican Party threatens to dampen the turnout of conservative voters in November, evangelical leaders are launching a massive registration drive that could help counter the malaise and mobilize new religious voters in battleground states ( Read more... )

At least three people emailed this to me. Thanks for the laugh, y'all!


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In O.o news, there's a new Left Behind video game, based on the books that have some people convinced God's going to beam them up to Heaven any minute.

Mark Morford pitches the new Left Behind video game to its target demographic.

Are you a true believer? Do you just know deep down in your black Wal-Mart socks that every word of the Bible is the ( Read more... )

Interesting & thought provoking op-ed column on Democrats courting evangelicals by Ruth Marcus.
Democrats these days are a party on a mission that might sound impossible: to persuade evangelical Christian voters to consider converting -- to the Democratic Party ( Read more... )