The Minneapolis City Council voted on Friday to denounce Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, which would jail LGBT people in that country and impose severe penalties for allies who work for LGBT rights. The first incarnation of the bill…
On Wednesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann participated in the Family Research Council’s “prayercast” against the health reform bill being debated in Congress. Bachmann and religious right leader Lou Engle led the group in prayer as participants chanted and churchgoers…
Former state legislator and conservative Christian figurehead Allen Quist says his campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Tim Walz will focus not on the social-conservative issues he’s targeted in the past but on “Tea Party” issues. But during the last few months, he had been working closely with some of the religious right’s top leaders as he’s done throughout much of his 27-year political career.
Rep. Michele Bachmann will join members of the religious right in a “prayercast” on Wednesday to pray for defeat the “Government Takeover of Healthcare.” The prayercast is sponsored by the Family Research Council.
Televangelist Pat Robertson gushed over Rep. Michele Bachmann’s rise in the Republican party in an interview with Bachmann on Robertson’s 700 Club on Thursday. The appearance comes a week after another religious right leader, Phyllis Schlafly, gave Bachmann…
In a profile in its December issue, the Christian Examiner credits religious right leader Beverly LaHaye, the founder of Concerned Women for America, for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s rise in the conservative movement.
Octogenarian religious right leader Phyllis Schlafly urged members of her Eagle Forum on Tuesday to rush to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s support to “stand with her through all the vicious attacks being directed her way from the Left for daring…
The religious right’s annual “War on Christmas” is ramping up early this year, and at least one Minnesota-based company is on its hit list. Targeting retail stores that use the word “holiday” instead of “Christmas,” a trend it says the Nazis began, the American Family Association includes SUPERVALU, Eden Prairie–based owner of Cub Foods, among its targets for using the h-word in its ads.
While Rep. Michele Bachmann was the highest-profile catch for the “Appeal to Heaven” gala for the controversial You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International ministry (even though she ultimately was a no-show and sent a video message…
Bradlee Dean, the founder of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International told the attendees of the group’s “Appeal to Heaven” fundraiser that the media “demonizes” him for bringing his fiery brand of Christianity into public schools. Then he pointed out one of the reporters he feels is behind such attacks, the Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey.
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