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By Kim on December 6, 2008
When John Howard’s government announced funding for school chaplains in public schools, then Education Minister Julie Bishop (remember her?) claimed it was all about instilling “values” in the kiddies. Apparently, the fruits of the program have exceeded expectations: GOD has [...]
Posted in Education, Howardia, Religion | Tagged Christianity, church and state, Culture Wars, evangelicals, John Howard, Julie Bishop, public schools, Religion, school chaplains, school education, secularism, values |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 30, 2008
Writing in Salon, Gary Kamiya describes the near hysteria to which “movement conservatives” are reduced in confronting a likely Obama victory: …typical of the Limbaugh-inflected (or infected) movement as a whole is the apocalyptic attitude of right-wing columnist Mark Steyn, [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Feminism, Foreign Elections, History, Media, Polls, Poverty, Race, Religion, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged American history, American politics, Andrew Cockburn, arthur schlesinger, barack obama, blogosphere, Book review, cable television, Culture Wars, evangelicals, FDR, Fox news, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gary Kamiya, John McCain, nixonland, religion and politics, religious right, Richard Nixon, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on August 18, 2008
Joan Walsh at Salon asks whether America is “now officially a Christian nation”. She’s thinking of this – Obama’s appearance along with John McCain at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church: One of the candidates for president strolled onto the stage [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Foreign Elections, Industrial Relations, Poverty, Religion, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, church and state, evangelicals, faith and politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John McCain, neoliberal economics, Robert Reich, social democracy, Sociology, theocracy, US election 2004, US election 2008 |
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