Nation Topics - Tony Perkins | The Nation

The Christian right is embroiled in an internal culture war, pitting true believers against pragmatists looking for a candidate to satisfy the antitax and neoconservative wings of the GOP.

Christian conservatives play the porn card in an attempt to discredit Mitt Romney and advance the cause of Fred Thompson.

Jerry Falwell is best known for crusading against abortion and homosexuality. But early on, he skillfully used race to galvanize the Christian right.

How will the GOP woo back values voters after the Foley scandal? How
about a purge of gay Republicans in Congress? That's the Rev. Don
Wildmon's idea.

At the unofficial GOP midterm convention, Focus on the Family delivered
election-day marching orders to the faithful, praising GOP hopefuls and
hurling jeremiads against liberals, "faggots" and Fallujans.

Leaders of the Christian right are paying the price as evidence mounts
of their complicity in a sordid GOP gambling-industry scheme.

Pop culture does more than validate the claim that torture could help
foil bombs seconds before detonation. In shows like 24, where
scenes of sensory deprivation are mixed with family melodrama, torture
is so routine that it seems one more plot device to create intimacy in
characters. The reality is that torture isolates its victims from any
sense of intimacy.

As the Christian right gathered in Nashville for Justice Sunday II, they demonized their enemies and offered lukewarm praise for John G. Roberts.

In 1992, Tony Perkins violated his oath to uphold the law. Now he
lectures Democrats on the constitution.

If their struggle is like the civil rights
movement, why do Christian-rightists like Tony Perkins have so
many racist friends?