Televangelist Pat Robertson wasn't blaming Haiti's catastrophic earthquake on "God's wrath," but was talking about a "widely discussed" legend that a Satanic pact aided its founding slave revolt, a spokesman said.
An atheist sign criticizing Christianity that was erected alongside a Nativity scene was taken from the Legislative Building in Olympia, Washington, on Friday and later found in a ditch.
Tammy Faye Messner dies at 65
Tammy Faye battles cancer
Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division
The president-elect of the Christian Coalition of America resigned his post Monday.
Moral issues sometimes drive voters to the polls not only to support or oppose a candidate, but also to make their voices heard on dozens of ballot measures dealing with issues like same-sex marriage, abortion or stem cell research.
At this stage, it's not easy to make Jack Abramoff's reputation worse. The Washington superlobbyist has been caught, in his e-mails, calling his Indian tribal clients "monkeys" and "morons."
A proposed amendment that would remove long-unenforced segregationist provisions from the Alabama Constitution trailed by a razor-thin margin Thursday and faces a recount.
The only poll that matters, as the saying goes, is the one on Election Day. And the winner of that election, apparently, is the candidate who turns out his voters.
This is the time of the political season when Republicans trim their views to the specifications of the Christian Coalition, when commentators talk of invisible armies of zealous campaigners, when ...
In Washington, at least, organized labor is back. The AFL-CIO almost single-handedly defeated fast-track trade legislation last year, won an increase in the minimum wage the year before, and, overa...
The Christian right, one of the great forces of upheaval in American politics, is itself in upheaval. Ralph Reed is gone, the child tax credit firmly established, the easy battles over. Now the mov...