Fighting the Right
"The Armageddon of the Culture War"
The Fight for Marriage Equality in California 2008
McCain Courts the Right, Attacks Families
This weekend, The New York Times reported that Senator McCain said flatly that he opposed allowing gay couples to adopt. "I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don’t believe in gay adoption."
Senate Sides with Bush and Against Rule of Law on FISA
In response to the Senate’s vote on the FISA Amendments Act, People For the American Way President Kathryn Kolbert said, "Today a majority of the Senate sided with the Bush administration and against the rule of law."
Dobson Uses Bible as Political Weapon
James Dobson accused Senator Barack Obama of distorting the Bible and of pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.
People For the American Way Foundation Sues to Protect Church-State Separation
People For the American Way Foundation, along with a group of allies, today filed suit on behalf of six Florida voters to prevent two proposed state constitutional amendments from appearing on the November ballot. The proposed amendments would pave the way for sending public monies to religious and other private schools.
McCain on Gitmo Decision: Pandering, Flippant, or Just Out of Touch?
Senator John McCain today called the Supreme Court decision protecting the right of habeas corpus for prisoners in Guantamo Bay “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”
People For the American Way President Kathryn Kolbert released the following statement:
Supreme Court Rebukes Bush on Habeas Corpus in 5-4 Ruling
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Boumediene v. Bush People For the American Way President Kathryn Kolbert said, The Supreme Court has rebuked President Bush’s vision of the presidency as an office of limitless power, and declared that the president of a free nation cannot simply lock people up and throw away the key like some third-world dictator. This is a stinging blow to the administration’s lawless policies and its allies in Congress."
Hagee: Too Toxic for McCain, but Still Loved by Lieberman?
Televangelist John Hagee and Senator John McCain mutually unendorsed each other last week as ongoing exposure of Hagee’s extremism became a burden to McCain’s campaign. But as Max Blumenthal points out, Sen. Joe Lieberman, one of McCain’s closest campaign advisors, is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at the July summit of Hagee’s Christians United for Israel. Lieberman has previously compared Hagee to Moses.
McCain Rejects Pastors, Still Seeks Their Followers' Support
Following John McCain’s rejection of the endorsements he sought from pastors Rod Parsley and John Hagee, People For the American Way President Kathryn Kolbert said, “John McCain may think he solved a problem when he finally rejected the endorsements of John Hagee and Rod Parsley and their bizarre, hate-mongering, rhetoric. He’s got a bigger problem now.”
PFAW President Decries Double Standard on McCain, Obama and Religion
In the aftermath of the firestorm surrounding former pastor Jeremiah Wright’s remarks and Senator Obama’s speech yesterday, People For the American Way President Kathryn Kolbert decried the double standard applied to Obama and McCain, and urged scrutiny of McCain’s ties to the leaders of the radical Religious Right. She had the following statement:
“Barack Obama made a remarkable speech to the nation yesterday with a principled call for racial reconciliation and a straightforward denunciation of statements by his former pastor that could divide, not unite Americans.
McCain Gets Into Bed with the Religious Right
In his effort to curry favor with conservative Republican activists, John McCain has worked hard to cuddle up to Religious Right leaders. But voters should know who exactly he’s been courting.
This week McCain campaigned with Rod Parsley, founder and president of “The Center for Moral Clarity” and leader of the right-wing “Patriot Pastors” (a church based campaign that was infamous for referring to political opponents as “secular jihadists,” the “forces of darkness,” and the “hordes of hell.”)
Religious Right Voters Put Huckabee Over the Top
Statement by People For the American Way VP for Communications Peter Montgomery
If there were any doubts that Religious Right voters are still a powerful force in the Republican Party, Mike Huckabee’s huge win in Iowa put them to rest.
Huckabee’s rise was built on fervent grassroots organizing by Religious Right activists who embraced him as their dream candidate, even as the movement’s national leaders kept their distance while making calculations on electability.
Huckabee v. Huckabee
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Sunday denied on national television that he had called for quarantine of people infected with HIV when he was running for Senate in 1992, even though he is on record saying, "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague."
“Mike Huckabee is denying his own dangerous demagoguery, but his words are plain for everyone to see,” said PFAW political director Mary Jean Collins. “It’s astonishing how often people who claim to represent truth have so much trouble with the concept.”
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