Voters in Temecula, California, have ousted the local school board president who thrust the political body to the forefront of rightwing culture wars seeking to eliminate discussions of race and gender identity from the classroom. Joseph Komrosky on Thursday lost a recall vote with 51% of voters favoring his removal. Temecula – a predominantly white […]
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Trump to address conservative Christian group that advocates for national abortion ban
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump will address attendees at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “2024 Road to Majority” conference in Washington on Saturday — an evangelical group whose advocacy for a national abortion ban conflicts with Trump’s policy statements on the issue. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has walked a tight rope in […]
Conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon gives $50 million to pro-Trump super PAC
By Jason Lange (Reuters) – Conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon, an heir of the Pittsburgh-based Mellon banking family, gave $50 million last month to a super PAC supporting Republican Donald Trump‘s presidential bid, according to a federal disclosure filed on Thursday. The super PAC, known as MAGA Inc, has been ramping up outlays on television ads […]
Conservative pastor’s abuse scandal doesn’t do Trump any favors
Robert Morris, the founding pastor of a prominent Texas megachurch, has spent years telling congregants that about a “moral failure” from his past. The evangelical Christian didn’t go into detail, but he conceded that it involved a sexual sin that he committed as a young minister. This week, as NBC News reported, the story took […]
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Boris Johnson ‘clearly an asset’ to Conservative election campaign
Boris Johnson is “clearly an asset” to the Tory election campaign, a British Cabinet minister has insisted, after it emerged the former UK prime minister is no longer expected to appear on the trail. UK work and pensions secretary Mel Stride said the former Conservative leader is offering support in the “modern way” by making […]
Paul Pressler, conservative Baptist leader later accused of sexual abuse, dead at 94
Paul Pressler, an influential former Texas judge who spearheaded a movement to shift the Southern Baptist Convention in a conservative direction, has died at the age of 94. In 2017, a civil lawsuit accused Pressler of sexually abusing boys and men, including one of his Bible study students, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. […]
Paul Pressler, who led conservative SBC push and later faced abuse allegations, dies at 94
Paul Pressler, a former Texas judge who altered the Southern Baptist Convention twice, first when he led a fundamentalist takeover of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and second when he faced sexual abuse allegations, has died at 94. Pressler, who died June 7, was a symbol for both the Religious Right’s marriage with Republican politics, […]
Paul Pressler, who led conservative SBC push and later faced abuse allegations, dies at 94
Paul Pressler, a former Texas judge who altered the Southern Baptist Convention twice, first when he led a fundamentalist takeover of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and second when he faced sexual abuse allegations, has died at 94. Pressler, who died June 7, was a symbol for both the Religious Right’s marriage with Republican politics, […]
Paul Pressler, who led conservative SBC push and later faced abuse allegations, dies at 94
Paul Pressler, a former Texas judge who altered the Southern Baptist Convention twice, first when he led a fundamentalist takeover of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and second when he faced sexual abuse allegations, died June 7. He was 94. Pressler was a symbol for both the Religious Right’s marriage with Republican politics, then of […]
Conservative media uses misleading camera angle of Biden to falsely claim he was wandering aimlessly
Conservative media outlets selectively used a camera angle that left out important context to spread a claim Thursday and Friday that President Joe Biden wandered off from a meeting of world leaders, but the full video at another angle captured by NBC News tells a different story. Instead of wandering off, Biden was walking toward […]
Secret recording puts spotlight on Alito’s strong conservative views on religious issues
WASHINGTON — A month ago, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito delivered a commencement speech at a Catholic college in Ohio in which he returned to a familiar theme of his: that conservative Christians are under attack from liberals in a culture war that grips the United States. He told students that both religious liberty and […]