Palin Draws Heat over 'Christian Nation' Remarks

Palin Palaver: Former Alaska Governor Is No George Washington
The fact that the Founding Fathers were religious believers doesn't mean they also couldn't advocate for Separation of Church and State. Sarah Palin has once again demonstrated that she just doesn't know much about basic American principles. The erstwhile Alaska Governor, speaking in Louisville, Ky., Friday night at a women's religious conference, blasted a federal judge in Wisconsin for declaring the National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional. She also indirectly criticized President...

ABC Self-Generates 'Controversy' Over Sarah Palin's Innocuous 'Christian Nation' Remark
Topics: Political News and commentaries As NewsBusters aptly notes , Palin never said anything about an "official" religion, so could just mean that as a practical matter the nation is Christian since it was founded on Christian principles espoused by the majority of our nation's Founding Fathers, that nearly all current elected officials pay homage to Christianity no matter their level of faith and that the vast majority of Americans who are religious adhere to a Christian faith. However,...

Palin Palaver: Former Alaska Governor Is No George Washington
The fact that the Founding Fathers were religious believers doesn't mean they also couldn't advocate for Separation of Church and State. Sarah Palin has once again demonstrated that she just doesn't know much about basic American principles. The erstwhile Alaska Governor, speaking in Louisville, Ky., Friday night at a women's religious conference, blasted a federal judge in Wisconsin for declaring the National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional. She also indirectly criticized President...

Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann and Markos Moulitsas Dismantle Sarah Palin's Revisionist History
The Quitter’s makin’ stuff up again. Is America a Christian nation? Sarah Palin said on Friday that it’s “mind-boggling” to suggest otherwise. But two groups dedicated to the Separation of Church and State are now speaking out against her, arguing that she is misreading the founders’ intent. “ It’s incredibly hypocritical that Sarah Palin, who disapproves of government involvement in just about anything, now suddenly wants the government to...

Sarah Palin sparks debate with 'Christian nation' remarks
(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sheryl Nadler) Is America a Christian nation? Sarah Palin said on Friday that it’s “mind-boggling” to suggest otherwise. But two groups dedicated to the Separation of Church and State are now speaking out against her, arguing that she is misreading the founders’ intent. “It’s incredibly hypocritical that Sarah Palin, who disapproves of government involvement in just about anything, now suddenly wants the government to help people...

Sarah Palin Christian Nation Remarks Spark Church and State Separation Debate
More Photos But two groups dedicated to the Separation of Church and State are now speaking out against her, arguing that she is misreading the founders' intent. "It's incredibly hypocritical that Sarah Palin, who disapproves of government involvement in just about anything, now suddenly wants the government to help people be religious," Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told ABC News. "It is wildly inconsistent with her views on limited...

Palin: Of Course We're a Christian Nation
More Photos But two groups dedicated to the Separation of Church and State are now speaking out against her, arguing that she is misreading the founders' intent. "It's incredibly hypocritical that Sarah Palin, who disapproves of government involvement in just about anything, now suddenly wants the government to help people be religious," Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, told ABC News. "It is wildly inconsistent with her views on limited...

Freedom of expression and freedom of religion
In a representative Democracy, all elected officials must play the Law of averages when it comes to pleasing their constituents. If responsible representation was measured by the expectation that a district's majority opinion on every issue will always correspond to its representatives' votes, taxes would never be raised and government bonds would seldom be issued. Civil Rights legislation became Law over the vocal Protests of a significant block of the electorate specifically because those...

Glenn Beck: The Televangelist Con Man Selling God's Plan For America
During yesterday’s Glenn Beck radio Show, Beck delivered a 10-minute monologue in which he hit all of his phony-baloney touchstones — some of them, as I’ve been writing for the last several weeks, are dangerous and some are simply ridiculous. But primarily, Beck was in full televangelist mode about God and something about a “plan” and, in the process, he dovetailed into a little McCarthyism and, as usual, a little historical revisionism. He even shrunk into...

FBI, IRS Launch Inquiry Into Rubio
Miami Herald: Federal Law Enforcement agencies have launched a Criminal Investigation into the use of American Express Cards issued by the Republican Party of Florida to elected officials and staff, according to sources familiar with the probe. The U.S. attorney’s office in Tallahassee, the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service are all involved in the probe, which grew out of the state Investigation into former House Speaker Ray Sansom. He was indicted on Criminal charges that he stashed...

Jim Greer charged big on Florida GOP credit card
Source: St Pete Times Reeling from a criminal probe into the Florida GOP's finances, Republican leaders finally got a peek Wednesday at the spending habits of the man at the center of the long-running scandal: Jim Greer. The ousted party chairman charged nearly $500,000 to his American Express Card to eat well and live well: spa treatments, flowers, flights, fine hotels and pricey restaurants. In a month ending in March 2008, he dropped $41,421.31 in Las Vegas, Washington and Beverly Hills,...