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Sarah Posner

Sarah Posner is associate editor of Religion Dispatches, where she writes a blog, and author of God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters. Her investigative journalism and commentary on the intersection of religion and politics has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Salon, The American Prospect, and other publications.

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But…Freedom!

The Christian Right’s New GOTV Motivator

Same-sex marriage has lost its mojo, so the religious right has found a new motivator: Obama’s alleged attacks on religious freedom.

Sarah Posner

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Disputed Territory

IRS Deems Pro-Israel Group ‘Touch and Go’

The IRS scrutinizes groups that deal with "disputed territories in the Middle East." One pro-Israel group says it's "viewpoint discrimination." Sarah Posner reports.

Sarah Posner

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Alongside AIPAC

Meet The Husband and Wife Novelists Talking Israel to The Christian Right

Sarah Posner reports on the strange pairing of an official from a top D.C. pro-Israel group with two authors of 'historical fiction' about Israel.

Sarah Posner

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Concerned Women For Israel

WaPo Blogger Welcomes Evangelical Islamophobes to the Pro-Israel Tent

Sarah Posner on how a conservative evangelical group moving into pro-Israel activism has a history of Islamophobia.

Sarah Posner

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Response

Good For The Jews To Drive Them Away?

Sarah Posner

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When Church Groups Go Too Far

From the Baptist 10 charged with child kidnapping in Haiti to a Connecticut man accused of sexually abusing Haitian boys, U.S. missionaries are in trouble—and undersupervised—abroad.

Sarah Posner

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