On September 20 and 21, I attended services at the church Sarah Palin belonged to since she was an adolescent, the Wasilla Assembly of God. Though Palin officially left the church in 2002, she is listed on its website as “a friend,” and spoke there as recently as June 8 of this year.
I went specifically [...]

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It is well known now that Sarah Palin enacted legislation that forced rape victims to pay for their own rape kits. Given that the levels of rape are unusually high in Alaska, particularly in Native communities, Palin’s policy had disastrous effects. And she may have fired her police chief because he opposed her draconian stand [...]

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I have just attended a sermon by the internationally renowned witch-hunter Thomas Muthee at Wasillla Assembly of God, one of the churches Sarah Palin frequently attends. I had planned to divulge details of the evening, but after talking to progressive Alaska radio host and blogger Shannyn Moore, I have second thoughts. After appearing on Countdown [...]

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I’m at the shadiest hostel in Anchorage (the only one with wi-fi) preparing to head to Wasilla tomorrow. I had planned this trip weeks in advance around Bishop Thomas Muthee’s appearance at the Wasilla Assembly of God. Unfortunately, the Times of London ripped off the work of Bruce Wilson to “break” the story about Muthee’s [...]

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On July 20, 2008, the pastor of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s home church, Larry Kroon, delivered a sermon called “Sin Is Personal To God.” Kroon, the senior pastor of the non-denominational Wasilla Bible Church in Wasilla, Alaska, used the book of Zephanaiah as his reference point for discussing “that great day of the Lord [...]

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Yesterday, I appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss Sarah Palin’s ties to the Christian right and the role she could play in a McCain administration. You can watch or listen to me here.
While I was editing a segment for the show on Monday night in Democracy Now’s office in downtown [...]

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The Republican National Committee’s 2008 convention draft platform pledges to continue waging the right’s war on sex education. The platform reads: “We support abstinence education and oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and related services for abortion and contraception.” These words seem ironic in light of revelations that the 17-year-old daughter of Vice Presidential [...]

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Last week, while the media focused on the spectacle in Denver, the country’s most influential conservatives met at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis for a group introduction to Sarah Palin. They are members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term [...]

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