There's a sort of dualism that comes up when political commentators talk
about conservative evangelicals: either they're powerful and
unflappable advocates for the couple of causes we've always associated
with them, or they don't really exist as a voting bloc at all.
Criticism of Rick Perry's religious beliefs has been dismissed as just the same old secularist
paranoia. But this misses the significance of the New Apostolic Reformation.
Here's an interesting clip in which Texas governor and presidential
candidate Rick Perry struggles to respond to a question about the
effectiveness of abstinence-only education.
I enjoyed this Michael Kinsley
post last year more than anything I'd read in
a long time, because it speaks to a big frustration of mine: while (contrary to
most blogger stereotypes) I appreciate the importance of reporting, I can't
stand reading most straight news writing.
Texas has become the first state in the nation to provide assistance to domestic human-trafficking victims with a landmark law that Governor Rick Perry signed into law in August.
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