Rob Boston
Posts by Rob Boston (page 9)
Prison Piety
My first job in Washington, DC, was editing a trade magazine for the men and women who worked in the corrections industry. This was... Read More
Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All—And What We Can Do About It
A friend recently passed on a slick magazine to me published by a religious right group. The cover depicted a close-up shot of a... Read More
Election Reflection: Whither Now, Religious Right?
Pundits spent a lot of time chewing over the results of the November election, but most seemed to agree on one thing: the religious... Read More
Building Bridges or Blowing Them Up? Secular Americans and the Future of Humanist Activism
Polls indicate that some interesting shifts are under way in religious life in the United States. The number of people identifying their religion as... Read More
The Barton Lies: The Religious Right’s Favorite ‘Historian’ Gets Hit with a Dose of the Truth
I’ve written in these pages before about David Barton, a Texas man who poses as a historian and is a hero to the religious... Read More
Barrier Methods: The Church’s Ceaseless Opposition to Birth Control
I recently found myself on the air at FoxNews.com where I argued with a staff member from the Family Research Council about birth control... Read More
Stuck in the Belly of the Beast: My Trip to the Values Voter Summit
Every fall I attend a large gathering of religious right activists in Washington, DC. Launched in 2006 and sponsored by the Family Research Council... Read More