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Right Wing Watch (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
For many years, Mat Staver of the Jerry Falwell created Liberty Counsel had seemed like a relatively reasonable man. We didn’t agree with his legal views or agenda , but he wasn’t necessarily the type of right-wing figure to start spouting utterly nonsensical and offensive views about gays or abortion or Democratic politicians or what have you. But something seems to have changed recently and,...
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Hold Fast (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Lisa Staver of Newsweek, for penning a column that is not satire called “Is Obama the Antichrist'” Now Strandberg was receiving up-to-the-minute news from his constituents in Illinois. One of the winning lottery numbers in the president-elect’s home state was 666— which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast (also known as the Antichrist). [...]
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findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
... end times. They also predict the appearance of an Antichrist who will appear before the Messiah.Mat Staver, dean of Liberty University’s law school, told Miller that people who believe Obama is the Antichrist are “expressing a concern and fear that is widely shared,” mostly because they believe Obama’s on abortion and marriage. According to Staver, religious conservatives believe...
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ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
... 1. __X__ Yes 2. _____ No 3. _____ Unsure According to the OneNewsNow.com article cited above, Mat Staver , a Christian lawyer and Dean of Liberty University Law School, contends that the Miami-Dade Circuit Judge, Cindy Lederman , who recently ruled against Florida’s ban on homosexual adoption, should run for the legislature if she wants to practice activism. The article quotes Staver...
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Right Wing Watch (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
The San Francisco Chronicle has a good article on how the folks behind Yes on 8 are trying to bar the Campaign for California Families, Randy Thomasson, and Mat Staver from getting involved in the on-going legal dispute because of the latter’s extreme anti-gay views, which Yes on 8 fears will make them all look bad: The group, now known as the Campaign for Children and Families, is run by Randy...
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SWAC Girl (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
From Philly comes the story of a young man who showed up at an Obama event election night wearing a McCain-Palin tee shirt. What happened afterwards was reminiscent of communist regimes. A video surfaced of the young man being roughed up, handcuffed, and jailed. For what? Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel said there was a constitutional right to freedom of expression that this man was denied. "What...
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bastard.logic (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
by matttbastard Plz to be not spreading teh Obama = Antichrist meme: Mat Staver, dean of Liberty University’s law school, says he does not believe Obama is the Antichrist, but he can see how others might. Obama’s own use of religious rhetoric belies his liberal positions on abortion and traditional marriage, Staver says, positions that “religious conservatives [...]
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The Progressive Puppy (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
... refutation of these End Times fear-mongerers, but in a lame attempt at "balance" Miller writes: Mat Staver, dean of Liberty University's law school, says he does not believe Obama is the Antichrist, but he can see how others might. Obama's own use of religious rhetoric belies his liberal positions on abortion and traditional marriage, Staver says, positions that "religious conservatives...
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slacktivist (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Over on Christianity Today's Politics Blog, Sarah Pulliam asks " Can Obama Call Himself a Christian ?" The asking, and particularly the answering, of that question is -- to borrow a phrase -- way above Pulliam's pay grade. Here, I think, is the relevant passage from Matthew's Gospel : The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came...
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The NonSequitur (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
No wonder, then, that Obama triggers such fear in the hearts of America's millennialist Christians. Mat Staver, dean of Liberty University's law school, says he does not believe Obama is the Antichrist, but he can see how others might. Obama's own use of religious rhetoric belies his liberal positions on abortion and traditional marriage, Staver says, positions that "religious conservatives...
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The Disenchanted Forest (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... up a display that expresses the opposite view of any legitimate display:Liberty Counsel attorney Mat Staver told OneNewsNow that Summum was a "cult that has some kind of Egyptian religion associated with it." Staver contended that al-Qaeda would be allowed to erect a companion monument to the donated 9/11 memorial, or a "statue of tyranny" to stand alongside the Statue of Liberty....
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... removed their Ten Commandments monuments entirely in response.Liberty Counsel attorney Mat Staver told OneNewsNow that Summum was a "cult that has some kind of Egyptian religion associated with it." Staver contended that al-Qaeda would be allowed to erect a companion monument to the donated 9/11 memorial, or a "statue of tyranny" to stand alongside the Statue of Liberty. "It would...
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Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... what is the purpose of Newsweek running a story about those who wonder if Obama is the Antichrist'Mat Staver, dean of Liberty University's law school, says he does not believe Obama is the Antichrist, but he can see how others might. Obama's own use of religious rhetoric belies his liberal positions on abortion and traditional marriage, Staver says, positions that "religious conservatives...
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life's journey (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
"Barack Obama could be running against the devil and you'd still have high turnout among values voters," said Mat Staver, founder of the religious conservative group Liberty Counsel. "Obama has, by virtue of his liberal positions on values issues, energized values voters to show up and cast a vote against him," Staver added .
