Outside the Beltway

White Christian nationalism and the fight for control of America.

There was a time when Mike Pence believed that a President’s personality morality and trustworthiness mattered. He clearly doesn’t believe that anymore.

In the age of Trump, morality is optional for conservatives.

Rex Tillerson was an awful Secretary of State who simply had to go, It’s quite possible his successor will be an even greater disaster.

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration has revoked guidelines to public schools that required accommodation of transgender students.

For most Americans, the debate over same-sex marriage is over and marriage equality has won. This would not, however, include the social conservatives who continue to have a much too vocal role in the Republican Party.

She’s where she’ belongs.

A new poll shows that the vast majority of Americans oppose Kim Davis’s refusal to follow the law, even while some Republican candidates rally behind her.

One freshman Senator seems to think that war with Iran would be easy, just like Republicans used to think that war against Iraq would be easy.

The Republican frontrunner claims he doesn’t read America’s most important newspaper.

Opponents of marriage equality clearly don’t like the idea of a “big tent” in the GOP on the issue.

Is support for marriage equality now an issue that can benefit Democrats at the polls?

Sooner than one might have expected, Republicans are starting to battle over the issue of marriage equality.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed the Senate yesterday but it’s unlikely to go much further.

Legislation to ban discrimination in employment against gays and lesbians is set to make major gains in the Senate.

A bizarre hit piece in National Journal gives the false impression that our military leaders are considering removing the president.

Conservatives are doing what the criticized JournoList for doing—even though JournoList didn’t.

A major change in policy by the Boy Scouts.

The FDA has modified it’s rules on the availability of a politically controversial form of birth control.

In Rick Santorum’s brand of conservatism, no smart people need apply.

Todd Akin says he’s staying in the race, but his party is abandoning him.

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

Entirely unsurprisingly, the shooting at the Family Research Center’s office in Washington, D.C. is already being politicized.

A gunman, possibly upset about FRC’s policies, shot a guard at the conservative Christian group’s Washington, D.C. offices this morning.

Once again, Chris Christie makes one wish there were more Republicans like him.

Richard Grenell’s time as Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman lasted less than a month. The fact that he’s gay appears to be the reason it ended.

Rick Santorum won the night, but Mitt Romney continues to win the delegate hunt.

It seems that Saturday’s vote by evangelical leaders in favor of Rick Santorum was less than meets the eye.

150-plus evangelical leaders are trying to derail the Romney Express. They’re going to get run over.

After years of becoming more inclusive, the Conservative Political Action Conference is closing itself off to opposing points of view.

A social conservative attempts to argue that same-sex marriage is a threat to liberty, and fails miserably.

Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.

Opposition to marriage equality is no longer the wedge issue it used to be.

On the eve of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, another shot has been fired by those boycotting the meeting due to the presence of a gay conservative group.

The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology.

As they did last year, several top social conservative activist groups are boycotting next year’s Conservative Political Action Conference over the extension of an invitation to a gay conservative group, and nobody seems to care that they won’t be there.

Could Mike Pence make the leap from the House of Representatives to the White House ? It’s possible, but history and the likely GOP field in 2012 suggest it would be very difficult.