by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 20, 2011 | News
USA Today compared the deniers of climate-change science to birthers – those who claimed President Obama was born in a foreign country and thus an illegitimate president – expressing the opinion of the paper’s editorial board. The editorial noted that the...
by Cathleen Falsani | Apr 29, 2011 | News
(RNS) So, according to the long-form birth certificate released by the White House on Wednesday (April 27), Barack Hussein Obama II was born at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961 at Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, Oahu, Honolulu,...
by Brian Kaylor | Apr 27, 2011 | News
On Sunday, evangelist Franklin Graham argued that President Barack Obama may not have been born in the United States, even though numerous independent fact-checkers have debunked that claim as erroneous. The White House quickly condemned Graham’s attack. Graham,...
by Robert Parham | Feb 21, 2011 | Opinion
Are conservative Christian politicians a driving force behind the so-called “birther” movement, those who think President Obama is not a natural-born American citizen and therefore an illegitimate president? Â According to Politico, bills have been...
by Robert Parham | Aug 25, 2009 | Opinion
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) told a packed town-hall meeting in Kingman, Ariz., that he is considering a lawsuit against President Obama over his birth certificate. Â For over a year, right-wing conspiracy theorists and political opportunists have argued that Obama is...
