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The Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush accused evangelist Franklin Graham last week of being someone who "does not love the LGBTQ community" after the Samaritan's Purse CEO criticized Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's recent rebuke of President Donald Trump.Raushenbush, an ordained Baptist minister who serves as president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, also suggested Graham pales in comparison with his father, the late Rev. Billy Graham.During the Jan. 29 episode of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," host John McArdle asked Raushenbush to respond to a clip of Graham on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," during which Graham excoriated the bishop of Washington for "mixing the...

Of all the rotten reasons not to execute Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, we'll give the booby prize to the one offered by Paul Raushenbush, a HuffPo religion editor and ordained American Baptist minister. On Melissa Harris-Perry's show today, Raushenbush imagined that in twenty years, Tsarnaev might become "a spokesperson for reconciling Islam with America. We don't know what this life is going to lead to." Anything's possible, but surely Tsarnaev's sentence should not be based on this sort of idle speculation. What made Raushenbush's argument particularly galling was his statement that "the idea of ending any life for any reason is for...