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Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…en. The aim of this Christian movement, represented in this case by their avatars on the Alabama Supreme Court, is crystal clear according to lawyer, fellow RD-correspondent, and expert on the legal forces of the broader Christian Right, Andrew Seidel: The goal is to impose a conservative Christian religion on the entire country through the rule of law, to make it so that the law protects conservative White Christian men but does not bind them, an…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…ublic conversation about poverty. “She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans’ benefits for four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare. Her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.” Reagan’s caricature of the “welfare queen” cemented it in the American imaginary: By the time the “welfare queen” finally emerged on the national stage, the American pu…

YOU Are Spiritual But Not Religious: The Secret Spiritual History of the Choose Your Own Adventure Books

By Daniel Silliman

…Montgomery, who wrote Escape from the Haunted Warehouse.) The news of R.A. Montgomery’s death at 78 was met with a number of tributes and appreciations on the Internet. These books were huge in the lives of many American children and have even been seen as presaging the cultural shift to the Internet age, where audiences are no longer happy to passively consume content, but want interaction. The history of the books is intertwined with the history…

Pastor Now Sees Anti-Gay Movement as “Mean-Spirited”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n marriage fell apart and he had left the pulpit to become a chaplain that Richmond finally did his “180 degree” turn to acceptance for gays and lesbians. With distance, I could see the mean-spirited nature of the anti-gay movement, and the naked way large Christian organizations used the “gay threat” to raise money. Richmond’s experience is probably nothing new, but it underscores the importance of Christians who also happen to be gay and lesbian…

By the Way: “Ten Commandments Judge” To Be Alabama’s Next Gov?

By Randall Balmer

…ly did Moore not run from the controversy, he ran for chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2000 as the “Ten Commandments Judge.” The voters of Alabama elected him, and shortly thereafter he plunked a two-and-a-half-ton granite monument emblazoned with the Ten Commandments in the lobby of the judicial building. Moore, who claims to be a Baptist, steadfastly refused to place the representations of any other religious group in that space, wh…

Does ‘Criss-Cross Apple Sauce’ Make Yoga Secular? Opponents of Yoga in Public Schools Have a Point

By Candy Gunther Brown

…ersal Society of Hinduism, who urged lawmakers “to wake up to the needs of Alabama pupils.” Zed has been outspoken in a number of yoga controversies in recent years. Notably, he opposed a 2014 tax on D.C. yoga studios as a “religious infringement”—arguing that yoga is “one of the six systems of orthodox Hindu philosophy” and “a mental and physical discipline by means of which the human-soul (jivatman) united with the universal-soul (paramatman).”…

The Theology Behind Alabama Official’s Demand to Flout SCOTUS

By Sarah Posner

…o refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses after a federal trial court invalidated Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage. Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges on Friday, Moore has said he will not compel clerks to issue licenses for a 25-day period during which the Obergefell parties could file a motion to rehear the case. When Moore objected to the federal court order in Alabama in January, he wrote a letter to the state…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…rnor George Wallace, following his pledge to defy a federal court ruling invalidating Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage earlier this year. Moore ordered probate court clerks, who issue marriage licenses in Alabama, not to issue them to same-sex couples. The BuzzFeed report includes copies of the Council newsletter, which included a letter from Wallace’s son, George C. Wallace, who had a scheduling conflict but wanted the conference to know he rec…

Alabama Senate Considers Giving Church Its Own Police Force; Irony Reportedly Dead

By Daniel Schultz

…on, PCUSA); in fact, the PCA’s founding meeting was held at Briarwood. The Alabama Legislature passed a similar bill in 2015, but then-Gov. Robert Bentley refused to sign it, citing concerns “the bill could open the door to private police forces statewide.” You know a bill has to be bad if an active Southern Baptist Bible Belt governor refuses to sign the thing. The latest attempt hasn’t made it to the new governor’s desk, and you might think that…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rimination. When opposing same-sex marriages she has cited German law, her values as an evangelical Christian and those of her party, which describes its foundations as the “Christian understanding between people and their accountability before God”. Johannes Singhammer, the vice president of the Bundestag, said his party, the CDU, should challenge the law in the Constitutional Court. The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party also said…