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Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…state, Peter Smith, writing for the AP, led with another angle: so what is Jackson’s faith? Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has put her religious faith front, center — and vague. She’s spoken strongly of the role of her faith in her life and career but hasn’t gotten into the specifics of that commitment. Her beliefs have drawn some attention as she undergoes Senate Judiciary Committee hearings this week for her nomination to the Supreme Court. Surpris…

Harry Jackson Shakes Religious Right Money Tree for “Below the Radar” Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…el free to preach the biblical definition of marriage and human sexuality. Jackson has big-name allies. Jackson lists Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, the Latino evangelical leader who will give the benediction on the first night of the GOP convention, as one of his partners in the effort. Among those scheduled to take part in his summit in Orlando, which includes a training for pastors and leaders followed by a public rally in the evening, are: Brian Brown…

Harry Jackson Fundraises for Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…s internationally. Also speaking was Aaron Manaigo, a political strategist Jackson has hired to run the campaign. Manaigo described himself as having gotten into politics as one of the “young gunslingers” for the late dirty trickster Lee Atwater, and he was reportedly an advisor to Herman Cain during the primaries. Manaigo said marriage is under a “barrage of attacks” and cited polling about the religious commitments of African Americans to sugges…

The Gospel of (and for) E.W. Jackson

By Peter Montgomery

…in addition to being a promoter of a Tea Partier’s anti-government dogma, Jackson seems to be a particularly self-serving proponent of the prosperity gospel, whose proponents urge congregants to “sow seeds” with the promise that great wealth will follow. Jackson has lots of company in our current religious landscape, as RD regulars and readers of Sarah Posner’s excellent book God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the GOP Crusade for Values Voters know…

Before We Scold DeSean Jackson and Others For Anti-Semitism We Need To Talk About ‘Chosenness’

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…that Black people rather than white Jews are the real children of Israel, Jackson and Cannon are publicly embracing the sentiments of an oft-neglected belief found throughout African-American religious thought: the idea of Black chosenness. Black chosenness has expressed itself in Jewish, Islamic and Christian forms of African American religiosity since as far back as the 19th century with the Pan-Africanist leader Edward Wilmot Blyden. The adher…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…briefs and never serves as legal counsel. Which leads to the insistent claims of legal conservatives that the organization and its originalist methods are politically and substantively neutral. Of course, there’s more than a little bait-and-switch in these claims. From its inception, the official mission of the Federalist Society has been educational, not political. The Federalist Society supports chapters at more than 200 American law schools and…

Are Religious Right Leaders Telling Bob Vander Plaats to Go to Hell?

By Sarah Posner

…that they are the persecuted, when the powerful posture themselves as victims.” Jackson then counterposed his powerful gay activists to “the unwed black mother” who “truly understands discrimination.” In its essence, of course, the Family Leader pledge doesn’t stray far from Jackson’s own ideology opposing marriage equality and so forth. No doubt he was offended by the slavery section that Vander Plaats excised after widespread outrage. But it app…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…identities matter (the personal); and 2) that those identities express themselves in public forms (the political). It was certainly the way many of those who commented on the Times story framed their views. As a woman (the personal), I interpret your request as patriarchal and will not move to accommodate it (the political). But isn’t being an Orthodox Jew also an identity that matters? And isn’t seeking an accommodation based on that identity a…

Michael Jackson, Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…hat they now have a dated, washed-up recluse who can write new battle anthems for them as they get ready to blow themselves up. The chorus will always be “I’m a Muslim, I blow things up. I’m a Muslim, I blow things up. I’m looking for my 72, can’t you get a clue!.” We need to get the Muslims before they get us. [/sarcasm] —- OK, now that I’ve got the Islamophobe’s rant out of the way, here’s my real take on Jackson’s conversion: Who cares? He’s a…