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Alabama’s Yoga Ban Is Part of the Christian Right’s War on Pluralism

By Manisha Sunil

…s me to the largest hypocrisy revealed in this proxy war for the religious right—for many, this is not about religious freedom, it’s about stifling non-Christian beliefs while seeing public education as a vehicle for pushing biblical morality. Though ALCAP’s adviser says that their opposition to yoga being taught in schools is that religious activities should not be taught in elementary schools, the group’s real fear is that the children will be i…

Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…ily to raise their children in today’s media environment. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Right! TRUMP: It is right, isn’t it? Yeah, it is right. Not even close. Your values of love, charity and faith built this nation. .. . So let me say this right up front: A Trump administration, our Christian heritage will be cherished, protected, defended, like you’ve never seen before. Believe me. I believe it. And you believe it. And you know it. You know it. And that inc…

How the Christian Right Can Save America from Donald Trump

By Sarah Posner

…vative but is urging evangelicals to take a turn away from harsh religious right political rhetoric. Moore doesn’t represent all evangelicals by any stretch of the imagination, but if you couple the dismay of Moore’s like-minded evangelicals with Values Voters Summit attendees irked about Trump’s no-show next week, it will start to look like he’s running out of evangelical mojo. Take a look at a sampling of recent conservative coverage of Trump an…

RDPulpit: Ahmadinejad Gives Another Victory to the Israeli Right

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…1947 and 1967. When Prime Minister Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman, and other right-wing extremists are able to point to this irrational hatred of the Jewish people as the “real” underlying message of the critics of The Occupation, they stir up fears among Israelis that seem to be rationally founded, given the hatred being expressed. All the more so when one witnesses the striking silence about the racism that led to the Hutu-Tutsi massacres, the des…

Doonesbury Cartoons Cause Controversy, But for Wrong Reasons

By Sarah Posner

…n Texas, but are women any worse off with it than they were with the 2003 “right-to-know” law? In a way, the “right-to-know” law is more egregious than the ultrasound law, since, as Joffe points out, doctors will perform an ultrasound, even with a transvaginal probe, as part of the regular course of abortion care. It’s the “informational” part that’s objectionable, because, as Gov. Rick Perry told a group of pastors, the purpose of the ultrasound…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…a lesbian daughter. In the ad they urge Californians not to strip away the right of their daughter and thousands of other California couples to be married.” “Our daughter deserves to be treated in her life with the same dignity and respect as her two straight brothers,” Sam Thoron told the media at Monday’s press conference. ”That includes the right that she now has to get married. That is why we are opposed to the proposition.” The Advocate also…

Howard Phillips, Founding Father of Religious Right, Has Died

By Julie Ingersoll

…ty, three-time presidential candidate and founding father of the religious right, has died. Following a diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and Alzheimers Disease his health had deteriorated rapidly over the past couple of years, his son explained via Facebook. As the story goes Phillips, Paul Weyrich, and Richard Viguerie got together in the late 1970s using Viguerie’s groundbreaking direct mail company to help Jerry Falwell build the Mor…

Mass Bible-Based Sexual Dysfunction as Root of Culture Wars? Frank Schaeffer Breaks It Down

By Frank Schaeffer

…eir fundamentalist faith, the better a human being they become. Third, the rightward tilt of the Republicans after Obama’s election has meant that the path taken by the religious right (the movement that most informs the present day Republican Party) was something I felt needed to be better understood. For instance when I’d be interviewed on NPR or by journalists on MSNBC, it often seemed to me that the questions being asked about religious people…

Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?

By Christopher Douglas

…he sexual revolution, a more complete history includes the early Christian Right’s energization by anti-Civil Rights politics. These Christian Segregationists—like the early Jerry Falwell and Bob Jones Sr.—had their heritage in the Christian Slavery that Douglass had targeted in his critique a century before. Why this matters is that it gives us a clue as to why the critique of hypocrisy has run out of steam: it never had much steam to begin with…

Religion, Lies, and Videotape: Planned Parenthood and the Latest Fake Sting

By Donna Schaper

…ssue—which of course they don’t, and aren’t. As usual, here, the religious right is—wrong. The right is so committed to universal values like “life” and “death” that it is willing to become quite liberal in its relativism when it comes to its methods. If Congress is small enough to hold hearings on the “Planned Parenthood” interview, the first question should be whether the doctor was right in what he said. Fetal tissue can be important to medical…