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Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?

By Meera Subramanian

…’s religions have fallen away. In 1987, the Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye in Florida’s Dade County banned animal sacrifice after it began plans to build a church where religious rites including animal sacrifice would take place. Six years later, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the city ban violated the church’s religious freedoms. It was the same year that Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which prevents laws that place…

Anti-Gay Activism Falling Victim to Capitalism?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…orado state constitution, similar to other amendments they’re promoting in Florida and North Dakota, among others.” Also, according to karoli’s math, it would appear that CitizenLink funding for the year has dropped by about 50%. Ouch. A perfect storm, of sorts, may be to blame for the drop as the economy wanes and acceptance of gays and lesbians in both church and society continues to grow. Stewart Hoover, director of the Center for Media, Religi…

Ponzi Schemes and Prophecy

By Sarah Posner

…portedly criticize him at the Tea Party-sponsored debate tonight in Tampa, Florida. A Bachmann adviser tells the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, “Clearly she feels differently about the value of Social Security than Gov. Perry does. She believes Social Security needs to be saved, that it’s an important safety net for Americans who have paid into it all their lives.” Perry did not invent the Ponzi scheme analogy for Social Security; back in 1995…

How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump

By Joanna Brooks

…in the archives from the 2012 election season. — eds Earlier this week, Florida evangelical Christian leader John Stemberger endorsed Rick Perry’s campaign for GOP presidential nominee. According to Stemberger, Perry was more “trustworthy” on social conservation issues like abortion rights. On Romney, Stemberger said: “The issue not that he is a Mormon. The issue is that he wasn’t Mormon enough. If he had been consistent with traditional Mormon…

In Praise of Gay Republicans

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…also been a supporter. Other Republicans, like Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, are also supporting LGBT people from within the party. Ros-Lehtinen has become the first Republican to co-sponsor a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. She has long been a supporter of the community, serving as vice-chair of the House LGBT Equality Caucus. She recently spoke before the Log Cabin Republicans, telling them that marriage equality is a Republic…

Romney Steers Hard Right on Immigration; Huntsman Out After New Hampshire?

By Joanna Brooks

…18 debate. Huntsman’s headquarters had previously been located in Orlando, Florida. The move to New Hampshire may signal that Huntsman has given his campaign a shorter horizon and that Team Huntsman is devising an exit strategy that will salvage the candidate’s credibility. But why did he enter the race at all? That’s the question Mo-politicos are asking this week. Is he, like Mitt Romney, another Mormon son trying to fill his father’s big shoes…

Mat Staver vs. the Anti-Immigrant Right

By Sarah Posner

…to soften his “you don’t have a heart” accusation at the recent debate in Florida. Another sponsor, along with Liberty University, of the Values Voters Summit, is the American Family Association, which also bankrolled Perry’s prayer rally The Response (which attracted significant Latino support). The AFA has been vitriolically anti-immigrant. For a movement that presents issues as black and white, the religious right is having difficulty deciding…

Iz Not Okay Wif Our Sky Kitteh: Debating Repro Rights in Lolcat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e project sure to be eligible for arts funding. Ready? King Lear, starring Florida congressman Cliff Stearns as the title character, Planned Parenthood as Cordelia, and “documented lack of corruption in how federal funding is handled” as “love.” With all of the dialogue changed to lolcat. Here’s how it would go down: King Stearns: I haz a big pile of fedril munny. Iz fun! I chases it! Iz funn! If I can haz proof that ur never too bad fur teh munny…

Tim Tebow, Protestant Saint

By Sean S. O'Neil

…, not the American South, and before I started attending the University of Florida as a doctoral student in religion, she had never been concerned with anyone’s “throwing accuracy,” nor would she have known that it is tough for a running quarterback to make it in the passing-dominated NFL. She is, though, an evangelical Christian and that qualifies her for Tebowmania—even if only via internet connections in Canada. Evangelical Protestants have his…

Mississippi’s Personhood Bill Makes God Look Bad

By Daniel C. Maguire

…er. This would mean that, in Mississippi (or the several other states like Florida and Ohio that are drafting similar measures) it will be safer to be a fertilized-egg-person (FEP) than a woman. What a welter of problems arise when you oust logic. Right out of the gate, away with any contraceptives that prevent implantation of the FEP. Also unthinkable under such a law is medical experimentation on embryos. Hey, those are people you’re experimenti…