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The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…Muslims during Ramadan. Both Subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) stated during the hearing that the books of Voice of the Martyrs founder Richard Wurmbrand were influential in their thinking about religious freedom in the world.) Phillips hails from a family of Christian Reconstructionists, led by his father Howard Phillips, head of The Conservative Caucus, and an architect of what became the American Religious Rig…

Anti-Science Bill Passes Tennessee House

By Lauri Lebo

…n. Andy Sher writing for the Chattanooga Free Press, quotes bill-supporter Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, saying that “since the late ‘50s, early ‘60s when we let the intellectual bullies hijack our education system, we’ve been on a slippery slope.” Floyd sounds as if he’s been listening to Texas Board of Education Don McLeroy, who, in arguing for creationist language in public school textbooks, said, “Someone has to stand up to the experts.”…

Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…s Blue Dog caucus lost 24 of its 58 House seats in 2010, including Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith who became a Republican, so it’s clear that being conservative didn’t keep them safe. But the party doesn’t necessarily take kindly to insurgent challengers, and with heavy hitters like Bill Clinton and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz having campaigned personally for Shuler in the past (Shuler was recruited by the Clinton-Rahm Emanuel squad to run in the first…

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

…unting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation? The answer was simply to skip over the constitutional passages that had been superseded by further amendments. Some of these are minor matters, but the original passages on slavery speak directly to the heart of the original intent of the document. Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte (R-Virginia), who proposed the reading in the first place, insisted that his “intent w…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…o form a bill mill and national network of his own along with then-Georgia Republican State Rep. Delvis Dutton called the Legislative Appeal to Heaven Caucus. All this bill mill activity and networking of state legislators was due to the historic successes of the Christian Right and the Republican Party in winning control of the majority of state legislative seats and chambers in recent election cycles, and various factions were figuring out what…

Recent Debates Highlight Democrats’ Antisemitism Blind Spot—But It’s Not What You Think

By Nylah Burton

…campaign. https://twitter.com/JamalDajani/status/1110362705775345664 Like Republicans, Democrats frame their support of Israel as fundamentally American and resulting from the abhorrence of antisemitism. But the Democrats don’t seem interested in the nuances of antisemitism, and they damn sure don’t seem interested in examining their own ingrained antisemitism. Recently at the 2019 AIPAC conference, in a flurry of philosemitism, New York City May…

Issa on Fluke: B-b-b-but People of Faith!

By Sarah Posner

…ring religious institutions’ insurers to cover contraception for employees represented the greatest threat to religious freedom ever conceived. After Issa’s own smug display of contempt for the Democratic side of the Oversight Committee, the need of American women for access to affordable birth control, along with his fawning over the martyred arguments presented by the Catholic bishops and their allies, it’s hard to see his entire “religious free…

Did the National Prayer Breakfast Create a New Conservative Superstar?

By Sarah Posner

…er and reflection time for partisan politics and class warfare,” and that “Rep. Gingrey enjoyed listening to the keynote speaker and found the breakfast to be inspiring until President Obama began politicking.” Ah. Did Rep. Gingrey walk out during Dr. Carson’s speech? One conservative, Graham notes, has criticized Carson for his partisanship: the columnist Cal Thomas has called Carson’s remarks “inappropriate for the occasion” and called on him to…

Penn. Legislator’s Jaw-Dropping Prayer Showcases America’s Christian Nationalism Problem

By Andrew L. Seidel

…uild a pluralistic nation. They didn’t build that nation or secure our freedom with theology or prayer, but with a Constitution that draws its power from We the People, not We the Christians. Religion only unites believers of the same stripe, it excludes all others and often calls for worse. An early Wisconsin Supreme Court justice put it eloquently: “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution,…

Prominent Pro-Life Catholic Democrat Switches Sides

By Patricia Miller

…Catholic Democrats, down from 98 in the 111th. And, Pew reports, “the share of GOP members who identify as Catholic also has grown” from 21% to 28% over the same period in keeping with the increasing number of Catholics overall who identify with the Republican Party, with 53% of white Catholics favoring the Republican Party in 2014, versus 39% favoring the Democratic Party….