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Romney Prepping for Evangelical Dance

By Sarah Posner

…A base mobilizer but not a game changer. David Gibson of the Religion News Service notes that Mark DeMoss, the Christian public relations executive who, along with a handful of other prominent evangelicals, has supported Romney since his 2008 run, is copacetic about the prospects of evangelical support for the first Mormon GOP nominee. “I’m optimistic that things are coming together nicely behind Mitt Romney and could do so fairly quickly,” he tol…

Court Rules Against Texas Education Employee Forced To Resign Over Forwarded Email

By Lauri Lebo

…agency e-mail account in late 2007 to forward a message from the National Center for Science Education, under the subject heading “FYI.” An official, outraged over the email, demanded that Comer resign from her position. The issue? The email was about an upcoming talk by Barbara Forrest, a philosopher of science and one of the creationists’ most hated enemies. Forrest wrote, along with her co-author Paul R. Gross, Creationism’s Trojan Horse, a da…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…that new president’s administration had barely begun when the World Trade Center collapsed, the Pentagon burned, a plane evaporated into the hills not too far from where we lived. A strangely quiet day grew quieter. One of my parishioners broke a lunch date, explaining that her bank’s financial data was routed through the Trade Center. “The printers are spitting out page after page of garbage,” she said before she rushed back to the office. I met…

Polygamy Bus Tour, ‘Spiritual’ Healthcare for Christian Scientists, Baptizing an Alien…

By Michael J. Altman

…t the IRS by endorsing political candidates from the pulpit during morning services. The IRS prohibits tax exempt religious institutions from engaging in partisan political activity. Now, Americans United is asking the IRS to investigate. I’m not sure why anyone would toy with the IRS. A group of disabled Syrians and Americans have come up with a new comic book hero; a disabled Muslim boy in a wheel chair who transforms into the Silver Scorpion. S…

Sterilization Denial for Woman with Brain Tumor Highlights Religious Liberty Conflict

By Patricia Miller

…and free up willing physicians employed at religious hospitals to provide services.” Efforts to use state anti-discrimination laws have seen some preliminary sucess. Mercy Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Northern California, recently relented and allowed a woman to have a tubal when the ACLU threatened to sue for sex discrimination under state law. For now, the ACLU of Michigan has sent a letter to Genesys invoking state law that prohibits…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…terror plot planned by those the German media refers to as “the bourgeois center”—the middle of society—not its fringes. A judge and former MP, policemen and members of the military. Pia Lamberty is a trained psychologist and the CEO of the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy, a German non-profit inter-disciplinary think tank which combines expertise on conspiracy theories, disinformation, antisemitism and right-wing extremism. She expla…

Grab ‘n Go – Investigative Thriller Follows Covert Efforts to Control the Source of Life But Comes Up Short on Analysis

By Peter Laarman

…o wind down that its core weaknesses are revealed (sorry, for the pun: the Center for Investigative Reporting also produces “Reveal,” an excellent public radio show and companion podcast). Viewers aren’t given a clear enough sense of the extent to which we should be worried about foreign interests capturing scarce US resources, as against domestic greedheads doing their thing and the “normal” workings of capitalism. The film calls our attention to…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…old boy was illegally put up for adoption and “handed over to a homosexual American couple.” But an attorney with the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center said the Russian government “is completely mischaracterizing the history of what’s gone on here and the legal posture of the case.” An HBO Documentary, “Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia,” will be released on Monday, October 6. This week filmmaker Ben Steele talked about his documentary with Co…

‘Soul Murder’ in the American Workplace

By Peter Laarman

…today who seek to put work—and the need for better-balanced work—into the center of the national conversation. Wendell Berry, obviously. Riane Eisler. David and Frances Korten (who have been about this for a long time). Theirs should all be household names, but they are names belonging to people who still remain pioneers on the frontiers of serious thinking about finding a sustainable path. And they have far too few allies in the religious commun…

Pentecostal With History of Hate Speech Selected as President of Brazil’s Human Rights Body

By Jandira Queiroz

…terparts. In a recent article at Public Eye, I described how Jay Sekulow’s American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) met with Brazilian politicians, with the aid of Feliciano’s PSC, seeking support for the cause of a Christian pastor convicted of apostasy in Iran. The efficiency of Brazil’s evangelical political network so impressed the U.S. conservative group that the ACLJ decided to open a Brazilian branch: the Brazilian Center for Law and Just…