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Louisiana Students Must Choose: Religion or Science

By Lauri Lebo

…high school sweetheart. She will celebrate her 40th wedding anniversary in July. Forrest says she believes that Louisiana’s battles have been overshadowed by the recent Texas textbook fight in which members of the Board of Education have been trying to sneak creationist language into the curriculum. With its incredible power over textbook publishers, Texas (which buys its books at the state level and is the second largest purchaser of textbooks in…

Richard Land Steps Down, But Not Out of the Culture Wars

By Aaron Weaver

On Friday, July 27, Richard Land, the embattled president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, addressed over 6,000 religious conservatives at Glenn Beck’s “Under God, Indivisible” rally at High Point Church in Arlington, Texas. The 2012 presidential election is, Land told the crowd, “the most important election since 1860.” Just a few days after preaching this anti-Obama sermon, Land annou…

Statement on NAR & Christian Nationalism Answers Few Questions But Exposes Growing Rifts in the Movement

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ition of Apostolic Leaders (USCAL), which is part of ICAL. Nevertheless, a number of notable figures who signed the Statement on Prophetic Standards are missing from the NAR & Christian Nationalism statement—further indication of a rift. These include Apostles Abby Abildness, Negiel Bigpond, James W. Goll, and Steven Strang, along with Prophets Stacey Campbell, and Kris Vallotton, to name a few.* The new statement opens with an explanation for its…

Despite Excommunication, Door to Women’s Ordination Not Closed

By Roy Bourgeois

…-gay. If the Catholic Church does not change, it will go the way of the dinosaurs. In the midst of my sadness and disappointment in Pope Francis, I nevertheless have great hope because I know that any movement rooted in love, justice, and equality cannot be stopped. In July, Pope Francis told reporters, ”On the ordination of women, the door is closed.” He should know that no one—not even the Pope—can close a door that God wants to open. Like this…

Is Ken Starr ‘Pulling a Clinton’ on Jewish Studies Professor Marc Ellis?

By Kiera Feldman

…clined. We understand, further, that on November 16, four months after the July 15 notification, the chair of the Faculty Dismissal Committee notified Professor Ellis that the administration was seeking his dismissal.” Ellis’ lawyer declined to discuss the nature of the complaint, but he did note that the female faculty member who filed it was “a former close friend of Marc’s.” According to Sanders, Ellis tried to intervene in a dispute between th…

Christian Terrorist in TX Was Paid ‘Investigator’ for Prominent GOP Activists and Donors

By Chrissy Stroop

…e full of hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots. Unsurprisingly, the number of ballots found in the truck, fraudulent or otherwise, was precisely zero. If you’re like me, when this story broke, the detail that most stood out to you was that an entity known as the Liberty Center for God and Country paid Aguirre $266,400 as part of its vigilante “investigation” into non-existent election irregularities. We wanted to know who pours that kind of…

Texas Board of Education to Review Intelligent Design-Promoting Materials for Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…and the stages of the cell cycle The board will vote on the submissions in July. It could decide not to adopt the creationist material – which is a possibility. Since last year’s election, several of the most conservative Christian board members have left, including McLeroy and Cynthia Dunbar, who believes there should be legal litmus tests prohibiting non-believers from holding elected office. So this could be the first significant test of the ne…

For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel’s Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising

By Peter Laarman

…l celebrated, as provocatively as possible, by Ulster’s Orange Order every July 12. All this history bears directly on the creation of Messiah, because the work was first performed in Dublin under the sponsorship of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: the very embodiment of the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland brought about by William’s triumph at the River Boyne. What is really going on behind the curtain, as it were, of Messiah’s emergence into Chri…

“Future of Babylon” Project Preserves History to Some, Ushers in “End Times” to Others

By Bill Berkowitz

…April 10, 2003, one day after U.S. forces established control over Iraq, a number of Iraqis took to doing, to paraphrase Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld “what a free people do”; running amok and looting whatever wasn’t permanently nailed in place. One of the hardest hit targets was Baghdad’s Iraq Museum. When asked about the looting, Rumsfeld—then enjoying matinee idol-type status—made light of the situation, saying: “the images you are seein…

Fetus as Person Initiative Approved by Mississippi Judge

By Lauri Lebo

…titution recognizes the right of citizens to amend their Constitution.” In July, Jackson attorney Rob McDuff, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of two residents against Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann for approving a 2011 ballot initiative asking voters to decide if the word “person” in the state Constitution will include “every human being from the moment of life, fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent t…