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As Culture War Rages, What’s the Status of LGBT Rights on Catholic Campuses?

By Jamie L. Manson

…ouses of any new employees. A Fearful Silence For all the advances on some Catholic campuses, a culture of fear still looms heavily. Though nearly twenty scholars and program directors were contacted for comment on this article, only three were willing to speak on the record. This silence, whether self-imposed or ecclesiastically-ordered, raises important questions about the future of younger theologians and scholars at Catholic universities. What…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…rs convened in Texas and in three rounds of voting settled on a consensus around Rick Santorum. Dalton’s prayer group occupies a different space than the conservative activists who spend time poring over voting records, attending campaign events, or gathering with fellow travelers at the GOP-sponsored debate Monday in Myrtle Beach, or Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition meeting there. Still, though, the national elites had pressed for and end…

Perry To Accuse Obama of Appeasement

By Sarah Posner

…toric in a speech at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend last year. Because Perry is speaking in New York, and with Jewish leaders, the assumption is he’s angling for the Jewish vote. But the Christian Zionist vote is critical in far more places than the Republican Jewish vote. Just six weeks ago, Perry hosted an event intended to convert attendees to Christianity. That slice of the electorate is far more important to his presidential bid. …

Polygamist Warren Jeffs Convicted of Sexual Assault

By Anthea Butler

…ults against children, the statute of limitations should be lifted so that cases can be tried, and a jury can adjudicate the sexual, mental, emotional, and physical abuse of children who cannot leave these religious communities without a parent’s consent. The fight to have this happen in states like Pennsylvania and others continues. Until then, many children will continue to suffer and struggle into adulthood as those who use God as an excuse for…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…Piven, Bill Ayers and others in a complex diabolical plot to subvert American capitalism. Bowers’ film shows handwritten charts, which endeavor to demonstrate that Gramsci, who died in 1937, has played a crucial role in the trajectory of the American left, leading to the election of Barack Obama. As Fischer, who nonetheless relies on the same demonizing, scapegoating ideology, protests, Breivik doesn’t share his view of Christianity or his strate…

How Evangelicals Pick Presidents

By Sarah Posner

…ack Obama deployed the same line when trying to court conservative evangelicals in Chicago in 2008, evidence that Democrats still don’t have their own blueprint for religious outreach.) In 2000, Texas once again served as the anointing spot for a GOP president. In his hagiographic The Faith of George W. Bush, Stephen Mansfield reports on a 1999 meeting between Bush, then (like Perry) Governor of Texas, Karl Rove, and Robison, after which Robison…

Gingrich and Hagee, End-Times Buddies

By Sarah Posner

…d visit to John Hagee’s San Antonio church offers a window into how Republican candidates re-tool apocalyptic theology as foreign policy, for mass consumption. The pair have long been fellow travelers; despite Hagee’s history of anti-Catholic statements and Gingrich’s recent conversion to Catholicism, they have both orbited the same nexus of neoconservative foreign policy and apocalyptic biblical prophecy for quite some time. Examples: same claims…

Republicans Silent on Islamophobia

By Sarah Posner

…accordance with the Constitutions of Texas or of the United States of America.” The Republican Jewish Coalition, which helped distribute the anti-Islam film Obsession, in which Gabriel appears, has called O’Brien “one of the leading civilian fighters against the Muslim Brotherhood’s global expansion and infiltration in the U.S.” There’s a difference between being “divided” on a political strategy (whether or not to hold hearings at a particular ti…

Controversial “Bishop of the Poor” Dies at 86

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…e Jtatic (“Bishop of the Poor”) in the Tzotzil Mayan language. While often caricatured as a “red bishop” who preached a communist message of class struggle that supported the armed Zapatistas, Bishop Ruiz consistently espoused a vision of nonviolence and peaceful mediation. In 1999 he founded the Father Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Centre and his life as a whole reminds us that the Latin American Church has been and still is the Church of t…

The Truth in Transgender: Will the Episcopal Church Amend Its Rules?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…day-to-day reality of transgender experience as making an additional practical call on Christians. “It’s my personal understanding of biblical ethics that Christ calls us to reach out to others who don’t fit in,” he explains, “those who are poorly understood, who are subject to violence and domination within our culture.” He continues: “One thing we know about transgender people is that it’s so risky and dangerous just to be who they are. So, as C…