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Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…shed an opera with a million children, and the [2005 raid on Warren Jeffs’ Texas Yearning for Zion ranch] had just happened. So we made a raid on a polygamous compound the the first act of the opera. Were you watching coverage of the 2005 raid? I was watching the coverage obsessively. I’d seen images from the 1950s [federal raid on the polygamous community at Short Creek, Utah], but it took a couple of days for the mainstream media to look up thos…

Christian-Only Prayer Rally The Response Goes To Early Primary States

By Sarah Posner

…unregistered born-again and evangelical Christian and conservative Catholic in the country.” United in Purpose shares the services of David Lane with the Renewal and Restoration Projects, which are modeled on one launched in Texas to help Perry with a gubernatorial reelection campaign. As I reported previously, Lane, a Christian nation absolutist who was also instrumental in organizing The Response, has long supported Perry’s political career. …

Jeffress is Both Right and Wrong on Religion & Politics

By Peter Montgomery

Texas pastor Robert Jeffress, who became a media sensation earlier this month for his blunt remarks about Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, published an opinion piece in the Washington Post this week accusing his critics of trying to “marginalize religion” and make a candidate’s religious beliefs “off limits” in political discussion. But being criticized is not the same as being silenced. Jeffress mixes and muddles several issues in his mea non culpa; it’…

Jeff Sharlet’s Weird Religion, in 13 Chapters

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…’s book authors, gets it, you don’t need to be super-sized or have a large number of teeth—something everyone else already has—you just need to be “plain weird” to be a good monster. And we need our monsters, harbingers of the wild and chaotic, as they warn and protect, de-monstrating from the world beyond that which is known. Jeff Sharlet taught me that religion is weird. He described it as such in a lecture a few years ago and in personal conver…

The David Lane Effect

By Sarah Posner

…ations have supported Perry, dating back to 2005 and his leadership of the Texas Restoration Project, which boosted Perry’s reelection race for governor. As the emails Coppins obtained make clear, he’s anti-Mormon. But there’s no evidence that he coordinated with the Perry campaign to put Jeffress front and center at the Values Voters Summit on October 7 as the face of evangelical anti-Mormonism, just that he was quite pleased with the outcome. Th…

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

By Joanna Brooks

…as being “soft” on immigration. Romney is aiming at Perry’s support for a Texas state policy that permits the young people who came to the United States “illegally” as children to attend public universities paying in-state tuition. It’s not radical policy, but Romney’s criticism is yet another point—like Social Security—he’s using to draw a strong contrast with Perry. But doing so puts him to the right of the LDS Church-sponsored Utah Compact on…

What’s Eating Mitt Romney?

By Joanna Brooks

…ck Perry was 19 and 20 years old, he was a pep leader earning a 2.5 GPA at Texas A&M. Mitt married at 22 and had five kids by the time he was 34; Perry married at 32. There’s a whole lot of red-blooded American male hijinks Mitt Romney skipped out on because he was an observant Mormon, and perhaps he missed out on a few lessons in mainstream fraternizing and jocularity as well. Perhaps his leadership style reflects an uneasy adaptation of the cult…

Obama’s Preaching Doesn’t Reach

By Anthea Butler

…od in Chicago, and his comments on the campaign trail in 2008 in Beaumont, Texas urging black parents “not to feed their kids cold Popeye’s chicken for breakfast,” are just two examples of how Obama deploys this racially-coded rhetorical strategy. The president’s behavior since taking office towards the African American community has been either to tell black folks to get in line and get to work, or gee, I love ya’ll, but I need your vote. If only…

#OccupyWallStreet and the Antichrist

By Sarah Posner

…e Obama, the president’s ultimate political position was far closer to the Texas governor’s position than to Gushee and Stassen’s. Now for Sutton’s first item, that the left is in disarray. That is perhaps a more complicated story, with two parts: the left’s real problems, as historian Michael Kazin observes in his essay in the Times yesterday, and the public perception of it, illuminated by reporter Will Bunch in his critique of media coverage of…

Perry v. Romney Showdown Tonight

By Joanna Brooks

…uth Carolina this week show he’s only up by 3 points over Romney. (Even in Texas, Perry’s approval ratings are only 45%.) Romney gets GOP elites and establishment, the Northeast, the West, independents (in open primary states), and everyone who has the foresight to worry about electability in a general election. He also may be able to claim senior citizens, if Perry’s comparison of Social Security to “Ponzi scheme” continue to play, although a ne…