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Perry Taps Anti-Gay Crusader and “Prayer Lady” for Florida Team

By Sarah Posner

…Renewal Projects active in 2008 around the country were modeled on Lane’s Texas Restoration Project, which was intended to support Perry’s gubernatorial reelection bid. Its stated enemies included gays and later Muslims. Just 12 days after The Response, Don Wildmon, whose American Family Association bankrolled the event, sent an email to registrants introducing the United in Purpose voter registration project Champion the Vote. Wildmon wrote, “re…

Few Religion Questions at Debate

By Sarah Posner

…E: I neglected to mention in the original post that I had some interesting reactions via my Twitter feed to the audience’s applause for Perry’s comments on the death penalty and the number of executions in Texas under his watch. The conservative (and Christian) admiration for that eye for an eye stuff is not universal….

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…litical movement in the 1970s. Brother Doug Phillips is best known for his Texas-based homeschooling publishing house, Vision Forum. On his father’s in-house TV show in 2007, father and son cast the situation in Sudan at the time, and the work of the Persecution Project, in stark Manichaean terms. The elder Phillips introduced one segment, for example, by saying, “Brad, you have been focusing on the persecution of Christians in Sudan, some two mil…

Lesson from Iowa: Be Careful What You Pray For

By Sarah Posner

As Rick Perry returns to Texas to “reassess,” it’s hard to believe that nearly five months ago, he was seen as the savior of the religious right, the anointed one who would raise up an army of Christians who would, with their prayers (and their votes) deliver America from sinful ruin. As Perry spoke last night in Iowa, I watched the expression on his wife Anita’s face. The woman who had once proclaimed that God wanted her husband to be president…

AFA’s Fischer Calls Breivik’s Manifesto “Accurate”

By Sarah Posner

…r Nordic culture; for Fischer, it’s “Judeo-Christian” American culture. Fischer’s employer, the American Family Association, is the “host” for Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer extravaganza, The Response. …

Neo-Confederates and the Revival of “Theological War” for the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…ks on neo-confederates, Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (Univ. of Texas Press, 2008), and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The “Great Truth” About the “Lost Cause” (Univ. Press of Mississippi 2010). He passed along one of his own essays, “The US Civil War as a Theological War: Confederate Christian Nationalism and the League of the South,” co-written with Euan Hague and published in the Canadian Review of American Studies, an e…

Sister Wives Stars File Suit to Legalize Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…espotic” “Oriental” practice unsuitable for American society. Tens of thousands of Utahns today continue to form and live in polygamous family groupings. Dozens of religious groups tracing their roots to the nineteenth-century Mormon movement founded by Joseph Smith continue to teach that polygamous marriage is a sacred rite necessary to the eternal well-being of the soul. Thousands of “independent” polygamists not affiliated with any of these fu…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…“a peculiar mix of neo-Confederate fantasist and seasoned tax protester.” Sanders has served on the Board of Directors of the League of the South, a Southern nationalist organization the SPLC characterizes as “a neo-Confederate group that advocates for a second Southern secession and a society dominated by ‘European Americans.’” That society would be, according to the SPLC, a “godly” nation “run by an ‘Anglo-Celtic’ (read: white) elite that would…

Can a Pig Heart be Kosher?

By Ari Stillman

…sion on issues not found in the sacred texts. A.R. Chao, a former Imam in Texas and graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School, suggests that “xenotransplantation is acceptable if the patient’s life is in danger and all other medical options have been exhausted. [However, given the novelty of the technology, there has not been a clear ruling issued on it from Muslim jurists.]” But jurisprudential issues are not so simple. Given the complexity of this…

Mitt Romney, Frontrunner: Deal With It

By Joanna Brooks

…omic conservative segment of the Party is also out to get the frontrunner: Texas Republican Dick Armey’s privatization-hawking Freedom Works is gearing up to spend big and mobilize its one million fiscal conservatives against Romney. Leading GOP donors, operatives, and the media continue to flirt with fantasy candidates, including Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman, who will announce his presidential bid June 21 at the Statue of Liberty. Just like Ronald…