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The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

Right Wing Watch reports that the spokesperson for The Response, Texas Governor Rick Perry’s August prayerfest, admits that the event is intended to convert people to Christianity. Eric Bearse, the event’s spokesperson, took to American Family Radio to counter critics’ charges that it was an exclusively Christian event, but said that “anyone who comes to this solemn assembly regardless of their faith tradition or background, will feel the love, g…

The Limits of David Barton’s “Freedom of Religion” Argument

By Julie Ingersoll

…ppointed by the State Boards of Education in states such as California and Texas to help write the American history and government standards for students in those states. Mr. Barton also consults with Governors and State Boards of Education in several states, and he has testified in numerous state legislatures on American history. While it’s not clear how much weight Barton’s brief carried with the court, it seems important given his acknowledged…

To Pray or Not to Pray

By Sarah Posner

…then? Nah, just some prayer. As Right Wing Watch notes, the event boasts a number of people involved in the Restoration and Renewal Projects, including David Lane, former Congressman Bob McEwen, and the American Family Association’s Don Wildmon. Perry’s effort also includes staffers from the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, a 24-7 prayer project of Lou Engle and others. The inspiration for the event is a “solemn assembly” of “prayer a…

What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…barrassment? India’s leading yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, is declaring a hunger strike against governmental corruption. No word on how the guru feels about NCAA recruitment violations. Bernice King left Eddie Long’s church in the wake of Long settling his scandal out of court. Texas is ridding public school graduations of prayers and religious terminology. In New York, a federal court ruled that the City of New York could block congregations from usin…

Tree of Life, Book of Job

By Jay Michaelson

…nce in the grand scheme of things, the story of these five people in Waco, Texas, is told with empathy, not contempt. Of course, all our lives are but chasing after wind. But what choice do we have but to live them? Consequences of Falling Jack O’Brien, the psychic center of the film, is an eleven- to thirteen-year-old for the bulk of it, and a brooding fifty-something (played by Penn) in occasional flash-forwards. (I actually found the Penn sequ…

Roy Moore’s Presidential Ambitions and “Biblical Law”

By Julie Ingersoll

…nt; earlier this year, was awarded the “All American Award” by the Central Texas Tea Party. Moore’s underlying philosophy of law is that only God and the Bible can be the source of moral authority. Moore has long been involved with the work of the Christian Reconstructionist group Vision Forum, including serving as one of the speakers for its Witherspoon School of Law. The occasional four-day seminar on biblical law (open only to men, by the way)…

Time to Get Rid of “Gay Christians”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…who leads an “ex-gay ministry” at Stonegate Fellowship Church in Midland, Texas, starts his story like plenty of other gay or lesbian coming out stories I have ever heard. As a young boy, I thought more about how different and isolated I felt from the other boys. As I grew older and my feelings of being different became sexual, I thought more about how lonely and how dirty I felt—wondering if I was abominable to God. I worried about my feelings b…

Love the Sinner? Then Support Their Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ke, an “ex-gay ministry” leader at Stonegate Fellowship Church in Midland, Texas, scolds churches for trying their best not to make homosexuality a “worse” sin than any other: The truth is that homosexuality IS different. It is not different as a “sin.” God sees the sin of homosexual expression as He sees all sin. It is different, however, in that no other sin (or, better said, an identity based primarily on sinful behavior) has impacted, or is li…

MN Lawmaker: “How Many Gay People Does God Have to Make?”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nded racial segregation in schools. Liptak compares Brown with Lawrence v. Texas, the watershed gay rights ruling that saw the Supreme Court strike down sodomy laws across the nation in 2003, making gay sex legal. Add 13 years and 2016 is when gays and lesbians across the land can celebrate their nuptials legally in all 50 states. Liptak is not alone in his prediction that it’s not if, but when, gays and lesbians will be able to legally walk down…

Romney: Your Data is Mine, But My Tithing is Secret!

By Sarah Posner

…project relies upon a sophisticated analysis by powerful computers of thousands of commercially available, expensive databases that are lawfully bought and sold behind the scenes by corporations, including details about credit accounts, families and children, voter registrations, charitable contributions, property tax records and survey responses. It combines marketing data with what is known in this specialized industry as psychographic informat…