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Rand Paul Rattles the Personhood Crowd

By Sarah Posner

…s shocking, last week, when Paul was asked about Plan B during an event in South Carolina, and he nonchalantly declared that he had no problem with women using the so-called morning-after pill. “Plan B is taking two birth control pills in the morning and two in the evening, and I am not opposed to that,” he said. Let’s set aside that Plan B comes in doses of one pill, not four; for our purposes we’re talking about Paul’s rejection of the Christian…

Komen, Planned Parenthood, and Conspiracy Theories

By Sarah Posner

…ice activists, conspiracy theories about this supposed link abound. At the South Carolina Citizens for Life rally in Columbia last month, there was a large display featuring publications from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as a news article highlighting a local diocese’s refusal to support the Race for the Cure because of Komen’s support for Planned Parenthood. The display featured an anti-contraception pamphlet penned by the USC…

No Fireworks, Only Candles: Our Work as Americans and Muslims

By Ayesha Mattu

…es to Hank Williams. Our friends are second-generation American Muslims of South Asian, Arab, and African heritage, white converts, and beautiful toddlers of interracial marriages. Watching them interact, I am content, and hopeful for our future here. My husband and I push the stroller through the neighborhood after our friends leave. The festival is officially over but children are still dancing on a wooden floor as the crew dismantles the stage…

By the Way: Bush Commencement Opposed by Furman Faculty

By Randall Balmer

…is only the second most recognized educational institution in Greenville, South Carolina. The most familiar–some would say the most notorious–lies behind the gated walls of Bob Jones University. Due in part to the agency of my friend Stephen Fox, I had a delightful visit to Furman earlier this year, where I gave a lecture on religion and presidential politics in the chapel (not from the pulpit, mind you, because I was not preaching). The faculty…

Trump Evokes MLK at Biker Vet Rally

By Paul Harvey

…ons have concealed evidence that American captives are being held alive in South-East Asia.” Trump may have claimed to valorize those who “weren’t captured” just a year ago, but his appearance at the mall on behalf of those who supposedly have been captured and never released marks another milestone in the un-reality show of the campaign. Aside from the compliments for the “beautiful” bikes and praise for the Hells Angels’-style protection they su…

Scott Walker Loves Jesus. That’s Nice

By Peter Laarman

…n a decade Kohler was shipping the work to new non-union facilities in the South. Just last year the current magnate—yet another Herbert Kohler—pushed through a greatly weakened contract for the small number of Local 833 members still employed in Wisconsin. I say all this to make the point that American business and its “business-friendly” sock puppets like Gov. Scott Walker will stop at nothing—nothing—to roll back worker rights and worker securi…

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…rresponded with presidential hopeful John C. Calhoun, the architect of the South’s states’ rights doctrine, and asked what he would do to help minority groups like Mormons. After he received the unsatisfactory response that the federal government only has “limited and specific powers,” Smith chastised the politician for failing to grasp the necessity of federal responsibility. This “fragile view” of the Constitution that emphasized state control w…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…he Rev. John Hubers, supervisor of mission programs in the Middle East and South Asia for the Reformed Church in America. David Brog, the executive director of Pastor John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel—one of the most prominent Christian Zionist organizations in the United States—taskes umbrage at Hubers’ comment: “To say we’re dehumanizing Israelis and Palestinians with our support for Israel dehumanizes us.” Christian and Jewish leaders i…

The Road to Decriminalization of Psychoactive Drugs Runs Through Religion

By Brad Stoddard

…of União do Vegetal (or Union of the Plants), a small religious group from South America, can legally consume a psychedelic tea called hoasca (or ayahuasca), an otherwise illegal psychoactive drug, during twice-monthly rituals. Based largely on the Supreme Court’s decision, three years later a lower court ruled that members of a similar religion in Oregon have a religious right to consume what they call Daime, a variation of the base ingredients u…

Why President Obama Should Not Visit the Western Wall

By Melissa Weininger

…997, the women have been allowed to pray at Robinson’s Arch, a site to the south of the Wall, but not at the Wall itself. Every month, the Women of the Wall continue to meet and pray together on Rosh Chodesh, and periodically some of them are arrested, typically for a short period, and released. In February, however, the organization was catapulted into the news when Rabbi Susan Silverman, the sister of the American comedian Sarah Silverman, was a…