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An Immoderate Proposal: Sam Rodriguez, “Centrist” Evangelical, to Give Benediction at RNC

By Sarah Posner

…ngelicals constitute a significant presence in the swing states of Nevada, Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico, where they may play a decisive role this year.” But Molly Rohal, a communications associate with the Pew Hispanic Center, said, “We do not have large enough samples in our national surveys to analyze Latino evangelicals at the state level. The sample sizes in the state-level exit polls from 2008 are also a bit too small to analyze Latino e…

Paula White’s Coronation, “Rabbi” Messer’s “Apology,” and Great Parody

By Anthea Butler

…aged to maneuver herself into dead pastor Zachary Tim’s pulpit in Orlando, Florida. Tim’s wife has been vocal about her displeasure, and there may be action taken against White. What this debacle for Long and White shows clearly is that people are willing to follow pulpit pimps, even when they clearly pursuing only their own lust for power. Those who continue to follow them can only be certain of two things: lighter wallets and fewer brain cells….

Why Corporations Should Have the Right to Bear Arms

By Gordon Haber

…the process armed barristas may resort to internecine violence. Indeed, in Florida, we might expect coffee shops to attempt war with each other, given the vagaries of the Stand Your Grounds law. It would be equally un-American to limit the extension of this basic human right to an incorporeal entity created solely for the purposes of producing a profit. We must also extend this right to non-profits, even when their purposes may in fact be un-Ameri…

“Religious Freedom” and the Conservative Quest for Absolute Truth

By Ira Chernus

…voters by saying, in as many ways as possible, “Yes, Virginia (or Iowa or Florida or Missouri) there are universal truths that can never change. You are not adrift in a sea of moral chaos. Elect me and you’re sure to have a fixed mooring to hold you and your community fast forever.” Though Republicans have had the most success with such language in recent decades, Democrats are eagerly trying to catch up. And they have a rich tradition to draw…

Santorum Invoked Satan

By Joseph Laycock

…e speech was given to Catholic students at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, which was founded by Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s pizza. Like Santorum, Monaghan is a conservative Catholic strongly opposed to abortion, contraception, and pornography). Appealing to the rhetoric of American exceptionalism, Santorum explained that America, above all countries, has been targeted by Satan for corruption. He explained that Satan had already…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…pposite of elitist snobbery. Even Newt Gingrich, who isn’t the president’s number-one booster, told the Today show that the Obama comment: [S]trikes me as perfectly reasonable. Everybody in America is going have to get re-educated all the time because jobs are going to change, technology is going to change, and if we’re going to compete in the world market, we both have to have the best equipment and the best training. But Santorum doesn’t care ab…

Romney Faring Better With Evangelicals… Or Just Worse With All Others?

By Joanna Brooks

…-again Christians selected Romney, compared to 38% of non-evangelicals. In Florida, the favorability gap was 18%. In Ohio, it was 14%. In Alabama, it was 7%. And in Mississippi, where Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum battled to a nearly three-way split, the favorability gap was down to 4%. So what’s happening? Perhaps reticence about or antipathy towards Mormonism is more broadly distributed among Southern Republicans, including mainline Christians,…

No More Mosques

By Daniel Schultz

The other day, I wrote about the “fear-based evangelism” practiced by a Florida church intent on burning copies of the Quran. Turns out the American Family Association — or at least Bryan Fischer, its director of issue analysis — is not about to be outdone in the fear-mongering business: Permits should not be granted to build even one more mosque in the United States of America, let alone the monstrosity planned for Ground Zero. This is for one s…

If Trayvon Martin Were My Son, His Killer Would be in Jail Now

By Joanna Brooks

…hot a young, unarmed African-American man named Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, is known to police, and remains free. “My son is your son,” Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton told demonstrators in New York City on Wednesday evening. While I’m fully aware of the vulnerability of my own children, I also think about the ways my friends who are African American must raise their children, especially sons, with an ever-heightened…

Escorted Off House Floor for Reading Scripture in a Hoodie

By Sarah Posner

…as killed last month by George Zimmerman, a volunteer member of a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch. Zimmerman, who has not been charged, claims he was defending himself. Martin was unarmed and wearing a hoodie at the time of his death. “Too often, this violent act that resulted in the murder of Trayvon Martin is repeated in the streets of our nation,” Rush said in his statement. “I applaud the young people all across the land who are making a…