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Palin Goes ‘Hopey-Changey,’ But Don’t Call it Political

By Julie Ingersoll

…ats to overturn the health care bill; they invoked “states’ rights” and the 10th Amendment in support of Arizona’s controversial immigration law even as they insisted that “we’re not supposed to be talking politics.” Palin even reiterated her thoroughly discredited assertion that “Obamacare” will result in “death panels” and therefore “must be overturned.” At each point the audience cheered loudly—almost defiantly—giving it the air of a campaign r…

Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right

By R.L. Stollar

…ademic purpose. For Christian homeschoolers, however, debate serves both a spiritual purpose and a sociopolitical purpose. The spiritual purpose is evangelism. Sarah Pride, a homeschool alumna and daughter of homeschool leader Mary Pride, explained in an article for Practical Homeschooling that debate “prepares young communicators for the specific purpose of serving Christ.” Debate thus becomes a means to accomplish the Great Commission—the idea t…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…erts are clerics, which seems strange at a synod on the family. None of the 16 experts is from the United States; 10 are from Europe (including five from Italy), three from Asia, and one each from Mexico, Lebanon and Australia. “There are more laypeople among the 38 auditors, including 14 married couples, of whom two are from the United States. Many of the observers are employees of the Catholic church or heads of Catholic organizations, including…

US Bishops Defund Immigrant Rights Group Over LGBT Equality

By Patricia Miller

…d the American Life League and its allies are “putting at risk vital anti-poverty work and creating a culture of fear around community organizing” that “is draining resources from critical social justice advocacy at a time when more than 1 in 5 children live in poverty and income inequality is the most severe it has been since the 1920s.” It added that an “equally troubling impact is the potential chilling effect on the church’s involvement with d…

The Third Party Publicity Stunt

By Sarah Posner

…their support,” read their letter, obtained by NBC News. Dateline, February 12, 1998: At a closed-door convention of conservative leaders in Arizona last week, James Dobson, who heads the multimedia ministry Focus on the Family, warned that if the Republican Congress continued to ”betray” conservative evangelical voters, he would abandon the Republican Party and ”do everything I can to take as many people with me as possible.” * * * * Dr. Dobson…

Feisal Abdul-Rauf Still not Providing Leadership on Park51

By Hussein Rashid

…However, at least part of the Park51 team’s strategy seems to be conflate support for the law and people with support for the center. It should be clear that the battle against anti-Muslim bigotry is not the same as support for Park51. The same evening Abdul-Rauf gave an interview on CNN in which he raised the canard of national security when discussing the need to build Park51. The logic of his argument is as follows: we are building a center th…

Facing White Christianity’s Role in the January 6th Insurrection

By Robert P. Jones

…eCast Exit Polls, 81% of white evangelicals once again cast their votes in support of Trump. Their median score on the Racism Index: 78 out of 100. Similarly, 58% of white mainline Protestants voted for Trump, while their median Racism Index score is 69 out of 100. And Trump received the vote of 57% of white Catholics, a group with a median Racism Index score of 72 out of 100. By contrast, only 26% of white religiously unaffiliated Americans voted…

Why Pro-Life Voters Shouldn’t Trust Trump on Abortion—And Why It Doesn’t Matter

By Neil J. Young

…expansion of abortion rights throughout his governorship. Indicating in the 1976 race that he supported the aims of a Human Life Amendment, Reagan declared he would allow for abortion only in the case where pregnancy threatened the life of the mother. As the 1980 election took shape, Reagan had no lingering questions about his pro-life commitments thanks to a solid anti-abortion record stretching back more than a decade. This earned Reagan the Nat…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…id and releasing a gas that made many people feel sick, and reportedly sent 16 to the hospital. According to the report, “St. Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov, his aide Anatoly Artyukh, and activists who associate themselves with the Russian Orthodox faith interrupted the opening ceremony of the “KviroFest-2014” event at a cafe on September 18. According to Gay Star News, festival organizers said the event was also hit with last-minute cancellat…

Could The “Grand Old Party” Now Be The “Gay Old Party”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y in June “adopted an official platform that keeps a long-held position in support of making homosexual acts illegal, a policy adopted after the Montana Supreme Court struck down such laws in 1997.” Reaction to such backward thinking is strong even in Montana: “I looked at that and said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” state Sen. John Brueggeman, R-Polson, said last week. “Should it get taken out? Absolutely. Does anybody think we should be arrest…