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The Only Surprising Thing About the ‘Demon Sperm’ Doctor’s Views Is That They’re Shared By Many Evangelicals

By Lenny J. Lowe

…ergy, Rick Perry. Perhaps an even nearer comparison can be found in former Alaska Governor and 2008 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, whose videotaped “deliverance prayer” with an African exorcist drew media scrutiny at the time. Third Wave spiritual warfare, with its firm conviction that the world is profoundly influenced by demonic forces, has, in real social and material ways, been traversing the halls of powers for more than a decade. T…

Dreaming Beyond the Madman: Reflections on the Revolution in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…herwise subjugate huge percentages of her population. That process began in 1911, when Italy seized Libya from the Ottoman Empire, despite the best efforts of Ottoman troops, which included a young Mustafa Kemal, the future Ataturk. Italian occupation, and all its violence, lasted through World War II. After a brief rule by a monarchy, a young army officer overthrew the king and established a radical revolutionary state in 1969. This would be some…

Tea Party Bullies on Homosexuality: “No Punishment Too Severe?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…asic Life Principles. DeMint’s money has gone to (among others) Sharron Angle of Nevada, Ken Buck of Colorado, Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Joe Miller of Alaska, and Christine O’Donnell of Delaware. You can bet that no matter how the numbers finally shake out in next month’s election, Barton and DeMint, and their views on “Judeo-Christian heritage” and “bibli…

Joe Miller’s Anti-Gay, Anti-Islam Advisor

By Sarah Posner

Via David Corn at Mother Jones, Alaska Republican Senate candidate (and tea party favorite and free press abuser) Joe Miller had on his campaign payroll one Terry Moffitt, a radical Christian conservative activist from North Carolina. Campaign disclosures say nothing about what kind of “consulting services” the Miller campaign paid Moffitt $2,500 for, and nobody was telling Corn, who details Moffitt’s extreme anti-gay views, and his lambasting of…

Sarah Palin Favorites “Jesus Against Obama” Church Sign

By Lauri Lebo

…BlackBerry to even see if such a function was possible. I was traveling to Alaska that day…it was an obvious accidental ‘favoriting,’ but no one can mistake that Ann Coulter was obviously being tongue in cheek with that Tweet. Shall I correct this with whichever wonderful media outlet ran with this (an obviously bored reporter…since there must be nothing going on in the world today, like, um, ramifications of a shake up of power in the U.S. House…

Will 2018 Be the Year of Catholic Health Care Dominance?

By Patricia Miller

…s. The Catholic Health Initiatives-Dignity merger will create a system with 159,000 employees, according to Modern Healthcare. Ascension alone has 160,000 employees. As a result of this dramatic expansion of Catholic hospitals and their market power, 2018 may be a pivotal year for new tests of “religious freedom” claims regarding the provision of health care and patient rights under both courts and an administration that are increasingly friendly…

Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed

By Julie Ingersoll

…mist Lew Rockwell both worked on Ron Paul’s congressional staff in the late 1970s. That collaboration continues today, even after reports during the 2008 presidential campaign that Rockwell had ghostwritten racist and anti-gay statements in Ron Paul’s conspiracy-minded newsletter in the 1980s and ’90s. They continue to collaborate through the Ludwig von Mises Institute, founded by Rockwell and the anti-“statist,” anti-New Deal economist Murray Rot…

The Spirit of January 6th: The Theology of This Seldom Discussed Movement Animates the Growing Threat to U.S. Democracy

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…dn’t begin to publish his influential vision of dominion until later in the 1950s. The widespread influence of the Latter Rain movement helps in part to explain why, in the 1980s, Pentecostal and charismatic leaders were able to find political common ground with other evangelicals, including conservative Reformed leaders like the Christian Reconstructionists. They arrive at their shared goal of dominion via different and not always consistent theo…

Theory that Palin Dog-Whistled Christian Zionists is Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…libel comments were intended as a dog whistle for evangelicals: The former Alaska governor was likely trying to send a signal to her evangelical Christian supporters who are, in fact, deeply pro-Israel (although many Jews are wary of their support for the Zionist state, seeing them as more interested in the Rapture than a healthy Jewish nation). Palin was likely aligning herself with pro-Israel evangelicals by identifying with Jews, not by insulti…

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

By Julie Ingersoll

…t of Thrasher saying: The name Thrasher, you know what that means to us in Alaska? To us the criteria for whether a guy or girl is cool or not is can they ride a (snow) machine? So, often they’ll say can they climb a mountain on a machine; yeah, they’re real thrasher. For us it means a lot… and I like your politics, sir. A carefully choreographed Q&A session followed consisting of Palin, Thrasher and local legislator Doc Renuart (sitting in for Lt…