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A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…l. There is a consonance between their Christianity and their support for Trump. Trump is not a Christian warrior; he is, however, a warrior for Christ. Conservative evangelicals may want Jesus to save them, but not to rule them. It is not the character, but the capacity, of the candidate, that moves them. Culture warriors have not been able to move their agenda forward. If anything it is the reverse. A candidate’s faith, virtue and public praying…

Was Ghana Anti-Gay Scare Just Politics?

By Warren Throckmorton

…officially, said that Ghana is a law abiding country and that those on a crusade should take up the matter in the courts. The issue appears to be a sensitive one for the government. The Ministry of Information and the Office of the President declined to speak to me and one staffer simply hung up when asked if the government supported recent calls to arrest gays. While President John Atta Mills has stated that he believes homosexuality is foreign…

“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

…int as the Louisiana fan, giving as the “number two” reason to choose Santorum that, “The Santorums are raising seven precious children, and they have one in heaven.” (The top reason, delivered by husband Jim Bob Duggar, was the longevity of the Santorums’ marriage.) It’s the same sort of logic offered by another Louisiana rally-goer quoted by the New York Times, 18-year-old Haley Harris, part of the Oklahoma family band that created the unofficia…

The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

…ers, and ethnicities. You, have sacrificed nothing.” The convention crowd erupted in applause and rose to their feet. It was one of the most powerful rebukes of Trump during the Democratic convention, and it was delivered by a Muslim. On one level, the inclusion of Khan in a prime convention speaking slot is a sign that party officials are increasingly comfortable with including Muslims in a visible way. Khan was introduced by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar…

The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…ng people are far less numerous. So for young Egyptians fighting Mubarak’s rule, the fight really wasn’t fair. But Mayer and his friends “don’t have the means” to rise above? It seems to me that the song’s one false statement is that they “see everything that’s going wrong.” Either they don’t see, or they don’t honestly think the problems in America are worth challenging. America has some serious problems; a recent study of developed nations…

Shutdown is Over, But There Will Be a Next Time

By Diane Winston

…exploited for political or economic purposes but don’t discount the many true believers: Ted Cruz, Mark Meadows and Michele Bachmann are not using politics for religious ends or religion for economic ends, it’s one and the same. This time, they may not have succeeded. But there will be a next time and a next time until an alternate vision of society—one that remixes religion, politics and economics into a more communal and collective venture, sti…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…ss the Gulf will prove their worth and all those young Gulf-citizens will truly earn their PhDs. 4. Muslims are tired of how politics has been defined by and in the West. Perhaps the time has come to redefine what politics means? Realpolitik, the Kissingerian-Nixonian view of international relations, has dominated US foreign policy for decades. It ensures that the US makes public proclamations about democracy and freedom, while in reality, dem…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…across the South. Hochman also highlights Christopher Rufo, claiming that Rufo’s crusade against CRT represents a new wave of nonreligious conservatism. The author and researcher Anne Nelson, however, has shown just how deeply the anti-CRT campaigns were influenced by the Council for National Policy—the secretive organization started by none other than the architect of the Christian Right, Paul Weyrich. “As they absorbed the loss of the 2020 elec…

When the Science Guy Misses the Politics

By Sarah Posner

…of “a question from the 1920’s: ‘Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?’” In explaining why he decided to participate in the debate, Nye wrote at CNN: It seems to me that Ham is a fundamentalist. Around the world there are billions of people, who embrace the facts and process of modern science, and they enjoy their faith. By all accounts, their faith enriches their lives. These people have no conflict with their f…

Obama and the Louie Giglio Controversy

By Sarah Posner

…gelical,” and in the 1990s, this was certainly not unusual, and isn’t even today. I’m not excusing it, I’m just saying this seems sort of inevitable if Obama is going to pick a conservative evangelical. The question is why he does. Whether this will cause the same uproar that Obama’s selection of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his first inauguration remains to be seen, but already one can sense some the outcry brewing. But unlike with Wa…