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Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…pretation” of a proposed law against anti-LGBT discrimination. “If passed, Georgia would join six other EU Member states with constitutional same-sex marriage bans, including most recently Croatia, which in December 2013 passed its ban. Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland also ban same-sex marriage.” South Africa: President ‘Respects’ Ugandan Law; Gay Judge Publishes Memoir In response to a parliamentary question this week, South Afric…

How End-of-Life Issues Are Being Used to Thwart Health Care Reform

By Ann Neumann

…ed activists here. Public opinion on end-of-life choice is being tested in Georgia: in March, an undercover investigator lured Final Exit advocates into his home, claiming he wished to kill himself. They were arrested by local authorities and the case is pending hearing. A sentence of five years in jail accompanies conviction of assisting suicide in the state of Georgia. Aid in dying advocates have not only been active proponents of state legislat…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…Carter for his infamous 1976 interview with Playboy magazine in which the Georgia governor and presidential candidate confessed that he had “committed adultery in my heart many times.” Falwell Sr. said that Carter’s decision to give an interview to Playboy “was lending the credence and the dignity of the highest office in the land to a salacious, vulgar magazine that did not even deserve the time of his day.” By 1980, Falwell Sr. was leading a co…

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…. Consider the words of Kandiss Taylor, a former candidate for governor of Georgia: “The good thing about the First Amendment is that if you’re a Jew or you’re a Muslim or you’re a Buddhist, you still get to worship your god because you’re in America. But you don’t get to silence us,” she declared last year to an approving audience. She went on to proclaim: “we’re running the state with Jesus Christ first.” Taylor failed to mention that the United…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…of the Goods and Chattles of Pleasant Moon Deceased (1815). From state of Georgia digitized archives. Through the marvels of digital technology, this page moved from a leather bound book in the Twiggs County, Georgia archives, to the printer in my living room. And then it was in my unsteady hands—an accounting ledger in which four human beings are intermixed with material objects such as a feather bed, a spinning wheel for cotton, and a cow. I ra…

Conservative Christians: Think Twice Before Claiming ‘Islam Is Not a Religion’

By Chad Bauman

…a for the West, 1835). Similarly, barely more than a century ago, in 1915, Georgia Sen. Thomas E. Watson (whose statue used to adorn the Georgia State Capitol lawn), accused the Roman Catholic hierarchy (in a book of that title), of being the “most damnable group of interlocked secret societies that ever met in darkness, and took hellish oaths to a compact of greed, and lust, and crime, for the sordid purpose of grasping uncontrollable power, boun…

Wall St., Main St., Religion, and the Bailout

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ce of every human achievement in time. Main Street in Quitman, Georgquaint Georgian brick facades, some newer glass window-fronts, a couple of side-streets that trickle off into dirt roads and residential greenery. It is a difficult place to read. Approaching from the west, the first storefront I came upon on the south side of the avenue was “McCard & Company,” an Antiques and Interior store. They were advertizing an “Attic Sale,” one in which “ev…

‘It’s Time to Defend our Children Outside of the Womb’: Pray Vote Stand Connects Anti-Abortion and Anti-Trans Messages

By PRA Staff

…in the hallways and at the entrances, guns at hips. Tony Perkins welcomes Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to the stage who rails against “rogue local governments” and federal overreach, leaving attendees with little recourse but to trust in Kemp’s state leadership sandwiched between the two. “Marty and I,” says Kemp, referring to his wife, “are in a fight for the soul of the state.” Following Governor Kemp, Perkins returns to the conference’s overrid…

Is There Anyone in the Press Who Can Recognize the Bad Faith in Evangelical Faith?

By John Stoehr

…ave seen their premonition bear out. Incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock won Georgia’s run-off, but Walker gleaned 48.6 percent of the vote, most of it from rural areas dominated by White evangelical Protestants. The worst offenders are liberal And NPR isn’t alone. The Times ran this howler: “‘Saved by Grace’: Evangelicals Find a Way Forward With Herschel Walker.” That’s pure comedy gold to anyone who grew up in an ultra-conservative religious tradi…

We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory

By John Stoehr

…still up in the air. There are going to be two run-off senate elections in Georgia. The outcome will determine Mitch McConnell’s fate.) 2. Realignment This is the idea that the coalitions constituting each party are changing. That much is true, but contrary to the conventional wisdom in Washington, the change is far from symmetrical. The press and pundit corps presumed during Trump’s term that the Republicans traded white suburbanites for the whit…