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No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…nions. “No question about it,” Baldwin told me, “the federal government in Washington, DC is out of control.” He likens the situation to colonial times, when he claims pastors in long black robes instigated a revolution against the British monarchy: It [the federal government] is becoming a tyrannical government. With every passing day, their laws and their dictations are becoming more egregious, more unconscionable, more unconstitutional. And unl…

‘Son Worry’ and the Hypocrisy of the ‘Purity’ Movement

By Patricia Miller

…the tweet that encapsulated the growing “son worry” backlash to Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault testimony. In a tweet that rocketed around the right-wing Twittersphere, Fox News host Martha MacCallum wrote last Friday, the day after the charged Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: The narrative that the greatest danger regarding sexual assault in this country was to the reputations of thousands, nay millions, of innocent men, quickly went vi…

A Whiter Shade of Faith: Saturday’s Tax Protests and the Religion of Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…nstruction and retaking state power by means of savage Klan terrorism. The Last Gasp of the “Lost Cause”? Dick Armey’s Brand of White Faith Born dirt poor in North Dakota, Armey hit the big time by making a successful 1984 run for the House in a district representing a wealthy slice of Dallas-Fort Worth. This followed a stint teaching free-market economics at North Texas State University. Dick Armey definitely meant it when, while serving as major…

As US Reaches a 1940s Fork in the Road — Which Path Will We Choose?

By John Stoehr

…Garden to listen to blatantly fascist speeches under the banners of George Washington adorned with swastikas. In 1940, FDR gave a fresh directive to hunt down Nazis. The FBI built a secret spy headquarters inside the 30 Rock building to spy on Nazi activities worldwide, but especially in South America where they could get the raw materials a war machine needs to be effective. Without recapping the story of WWII, FDR was reelected, despite Nazi gro…

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

By Kathryn Joyce

…eye with Rick was the size of his family,” yet another supporter told the Washington Times in January. “We’re Gonna Outnumber Them!” It’s familiar rhetoric to me, after years of covering the Quiverfull movement—a largely Protestant, homeschooling community that believes contraception is anathema to faithful Christianity and that having many children is both the most authentic form of anti-abortion witness and women’s highest calling. Its adherent…

US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives

By Chrissy Stroop

…have proliferated, along with the growth in Catholic market share. As the Washington Post reports, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ ERDs (Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services) prohibit “sterilization including vasectomies, postpartum tubal ligations and contraception, as well as abortion.” Anyone who can get pregnant is at serious risk in a Catholic system, where even the “direct abortion” of an ectopic or oth…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…cal paradise. Reminiscent of the ethos of sites like Lapham’s Quarterly, Atlas Obscura, and The Public Domain Review, Wilensky-Lanford’s book is a veritable wonder-cabinet of the places and personages surrounding the historical question of Eden. “Lo and behold,” she writes, “the Garden of Eden had been found in Iraq, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, and Ohio; at the North Pole; under the Mediterranean near Crete; in Sweden, the Persian Gulf, and Egypt…

Billy Graham Regrets Political Involvement, Again

By Randall Balmer

…a closed-door gathering of 150 Protestant clergy at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on November 7—the purpose of which, once again, was to sound the alarm about the dangers of a Roman Catholic in the White House. After Nixon finally won the presidency in 1968, Graham conducted several religious services in the White House over the course of Nixon’s first term, a task he shared with other clergy, including Norman Vincent Peale of Marble Collegiat…

On Maryland Marriage Equality, It’s Raven vs. Raven [UDPATED]

By Sarah Posner

…ty. The Ayanbadejo video is web only, but take a look: Ayanbadejo appeared last night at a fundraiser for Marylanders for Marriage Equality with Democratic Governor (and Catholic) Martin O’Malley, where the pair playing foozball became the iconic image of the evening. Also last night, actor Josh Charles, a Baltimore native, one of People magazine’s sexiest men alive, and supporter of marriage equality, threw out the first pitch at the Baltimore Or…

Cruz Backs Bishops on Religious Liberty Claims

By Patricia Miller

…including the USCCB, whose multi-million dollar headquarters complex is in Washington, out of the District: In effect, both RHNDA and HRAA would compel religious institutions, faith-based organizations, and pro-life advocacy organizations to engage in certain behavior that seems intended to drive these institutions and organizations out of the District of Columbia. The bishops are casting the measures as an punitive assult on faith-based employers…