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Abortion and the Stories Clergy Tell

By Dennis S. Ross

…gh sorrowful stories that my denominational professional organization, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, endorsed access to birth control in 1929 and cooperation with Planned Parenthood in 1947. As the decades passed, we, and clergy from other religious groups, demanded access to reproductive health care, including abortion. We weren’t dismissive of the woman’s pregnancy. Rather, we affirmed that the moral high ground is in a woman’s deci…

2010: A Banner Year for Biblical Patriarchy

By Julie Ingersoll

…ling conferences, meeting what they call “one of [their] primary goals: to promote the restoration of the biblical family.” They see the “home schooling community as central to this effort [and] seek to encourage home schooling parents to faithfully disciple their children.” In response to the 50th anniversary of the release of “the Pill,” they “celebrated the blessing and preciousness of life amidst a culture of death, by hosting a Baby Conferenc…

Promoting Patriarchy and Fighting Pantheism, plus Adventures to the Amazon and to Space (!)

By Julie Ingersoll

…triarchy. If you are a reader of my work here at RD you will recognize the coded language in the references to providential history, biblical worldviews, presuppositionalism, and biblical law. The “glory of motherhood” and the “blessing of children,” includes the ideas that these are to be the only life choices open to women and that limiting the number of children in any way (including contraception) is a violation of God’s plan and promotion of…

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

…gender.” A Refuge for the Powerful It could be even more educational if a central tenet of American historical writing about the Constitution—that it was made once, and then completely remade through the affirmative and far-reaching exercise of federal power to remake citizenship undertaken during the Civil War and Reconstruction—could have been part of the discussion. Only a serious grappling with the original passages would make that possible….

Loughner Admired Conspiracy-Minded Zeitgeist Film

By Sarah Posner

…sustainability. For example, TZM is not about 9/11, Comparative Religion, Central Banking, Financial Reform or the like. In the world today, many are active in these areas and work to resolve them on a per case basis. TZM is not interested in this – its function is to find the ‘source’ of problematic social phenomena and act to resolve it at its core. This is why a completely new social system is expressed in the Movement’s materials. The site at…

Spiritualism and Sex Meet Evangelical Censorship, 19th-Century-Style

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

…ng subtitle. I also thought about a title that would call attention to the central conflict in the book between Craddock and Comstock and also perhaps between Craddock and her posthumous psychoanalyst, Theodore Schroeder. But I could never make one of those work. How do you feel about the cover? I feel ecstatic about the cover—and not just because it has two nearly nude figures on it. In Craddock’s diary she called attention to William Bouguerea…

Not Cause, But Effect: Jared Loughner and Tea Party Rhetoric

By Finbarr Curtis

…ted with progressive social reform. The focus on liberty and tyranny is so central that it’s often overridden religious concerns, as in the conservative admiration for the deeply anti-Christian Ayn Rand. There are precedents for this in American history as well, but the Tea Party represents uniquely high popular support for this program. Inventing Your Own Reality While I am speculating based on a few YouTube postings, and I expect that a more det…

Martin Luther King: Libertarian and Anti-Abortion Social Conservative

By Paul Harvey

…elf-critiques of King’s speeches, and the necessity of a political movement to turn King’s words into reality. The historical co-opting of King as icon is inevitable, but it can be resisted through insisting on the central themes of King’s life and legacy. That requires not only the rules of a radical—getting to the root of injustice—but also demanding historical accountability for those who would distort his dream….

GOP Hopeful Herman Cain: Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative”

By Michael J. Altman

…t this presidential bid, and he was a spokesman for Ginni Thomas’ “Liberty Central.” At the October 2010 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention in Richmond, I saw football-jersey-style T-shirts displaying names of those who might run for president this year: Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, and Herman Cain. When no other Republican wanted to talk about 2012, Cain would walk into speeches introduced by a heavily produced video, a highlight ree…

Theocracy: “What Would Be So Bad About It?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…ing influence of the Reconstructionist movement, and how its vision became central to the contemporary religious right’s political agenda. Mind you, I’m not minimizing the crazy idea that homosexuality should be punished by death — and the point should not be lost that these Christian Reconstructionist views have contributed to the anti-gay movement — but Christian Reconstructionism is much broader, advocating a very specific ordering of family, c…