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New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State

By Mark Bergen

…ngelical politics, too; last year he was one of the chief promoters of the Manhattan Declaration, which promises to reignite the culture wars in the name of religious liberty. In a video promoting the Declaration, Colson likened contemporary America to Nazi Germany, and “elites” and “intellectuals” to Hitler. For decades, PFM has placed its volunteers inside prison walls to minister directly to inmates. In addition to questions about the programs’…

The Nuns’ Chutzpah

By Sarah Posner

…nizations on the call would support “tax resistance” to the bill, i.e., a refusal to pay taxes in protest of it. They all said that was not on the horizon (despite such a thing being suggested, perhaps, in the Manhattan Declaration), but that, according to FRC’s Tony Perkins, the health care reform bill could be subject to a legal challenge, something conservatives have been talking about for a while….

About That Focus on the Family Drama

By Sarah Posner

…— but also continues culture war antics, such as signing and promoting the Manhattan Declaration. Clearly the organization understands what one employee described to me as a “pendulum swing” — that there’s a less overtly political way of getting its same message across, perhaps taking a page from Rick Warren who has said the only difference between his views and Dobson’s is one of “tone.” But at the same time, it’s still firmly allied with the “li…

Romney’s Religion of Happiness vs. Gingrich’s Religion of Grievance

By Sarah Posner

…sed by Robert George of the American Principles Project, and author of the Manhattan Declaration, an iconic document for the religious right which maintains that the religious liberty of Christians under assault by LGBT and reproductive rights. Gingrich has previously declared his support for such a law, and at Aloma Church he called George “an absolutely brilliant professor at Princeton who has been thinking very deeply about the question of reli…

GOP, Gingrich, Perry Team Up to put Satirists Out of Work

By Sarah Posner

…pen marriage is a new one. We’ll find out how sincerely the signers of the Manhattan Declaration expect their chosen leaders to adhere to this passage from the document: Some who enter into same-sex and polyamorous relationships no doubt regard their unions as truly marital. They fail to understand, however, that marriage is made possible by the sexual complementarity of man and woman, and that the comprehensive, multi-level sharing of life that m…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…ca are (and, moreover, in the wake of Obama’s election, who will get their phone calls returned from the White House) certain names keep cropping up. Pastor Rick Warren, who sees no daylight between his views and James Dobson’s, but who, according to Sullivan’s book, former-DNC-chair Terry McAuliffe blasphemously didn’t know; Jim Wallis, best-selling author and activist who lambasts the religious right for its petty intolerance and the left for “n…

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…xious and afraid, might gather for help. The subways were closed, and cell phone service had gone out. I had no other idea how to find my friends, no idea where else to go. At the very least, I thought I had a responsibility to the Muslim students on campus. (Then again, I really had no idea what to do. I just thought I had to do something, anything, to help.) Walking into our prayer space, which was located inside a Catholic church, I saw a frien…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…to Wal-Mart, ate pizza in their hotel rooms, spent hours with them on the phone. Then, after Jesus was a no-show, I stayed in contact with them—the ones who would talk to me, anyway—over the following days and months, checking back in to see how or if their thinking had changed. I learned a lot about the seductive power of radical belief, the inscrutable vagaries of biblical interpretation, and how our minds can shape reality to fit a narrative….

Electionpocalypse, Part I (Christianity)

By Sarah Posner

…r every single baby legally aborted God will require the blood of the same number of people, which is between 30-50 million Americans!” he writes. (NB: this “pro-life” position bears more of a relationship to a book on numerology than the Book of Numbers.) Anti-marriage equality crusader Bishop Harry Jackson, who is African American, urges readers to vote for Romney “as a statement of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream.” While King was sitting in the…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…tally, I see what you mean, because when I’m scared, I turn on the lights, phone a friend, or commit genocide. It is true that Izetbegovic was influenced by Islam; but, for him, Islam was no different than Catholicism was for many Poles, who reached out to a religious leader (the Pope) to advance a political agenda of liberation. Izetbegovic went to jail for his religiously-inflected activism, which isn’t surprising considering Yugoslavia was a Co…