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In Convention Event Democrats Embrace the ‘Nones’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ext, when over 300 people turned up for the new Secular Caucus at the 2016 Texas Democratic Party Convention. As Levin says, “given the very limited marketing we were able to do preceding the event, there was really only one explanation—when Texas Democrats got their convention program and saw a Secular Caucus on the schedule, they made a beeline for it.” The momentum generated by this event led Levin, now the Co-Chair of the Democratic National C…

How Evangelicals Pick Presidents

By Sarah Posner

…fellow Texans and have long ties to him. Barton’s WallBuilders is based in Texas and he is a former vice-chair of the Texas Republican Party; Hagee has made political contributions to Perry and hosted him at his San Antonio church. Sullivan reports that the call in which the support was pledged to Perry took place in early June; that coincides exactly with the timing of Perry’s announcement of his prayerfest, The Response, an event not theological…

Rick Perry’s Gay Marriage D’oh!

By Sarah Posner

…ar is that states like New York will change the definition of marriage for Texas. At that point the states rights argument is lost. That’s right. Because there’s a storied history of New York making Texas do crazy stuff. Perry groveled: Right and that is the reason that the federal marriage amendment is being offered, it’s that small group of activist judges, and frankly a small handful, if you will, of states, and liberal special interests groups…

Satanists Take Aim at School Spanking

By Joseph Laycock

…ses they’d received. On the issue of corporal punishment, Austin and rural Texas were two different worlds. Last week worlds collided when The Satanic Temple’s “Protect Children Project” erected a billboard in Springtown, Texas, featuring the organization’s goat-skull logo and the caption, “Never be hit in school again.” The billboard was reportedly torn down after just a single day. The website listed led to a form students could present to schoo…

America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates…

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ne would only be eligible for a death sentence if one committed a crime in Texas rather than New Jersey or Hawaii. The state of Texas has accounted for well over a third of all executions since lifting the ban in 1976 (a staggering 432, starting with James Autry, out of 1151 executions nationwide). The difficulty in initiating a substantive discussion of the death penalty is that emotions on all sides run so high. We live in a world of violence, a…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…issues and worldviews. They look to the meeting of evangelical leaders in Texas, local megachurch pastors, or local power brokers like Bob Vander Plaats in Iowa. (Vander Plaats endorsed Santorum, but that failed to fulfill the Christian right’s wish to vanquish Mitt Romney.) At the South Carolina Citizens for Life Rally in Columbia on Saturday, that conventional story was on view: voters for whom abortion is the number one motivating issue, tryin…

Romney Braces for Perry Testosterone Challenge; Huntsman Reboots

By Joanna Brooks

…y, duty, and sentimentality, not that head-cowboy-of-the-apocalypse shtick Texas politicians seem to have perfected. Texas pols do, after all, hail from a state where people proudly hang chrome testicles from the rear bumpers of their pick-up trucks. Can a Texas prayer rally evaporate six years’ of nationwide on-the-ground campaign building? Can Mitt keep his awkward sense of humor in check and hold on to frontrunner status? If Texas Jesus does te…

Are “Pro-Life” Hispanic Catholics the Democrats’ Future?

By Patricia Miller

…ng up the wrong tree with pro-choice candidates, especially in states like Texas with emerging Latino majorities, since “Latinos are not culturally liberal”: The way for Democrats to turn Texas purple is to nominate a pro-life candidate who is committed to economic policies that lift up the poor and the marginalized, in short, a Catholic candidate. As a group, Hispanics do tend to be more conservative on abortion than the general population; the 2…

Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…And others have just said no with no further comment, or didn’t respond to Texas on the Potomac’s inquiries. But here’s Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, according to Texas on the Potomac: “Houston is ‘just not on travel schedule’ and he has a family wedding that day, his office said.” That’s why? Really? Not one governor has had the guts to say anything about the impropriety of a sitting governor hosting a sectarian prayer event where conversion to…

Creationist Master’s Degree… Denied

By Lauri Lebo

…cientific creationist viewpoint.” To be recognized, it needed the state of Texas to grant it accreditation. But the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board turned down the application for a “certificate of authority” to offer the degree. As Raymund Paredes, the Texas commissioner of higher education, wrote, “It seemed clear to me upon reading the various evaluation documents that the central issue of whether the proposed program met appropriate…