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Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…an to unravel for some. Janet Sparks, a member of OUR Wal-Mart from Baker, Louisiana, started working at Wal-Mart in 2005. She told RD, “To me, Mr. and Mrs. Walton, they had their Christian beliefs and I truly believed they had done great things for associates.” The company had worked with single mothers on their scheduling, Sparks explained, and made sure that the workers had enough hours to pay their bills. But in the seven years since, she’s f…

Perkins and MSNBC

By Sarah Posner

A little more on the Perkins-Santorum event at Perkins’ church in Louisiana. Recently the group Faithful America launched a campaign to pressure MSNBC to stop booking Perkins as a guest on its programs, because of his history of anti-gay bigotry. The group attempted to place an ad on MSNBC that sets out their complaint, but MSNBC rejected it: Faithful America’s petition reads: “The Family Research Council is a hate group, and journalists ought t…

“Taking a Stand for Jesus” in the Public Schools

By Lauri Lebo

…ared ancestry. Earlier this week, the Livingston Parish School District in Louisiana decided against pursuing creationism in science class for the upcoming school year. A discussion last week about the possibility was in response to Lousiana’s Science Education Act, which opens the door to teaching creationism under the guise of “academic freedom.” At a meeting last month, district officials said they wanted to explore the possibility. But accordi…

Merry Kitzmas! Marking An Evolutionary Victory

By Lauri Lebo

…r message into the latest anti-evolution attack. The battle is now back in Louisiana, the site of Dover’s precursor of Edwards v. Aguillard, in which creation science was struck down as religion in 1987. The strategy is now focused on “teaching the controversy.” Instead of actually claiming that they have a scientific claim, they now just try to instill doubt in students’ minds about the validity of evolutionary theory. Earlier this month, creatio…

Intelligent Design Trial Celebrates Fifth Year Reunion

By Lauri Lebo

…ers, and scientists were all there. People came from all over the country: Louisiana, California, Florida. We drank and ate and discussed our families, our work and our vacations. We rehashed funny and poignant moments from the trial and board meetings. It was a community effort and just as during the trial, everyone played to their strengths. Kevin Padian, who during the trial testified to the wealth of information about evolution in the fossil r…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…holt, who had 50 co-sponsors, including now-Minority Whip Eric Cantor, now-Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and Rep. Mike Pence, who is thought to be considering a 2012 presidential run. Partners In Arms: Militias, the Religious Right, and Biblical Law The militia movement and Christian Reconstructionism both contend that our current civil government, most especially the federal government, is illegitimate: that it has overreached the limits of it…

Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Laying on of Hands

By Lauri Lebo

This post has been corrected. The Louisiana Family Forum, a conservative evangelical organization connected to Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, has an interesting tidbit in its newsletter this week. As the out-of-control BP Deepwater Horizon continues to spew millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal participated in a prayer vigil at the conclusion of a House session at the state Capitol. …

The Iconography of the Pelican

By Daniel Schultz

…s to a post in which she discusses the horrific pictures emerging from the Louisiana coast, including one oil-soaked pelican she describes as “crucified.” That brought to mind the Christian symbol of the “pelican in her piety,” which is a representation of a pelican in the act of wounding her breast in order to nourish her young with her blood a practice fabulously attributed to the bird. The pelican cutting open its own breast represents Christ’…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…leading scientific societies, took the unusual step in February to boycott Louisiana due to the state’s new anti-science law. In 2008, lawmakers voted to pass the Science Education Act, which was signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal. The law, based largely on wording from the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute’s sample academic freedom bill, explicitly says that teachers are permitted to use supplemental materials to teach critiques of evo…

Bishop John Shelby Spong Declares Victory: Is it Premature?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ontinue to cling to that belief are just as wed to their outdated ideas as Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell who recently refused to do his job and grant a marriage license to a mixed-race couple. One day, we’ll be just as horrified at all the JPs who have denied gays and lesbians marriage licenses as we are at the story coming from Louisiana. This is where our conversation on homosexuality is headed. What is most telling in Mohler’s r…