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The “Obamosque” Smears and the Money Fueling Them

…Americans apparently believe President Obama is a Muslim. (A Pew poll out today shows that figure at 19%). Why do that many Americans believe that? Could it be the use of terms like “Obamosque?” Or this photograph on the Special Guests website? Today Special Guests is also promoting the special guest of Scott Wheeler, a long-time operative of right-wing smear campaigns against Democratic candidates and office-holders. Wheeler is the executive dir…

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More Pressure on Obama to Fix His Religious Freedom Legacy

…in their employee health plans. Opposition to the memo, also known as the World Vision Memo, has thus attracted a larger coalition. Organizations signing today’s letter include Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union, a number of Christian Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, secular, and atheist groups, as well as legal advocates, abortion rights advocates, and LGBT groups. According to the letter, the

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In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

…e brave, when we are in fear of the powerless. A society that lives in fear cannot be the land of the free. The film The Promise, reminds us that a hundred years ago, an American ambassador, who had no connection to the Armenian people, stood for American ideals in front of one of the world’s great powers. Today, after our invasion of Iraq led to the creation of Daesh, and after our silence in the face of murderous actions emboldened the Asad regi…

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When Religious Disagreement Seems the Least of Our Problems: The Future for “Interfaith” in a Divided Society

…ery player faces. Later, in a wonderful aside, Patel describes reading the New York Times each morning and trying to imagine how people he knows might read those same articles. What implications would this piece of news have in this religious community? These are compassionate exercises for concerned citizens. But I do not think that they make a serious prescription for pluralism. Much of Patel’s small-town case study takes place in a high school,…

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Obama’s Religion Problem, Marriage Equality, and a Bush Executive Order

…ident’s opposition to marriage equality in state fights from California to New York to Maryland.” As was made plain at Netroots Nation last weekend, some of Obama’s defenders think he’s done a lot, including Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal and the legal decision to not defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. But the refusal to endorse marriage equality still enfuriates equality advocates, including Lt. Dan Choi, who tore in half a pamphlet, hande…

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The Non-Existent Tea Party-Religious Right God Gap

…id, the recognition that religious liberty is our “first freedom.”) Or why Newt Gingrich referred derisively to “secular, anti-American values.” To Gingrich, those “secular” values represent the curtailment of (religious right) religious freedom. The your-rights-infringe-on-my-religious-freedom argument is the main one you’d hear from an opponent of gay marriage, say. And there was a bit of that talk here today, but not as much as I suspect we’ll…

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Beck’s “Dream”—Our Nightmare

…on and his revisionist history; which relies in part of the work of Reconstructionist R.J. Rushdoony. More Barton Revisionist History In his essay “The Founding Fathers and Slavery,” Barton quotes extensively from the writings of the founders and claims that many of them were abolitionists. He maintains that the overwhelming majority of the founders were “sincere Christians” who thought American slavery was “unbiblical,” blamed England for imposin…

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Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle — ‘The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy’

…p era, with Litton’s victory serving as something of a reckoning. But as a new book by historian J. Russell Hawkins suggests, Litton’s election might just be a new chapter in the SBC’s long and sordid history on matters of race. In The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy, Hawkins places debates like those taking place in the SBC in a much larger frame. Focusing on the denominational workings of both the

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An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

…n—Tracy Fessenden, Amy Hungerford, and John McClure have done great work. Susan Harding has an amazing cultural anthropology of Jerry Falwell’s church and movement, and Kevin Kruse has a great history of, as he puts it in his subtitle, How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Where would we be without Frank Schaeffer’s insider, semi-apostate account of growing up evangelical and helping to form the Christian Right? I wish I had Bart Ehrma…

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The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

…sed this world-historical civilizational shift? Well, Hazony explains, the New York Times fired a few employees for platforming racist op-eds in the midst of the George Floyd uprising, and Princeton University removed Woodrow Wilson’s name from a few buildings on its campus. Staring down the specter of 2020, and its watershed wokeness, Brad Littlejohn, a fellow in the Ethics & Public Policy Center’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program, evokes the F…

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