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Alabama Yoga Debate Focusing on the Wrong Question

By Candy Gunther Brown

…ism, Christian Science, and the “burgeoning New Age movement.” In opposing Alabama’s yoga bill, Becky Gerritson, director of Alabama’s Eagle Forum, may come close to the mark. Not only does introducing yoga in schools risk endorsing religion, it’s not a risk that needs to be taken, since “students can do stretches now in school.” If children can stretch already, and the proposed yoga programs consist of nothing more than stretches—the proposed bil…

Alabama’s Yoga Ban Is Part of the Christian Right’s War on Pluralism

By Manisha Sunil

…that religious conservatives are also trying to funnel into religious, private institutions. Religious conservatives are more than eager to teach the Bible in public schools using public funds. But the moment people from different backgrounds have the temerity to educate others about their culture—not endorse, but educate—this same constituency is suddenly concerned about church-state separation, driven by the fear that impressionable children ma…

Meet The Liberal Tea Partiers

By Abby Scher

…cClusky from the National Taxpayers Union to help make the case with conservative evangelicals who, polls suggest, were not embracing the Republican Party platform on taxes as much as they might. I interviewed McClusky three years ago just after his group hired an additional tax specialist and as the group was coaching state-level Family Policy Councils to question the progressive income tax and help make the Bush tax cuts permanent. He used argum…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…to those on the left. Despite this frank acknowledgement by Catholic conservatives, a vast gap exists in popular and academic understanding of these religious and theological foundations of the legal conservative movement. High-profile articles about the Federalist Society and legal conservatism in the New Yorker, the Washington Post and Politico make no mention of natural law. Among scholars, Pomona College professor Amanda Hollis-Brusky has publ…

More than Half of Mississippi GOP Primary Voters Believe the President is Muslim

By Sarah Posner

…evangelicals, though, he’s really still in the race for their votes: Among Alabama evangelicals, who make up 68% of the electorate, Santorum (33%) has an indistinguishable advantage over Gingrich’s 32%, while Romney is drawing 28%. Romney’s supposed problem with evangelicals may not be fatal if he can make up the difference among the state’s other voters. The poll didn’t ask these voters if they believe the Mormon Romney is a Christian, which woul…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

…called Britain a third-world country full of atheists, one wonders if the Vatican is displacing Nazism or anticipating a new outbreak in the country that gave the world political liberalism. Each pope since Nostra Aetate, passed by the Second Vatican Council, has piously reiterated that condemnation of anti-Semitism, but they have never clarified just what constitutes contempt for Jews and Judaism. Instead, they like to draw a thick, heavy line b…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…on a very particular identity, but cultural progressives are often on the vanguard of fighting for special accommodations for specific groups. Women-only, black-only and LGBT-only spaces are a relevant parallel. Such spaces take into account the issues related to certain social identities (the personal) and advocate for a reshaping of the public square to accommodate it (the political). This requires some sacrifice of others. At the very least it…

Welcome to Alabama’s Most Biblical Town

By Sarah Posner

…Ephesians 4:5, “One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism,” will be returned to Sylvania, Alabama’s welcome signs after it was temporarily taken down after a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Meanwhile, last week, Mayor Mitchell Dendy scrawled a handwritten, one-line resignation letter after he was fired from his other job as chief administrator at the county jail after the sheriff said he “was guilty of sexual misconduct, improprieties…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…ild’s blog, on August 1, 2008, the message specifies the date of their arrival as October 14, 2008, and promises a peaceful stay. It begins thusly: O LEADERS, GOVERNERS, POLITICIANS AND ALL PEOPLE OF EARTH …. We wish it to be understood that on the 14th day of your month of October in the year 2008 a craft of great size shall be visible within your skies. It shall be in the south of your hemisphere and it shall scan over many of your states. We gi…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…God’s Not Dead, create just the right sort of controversy to really drive ticket sales. Most evangelical movies, though, have done only well enough to convince others that it’s possible, even if the formula for success hasn’t quite been perfected yet. If they’re not smash hits, faith films haven’t all been complete commercial misses either. The first installment of The Chronicles of Narnia brought a big profit for Walt Disney and Walden Media—aro…