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Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…th hate from politicians and religious leaders seeking political power and cheap popularity.” She and more than 130 volunteers then distributed the magazine across the country and into some unlikely hands, including to Uganda’s Parliament, president, and other politicians, as well as churches and media outlets. Nabagesera says Bombastic has been a “big hit,” allowing her to attract correspondents in every country across the African continent. She…

Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard

By Wendy Norris

…nks. You have to determine that on your own.” Haggard’s weekly Oval Office phone calls and grip and grin NAE photo ops with former President George W. Bush are now mere vestiges of an old life, prior to what he calls the “crisis.” At New Life, which Jeff Sharlet described as “not just a battalion of spiritual warriors but a factory for ideas to arm them,” worship services were extravagant multimedia, fog machine-choked productions, in which Haggar…

Hobby Lobby, Contraception, the Supreme Court, and the Bible

By Sarah Posner

…ery scary.” Green has already embarked on this effort in his home state of Oklahoma (h/t @okiebliss on Twitter). Local television station KOCO reported last week that Mustang High School, in Mustang, Oklahoma, is considering an educational Bible curriculum developed by Green. Of course there’s nothing wrong teaching about the Bible in public schools. But teaching a certain view of the Bible—for example that it is an “exclusive” “truth” not represe…

One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough

By Glenn Branch

…rements on teachers—and they sometimes similarly provided for punishments. Oklahoma’s recently introduced Senate Bill 1470 would allow parents to sue schools that allow teachers to present “positions in opposition to closely held religious beliefs” of their students; offending teachers could be held personally liable for at least $10,000 per incident. Although evolution is not explicitly mentioned in the bill, its sponsor supported previous anti-e…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…religious and political landscape. Its strength has never been in the raw numbers of conservative evangelicals and conservative Catholics. It has always been in the breadth and depth of its cultural and political organizing capacity. These developments are further evidence of that. This was always the avenue to power. What we’re now seeing is some of what they intend to do with that power now that they’ve got more than they ever thought they woul…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…on bills that are being considered by both houses in Kansas, as well as in Oklahoma. Both houses of the Georgia legislature considered this kind of bill during its legislative session this year and they’re expected to be carried over into the 2019 session. These bills don’t seem to be based on the Project Blitz model, but are similar in intent.Whatever their current legislative fate, Project Blitz clearly envisions them as part of the wave of the…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…on bills that are being considered by both houses in Kansas, as well as in Oklahoma. Both houses of the Georgia legislature considered this kind of bill during its legislative session this year and they’re expected to be carried over into the 2019 session. These bills don’t seem to be based on the Project Blitz model, but are similar in intent.Whatever their current legislative fate, Project Blitz clearly envisions them as part of the wave of the…

Did the “Real America” Elect Trump?

By Paul Harvey

I’m from the real America—rural America. Northwest Oklahoma to be exact, not far from where Don Draper ended up in the penultimate episode of Mad Men. On his crazy road trip, some thugs from the American Legion in Alva, Oklahoma, beat him up. That was (in his fictional world) about 6 years before (in real life) I attended high school band and speech contests there. No bubble here, folks; this is where authentic Americans live. We grew up convince…

OK Woman Politely Declines to Thank the Lord; Atheists Unite

By Becky Garrison

…he wasn’t a sheep. Vitsmun will be remembered—at least in the atheist moment—as the moment when the world has to face the fact we’re not this tiny percentage of people. I don’t think the numbers are growing. I think the numbers are now being counted right. Atheists aren’t afraid anymore to speak out.” But what will Wolf do next time?…

Satanic “Black Mass” at Harvard Excites Conservatives

By Joseph Laycock

…onservative websites have condemned the event, showering it with free publicity. Greaves’ critics demonstrate what Jason Bivins calls “the erotics of fear.” While claiming to be shocked by the black mass, it appears to excite them and potentially confirms their claims about extraordinary evil. Despite Greaves statement that he doesn’t believe in the supernatural and that the black mass is only a re-enactment, Father Landry stated the black mass is…