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No Religious Left “Split” On Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption

By Sarah Posner

…ll Saints Church in Pasadena, California, attended the White House signing today. Ball, said Russell, “got it wrong.” Ball cites the abandoned effort of Sojourners’ Jim Wallis to send a letter to Obama urging the inclusion of an exemption, as well as the letter organized by former Obama campaign and White House staffer Michael Wear, signed by 14 religious leaders, as evidence of this alleged division on the left. As I wrote two weeks ago, the lett…

Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…th. — Dhammapada, 5 Harsh voices of intolerance have become almost daily news from Burma. The July 1st international edition of Time magazine has added fuel to the fire with a cover photo of the fundamentalist Burmese monk Wirathu, calling him “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” Protesters took to the streets this weekend, and President Thein Sein officially banned the magazine, citing concern about the “recurrence of religious and racial conflict.”…

Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

By Rob Shryock

…hich makes him basically impossible to remove from his own church. In this world, arguing against Driscoll becomes the ultimate no-win situation: you either agree with him, or, in disagreeing with him, you just prove how much the world is against him, and thus how godly he is. But Driscoll, in being so offensive, is also impossible to ignore, too exemplary of everything bad about conservative Christianity to not call out. Driscoll will thus contin…

Florida Primary Winner: ‘War on Religion’ Talking Point

By Sarah Posner

…icans. That was the good news for Mitt Romney. But it’s also tonight’s bad news for the frontrunner because he’ll need those voters (the recruits to the Gingrichian army who think they’re saving America from Barack Obama’s “war on religion”) to win a state like Florida in November. Those voters heard from Gingrich that Romney, like Obama, engaged in a war on religion by depriving elderly Jewish nursing home residents their kosher meals. Mind you,…

Step Right Up And Get Your Low-Priced ‘Pro-God Content’! Donald Trump Enters the Bible Business

By Karen E. Park

…r those Trump supporters whose bifocals aren’t always enough. In his sales video Trump says: “I want to have a lot of people have it. You have to have it for your heart, for your soul.” Why? Because “Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country and I truly believe that we have to bring them back and bring them back fast. . . that’s why our country is going haywire, because we have lost religion in our country.” The “C…

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…erturned or substantially diminished. The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Trump’s nomination of a Catholic antiabortion jurist, Amy Coney Barrett has cast the likelihood of this future in sharp relief. Meanwhile, the Christian Right’s approach to the long game of electoral power politics has resulted in a Christian Right minority, led by politically animated White evangelical Protestants, exercising electoral power disprop…

Numbers, Schnumbers, Why Evangelicals Should Worry About Trump’s Popularity

By Jonathan Orbell

…nto actively supporting his campaign should be cause for even more worry. Maybe, instead of focusing such inordinate attention on the cultural decline supposedly evidenced by the legalization of same-sex marriage, we Christians should be confronting the more unattractive truth that Trump’s vacuous, hate-mongering rhetoric—rhetoric which puts vulnerable people in actual, physical danger—actually resonates with some of our peers beside us in the pew…

The Gaines Brouhaha, BuzzFeed’s Gift to the Religious Right’s Martyr-Making Machinery

By Peter Montgomery

…tion of an anti-LGBT viewpoint through force of law—why think of this as a news story in the first place? It’s a bit reminiscent of right-wing attacks on Barack Obama over the content of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons. Churchgoers have all kinds of reasons for choosing to worship where they do and that’s a zone of privacy that should generally be respected. Millions of American Catholics support reproductive choice and LGBT equality even though th…

Trump In Colorado: When the “Facts” Are No Longer Checkable

By Paul Harvey

…to Denver, where the suburbs are friendly while the city area is hostile. News of Trump’s visit hit just as I got word that the Clinton campaign was pulling its commercials from the state. Polls suggest that Colorado is a fairly safe state for a fall Clinton victory, while money is desperately needed in key swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. This is part of a long-term trend towards turning Colorado purple, and increasingly blue. So it’s not…

Trump’s Twitter Rant Helpfully Models Universal Human Depravity, Spokesperson Suggests

By Karen E. Park

…he Protestant language of universal human depravity. Hallie Jackson of NBC news asked Sanders whether she would defend Trump’s latest tweets to her own children saying “You talk about being personally affected by all of this as well—and that there’s nothing wrong with the president fighting fire with fire—is the argument that you’re making. You have stood here and talked about your family at this podium. Are you going to tell your kids this behavi…