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Creationist-Leaning Texas Sets Textbook Agenda

By Lauri Lebo

…Texas’s influence was balanced to some degree by the more-liberal pull of California, the nation’s largest textbook market. But its economy is in such shambles that California has put off buying new books until at least 2014. This means that McLeroy and his ultraconservative crew have unparalleled power to shape the textbooks that children around the country read for years to come. Make sure you read the article all the way to its creepy conclusi…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture, By Eileen Luhr (University of California Press, 2009). Mainstream evangelicalism is fairly well-known, thanks to the cultural warfare and legislative efforts of the religious right over the past several decades. What remains overlooked by the popular press is how Christian subculture has often intersected with secular culture—sometimes blurring the lines between the two. In her first book, Eileen Luhr,…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…” With almost $30 million set aside in the budget, Texas is second only to California in the bulk purchase of textbooks. But Texas, unlike California, approves and purchases books for all the state’s school districts. Publishers often edit and revise textbooks in order meet the specific demands of the Texas board members. Other states pay attention too, and what’s adopted in Texas is also adopted in many conservative states. Now the issue is wheth…

Most U.S. Catholics Back Marriage Equality, But Knights of Columbus Pour Millions into Opposition

By Peter Montgomery

…so part of an organization that was the single largest donor in support of California’s Proposition 8. This venerable fraternal order has taken up the anti-equality baton in a big, flamboyant way. The National Organization for Marriage provides organizational muscle to anti-equality initiatives and legislative campaigns. What gives them that muscle is money, and lots of it, from big donors. A new in-depth report released today by Equally Blessed,…

Battling for the Soul of the Democratic Party

By Sarah Posner

…s convention. Under the leadership of then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic caucus organized a Democratic Faith Working Group, which meets regularly with religious constituencies to craft policy. Operatives and advocates sprang up to offer advice on how to win over religious voters. Amy Sullivan, an editor at Time magazine, published The Party Faithful, both a castigation of Democratic elites for allegedly failing t…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…In 2008, the organization donated $500,000 in support of Proposition 8 in California, twice the amount donated by Focus on the Family, and Jackson said it gave him money for his anti-gay marriage effort in the District of Columbia. It was one of the first religious right organizations to claim a role in the Tea Party movement. “The American Family Association is one of the oldest, largest, and most radical religious right groups, and it has alway…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…Europeans) moving between EU member-states and New Yorkers heading out for California. Except, of course, that New York and California never fielded armies against one another. Then again, if Europe could leave historic animosities behind—and it did—Caldwell’s argument has little weight. Caldwell anxiously digs himself a deeper hole: He distinguishes Hispanic immigration to America from Muslim immigration to Europe, arguing that the former does no…

The Democrats, The Gays, And The Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

…rhood Partnerships Director Joshua DuBois reached out to David Jeremiah, a California megachurch pastor who declared in an AFA news story that Obama “is a dangerous person” because he’s moving the country toward “socialism.” The pair reportedly agreed to disagree — about whether the president is a dangerous socialist! Now that must have been a worthwhile conversation. The White House wouldn’t comment, but didn’t deny that DuBois had phoned Jeremia…

Tea Party, Circa 1930s: A Response to Michael Kazin

By Diane Winston

…local waters. In the 1950s, populist movements fought secular humanism in California’s public schools, and in the 1960s, millions mobilized around Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. By the late 1970s, strong grassroots groups in California, the Ozarks, the Midwest, and the South came together in the New Right/Christian Right impetus spurred by East Coast power brokers like Howard Phillips, Richard Viguerie, and Paul Weyrich. But the importa…

Harry Jackson Shakes Religious Right Money Tree for “Below the Radar” Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…in the word of God, who might normally be Democrats. We saw this happen in California and in Florida in 2008. Florida and California both went for Obama but both states also passed marriage amendments, because a lot of the same people who voted for Obama also voted for marriage. The strategy is that there are enough people who are upset over this issue, who feel that Obama and the Democrats have gone too far, that this may be the deal breaker. Jac…