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Reformation England Looms Over Contraception Debate

By Sarah Posner

…ehend them and their relationship to American democracy. The Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, recently said that “efforts to restrict religious liberty are seemingly founded in a reductive secularism that has more in common with the French Revolution than with America’s founding.”) The very idea that providing women with insurance coverage is somehow tantamount to the terror and violence inflicted on both sides in Reformation England—or to the…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…false one. With well over 100,000 deaths as of publication, more than the number of service members killed in World War I, America is living through an apocalyptic moment. But it’s also an apocalypse in the literal sense of an unveiling or disclosure—an unmasking. The coronavirus has unmasked how our lives are marked by a profound mutual dependence that challenges our self-understanding and political ideologies. It has unmasked a federal governme…

Perry Taps Anti-Gay Crusader and “Prayer Lady” for Florida Team

By Sarah Posner

…and Renewal Project Pastors’ Policy Briefings. Olsen is, according to the Miami Herald, “one of the most plugged-in evangelicals you’ve never heard of in Florida:” She’s the founder and president of the Florida Prayer Network and she and husband Tenney are the pastors and founders of International House of Prayer in Tallahassee. A former higher-up at the Concerned Women for America of Florida, Olsen also served as southeast leader of the National…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…youth contingent. The conference seems smaller than the 2022 conference in Miami, with a smaller ballroom. Along a narrow hallway, representatives of India’s BJP hobnob with US conservatives (as has been the trend); Orthodox Jews mingle with priests; fresh-faced college students hobnob with stalwart right-wing operatives. An array of right-wing outfits table in the hallway, doling out everything from stickers (“Biblical femininity, not feminism”)…

Ignoring the Pope on Climate Change is Not Like Using Contraception

By Kevin M. Lowe

…raying a laughable ignorance of both Marxism and Catholicism. Fortunately, Miami archbishop Thomas G. Wenski, a conservative appointed by Benedict XVI, has said he hopes that both Bush and Marco Rubio will listen to their pope rather than their party. Many observers have been quick to note the hypocrisy of positions like Bush’s. Andrew Rosenthal notes that Bush has no problem with political faith when it touches on Republican talking points: “Mr….

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…his dinner plans and skipped NatCon to attend the evening’s Trump rally in Miami in the hope that he’ll be tapped to be VP. Instead, Vivek Ramaswamy waxed on about the values of “national libertarianism.” Ramaswamy, maybe to show that he, too, is still in Trump’s good graces, opens by bragging that he talked to Trump twice today, before discussing his plan to dismantle “the regulatory state,” nationalist protectionism, and how to usher in a “natio…

Will Anti-Gay Churches Have Their Tax Exempt Status Revoked?

By Sarah Posner

…-sex weddings, particularly if the Supreme Court goes the way of a growing number of district courts (including today in Texas) and strikes down same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional? I asked Caroline Mala Corbin, a First Amendment expert at the University of Miami School of Law, who told me, “Given that churches have long been able to discriminate against women without losing their tax exempt status, it seems highly unlikely that they risk l…

Marco Rubio isn’t a Religious Panderer He’s the New Breed

By Patricia Miller

…ttends services at Christ Fellowship Church, an Evangelical mega-church in Miami that his wife began attending in the early 2000s because of its strong programs for families. Jenkins notes that Rubio’s religious ambidextrousness can cut both ways. While it gives him the ability to speak authentically to a range of religious conservatives, it also has caused him trouble among some who suspect him of pandering: His spiritual authenticity was directl…

What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

By Michael J. Altman

…o two years of probation for skimming charity funds. Catholic bishops from Miami and Dallas are making a friendly wager on the NBA Finals. Is corrupt football coach Jim Tressel an evangelical embarrassment? India’s leading yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, is declaring a hunger strike against governmental corruption. No word on how the guru feels about NCAA recruitment violations. Bernice King left Eddie Long’s church in the wake of Long settling his scand…

Anti-Gay Crusader Still Not ‘Out’

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…l said they stand ready to help Rekers mount a defamation case against the Miami New Times—the newspaper that snapped a picture of Rekers and 20-year-old “rentboy” Jo-vanni Roman as they arrived home from their European romp. Rekers has insisted he is not gay, despite Roman’s assertion that the contract he had with the 61-year-old doctor required daily nude massages where Roman has said Rekers became sexually aroused. As the story of all these ant…