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Will SCOTUS’s New Zeal for “Neutrality” Affect its Decision on the “Muslim Ban”?

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…urrence explains, however, there is a clear distinction between refusal to sell a particular product (a cake with an anti-gay message) and refusal to sell a product to a particular customer (a wedding cake to a same-sex couple). Of course, the Court didn’t seem so concerned with clearly biased government religious expression in Town of Greece. As Justice Kagan’s powerful dissent outlines, in that case “the Town Board select[ed], month after month…

Glenn’s at it Again, and Again

By Joanna Brooks

…ates Mormon rhetoric to promote a for-profit scheme, we call this affinity fraud. Affinity fraud is a big problem in tight-knit Mormon communities where insider status often trumps reason. What is Glenn Beck bearing his testimony to sell? Not pragmatic solutions to the very real resource problems facing this country. He’s bearing his testimony to sell a media event full of crisis rhetoric and empty ideological sloganeering. I’m not worked up about…

FRC’s Perkins Selling Straight Hot Sex

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…let’s look at perhaps why the typically sex-averse FRC is now using sex to sell the straight lifestyle. Could the urgency be linked to the new report by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution, which Peter Montgomery wrote about earlier, which reveals that the white evangelical conservative base is shrinking with each successive generation? The report, dubbed the “Economic Values Survey,” uses respondents’ views on eve…

Confronting and Participating in Crass Christmas Commercialism

By Lerone A. Martin

…season.” And, in fact, Jesus is no further than the host of websites that sell “Happy Birthday Jesus Party Supplies,” pre-assembled nativity scenes, special holiday editions of the Bible, sermon series’, and a catalog of religious Christmas music. Paul Simon has presented us with such a Christmas present in the form of a new song, “Getting Ready for Christmas Day” (video below). The song questions, among other things, just how “religious” our hol…

Manischewitz Bought By Romney’s Old Crew

By Gordon Haber

…t up with $40 million worth of debt, and you take that money, and then you sell it for $20 million.” The whole thing demonstrates a kind of evil genius in a number of ways. First, because the $40 million that you’ve pocketed is actually money that you borrowed to buy the company. Second, meanwhile you’re charging the company millions of dollars in “management fees” (hence, I’m guessing, Sarkaty “Advisors”). And third, because ultimately it doesn’t…

Texas Textbook Massacre

By Lauri Lebo

…editions. So, a company might customize 8,000 copies for Texas, but still sell educationally legitimate copies to the rest of the country. More Than Just Textbooks Even though Hillis is less worried about the board’s impact on textbooks, it doesn’t mean he isn’t concerned about what it could do to students’ education. Under the standards, the board could require use of “supplemental material” as a way to sneak in creationist and intelligent desig…

Men Without Guns: A Tribute to Larry McMurtry

By Amy Laura Hall

…research on “Cowboy Church.” Put the Marlboro Man on a Bible, and you can sell both the Bible and a book deliciously skewering the tacky people who buy it. A marketing strategist for white evangelical publishing calls this “Reaching Men by Tribes,” using psychographics to create a market, divide by market, and control Christianity. (Another “tribe” is “Fight Club Church.”) Most offensive to me, a girl born 40 miles south of McMurtry’s Archer City…

“I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically”: Darwin, God, and the 2500-Year History of the Debate

By Edward J. Larson

…kins likes to put it, a “blind watchmaker.” Dawkins’ books have become bestsellers in the United States and Britain, and his vision of human evolution (or more precisely, the vision of it that he popularized from the work of such preeminent late-twentieth-century biologists as William Hamilton and E.O. Wilson) is shared by many evolutionary biologists today. Humans, like all living organisms, “are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programme…

‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…efrains” like that’s a weakness. Like he’s ever had more than one thing to sell, and like he hasn’t managed to sell it over and over again, like a whole lot of us won’t keep buying. There are no new products. But there have for so long been so many new buyers. That’s what a Trump rally is. “A gathering of the MAGAlos.” A recognition, a relationship, the thousands all buying it together. You can see it in their faces. He can see it in their faces….

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

…s Allies frame themselves as “conservative realists,” which he’s trying to sell as the “middle way” between isolationism and interventionism. Battle against the “totalitarian” “group quota regime” A contrast to Colby in both style and method Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Claremont Institute, confirmed that the California-based conservative think tank has indeed become the intellectual smokescreen of the MAGA movement. Klingenstein derides Repu…