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What Was Your Sign?, Pro-War MLK, & Benched for a Headscarf

By Michael J. Altman

…r project in Manhattan. The Council on America-Islamic Relations asked its California chapter to take down an image of a poster that read “Build a Wall of Resistance. Don’t Talk to the F.B.I.” As part of their counter-terrorism training, NYPD officers were shown the anti-Muslim film The Third Jihad. Musician Boy George agreed to return a stolen 18th century icon to the Orthodox Church of Cyprus. The Culture Club lead singer bought the icon from a…

Kindred Hatemongers: Why American Islamophobes and Muslim Protesters Need Each Other

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ms, “Sam Bacile.” Steve Klein, a right-wing Christian activist from Hemet, California whose Courageous Christians United has organized protests outside mosques and abortion clinics served as consultant. Both despised President Obama, and hoped that their video would anger Muslims in the U.S. and discredit the administration that protected them. The film was produced in 2011 and originally screened in Hollywood, but only about a dozen people appea…

Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

By Joanna Brooks

…seen? We’re seeing a stark contrast to what happened with Proposition 8 in California. I lived in D.C. when marriage equality passed there. The only thing I heard then was a very brief statement in Sunday meetings, just an announcement that there was to be a vote, and we should make our opinions known. He didn’t say what opinions we should have. In Maryland, I’ve only seen one call for signature gatherers that went out over one congregation’s emai…

Richard Land, Under Investigation for Plagiarism, Wages Religious Freedom War With Bishops

By Sarah Posner

…questioning the strategy entirely. Bishop Stephen Blaire of the Stockton (California) Diocese told Kevin Clarke of America, “The bishops that I am in contact with in California are strong supporters of the importance of defending and strengthening religious liberty in our country,” but “I do think there are probably some different concerns with how it is being done.” Blaire “worried that some groups ‘very far to the right’ are trying to use the c…

That Not-So-Mystifying Rick Warren

By Sarah Posner

Kevin Drum is shocked that Rick Warren, he of Southern California evangelical culture, is against “wealth redistribution:” Jake Tapper asked him what he thought about President Obama’s suggestion that God tells us to care for those less fortunate than ourselves: Well certainly the Bible says we are to care about the poor….But there’s a fundamental question on the meaning of “fairness.” Does fairness mean everybody makes the same amount of money?…

American Evangelist Who Sparked Anti-Gay Panic Sued By Ugandan Gay Rights Group

By Sarah Posner

…ear bomb against the gay agenda in Uganda.” Lively, the former head of the California affiliate of the American Family Association, and an ally of the AFA’s virulently anti-gay policy director Bryan Fischer, led a three-day conference that Kaggwa says sparked a “panic” in evangelical and Pentecostal churches that the “gay agenda” was poised to cause the downfall of Ugandan families and culture. During the conference, Lively blamed gay people for t…

Liberals Enabled Bishops in Contraception Battle

By Sarah Posner

…ed substantially similar laws to the new federal regulation in two states, California and New York, and the highest courts in both states held that there was no violation of the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. That’s because the law doesn’t “substantially burden” anyone’s religious practice and is one of general applicability that was not targeted at infringing a particular religious practice. To permit religious beliefs to “e…

Gay Marriage Supporters Rally People of Faith for Washington’s November Vote

By Nicole Neroulias

…e people of faith. Four years ago, they watched in horror and disbelief as California’s marriage equality law was repealed by Proposition 8, aided by the money of religious conservatives, much of which came from outside the state. Washington could go the same way, now that its February law has been stalled by the successful referendum petition circulated by churches, endorsed by the Catholic bishops, and helmed by Joseph Backholm, a prominent evan…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…e individual in pursuit of their own happiness. A few months ago, when the California Department of Transportation closed a portion of a major highway, California I-405, for expansion, the event quickly became known as “Carmeggedon.” When a significant crack was discovered in the Sherman Minton bridge that spans the Ohio River between Kentucky and Indiana, causing indefinite closure of a major east-west interstate and river crossing, it wasn’t lon…

The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

By Sarah Posner

…rs in Robison’s meetings reflect this agenda. They include Jim Garlow, the California pastor instrumental in the California Proposition 8 fight who now runs Newt Gingrich’s Renewing American Leadership, and Harry Jackson, who relentlessly opposed D.C.’s gay marriage law; religious right historian David Barton; Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council; Rod Parsley, who, like John Hagee, is appa…