Netflix Removing Antigay Film Isn’t “Free Speech,” it’s Free Market
…ing “faith-based” adoption agencies to refuse to place children in homes headed by LGBT people, while lawmakers in Alabama and Georgia filed similar bills….
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Tebow’s Tears: Is God Really a Gator Fan?
…what verse Tebow has selected for each week’s game, and why, then try to decode how the verse in question did or did not fit into the dynamics of that week’s game. Last week was “rivalry week” and that meant that Florida played Florida State, still coached by a game octogenarian, Bobby Bowden. That game was a drubbing, not a grudge match, with the 37-10 final score scarcely indicative of how one-sided a performance it was. Tebow selected Hebrews 1…
Read MoreAmerican Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus
…on the latest season of American Idol, the Republican state chairwoman of Georgia was engaged in paying reverence to a different type of American idol. In a bizarre moment in the world of mixing religion and politics, Sue Everhart compared Republican presidential candidate John McCain to Jesus and America to God. Addressing McCain’s patriotism and devotion to America even while being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Everhart stated, “Joh…
Read MoreThe Week in Religion, Poetically
…pulation 94. It has no Marian apparitions but is still a lovely village. A Georgia pastor is upset that his son will become a demon. He has started a petition against the demon mascot of Warner Robins High School. Pastor Donald Crosby says, “A demon never has a good connotation. Never… There’s nothing good about a demon.” What’s the future of mainline Protestantism? And does it involve puppets? Praise the Lord and lose ten pounds with Donna Richar…
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Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Convergence of White Supremacy and Hindu Supremacy — And He May Well Be Trump’s Running Mate
…g, offering inclusion to non-White actors who enthusiastically buy into or promote these moral panics. This evolving politics of race within the far-right has converged with the growing maturity of the Indian-American community, allowing Ramaswamy to ride the wave of an unprecedented alignment between Hindu supremacist and White supremacist politics. After all, while Indian-Americans have often been lured by proximity to Whiteness and anti-Blackne…
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New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State
…to reignite the culture wars in the name of religious liberty. In a video promoting the Declaration, Colson likened contemporary America to Nazi Germany, and “elites” and “intellectuals” to Hitler. For decades, PFM has placed its volunteers inside prison walls to minister directly to inmates. In addition to questions about the programs’ effectiveness, such partnerships with state institutions have drawn legal challenges. InnerChange, a PFM progra…
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“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family
…um’s name. The family has also stumped for Santorum in Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Illinois, and Missouri. When Santorum’s three-year-old daughter Bella, born with a genetic abnormality, fell ill in late January, the Duggars actually replaced the candidate on the campaign trail in Florida. Religious differences (the Duggars are Baptists who have followed the fundamentalist teachings of Bill Gothard, while Santorum is a staunch Catholic) seem bare…
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Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”
…ns anxiously await the fate of the ragtag group of survivors holed up in a Georgia prison. What new threats will they face? Who will be the next to die in this post-apocalyptic drama? The Walking Dead premiered in 2010 with a record breaking 5.3 million viewers, the highest ratings for a cable premiere. The third season’s premiere smashed the previous record, garnering an impressive 10.9 million viewers. (To put this in perspective, the series of…
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RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008
…led for Anchorage, Alaska for the weekend of September 13, which was being promoted by Wasilla Bible Church, the home church of Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP’s nominee vice presidential nominee. According to piece by Wayne Beson, the executive director of Truth Wins Out, that appeared in the Falls Church News-Press Online, Wasilla Bible Church “was caught promoting” the LWO conference through a Bible insert that read, “You’ll be encouraged by the powe…
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Country Music Minus the Culture Wars: A Lesson from a Legend
…ion “Hard, Hard Religion: Faith and Class in the New South” (University of Georgia, 2007) plumbs their experience as well as anyone ever has.] Once, after hearing a moving address at an academic conference on the history of Southern working people during the Depression, I asked a colleague of the presenter how she liked the talk. “But,” she sputtered in some irritation, “these people all voted for [George W.] Bush!.” She just couldn’t square the p…
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