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Religious Right Elites Still Looking for a Candidate

By Sarah Posner

…ayer rally The Response, held a week before he announced his candidacy (in South Carolina) and gave him his big boost, which he quickly squandered by turning in the most embarrassing performances in the history of recorded debates. Don Wildmon, whose American Family Association bankrolled The Response, turned around and endorsed Newt Gingrich before the Iowa caucuses, which shows, I suppose, the greater influence of a local powerbroker— Bob Vander…

Ponzi Pastor, Bacon Terrorism, & Spiritual Jewelry

By Michael J. Altman

…lates. Keep an eye out for my new “RELGNGUY” plate in the Atlanta area. In South Carolina, a mosque was defaced with bacon. A 9/11 responder is suing the developers behind the Park51 project claiming compensation for “psychological terrorism.” He wants $350 million as compensation. The Washington Post decided not to run a comic from the popular Non Sequitur comic strip entitled “Where’s Muhammad?” The single-frame comic was a parody of the popular…

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…The list of states considering anti-Shari’ah legislation is growing. South Carolina can be added along with South Dakota. The Muslim Public Affairs Council is trying to get more Muslims writing for TV and movies in Hollywood. The number of US Muslims accused of terrorism dropped by half in 2010, a new study reports. A pair of doves just didn’t want to leave the Pope’s window this week. People who believe the end of the world will come on 12/21/12…

At Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump Support Is Part of a 150-Year Tradition

By Daniel Silliman

…ribe was so popular, he was asked to reprise it for a joint session of the South Carolina legislature the same year. He obliged. Criswell preached that the integrationists were “trying to upset all of the things that we love as good old Southern people and as good old Southern Baptists.” Even worse, he said, Baptists were succumbing to the pressure of civil rights activists. Criswell said these Baptists were an embarrassment to their martyred fore…

Why Pro-Life Voters Shouldn’t Trust Trump on Abortion—And Why It Doesn’t Matter

By Neil J. Young

…bly evangelicals—of his change on abortion to guarantee his nomination. In South Carolina, Trump won in large part because he captured 33 percent of evangelicals there. But evangelical leaders are right to distrust Trump’s pro-life claims—not in spite of the examples of Republicans who changed on abortion like Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Mitt Romney, but because of them. Unwittingly, Trump’s nod to history undermines his claims because it…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of the far-right Catholic Lapanto Institute, In a conference preview, the Southern Poverty Law Center noted: Africa continues to be a nexus of anti-LGBT and anti-choice activism on the part of U.S.-based individuals and groups, some of which, like Arizona pastor Steven Anderson, openly call for violence against LGBT people. Anderson was recently banned from the UK and South Africa and deported from Botswana because of his virulently anti-LGBT rhe…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…the brutal slavery practiced in the islands migrated to the mainland, with South Carolina functioning as an extension of Barbados during the late 17th century. White colonists everywhere marveled at the strength and endurance of kidnapped Africans subjected to the most extreme conditions. But we must be clear that the buying and selling and torturing of people of African descent was not the original sin. The original sin (lower case) was the assum…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…tion and creating something new and amazingly vibrant on Washington Square South. But what may ultimately be most endearing was his gift for exploding the cheap piety we’re still imprisoned by as we head toward the 2012 elections. Nowhere was this on display more prominently than in his distinction as the first author to have the word “fuck” printed in the Village Voice. In “Toward a New Definition of Obscenity,” Moody, who had by 1965 screened ba…

South Park Meets the Sacraments at Class for New Catholics

By Zachary Leja

…have looked centuries ago. In the alternate universe where the creators of South Park are serious Christians instead of masters of satire, this is the cartoon they would make. At one point Damien stifles a laugh. “In the past few months,” he tells me, “it seems like Father Shea’s been all about this chintzy visual stuff.” A few minutes later Justin has to choke back a laugh of his own during another animated sequence. But Father Shea doesn’t to no…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…legislation for LGBT people and for HIV prevention and treatment programs South Africa: Concern about LGBT Equality in a Post-Mandela Nation Joe Morgan of Gay Star News reported on New Year’s Day that some South African activists are concerned that the legacy of Nelson Mandela, which included the groundbreaking inclusion of sexual orientation in the Constitution, could be at risk in his absence. President Jacob Zuma, as well as several other repr…