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Marco Rubio’s “Constitutional Scholar”

By Julie Ingersoll

…im Stratton at the Orlando Sentinel alerted me to an event held in central Florida yesterday in which tea party Senate candidate Marco Rubio aligned himself with Glenn Beck’s BFF David Barton. Barton, the headline speaker at the event in support of Rubio’s candidacy, is the fundamentalist Christian promoter of “Christian American History” and a revisionist history of race in America that paints the Republican party as the party of racial equality….

Conservatives Panic as Gay Marriage Looms

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…or that God commands women to be subservient to men, or that the earth is flat. No one has, or will, outlaw a religious person’s right to their beliefs, no matter how much they may be at odds with mainstream belief. But, once the religious right gets on a slippery slope there’s no stopping them until they finish their flume ride of hysteria. Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptis…

Hayworth: Just Say “Neigh” to Gay Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in Arizona, has taken up the Santorum mantle, asserting in an interview on Orlando, Florida’s WORL that gay unions could lead to “man-horse” wedding ceremonies: “You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined marriage — now get this — it defined marriage as simply, ‘the establishment of intimacy,’” Hayworth said. “Now how dangerous is that? I mean, I don’t mean to be absurd about it,…

Prayer vigil for Las Vegas shooting victim Sonny Melton (WBBJ TV)

No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…in Las Vegas, with more dead, more people hospitalized, more deep trauma inflicted, but with the same shitty debate over prayer-vs-action and same despair over the potential for action being recycled. There are some differences, of course. Rather than the NRA paying $3 million to elect a senator from Iowa, we now have a president elected with $30 million NRA dollars, and who perhaps not coincidentally “feels closer to the NRA than just about any o…

Opponent of LGBT Equality Lauded for His Great Courage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s of people. Oh, my—those vicious lions! Trying keep homophobia off their iPhones! Here’s a thought: Perhaps the lions wouldn’t be so testy if they didn’t have to justify their very existence. Perhaps the lions would be more willing to lie down with the lamb (or the “Daniel”) if the lions weren’t being continually tossed into the political ring for a blood sport sideshow over their “right” to exist. Of course, the article is quick to point out tha…

US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives

By Chrissy Stroop

…her by voting, at its plenary assembly meeting in (appropriately) Orlando, Florida, to greenlight the Committee on Doctrine to amend the ERDs so that they explicitly ban the provision of gender-affirming care in Catholic medical systems. As Brian Fraga tersely puts it in National Catholic Reporter, “It’s unclear how many Catholic health facilities currently provide gender-confirming medical treatment.” However, he did add that according to his Cat…

Religious Freedom Org Sticking By Trump Clinging to SCOTUS Nominations

By Sunnivie Brydum

…legal nonprofits that claim to be faith-based, while actively working to influence legislation on the local, state, and national level. And both have a decidedly anti-LGBT agenda. The Orlando-based organization might not have the massive financial backing of the ADF, but it’s clear the two groups share an ideological mission, and it’s hard not to see that Liberty Counsel hopes to grow up to be as influential as ADF. In fact, Liberty Counsel has pr…

A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America

By Sunnivie Brydum

…plays into the hands of those seeking to keep us mired in darkness and conflict I know no other way to respond. I cannot trust the institutions, nor the individuals, who are promising to “save” me, and in so doing remake this country. I think the truth is that we can only save ourselves—if we are lucky. But if there is a spot where the light shines through, it is in the relentless humanity of those who have long experienced oppression that, in al…

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…utions has to do with her experience after the PULSE nightclub shooting in Orlando. Aly became very involved with the Trust Collective, an interfaith coalition trying to build partnerships between faith communities and the LGBTQ community. When she first became involved, there was some interest from others in the Muslim community. “The last meeting I went to,” Aly said, “I was the only mainstream type of Muslim there. I come from your usual mosque…

At National Prayer B’fast Obama Defends His Faith… Again

By Daniel Schultz

…skepticism at that point,” said Hunter, who leads an evangelical church in Orlando. “All of us ought to be able to say who we are and taken for our word. It’s frustrating because he still has some people questioning his faith.” This is curious, since Obama has said again and again that he is a Christian. But more to my suggestion, there aren’t “some people questioning the president’s faith,” there are some people lying about it. It is a fraud to p…