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Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…age.’” Some anti-choice activists, though, are hailing Pawlenty as an ahead-of-the-curve, shall we say courageous advocate for their increasingly radical agenda. The conservative piece on Pawlenty’s anti-choice record, by Steven Ertelt, editor of the highly partisan LifeNews.com*, suggests that Pawlenty was at the forefront of the anti-choice measures that were gaining ground in several states in the early 2000s. Over at the Nation, George Zornick…

Racist Remarks by popular BYU Religion Professor Spark Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

…s later, in August 1978, Elder Bruce R. McConkie, a member of the Church’s high-ranking Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, once a leading proponent of racist theological justifications of the ban, told a gathering of LDS educators: “Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. Cannon or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. We spoke with a limited understanding and wi…

Remembering Gil Scott-Heron

By Mark Hulsether

…torm as hip-hop music. Later, during an era of music videos and mainstream commercial rap, less and less that Scott-Heron produced made the transition to a mainstream lingua franca or commercial success. For a long stretch between the mid 1980s and 2010 he released only one record, and he battled drug problems. In 2005, on the record Beautiful Struggle, Talib Kweli commented on “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” in this way: I’ve heard it said…

Gay Judge’s Prop. 8 Decision Holds

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples.” Prop 8 backers asked Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware to vacate Walker’s ruling—arguing that Walker should have recused himself since he is a gay man and could benefit from ruling that same-sex marriage is legal. Ware forcefully rejected that argument in his opinion—pointing out its absurdity: [T]he presumption that ‘a…

The Birth of Glenn Beck’s Nation

By Kelly J. Baker

…tizens and to uplift the historical legacy of the nation. Klan leaders and newspapers provided a history of the fabled nation-state, which emphasized the Puritans, early white colonists, the Founding Fathers, and former Presidents (there are some notable absences in this reconstruction). Their jeremiads proclaimed a fragmentation of white Protestant social order while narrating a pristine, coherent history. In this way, the Klan mobilized millions…

Atheist Rock Fest, Buddhist Geeks, Megachurch For Sale, Church Bans Fried Chicken

By Michael J. Altman

…upport of women’s ordination. “Don’t tase me bro!” When the head pastor at New Welcome Baptist Church in St. Elmo, Alabama told the church music minister that he was fired, the music minster responded with a taser. Problems continue to surround the Crystal Cathedral. Creditors say they will sue the megachurch if it blocks a sale of its large campus. Both Chapman University and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange upped their offers for the propert…

The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011

By Jason Bruner

…ait a cataclysmic event. They had journeyed to a hilltop in the rural north-western highlands of Dien Bien, Vietnam. Translated short wave radio broadcasts sponsored by Camping’s Family Radio told them that the land of the sinful would be destroyed. The righteous, those who had accepted God’s forgiveness offered in Jesus Christ, would be saved in this radical reordering. That would give the Hmong what they have been waiting for—a land of their own…

The War at the Values Voters Summit

By Sarah Posner

…” At a press conference about the straw poll results, I asked the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins about Fischer’s remark that Romney’s comments about him were an “insult” to the Values Voters audience. “I guess that’s Bryan’s opinion,” Perkins said, adding that Romney “had a right” to say what he said, and that “Mitt had a very legitimate and poignant point that we need to be civil in our discussions. We underscore that. We need to have a c…

“Guerilla Warrior of Judeo-Christian Political Commentary” Stars in Anti-Newt Video in Iowa

By Sarah Posner

…es last year for their same-sex marriage ruling, announced today that a hip-hop video calling Newt Gingrich “the GOP’s Kim Kardashian for his many infidelities on marriage—gay, straight and his own” would be delivered, via text messaging starting Thursday, to every registered Republican or non-aligned Iowa voter with a cell phone on record. . . . The video’s star is Molotov Mitchell, whom Cary K. Gordon, president of PeaceMakers Institute and pas…

Romney’s Religion of Happiness vs. Gingrich’s Religion of Grievance

By Sarah Posner

…dismissed the idea of pandering to religious voters. About the candidates, she said, “they don’t have to do that.” _______________ Front page image: Newt in New Orleans. Photo by Christopher Halloran via Shutterstock.com…