Religion Dispatches
…ated image came with the disclosure in the summer of 2004 that his public relations and lobbying companies had received at least $4.2 million from Abramoff to mobilize Christian voters to fight Indian casinos competing with Abramoff’s casino clients. Similarly damaging has been a torrent of e-mails revealed during the investigation that shows a side of Reed that some former supporters say cannot be reconciled with his professed Christian values. “…
Read More…ext generations, the American Jewish community, and the State of Israel”) accused Jewish Daily Forward reporter Nathan Guttman of lacking professionalism in journalism, and intimated that he is anti-Israel. Speaking with the IAC co-funder Haim Saban (a Democratic Party donor), Adelson twisted remarks Guttman made during a prior panel on how reporters cover Israel: The two Jewish philanthropists pondered how to save Israel from the local and intern…
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This post has been clarified. Thanks to the Brennan Center’s freedom of information request, we now know that the NYPD not only showed the anti-Muslim film The Third Jihad to officers, but showed it on a continuous loop. Muslim groups are calling for the resignation of Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who gave an interview to the film, and his spokesperson, Paul Browne, who first said the filmmakers used footage of Kelly without his knowledge, and…
Read More…te institute of higher learning before D’Souza ran it, or after. (Read an account of my visit to TKC, while it was still under Olasky’s leadership, here.) That said, WORLD has a history of calling out, or at least reporting on, fellow evangelicals’ wrongdoing. One instance was the magazine’s indictment of Ralph Reed’s casino double-cross of evangelicals with Jack Abramoff, even as other evangelicals closed rank around him. Another was an investiga…
Read More…can read a poll just as easily as anyone else. Or last year’s Pew Research Center survey on American Jewish attitudes. His money isn’t about 2016 or even 2020 or 2024, it’s about staving off the shifting views of American Jews about Israel, or at least constraining political dialogue about it. Citizens United enabled Adelson to pour as much of his money as he wants into influencing elections, but that’s really a misnomer. He’s not influencing the…
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…odest, arrogant, foul-mouthed, money-obsessed, thrice-married, and until recently, pro-choice. By conventional standards, evangelical Christians should despise him.” Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, has also wondered whether evangelicals have “lost their values” in their support of Trump. And earlier this week, Ed Rogers urged evangelicals not to vote for Trump: “How can th…
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…has been updated. Mitt Romney is making a big push for the Jewish vote. In classic Romney (i.e., clueless) form, his campaign scheduled a trip to Israel on the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av. Gershom Gorenberg writes at the Daily Beast: It seems no one on his staff checked a Jewish calendar and noticed that he’d spending most of his time in Israel on the fast day of Tisha B’Av. His big fundraising event was originally scheduled for Sunday evening—j…
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Yesterday another coalition of center-right Christians calling itself the Poverty Forum rolled out its multi-point plan aimed at lessening the toll of poverty in America. The Forum’s primary organizers, Sojourners founder Jim Wallis, former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, and PolicyLink founder Angela Glover Blackwell, claim that their approaches to key issue areas are embraced across the religious spectrum from left to right. The pro…
Read More…campaign against Barack Obama, that included linking him to terrorists and claiming that he planned to give out drivers’ licenses to would-be terrorists: The PAC was founded by Scott Wheeler, a former correspondent for the Moonie-owned Insight magazine, and Peter Leitner, a former Pentagon adviser and president of the Higgins Counterterrorism Research Center, which trains law enforcement personnel on counterterrorism. Wheeler has a history working…
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…religious and political culture to oppose efforts for marriage equality.” According to the report, among the biggest recipients of Knights funding are NOM ($1.9 million) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ($1.2 million). The report does not include figures for 2011 because the Knights delayed filing its tax reporting for 2011 until after the November 2012 elections. In 2006, the Knights distributed 10 million postcards through state and l…
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