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Southern Evangelicals Defend Pedophilia Using Catholic Legends

By Karen E. Park

…st a little bit unusual. The 67-year-old Zeigler has been State Auditor of Alabama since 2014. According to Project Vote Smart, he was endorsed by Conservative Christians of Alabama a group he formerly chaired, and which quizzes candidates on such questions as: “Do you support public prayer and Bible reading in Public Schools?” prior to offering their endorsement. Zeigler’s Bible-believing bona fides would seem to be impeccable, not to mention his…

Close Encounters With Roy Moore

By Sarah Posner

…tional law. His claim that a federal district court’s ruling striking down Alabama’s constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage is invalid, and his subsequent order to Alabama’s probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, stem from the same ideology that drove his Ten Commandments spectacle: that politicians, judges, and the “tyranny of men” are trying, unconstitutionally, to subvert God’s law. Moore’s actions have l…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…We have an unprecedented access to cheap goods, yet we must recognize that cheap goods are cheaply made. I am not speaking of quality, I am speaking of cheap labor. We must recognize that through the act of shopping, whether it is for an article of clothing, a toy, a pint of strawberries, or even our morning cup of coffee, we participate in a global economy that values profit over people. Disposable goods are made by disposable people, faceless in…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…e success either. The opening weekend saw sales of more than $6 million in tickets. That’s the kind of number that will inspire others to try and figure out the formula for the faith-and-family blockbuster. Yet, with the cost of the film reportedly exceeding $30 million, it’s an open question whether or not the Left Behind reboot will get a second installment. The marketing problem of evangelical movies is still, stubbornly, a problem. The general…

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…ou’ll read an excerpt below—has surprised me, too. I wish I could find my airline companion and give him this book, to surprise him, too—in a good way. (I would accept Lakers tickets in lieu of apologies, but I think that particular era is done.) This whole book is a result of a profound evolution, and needs to be seen as such. American Muslims have gone through a lot over the last few decades. We were never the caricature Islamophobes made us ou…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

At oral argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties, Inc. v. Sebelius this morning, the Supreme Court justices spent a great deal of time questioning the lawyers in the case about whether corporations have a religious conscience, and whether Congress intended to protect it when enacting the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). What was most striking, though, was how all three female justices, Sonia So…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…instruct us on how to die. It’s fitting then that hackers should accompany Montana’s Senate Bill 220 with “extremely dangerous” zombies “rising from their graves and attacking the living.” The bill was defeated last month, but this week a new bill is being discussed before Montana legislators, House Bill 505, which would set mandatory ten-year sentences for doctors who participate in aid in dying practices. The last episode of season three of The…

Hobby Lobbying: How Corporations Got Consciences

By Patricia Miller

…ate rather than allow sterilizations. With one-third of all babies born in Montana delivered in Catholic hospitals, it wasn’t an idle threat. The Montana Hospital Association warned of dire consequences if Catholic hospitals closed their maternity wards. Not only were Catholic hospitals important providers, but many were respected community institutions, still run by the same orders of pioneering nurse-nuns who had come to the Pacific Northwest to…

Could The “Grand Old Party” Now Be The “Gay Old Party”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n in support of making homosexual acts illegal, a policy adopted after the Montana Supreme Court struck down such laws in 1997.” Reaction to such backward thinking is strong even in Montana: “I looked at that and said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” state Sen. John Brueggeman, R-Polson, said last week. “Should it get taken out? Absolutely. Does anybody think we should be arresting homosexual people? If you take that stand, you really probably sho…

Alabama Gov. Claims Only Evangelicals are His Brothers and Sisters

By Matthew Bowman

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley, gave a speech from the pulpit of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the pulpit which once belonged to King. That was his first mistake. Few public figures have blended language religious and political with King’s skill, and Bentley is not among them. This became obvious with his second mistake: when he said, “So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their sav…