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What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…udeo” part of Judeo-Christian, I felt invited to click on my home state of Georgia to see whom I should vote for. The links directed me to Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum and the American Family Association—a major player on the Christian right whose issues with racism and abuse Sarah Posner recently wrote about on RD. These groups, and numerous others, have moved from describing the values they fight for as “Christian” to “Judeo-Christian”—which i…

Who Says the Tea Party is Not a Religious Movement?

By Joanna Brooks

…rmon-belt than they do from Professor Ruprecht’s vantage point in Atlanta, Georgia. To this religion scholar and contemporary cultural critic it seems pretty clear that: A) the Tea Party movement is not monolithic but rather deeply inflected with and informed by local and regional histories, concerns, rhetorics, and cultural nuances; and B) among its LDS supporters in the American West, the Tea Party bears features of a religious movement. Espec…

Christian Right Aims for Tea Party

By Sarah Posner

…scandal he couldn’t win the Republican primary for lieutenant governor in Georgia four years ago, claims the two are one and the same. He tells the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody that his new Faith and Freedom Coalition is like “a 21st century version of the Christian Coalition on steroids” and is a natural fit with the tea party movement: We have an awful lot of the tea party organizers who are active in faith and freedom and I thi…

How Far Will White Christians Go to Maintain Power? An Interview with Robert Jones

By Peter Laarman

…e elections, of course, but even in evangelical strongholds like Texas and Georgia their numbers are dropping, and they know it. Falling in line behind Trump’s Big Lie while attempting to restrict voting is really about trying to protect something that they feel like they own, which is the country. And we are seeing some clear signs that they may be willing to use whatever means necessary to protect that ownership. Yes, because now it’s definitely…

In Latest Round of LGBTQ Discrimination Cases Before SCOTUS, Religion Is ‘The Elephant in the Room’

By Patrick Hornbeck

…lving a gay skydiving instructor from New York, a gay county employee from Georgia, and a trans funeral home director from Michigan, turn on the interpretation of a provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law provides that employers may not discriminate “because of” an employee’s or prospective employee’s “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” The fired employees are arguing that courts should interpret the word “sex…

Trump’s Mormon Problem

By Neil J. Young

…rywhere—a recent poll indicated Clinton has grabbed a four percent lead in Georgia, for example—the Utah numbers invite further investigation. In Slate, historian Max Perry Mueller provided critical insight last week contextualizing Trump’s poor standing among Mormons within the LDS Church’s long history as victims of religious persecution and its more recent emergence as a global faith. Having once faced extermination orders, Mormons, Mueller arg…

‘We’re Through the Looking Glass Now’: Talking Deradicalization with Dr. John Horgan

By Gordon Haber

…the conversation, I spoke to Dr. John Horgan, a Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University, who studies deradicalization—or more specifically the “pathways into, through and out of terrorism.” In his research, Dr. Horgan interviewed former violent extremists such as al-Qaeda operatives and IRA assassins, looking to discover their paths to a new identity. We should be careful not to label all American extremists terrorists. But we can cert…

Tyler Perry’s Museum of Blackness

By Sevonna Brown

…a place not even the mob would think to look—in Madea’s (also Tyler Perry) Georgia home. As the unaware and reluctant witness, George is forced to figure out how his company pilfered millions of dollars. The black church is important to the storyline. A frantic Jake Nelson, who invested funds in George’s company to raise money for his father’s church, finds out from Brian that the company was a scam. Jake then scrambles to get the money back befor…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…by Jindal, now the governor of Louisiana, Nathan Deal, now the governor of Georgia, and Mike Pence, a conservative hero who’s now running for governor of Indiana. While campaigning for president, Bachmann took up the “tyrannical judges” mantle, this time in connection with the Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling that the state’s gay marriage ban was unconstitutional. She applauded the ouster of “black-robed masters,” the three Iowa judges who had ruled sa…

Netflix Removing Antigay Film Isn’t “Free Speech,” it’s Free Market

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ing “faith-based” adoption agencies to refuse to place children in homes headed by LGBT people, while lawmakers in Alabama and Georgia filed similar bills….