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Evangelical Pastor Tests First Amendment Waters

By Randall Balmer

…h Dakota [See Mark Bergen’s earlier post here —Eds.]. According to his Web site, Howie is a realtor and “The Tea Party Republican” candidate for governor. His positions appear to be boilerplate hard-right conservative (guns, “pro-life,” “traditional values”), although if his mode of governing in any way resembles his dysfunctional Web site, the people of South Dakota would have been in for a helluva ride with Howie as their governor. Here’s some u…

Park 51 and RLUIPA, Or, Conservatives Hoisted On Their Petard

By Daniel Schultz

…ter’s organizers should build elsewhere out of respect for the Ground Zero site. That, it should be said, is hardly a compelling argument.** Or as Melissa Rogers puts it on the Interfaith Alliance’s State of Belief radio show, once again religious freedom means freedom for everybody, not just the people we like. That ought to be an obvious statement, but apparently it takes some spelling out for modern conservatives. It would be nice to say that s…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…itute unveiled its academic freedom campaign, in 2008, complete with a web site providing sample legislation for interested state lawmakers. The institute’s John West made sure to stress that the bills never mentioned intelligent design. But as DI’s past actions clearly indicate, the goal was still to pry open the door for sympathetic teachers to teach intelligent design and creationism. Louisiana, Alabama, Michigan and Missouri all introduced sim…

The Pope and Social Media: A Digital Counter-Reformation?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…raging new social media in the service of the Church, “P2Y,” a Vatican Web site directed to young people inverts the traditional hierarchy, inviting users to post the Pope’s message on their Facebook pages and to send it directly to their priests via Facebook, email, or, for the hopelessly disconnected priest, snail mail. “Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by his competence in current digital technology,…

The Spirit of January 6th: The Theology of This Seldom Discussed Movement Animates the Growing Threat to U.S. Democracy

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…tter Rain approach to dominion, and how this in turn informed the Dominionism of the New Apostolic Reformation, in a series of blog posts at the now defunct blog site Talk to Action in 2011. [Full disclosure: Frederick Clarkson was the co-founder of the site.]…

Abe Foxman’s “Irrational Or Bigoted” Positions

By Daniel Schultz

…opposition to the proposed Islamic center to be built near the Ground Zero site in New York City: An influential Jewish organization on Friday announced its opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero in Lower Manhattan, intensifying a fierce national debate about the limits of religious freedom and the meaning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The decision by the group, the Anti-Defamation League, touched o…

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

By Anthea Butler

…e press release (but somehow not available anywhere online, as her own Web site is still “under construction”), includes being the founder of Wisdom Worldwide Center (which has no Web site, online presence, or apparent physical location), Chaplain to the New York Police Department, and a member of the Domestic Policy Council in the Clinton Administration. Impressive, perhaps, for the Christian speakers’ circuit, but not for diplomacy. So why would…

Searching for Sex, Life and Abortion on Catholic Google

By Kate Childs Graham

…Catholic Church stance on the subjects. Surprisingly, the editors of this site must have forgotten to block out those renegade progressive Catholics (note the sarcasm). When I searched for “women’s ordination” two pro-women’s ordination groups, Roman Catholic Women Priests and Women’s Ordination Conference, were the first sites that came up The same happened with when I searched “LGBT” and DignityUSA, a group working for LGBT rights in the Church…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ple in. (Indeed, I’m aware of a number of churches whose social networking site pages are closed to outsiders. Hmmm?) A modestly tech-savvy minister will eventually come to the conclusion that engagement with believers today has to be both digital and mobile. Thus, I wasn’t surprised to read about an Anglican priest in Nova Scotia who offered a “grace for gadgets” service over Labor Day weekend during which the faithful had to opportunity to have…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…pped from the pages of a disgruntled/delusional white supremacist blog/Web site. Neither! In fact, they come from the keyboards over at Lou Sheldon’s shop, the long-lived Traditional Values Coalition. So here’s a troika of recent stories from the TVC : “Obamunist Nominee Gave U.S. Port To Communists”—How Leon Panetta, Obama’s appointee to head the CIA, “is the greatest gift Obama could give to Islamic terrorists around the globe”; “‘Czars And The…