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Don’t Blame Black Voters: The Obama Non-Effect

By Jonathan L. Walton

…and gender ambiguities of choir directors? And last I checked, a critical number of black folk just love them some Tyler Perry Mable “Madea” Simmons (image right). The difference, historically and culturally, is that being black in America has proven to be enough of a social impediment. So the fact that many African Americans choose not to take the same risks as Elton John or T.R. Knight does not mean that black people on the ground are any less…

Religious Right Leader Claims Hasan Motivated By “Animus Toward Christians and Jews”

By Sarah Posner

…he book Liberalism Kills Kids, has just weighed in with a statement on the Fort Hood shootings: We know that Dr. Hasan is a devout Muslim who once told a fellow officer that “Muslims have a right to stand up against the U.S. military.” Clearly, yesterday’s rampage was not motivated by love. Given Hasan’s worldview, it’s probable that he was motivated in part by an animus toward Christians and Jews. Assuming that murder charges are brought against…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…gious myth. * * * The Picturing the Bible exhibit at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Proves that visual and material elements were crucial to Christianity from the start. * * * The Manga Bible, by Siku. One of the better new forms of this thing called the Bible. *** Envy, or Yiddish in America Jeff Sharlet, a contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone, is the author of The Family and co-author of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bi…

Freak Show at Supreme Court

By Lauri Lebo

…duty in Iraq, tours totaling 27 months. He lives in Lillington, N.C., near Fort Bragg. “I think they should be out here,” Clark said. “They’re the biggest idiots in the world, and they’re out here showing everybody that they’re the biggest idiots in the world — and they have the right to do that. Isn’t that amazing? I served in the military to preserve their right to show everybody that they’re the biggest idiots in the world. “We should be thankf…

Rick Perry, the Christocrat Favorite for President?

By Sarah Posner

…signed a parental notification bill and a gay marriage ban into law at the Fort Worth Calvary Christian Academy. Parsley graced the ceremonies with the statement that gay sex is “a veritable breeding ground of disease.” Perry has appeared at a conference hosted by Bill Gothard’s controversial Institute in Basic Life Principles. (They share a generous funder, James Leininger, a key funder of the Texas culture wars.) In 2006, Perry, then campaigning…

Is it ‘biblical to enforce the law,’ as Trump Admin Claims in Defense of Separating Families?

By Daniel Schultz

…y. First there was Jeff Sessions, in a speech delivered to civic groups in Fort Wayne. Later, when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about Sessions’ remarks, she gave a more general defense, saying “It is very Biblical to enforce the law.” It’s unusual to say the least that a high-ranking member of the federal government would offer a religious defense of public policy. Ordinarily, they’d shrug, claim to defer to religious leaders, and move on. But…

No More Mosques

By Daniel Schultz

…11 jihadis as well as the Major Hasan who shot up the infidel idolaters at Fort Hood. It’s hard to know what to say about this insanity, other than that it’s, umm, insane. I guess what needs to be added is that in addition to being absolutely bonkers, it’s deeply, deeply afraid. As in afraid enough to lash out and hurt somebody: Normally I would think we could ride out this latest wave of nativism and racism, but there are two factors that make it…

Conservatives Stoke Fear of Fifth Column

By Sarah Posner

…the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is claiming that alleged Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan is taking orders from CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood. That sort of fifth column conspiracy theory — that Muslim extremists bent on replacing the Constitution with sharia law are frighteningly in our midst — is the bread and butter of a cottage industry of Islamophobia found in some conservative and religious right circles. CAIR, wh…

Romney: Your Data is Mine, But My Tithing is Secret!

By Sarah Posner

…th, Texas, chief executive Tom Buxton, confirmed to the AP his company’s efforts to help Romney identify rich and previously untapped Republican donors across the country. The Romney campaign declined to discuss on the record its work with Buxton or the project’s overall success. . . . The effort by Romney appears to be the first example of a political campaign using such extensive data analysis. President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has l…

Turkish ‘Lord of the Rings’ Has God, Guts, Girls, and Glory

By Haroon Moghul

…l never forget the first time I walked through the main gate of the Lahore Fort. A majestic Mughal structure, impossibly thick walls surrounding ridiculously luxurious pavilions, it made me think: How can a dynasty this powerful vanish from the world? I had mundane thoughts, too. As we walked through the main gate, on the path used by Mughal armies, it occurred to me that whoever designed the “stairs” had done a horrible job. We stepped up several…