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Meet the New Christian Right, Same as the Old Christian Right

By Patricia Miller

…a man who is a straight-up reproductive rights culture warrior. Galveston-Houston Cardinal Daniel DiNardo is an outspoken opponent of abortion, having served as chair of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-life Activities. But he’s also promoted far-right ideas about contraception, suggesting that not only is it not a preventive service, but actually imperils women’s health, increasing a woman’s chances of getting AIDS. Oh, and while studies show that m…

It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising

By Chrissy Stroop and Jessica Johnson

…g about this topic since the first big abuse story broke in 2019, when the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News released their investigation documenting 700 victims of sexual abuse over a 20-year period. At that time, I published a piece for Playboy called, “Why the Southern Baptists Won’t Solve their Abuse Problem,” so, as you might guess, I’m not surprised the scale of that problem turned out to be as massive as it was. As I wrote then…

The Endurance Of Christian Reconstructionism

By Sarah Posner

….) Right Wing Watch noted last week that Green’s candidacy is supported by Houston activist Steven Hotze, who believes Green would “vote against a liberal judiciary who will march lock step with Obama on the path to socialism.” Hotze is not an inconsequential player in Texas politics, but he is one who troubled the late conservative insider Robert Novak with his theocratic ambitions. In 2007, Novak devoted a column to how Hotze, who had hosted a f…

Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

By Joanna Brooks

…are alike unto God.” Nineteen LDS marchers held the Affirmation banner in Houston, as did an estimated 100 LDS LGBT and allied marchers in Santiago de Chile. The largest contingent of the weekend gathered in San Francisco, where more than 100 LDS people gathered to march behind the Mormons for Marriage Equality banner, winning the parade’s award for “Absolutely Outrageous” contingent. Mitch Mayne, who is openly gay and holds a leadership position…

Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?

By Chrissy Stroop

…en boy who’s apparently going ahead with speaking at the NRA convention in Houston tomorrow. It’s a grim fact of American life that mass shootings are so common that our responses are practically scripted. And things look even grimmer when you consider, as political commentator John Stoehr argues convincingly, that the GOP’s persistent blocking of efforts to address America’s gun violence problem should be understood in the context of right-wing p…

Leaving Empire: The Risks of American Insularity

By Ryann Croken

…plane for Panama, with a connecting flight departing from, of all places, Houston’s Bush International Airport, visions of interesting frogs and secluded beaches began to recede in my mind as I became fixated on what seemed to be a disturbingly justified question about the citizens of the United States: Are we, um, stupid? When I arrived in Panama, I made my way over to Bocas del Toro, an insanely beautiful and ethnically diverse archipelago in t…

Chick-fil-A Means “Anti-gay”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…olvement.” The chain was even sued in 2002 by a Muslim restaurant owner in Houston “who said he was fired because he did not pray to Jesus with other employees at a training session. The suit was settled.” The company also runs WinShape Foundation that promotes “traditional” marriage as well as a retreat center near Rome, Georgia. Gays and lesbians looking for a retreat should look elsewhere, however. In an email exchange with one gay blog, the re…

An Immoderate Proposal: Sam Rodriguez, “Centrist” Evangelical, to Give Benediction at RNC

By Sarah Posner

…ight leaders in protesting the opening of a Planned Parenthood facility in Houston, Texas, charging that the “spirit of Herod” was behind it and that “abortion is anti-Latino, anti-black and anti-life.” He continued to align himself with the Republican Party on reproductive and LGBT issues, even as evangelical promotion of immigration reform fell on deaf GOP ears. More recently, Rodriguez jumped on board the anti-contraception bandwagon, supportin…

How Donald Trump Has Exposed Rifts in the Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…of Trump’s statements about immigrants. John Mark Reynolds, the provost of Houston Baptist University, who I interviewed for a piece earlier this year about what some conservative evangelicals are looking for in a presidential candidate, called Trump’s views on immigration “wicked.” There’s really not sufficient polling data at this point—and polling data at this juncture doesn’t really tell us very much about how Iowa caucus-goers and early prima…

Bachmann Staffer Likens
Rick Perry to King Saul and Bachmann to anointed
King David

By Warren Throckmorton

…have a tough choice between Perry, who recently hosted a prayer meeting in Houston where over 30,000 evangelicals attended, and Bachmann, who has made her faith a central part of her campaign. The distinction offered by Waldron is that Perry looks the part of a Old Testament leader but Bachmann has God’s approval, as did King David. In the Old Testament, Saul was the first King of Israel and but had a bad end because he fell out of God’s favor. To…