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Elections Show Growing Support for LGBT from People of Faith

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ty backed candidates like Rand Paul and Pat Toomey preparing to take their seats in the Senate. Advocates on both sides of the aisle almost uniformly agreed that the large agenda items such as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Defense of Marriage Act repeal, and passing domestic partner benefits for government employees would be nonstarters in the 112th Congress. But most also agreed that “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal might still garner bipa…

Did The God Gap Cost the Democrats in 2010?

By Daniel Schultz

…er) sums it up pretty well: Again, could Democrats have held some of those seats with appeals to white religious voters? Perhaps. But the more likely explanation is that these are conservative districts that would have been tough to hold in a friendly cycle, let alone one as surly as this one was. Living as I do in one of those rural districts (my county was a prime mover in Russ Feingold’s downfall), I can tell you that nobody gave a crap about “…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…ld have a significant voice on the governing board and reserve half of the seats in the classrooms for children of employees. These efforts and others will be supported during the upcoming National School Choice Week (January 23-29) in which Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition (and director of Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition during the 1990s) will be joined by other conservative leaders in an eleven-city (Detroit, Phoenix…

Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…department cheered her on. Once again, anyway, the hype paid off. All 900 seats in the brand-new, ten-story-high Leighton Concert Hall sold out within hours. And in the Atheist Corner… The look of the debate itself was typical, if understated. (Compare this, for instance, with a recent Craig debate in Mexico, where the podium was in the middle of a boxing ring.) The debaters sat onstage at a table with the moderator between them—Michael Rea, who…

Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…ether progressive or not. Shuler’s Blue Dog caucus lost 24 of its 58 House seats in 2010, including Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith who became a Republican, so it’s clear that being conservative didn’t keep them safe. But the party doesn’t necessarily take kindly to insurgent challengers, and with heavy hitters like Bill Clinton and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz having campaigned personally for Shuler in the past (Shuler was recruited by the Clinton-Rahm…

On Women’s Equality Day, Going Back to the Sacred Texts of Feminism

By Betty M. Bayer

…s that progress has ground to a near halt. Women hold less than 18% of the seats in Congress and 25% in the state legislature; women compose less than 3% of the heads of Fortune 1000 companies, 16% of the members of the Boards of Directors of Fortune 500 companies; and, 15% of top executives and 8% of top earners. Few women make partner at top law firms and a “vanishingly small number of law firms have women as managing partners”; among new physic…

The War on Terror is Over; Tahrir Buried It

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…as already been involved in parliamentary politics in Egypt in independent seats, and their positions have been fairly reasonable. Second, the parliamentary structure that will require them to come into coalition with other groups in order to achieve legislation will provide a check on their religious aspirations. There are few reasons to worry, therefore, that the January revolution will be “hijacked,” as the most worried observers fear. A happie…

The Shari’ah Spring: Media Gets It Backwards

By Haroon Moghul

…the Muslim Brotherhood’s Party plans to contest over fifty percent of the seats—up from its more modest position a few months ago. In Tunisia, the long-suffering Ennahda Party looks to be the biggest winner of that country’s first free elections. And in Libya, the interim leader of the National Transitional Council has called for a Libya founded on Islamic tenets and respectful of the country’s Muslim identity, with a place for Islamic institutio…

Methodists Vote to Keep Homosexuality “Incompatible”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…church calls it. As the debate continued, many delegates moved from their seats to join the members on the margins to show their solidarity. In the end the petition failed to pass. When the conference reconvened after a break, those who supported the petition remained in the hall, singing as business began again. The presiding bishop, Michael Coyner of the Indiana Conference, shut down the meeting, calling the LGBT advocates a “security concern.”…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…inning is the end.) The Islamists made a big mistake in contesting so many seats in this first parliament, for now they have now (among other things) demonstrated to the populace an inability to effectively challenge the military—and anyway, they cannot bring together Egypt’s many factions sufficiently to force the military into a responsible process of democratization. Who else can summon the numbers adequate to force the military’s hand? And the…