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Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments

By Sarah Posner

…e, the most important thing an individual can do. Let me just give you an example—this goes on year after year—Dr. Paul has been a consistent promoter of Second Amendment legislation. He’s already mentioned the United Nations, well, he’s got a bill to get us out of the United Nations, he doesn’t just talk about it. And the reason the Second Amendment folks are so interested in that is because the UN right now, under Hillary Clinton, the State Depa…

Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…vered proof of man and dinosaur co-existence. Just outside of Glen Rose, Texas, in a place known as the Paluxy Flats, creationists say they have identified the three-toed footprint of an Acrocanthosaurus, who passed through millions of years ago, perhaps hunting, when this was a much different landscape of tidal flats and marsh. That in itself is not unusual. Such footprints cover this region. But creationists claim that inside the dinosaur footpr…

This is not a Religion Column: Sarah Palin, American

By Jeff Sharlet

…tic who’d crossed him as “the bull butterfly of the literary teas”—but he expressed his hatred of homosexuality in such queeny terms that even those who shared his bile turned a blind eye to their man’s evident relish for a certain campy rhetorical style. Pegler was meaner than Limbaugh, but there was also more to him than Limbaugh. Peg hated fascists, until he became one. He despised fat cats, which may be why he came to loathe himself and anyone…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…religious vision places his more sanitized comments into a disturbing context. The policy implications that such convictions would likely have (for example, on the availability of Pell grants and other federal funding for higher education) should give pause to anyone who isn’t convinced that the battle lines between good and evil should be drawn in quite the way Santorum draws them. These troubling implications may explain why Santorum, while not…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…nately trailed Black bodies in White America since slavery. The threat of execution that stalks black and brown bodies more than anyone else creates a deeply rooted anxiety that cripples authentic living. This is worthy of our thinking, writing, debating and voting. White evangelicalism, as a political ideology, hijacked this moment with anemic theological impositions when American communities, especially those of color, hungered for political sol…

“Traditional” Marriage or a Break with Tradition?

By Stephanie Coontz

…en who died before age 65—if the couple was legally married. The federal tax code was rewritten to provide special benefits to married couples. Private employers followed suit, using marital status to determine whether they would provide health insurance or pension benefits to employees’ dependents. Legal statutes strengthened the rights of a spouse at the expense of other kin, including parents and adult children. Lack of a marriage license meant…

Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…aid his work focuses on five areas: Decriminalization of consensual same-sex sexual relations, recognition of gender identity, fighting stigma against LGBT and intersex people, empathy and cultural inclusion. “This is very much reaching out to a broad understanding of religion,” he said. The Trump administration announced that Randy Berry, named by President Barack Obama the first special envoy for LGBTI human rights, “will be continuing in his ro…

Why Aqua Buddha Ad Failed to Harm Rand Paul

By Joanna Brooks

…slavery.) And what about secret paganistic societies with odd behind-closed-doors rituals? That too is classic Americana—just as American as the Freemasons. What really breaks the good Christian folks code of conduct is not engaging in questionable behavior but rather exposing the indiscretions of other good Christian folks, especially after they get established and powerful….

Creationism and Global Warming Denial: Anti-Science’s Kissing Cousins?

By Lauri Lebo

…topics,” as they encourage “thinking critically” about the “relationships between explanations and evidence.” More recently, in Kentucky, a bill was introduced in the Legislature that would encourage teachers to discuss “the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories,” including “evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.” The inclusion of other topics is part of a legal strategy to show that evolution is not bein…

Pastors Urged to Defy IRS to Defeat Evil, Hitlerian Obama

By Peter Montgomery

…d the day in 1954 when the “Johnson amendment” language was put into the tax code was the day that “changed America” and set the stage for bad Supreme Court decisions and everything else that has gone wrong since the 1960s. Pulpit Freedom Sunday participants agree to preach political sermons, send them to the IRS, and dare the agency to sue them. The Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly known as the Alliance Defense Fund) has offered legal help to…