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RD10Q: Faith and the Presidency: A Cautionary Tale

By Randall Balmer

…o used that principle to justify the deepening of America’s involvement in Vietnam. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? For a while now (both in God in the White House and in Thy Kingdom Come), I’ve been hammering away at what I call the abortion myth, the fiction that the Religious Right galvanized as a political movement in direct response to the Roe v. Wade decision of January 1973. That is absolutely not the case. Sev…

‘He Gets Us’ and Sleazy ‘Swift Boat’ Ads Share a Central Figure — Further Evidence of a Right-Wing Bait-and-Switch

By Chrissy Stroop

…ng PR veteran, such a big sad that he had to go whine about it in Religion News Service. And that’s where things get really funny, at least to me. But funny or not, things certainly get revealing. Bringing in other examples of recent conservative Christian infighting—over Chick-fil-A’s new cauliflower sandwiches (you can’t make this stuff up) and the Asbury revival specifically—Pinkston opined that just about anything Christians do “faces an immed…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and respect for diversity as a top priority. Kyle Knight, a researcher for New York-based Human Rights Watch, said it feels like the cause of equality has been set back by a generation. Bigoted officials “actually do ruin people’s lives,” he said. Belize: American Anti-Gay Activist Slams Local Religious Practices As ‘Witchcraft’ Anti-gay missionary and pastor Scott Stirm was challenged by Rep. Frank “Pawpa” Mena after Stirm criticized Garifuna rel…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

….” The spokesperson’s comments reportedly were in response to a story from New Zealand about a Maldivian asylum seeker in New Zealand who had become an award-winning drag queen in Wellington. Abraham Naim told the Dominio Post that he had been granted asylum in 2013 after facing persecution in the Maldives. The article quotes New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment as stating that Naim was “at risk of serious harm from state…

Mitt Romney’s Honesty Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…Politifact. Of course, the questions Huffington and the DNC raise are not new. In 2007, Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi scrutinized “Romney’s Honesty Problem” on abortion, and John McCain’s presidential campaign developed an anti-Romney ad strikingly similar to the DNC’s. But this time around, as attention continues to consolidate on Romney as once-and-future frontrunner, it seems clear that the honesty meme is going to stick. It may in fact…

Lincoln and Obama: A Precarious Parallel

By Susan Henking

…uation imagination can sometimes fuse myth and ecstatic reason to render a new vision, a new sense of direction and goal. Such a new vision is never unrelated to older visions—that is why tradition is so important; but neither is it identical with them—that is why ecstatic reason must also be involved. So, I am a celebrating, ambivalent American on the eve of this inauguration, and I ask ecstatically: Where is gay Abe? Where are Harvey Milk, Elean…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…d. At the very time the pandemic was escalating outside the United States, new anti-retroviral medicines had become available in our country that helped to mitigate the alarming rate of death. This good news was offset by immense apathy that swept this country, along with a mindset that it was impossible to share this medicine with the impoverished of the world in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. My book was an attempt to express what I heard as G…

Tim LaHaye’s World: We’re Living In It

By Jason C. Bivins

…dress, LaHaye tilled the ground, made roads out of the schools, out of the New Deal, and quite frankly out of the commons, no matter how often he lobbied or shook hands with the powerful. Despite how obvious it is that the emptied coffers after Vietnam, the disastrous slashing of the social safety net in the 1980s, the protracted legitimation crisis in American democracy, and the failure attend to the still crippling forces of racism, inequality,…

Another Manufactured Outrage: Rep. Ilhan Omar Did Nothing Wrong in Listing Hamas, Israel, and U.S. Together

By Joshua Shanes

…ar greater. Think about the victims in Iraq. Think about crimes during the Vietnam War. Think about torture under the Bush administration. Think about complaints raised about American crimes in Afghanistan, including drone attacks, the specific subject of her question! It was none other than Martin Luther King Jr. who called America, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Of course, he was also called an anti-American domestic ene…

Op-Ed: A Few Things I Wish Barack Obama Had Said

By Garret Keizer

…t, I do call John McCain a great reconciler for his bold initiative toward Vietnam. In regard to the charges leveled against me, I call him and his running mate fear-mongers and hypocrites. On the Comments of His Former Minister Jeremiah Wright The patriotism of many Americans strikes me as similar to the sentiments of a boy who takes offense every time he plays the dozens but who calls his mother a whore every times she says “Good morning.” Wheth…