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Satanist Monument Shines Light on Christian Privilege

By Joseph Laycock

…ame day. In two 5-4 decisions the Kentucky display was struck down and the Texas monument permitted. Stephen Breyer, the “swing vote” in both cases, felt that the Texas monument was acceptable because it had already been standing for forty years without controversy, unlike the Kentucky display. Its history, along with its location beside other monuments around the state capitol, showed that the religious content was part of a “broader moral and hi…

Christian Nationalist Judge Strikes Down FDA-Approved Abortion Pill for Brazenly Ideological Reasons

By Andrew L. Seidel

…in a lawsuit of national importance. Judge Reed O’Connor in a neighboring Texas federal court pioneered a form of right-wing judicial activism that allows conservative and Christian nationalist legal groups to file cases in his district with a good chance of getting him, a well-known activist for conservative political causes, to decide cases. Things have gotten so out of hand that now, in the Amarillo Division of the Northern District of Texas,…

Tomorrow-Less Land

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…who, amazingly, lost $20 million trying to get an oil business running in Texas. When tomorrow crashed on his head, he had parental friends who paid for it. I wish it were not as simple as that, but it seems that this is precisely the extent of the man’s imagination. With a Texas oilman at the helm, we have watched oil prices skyrocket at an unprecedented pace. He now proposes to finagle a mortgage-and-insurance bailout in much the same tomorrow-…

Founding Father John Adams’ Advice to Rick Perry: Don’t Meddle in Religion

By Warren Throckmorton

…tional Government meddling with Religion.” Indeed, the sitting governor of Texas and his prayer partners appear to be meddling and have declared that the nation needs their god above all others; naturally, this offends. Like other critics Rep. Naishtat objects to the involvement of the AFA saying, “Jews, Muslims, Mormons, and Hindus, as well as Catholics and gays, would feel extremely out of place and unwelcome at any so-called national day of pra…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…a Junior Varsity running back for Stony Pointe High School in Round Rock, Texas, was reportedly paralyzed from the waist down in a “helmet-to-helmet collision.” Two days later on Friday, September 4, football led to tragedy in Louisiana, where Tyrell Cameron, also sixteen, of Franklin Parish High School, died after breaking his neck on a punt return. The day after that, a linebacker for Georgetown University named Ty Williams broke five vertebrae…

When it Comes to Societal Dominion, the Details Matter: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part II

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…nd equip new generations of apostles. For example, Apostle Chuck Pierce of Texas, recently established Kingdom Harvest Alliance (KHA) which describes itself as “a new organism for alignment… a new wineskin that includes each one of us developing a harvest mentality for the sphere and calling we have. All wineskins usually have a seven year viability.” It’s also important for reporters to be alert to the application of the metaphor “new wineskins”…

Polygamist Warren Jeffs Convicted of Sexual Assault

By Anthea Butler

…ound at the Yearning for Zion Ranch, which was raided back in 2008 in West Texas. Although many of the children were placed in foster care after the raid, many are back living at the ranch with their mothers, as an internal struggle for the leadership of the FLDS ensues. Jeffs’ hold over the FLDS community can not be overstated. Even on the run, Jeffs communicated with followers, and many, like former follower Flora Jessop, believed he continued t…

Goodbye ‘Roe,’ Hello Violence and an Out-of-Control Judiciary

By Andrew L. Seidel

…e Prevention of Vice. When paired with our politically divided country and Texas’s new unlicensed open carry law that also took effect today, it’s a recipe for violence, which has already plagued abortion providers. Now their supporters feel like they have a license to hunt (which is not what the law says) and also happen to believe God is on their side. What could possibly go wrong? It’s tempting to say that they learned nothing from the violence…

Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)

By Frederick Clarkson

…strings were pulled to get George W. Bush into the “Champagne Unit” of the Texas Air National Guard in order to avoid military service that might send him to Vietnam; how he failed to fulfill that service; and how his failure was systematically covered-up and politically defused. Also covered are the allegations of how W. was an abuser of illegal drugs in addition to his apparently drinking problems as a young man. One important story from W.’s pa…

Prop 8 Ruling a True Test of Liberty (Religious or Otherwise)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e the majority opinion in the case that decriminalized sodomy, Lawrence v. Texas. Some of the issues are the same in the Prop 8 case. The American Foundation for Equal Rights – and the attorneys hired to defeat Prop 8 – have argued that it Prop 8 unconstitutional on the grounds that it “violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by impinging on fundamental liberties.” This is the central issue in Lawrence v. Texas. In that case, K…