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Lesbian Panic Reaches Apogee With Kagan Rumors

By Susan Henking

…ation on April 20, 2010. The story was reported elsewhere as well (such as USA Today). As Inside Higher Education puts it, the newly hired University of Missouri basketball coach opened her remarks by saying: “I’m a Christian that happens to be a coach,” Robin Pingeton—who was hired away from Illinois State University—said as her husband and three-year-old son looked on. “My values are very important to me.” “I’m very blessed to have my staff here…

Catholic Bishops Fund Anti-Choice ‘Clinics’ Set to Receive Trump Title X Funding

By Patricia Miller

…se owned directly by Obria, don’t provide any contraceptives, according to USA Today. The Obria website doesn’t list contraception or family planning counseling as a service provided at its clinics. The only publicly available information about contraceptives provided under its “Health Information” tab is labeled “Birth Control Side Effects.” The Health Information section does praise Natural Family Planning (NFP) and claims it can have an effecti…

In the Trenches with the HRC, Working for Transgender Inclusion

By Rev. Erin K. Swenson

…ransgender people since 1994, and as a pastor with the Presbyterian Church USA, I would like to offer a correction to Garrison’s misleading statement about the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). I am a member of HRC’s Religion Council, a much sought after transgender trainer and a writer for their outstanding curriculum, Gender Identity and Our Faith Communities. I know quite a bit about the real commitment HRC has to trans issues and am eager to invite…

The Problem(s) With Trump’s Dogwhistle to Evangelicals

By Patricia Miller

…ical, such as the Presbyterian Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Protestant denomination that Trump has been formally affiliated with, is as mainline as they come. Despite his effort to appeal to them, Trump clearly has no idea what constitutes an evangelical. But Trump’s biggest misstep is in asserting that any whiff of Catholicism would sour Evangelicals in Iowa and elsewhere on Cruz. After all, it was a Catholic–Evangelical…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…Student Alliance, which a USA Today writer once called a “Godless Campus Crusade for Christ,” incorporated as a nonprofit in 2001. By 2007, 80 campus groups had affiliated with them, 100 by 2008, 174 by 2009, and today there are 394 SSA student groups on campuses across the country. “We have been seeing rapid growth in the past couple of years, and it shows no sign of slowing down,” says Jesse Galef, communications director at SSA. “It used to be…

The President as Sovereign Leader

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…humanism so evident in the American Declaration of Independence, and in the 1800s, everything of importance was subsumed within economic categories. But in the twentieth century, Schmitt noted (and we should think of trench warfare, mustard gas, artillery and machine guns, and the airplane dropping bombs from the sky), technology created the order of the technological state, which created an exceptional kind of exception, a stress and a pressure t…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…and remains a network of apostolic leaders. Other networks also include thousands and tens of thousands of followers. There are numerous such networks around the world that are seeking to reorganize (they would say “restore”) ministerial leadership in the Charismatic and Pentecostal traditions in terms of what they call the “five-fold ministry.” As we reported here on RD: These networks are the implementation of the only form of church governance…

Gingrich on “Teh Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…First, as Sarah Morice-Brubaker has pointed out, he signed the Personhood USA Pledge even though it is at odds with his own “pro-life” beliefs. Now, the twice-divorced and thrice-married former Congressman has signed the National Organization for Marriage’s pledge to defend “traditional” marriage and defend “religious liberty,” which is code for defending the religious right’s ability to bully gay and lesbian people at will using God as their shi…

Should Biden Reach Out to White Evangelicals?

By John Stoehr

…if so, how many? Ronald Sider says yes, they’re gettable. In an op-ed for USA Today, the former head of Evangelicals for Social Action said progressive WEPs (yes, they exist) will vote for Biden no matter what, but if he wants more WEPs to support him, he should reach out with messages on abortion and religious freedom. Meanwhile, Michael Wear, the faith outreach director for Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign, said recently that Hillary Clinton failed…

GOP Chair Reince Priebus: “There’s only one sovereign God”

By Daniel Schultz

…for Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, wanted to know about a USA Today piece titled GOP chairman urges tolerance for views on gay marriage. Priebus was eager to let Brody know it wasn’t like it sounded: “I don’t know if I’ve used the word ‘tolerance,’” Reince Priebus told David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network Monday. “I don’t really care for that word myself. I don’t have a problem with it, I just think it has another mea…