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Florida Primary Winner: ‘War on Religion’ Talking Point

By Sarah Posner

…Jewish nursing home residents their kosher meals. Mind you, for Gingrich’s last, desperate stand, it seemed a long shot that many Republican voters in Florida would care that in the course of cutting the Medicaid budget (something they of course love), some Jews in Massachusetts had to have kosher meals brought in rather than prepared in their nursing homes. If anything, this was probably more of an oy gevalt moment for Gingrich, who, after making…

Eddie Long Takes Break from New Birth Pulpit

By Anthea Butler

…as Long was accused of sexual abuse and assault by young male congregants last year, claims Long settled in secret in May. The Occupy group passed out flyers which read, “The People must rise up and occupy the pulpits, the tithe money bank accounts and portfolios of the clergy class.” The group says it represents an organization based in Memphis called Commission Holding Religious Institutions in Sacred Trust, (CHRIST). Inside New Birth, Eddie L…

Praying to the Zombie Jesus: The Spirituality of Horror

By W. Scott Poole

…tch: survivors of a zombie apocalypse have escaped from an undead-infested Atlanta and are making their way across a ruined Southern landscape. For the season premiere they’re in the Georgia countryside where they’ve found, not surprisingly, a Southern Baptist church. I’m thinking most RD readers, if they saw this most recent episode, threw some popcorn at the screen. Why? Well, apparently The Walking Dead needs to hire some historical/religious a…

News Flash: God Has Revised the Laws of Physics

By Paul Wallace

…be inverted as seen from different points of view. Say I stomp my foot in Atlanta and you stomp yours a short time later in San Francisco. Some observers will detect my stomp first, and some will detect your stomp first. Neither is wrong, because for such pairs of events there is no “real” order. This is not a matter of mere appearances or light travel times or time zones, but is part of the way the universe is put together. In general, the order…

State as Executioner: Rick Perry Did Not Invent the Death Penalty

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…had himself been a suspect in the murder. Yet Davis is scheduled to die in Atlanta on September 21, pending the results of a hearing that is being held as this piece goes to press, amid considerable public outcry. A Country Without History? My Greek friends’ incredulity about the face of judicial killing in the United States was based primarily on history. Greece languished under a military junta in the Cold War years and suffered all the totalita…

Political Reporters Start Reading Religious Right Books

By Sarah Posner

…Turning the Tide. Stanley is pastor of megachurch First Baptist Church of Atlanta and one-time Southern Baptist Convention president whose broadcasts through his In Touch ministry are seen and heard on radio and television across the country. Stanley, although widely known, is not without controversy: after years of marital trouble, his wife divorced him in 2000. Despite longstanding SBC denunciation of divorce, Stanley remained as pastor of his…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…nal homosexuality. Why is this important? This argument is a legacy of the last two decades of academic debate about the epistemological category of sexuality orientation. It is often called the “essentialist/constructivist” debate. There was a tendency in academic circles to embrace an extreme “constructivist” position, with Michel Foucault as a constant reference. There were “essentialist” hold-outs like John Boswell and Bernadette Brouten, who…

Religious Right Launches Silly Attacks on Law Firm that Ditched DOMA Defense

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…under President George W. Bush who had taken the case as a partner in the Atlanta-based law firm. Clement has resigned from King and Spaulding and will continue with the case with his new law firm, Bancroft PLLC, saying in a statement, “I resign out of the firmly-held belief that a representation should not be abandoned because the client’s legal position is extremely unpopular in certain quarters.” The religious right jumped on King and Spauldin…

The Vampire Who Beat Wells Fargo

By Joseph Laycock

…“not at all believable.” The number is even higher for mortgage companies. Last month, Patrick Rodgers of Philadelphia “foreclosed” on a local Wells Fargo branch. In an act of legal jiujitsu, Rodgers was able to prove that Wells Fargo exhibited a pattern of failing to communicate with its clients and was awarded $1000. When the bank didn’t pay, he arranged for a sheriff’s levy to sell the bank’s assets at auction. A deputy sheriff arrived at the b…

Big MoPublican Primary 2012: Dignity Watch

By Joanna Brooks

…ed up at a “Jasmine Revolution” protest in front of McDonalds sporting sunglasses and a leather jacket with an American flag patch on the shoulder. Recognized and then cheerfully interrogated by fellow protestors, Huntsman melted into the crowd. Both Huntsman and Romney remind me of the premium Mormon culture has placed on clean-cut all-American likeability. Since the middle of the twentieth-century, that’s been the ticket we’ve tried to ride away…