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“Mitt Romney Style”—A Virtually Religion Free 2012 Contest?

By Joanna Brooks

…ve Christian leaders rallied around him, urging their followers to vote on policy, not theology. Obama campaign headquarters has shown little interest in making use of Romney’s religion, and Democratic operatives have fallen in line as well. Perhaps it’s because Romney’s policy positions bear virtually no imprints of his faith. Perhaps it’s because Romney himself has taken pains to avoid discussing his religion. Or perhaps it’s because Obama wou…

Tea Party’s Cosmic Conflict in Wisconsin

By Gary Laderman

…s continue to be a flashpoint for larger national arguments about economic policy, you can be sure more and more faith leaders—Christians, but hopefully others too—will weigh in on how God views the current political crisis. God, however, is not the only point of religious relevance in this looming budget battle. At bottom, after all, it amounts to a question of moral priorities for Wisconsin’s Tea Party Governor and the nation at a time when the…

TN Conservatives: Government Butt Out… Government Butt In

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…issue of it?” Rev. Davis is basically asking for a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays and lesbians in the workplace, and we’ve seen how this kind of government policy has worked with the military. There are plenty of problems with this. First, as someone who has been closeted at work before, it gets tiring avoiding pronouns or simply not talking about what you and your partner did over the weekend for fear of being “found out.” Also, I’ve disc…

Bishops Double Down on Issues of Pelvis Over Poverty

By Peter Montgomery

…ith typical bluntness that they should stop talking so much about the many policy issues they have taken up in the name of social justice. They should concentrate their authority on “the moral social” issues like abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage, where, he argued, the natural law and Gospel principles were clear. To be sure, he said, he had no objections to bishops’ “making utter nuisances of themselves” about poverty a…

How Gay Should We Allow Feeding the Hungry To Be?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…orld Vision.” The letter explained that the change in the employee conduct policy reflects the reality of its engagement with Christian denominations which “in recent years have sanctioned same-sex marriage for Christians.” In an interview with Christianity Today, World Vision’s U.S. president Richard Sterns affirmed the group’s commitment to traditional Christian values, including sexual abstinence outside of marriage, but the employment policy c…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…bordinate to his proudly proclaimed truths. It is merely to say that, like policy positions, religion has an evidence pool. If a man says he supports nuclear power, we can check his voting record and decide for ourselves if the votes support that position. If a man says he believes in God, the evidence is harder to find. Did Jesus die for your salvation? We take it as a matter of faith: McCain says so, then it is so. But for the religionist, this…

In Speech to White Evangelical Broadcasters, Trump Lays Out his White Christian Nationalist Vision

By Robert P. Jones

…. It’s a great revival. “Upon taking office…” Trump makes several concrete policy promises that flow from this White Christian nationalist vision. It’s not worth quoting Trump’s rambling justifications for the policy proposals he connects to this worldview. Lest anyone think Trump’s White Christian nationalism is empty rhetoric, however, this speech also included promises to: install White evangelical advisors in all federal agencies; appoint “roc…

Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tation or marriage, and stop living within the household, according to the policy. Such baptism would still require the approval of the church’s governing First Presidency. The church also announced that being in a same-sex marriage is a form of apostasy, which makes them subject to church discipline. The change was bad news for Mormons advocating for a welcoming approach to LGBT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints disseminated the ha…

Confessions of a Former Gun-Worshipper

By Joanna Brooks

…early impossible to have a sober, data-based public conversation about gun policy—blocking even the collection of data on gun violence, as Tom Diaz of the Violence Policy Center explained here last month. We’re all waiting, of course, to hear what Vice President Joe Biden will say next Tuesday as he presents the findings of his gun task force. You can bet there will be something about closing the now infamous “gun show” loophole that allows for ne…