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Eddie Long Case Should Mark the End of Black Church Homophobia

By Anthea Butler

…members of strict churches can’t uphold the high standards of living they promote, aspire to, and harangue people over. The endless carousel of revelations about the Catholic Church worldwide is exhibit A of that broken message. In that sense, there is nothing new here. The real story however, is that this case explodes the cover of the black church’s internal don’t ask, don’t tell policy which has had a profound effect on the community and its f…

Rick Warren Gives Pre-Inauguration Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church

By Michael A. Elliott

…essay comparing the virtues of Coretta Scott King to Michelle Obama. Even Georgia’s senior senator, Republican Saxby Chambliss, noted the symmetry between King’s speech at the Lincoln Memorial, some forty-five years ago, and Obama’s impending inaugural on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Meanwhile, to someone as keenly observant as Ralph, what the Obama inauguration also meant for the King holiday service was a depletion of luminaries. Nearly every…

DOMA and Religious Right Hypocrisy on “Big Government”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…of Marriage Act, or DOMA. Written by thrice-married, then-Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia, the bill defined marriage as being between one man and one woman, denying federal benefits to any other form of union. The bill was passed in 1996, when no states offered same-sex marriage, so it seemed like a no-brainer (since it had no political backlash). Barr later disavowed his support for the law and now DOMA is being scrutinized by a House committee. Sen. Di…

Morehouse Men in their Sunday Best

By Jonathan L. Walton

…f. Second, would baggy jeans or foul language be an issue on the campus of Georgia Tech? Bates College? Princeton University? More importantly, would this story have even been investigated and written. Sadly, this whole issue seems to have less to do with intelligence and more with what Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham refers to as a politics of racial respectability in her book Righteous Discontent. Higginbotham coined this phrase to describe the strat…

As Far-Right Surges in US and Germany Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ballot, doesn’t land. They argue that “voters should decide elections,” as Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was widely lauded for not caving to Trump’s threats to overturn the election in 2020, wrote in a Wall Street Journal commentary several months ago. Yes, voters decide elections, but if democracies want to persevere, it’s reasonable to stop those who wish to destroy it from being elected. Because, as you’ll recall, fascist…

How Evangelicalism’s Twin Seeds of Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism Spelled the End of Roe

By Austin Lee Steelman

…by liberty—a past that Machen ironically identified with his grandfather’s Georgia plantation on which dozens of slaves had toiled. Invoking the original intent of the Constitution, Machen opposed Black suffrage, women’s suffrage, military conscription, the creation of new National Parks, a federal Child Labor Amendment, New Deal agencies, and, above all, the proposed Federal Department of Education. However, Machen, a Princeton Seminary Professor…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…ictories. Pastor Jentezen Franklin, Senior Pastor at Free Chapel, based in Georgia, exclaims during his speech that “America is the greatest nation on earth. God—well, after Israel, that is.” Franklin lavishes praise on Tony Perkins, calling him a leader “who is carrying the torch, fought the fight, defended this land physically and defended this land even more when he came out of the military by defending freedom.” Perkins next introduces Bishop…

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…rump mask. The boogaloo is a reference to a second civil war, proposed and promoted by a decentralized and primarily online network called the Boogaloo Bois. Colt pleaded guilty to a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, and he faces a sentence of 51-63 months in prison, $20,000-$200,000 fine, and $1,000 in restitution. While the majority of insurrectionists were men, 72 women have been ch…

Statement on NAR & Christian Nationalism Answers Few Questions But Exposes Growing Rifts in the Movement

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…p now objects to the idea of Christian nationalism, and ignores the active promotion of a Christian revisionist history by the likes of David Barton for decades, is pretty weak tea. They nevertheless now seek to distance themselves from it by recognizing that the conflation of the church and the state is “spiritually dangerous,” as is making “a human being into a political savior” and becoming “as vulgar and rude as the candidates we follow.” But…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…alestine. Not surprisingly, the Green Party and its likely nominee, former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, along with independent candidate Ralph Nader, are both using this issue to gain support at the expense of Obama. Only hours after his AIPAC speech, the Nader campaign sent out a strongly worded letter noting how, unlike Obama and McCain, Nader supports the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements and would change US Middle East policy….