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Will the Catholic Hierarchy Punish Six Stupak Supporters Who Voted Against Health Care Reform?

By Sarah Posner

…mocrats to vote for its approved Stupak-Pitts amendment. Given the USCCB’s teaching on the subject, you might then expect all 35 of them to go on to vote for the bill. But only 29 of them did. Six of them — Jason Altmire and Tim Holden of Pennsylvania, John Boccieri of Ohio, Jim Marshall of Georgia, Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, and Gene Taylor of Mississippi, all Catholics, voted for the Stupak-Pitts amendment and then against the bill. Is there…

Atlanta Falcons “Defend the Dome”: Football, Religion, and Existential Power

By Kenny Smith

…nd ultimately “dismantled and dominated” their opponents before a sold-out Georgia Dome. Following this Sunday’s defeat of the Chicago Bears, the Falcons were described as “proudly professional… they can take a punch [and] they can deliver one too”. Do You Cry for Blood at the Ringside? What is it about football that evokes such primal stuff? People have been thinking about this for decades. In 1929 the American psychiatrist, A. A. Brill, writing…

Roy “Ten Commandments” Moore Is Back With His Constitution-Defying Tricks

By Sarah Posner

…by Jindal, now the governor of Louisiana, Nathan Deal, now the governor of Georgia, and Mike Pence, a conservative hero who’s now running for governor of Indiana. Moore argues in his letter to Bentley today that “The laws of this state have always recognized the Biblical admonition stated by our Lord,” citing Mark 10:6-9 (“But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. . . What therefore God hath joined together let not man put…

Trump’s Lawsuit Amounts to ‘a Tweet With a Filing Fee,’ But That’s Not the Whole Strategy

By Andrew L. Seidel

…834 The Trump campaign and the Republican party have filed new lawsuits in Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania joining the lawsuits filed before Election Day in nearly every swing state. Trump also wants a recount in Wisconsin. (Under Wisconsin law, parties asking for a recount when the margin of victory is greater than 0.25% have to pay for the recount. Jill Stein paid $3.5 million for the 2016 recount. Trump has 45 days to pay if the recount doe…

The Constitution, the Bible and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Divide

By Julie Ingersoll

…eir turns at reading. Especially moving was African-American Democrat from Georgia John Lewis reading the Thirteenth Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” My courses have long included the idea that there is an aspect of our national identity that has the dimensions o…

Robert George’s Bogus Comparison of Herman Cain to Martha Coakley

By Sarah Posner

…Keyes at Think Progress: On the Glenn Beck Show today, the host asked the Georgia Republican about his refusal to appoint Muslims. Cain told Beck that he would be willing to appoint a Muslim only “if they can prove to me that they’re putting the Constitution of the United States first.” Beck followed up by asking if he was calling for “some loyalty proof” for Muslims. Cain said, “Yes, to the Constitution of the United States of America.” When Bec…

Congress Reads the Constitution, Tea Party-Style

By Paul Harvey

…f reading provisions of particular importance to them. Rep. John Lewis’ (D-Georgia) reading of the 13th Amendment brought the House down. The reading of the Constitution stands as symbolically important for those who insist that the 111th Congress strayed further from constitutional fundamentalism than any in history, or at least since FDR’s reign. It was also an act never undertaken during the years when Vice-President Cheney spoke of circumventi…

Supreme Court Rules Sectarian Legislative Prayer Constitutional

By Sarah Posner

…t with the tradition of legislative prayer outlined in the Court’s cases.” Georgia State University constitutional law professor Eric Segall has described Marsh as creating a “pernicious historical test” that relies on the centuries-old precedent of prayer rather than a constitutional analysis of whether legislative prayer violates the Establishment Clause. As Justice Kagan argued in her dissent, joined by Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor,…

A Pastor’s Suicide: Addressing Mental Health in Black Churches

By Darnell Moore

…old Teddy Parker Jr., pastor of Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church, in Macon, Georgia. According to reports, Rev. Parker sent his wife and children to their church ahead of him on Sunday, November 10th. After Parker failed to appear at the church where he was expected to deliver the sermon, his wife, Larrinecia Parker, returned home and found him in his car, still parked in the driveway, dead of a self-inflicted gun wound. Parker’s loved ones are sh…

New Report: Angels & Aliens in Texas Schools

By Mark A. Chancey

…offer them. Texas is not alone in having such a statute; in recent years, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Arizona have passed similar laws, and Bible bills are currently making their way through the Wyoming and Arkansas legislatures. While these laws typically urge teachers to avoid promoting or disparaging religious views they give them little guidance on how that might be accomplished. For example, although the Wyoming bill originally called…