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Prop 8 Ruling a True Test of Liberty (Religious or Otherwise)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e the majority opinion in the case that decriminalized sodomy, Lawrence v. Texas. Some of the issues are the same in the Prop 8 case. The American Foundation for Equal Rights – and the attorneys hired to defeat Prop 8 – have argued that it Prop 8 unconstitutional on the grounds that it “violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by impinging on fundamental liberties.” This is the central issue in Lawrence v. Texas. In that case, K…

Republicans To Get Free “Spiritual, Historical” Trips to Israel

By Sarah Posner

…to whether the Niemoller Foundation, a non-profit that had helped fund the Texas Restoration Project, which hosted Pastors Policy Briefings featuring Rick Perry when he ran for governor in 2006, had violated its tax exempt status. In 2011, Lane and the American Family Association were behind The Response, which started as Texas Governor Rick Perry’s prayer gathering in Reliant Stadium in Houston just before he declared his presidential bid, and co…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…bal War on Terror. The obvious target would be the Evangelical Republic of Texas, which supplied the hijackers with their passports, but Texas is a member of OPEC and an Arabian ally, so instead President Bandar decides to invade the Christian States of America, a country on the Eastern Seaboard that had nothing to do with the 11/9 attacks. America is swiftly defeated, and the Arabs set up a Green Zone in Washington DC to oversee what they hope wi…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…support of allies in the community, including faith leaders. They have thousands of members now in 44 states, including a trio in the heart of Wal-Mart Country: Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Perhaps more importantly, as Bobo noted, when Wal-Mart expanded outside of its rural Southern base—particularly into urban areas—it came into contact with different community values and religious cultures, with ministers like Pastor Edwin Jones of the Living…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…s over in a few days. But Tribble has maintained a blog, Christianity News Texas: The Original Joel Osteen Hoax Site, in which he explains his reasons for the hoax and links to various interviews. “For a moment, the world held its breath…” it rather grandiosely proclaims. “If only it had been true… ” Osteen seems to have forgiven and forgotten, but what’s next for Tribble? “I want him [Osteen] to donate all the book sales to Christian charities,…

Satanist Monument Shines Light on Christian Privilege

By Joseph Laycock

…ame day. In two 5-4 decisions the Kentucky display was struck down and the Texas monument permitted. Stephen Breyer, the “swing vote” in both cases, felt that the Texas monument was acceptable because it had already been standing for forty years without controversy, unlike the Kentucky display. Its history, along with its location beside other monuments around the state capitol, showed that the religious content was part of a “broader moral and hi…

The Revival of the Pastors’ Policy Briefings

By Sarah Posner

…elical support for Rick Perry in his gubernatorial race in 2006. After the Texas Freedom Network filed an IRS complaint against a non-profit believed to behind the Briefings in 2008, organizer David Lane lashed out at the watchdog group in an interview with me: Renewal Project organizer David Lane reflected the biblical restoration movement’s hostility toward secularism, the left and the press. Noting that he normally doesn’t take press calls, Lan…

Christian Nationalist Judge Strikes Down FDA-Approved Abortion Pill for Brazenly Ideological Reasons

By Andrew L. Seidel

…in a lawsuit of national importance. Judge Reed O’Connor in a neighboring Texas federal court pioneered a form of right-wing judicial activism that allows conservative and Christian nationalist legal groups to file cases in his district with a good chance of getting him, a well-known activist for conservative political causes, to decide cases. Things have gotten so out of hand that now, in the Amarillo Division of the Northern District of Texas,…

Baby We Were Born for War: To Dominionist Christian Groups, No Election is Too Small — and Colorado is Just the Beginning

By Frederick Clarkson

…takes you to the website of Christian Voter Guide, published by the Aledo, Texas-based Wallbuilders, a Dominionist, Christian nationalist organization founded by David Barton, and now run by his son Tim Barton. The school board races were the pilot project in a long-term campaign by the Truth and Liberty Coalition and its de facto training institute, nearby Charis Bible College, in Woodland Park, a suburb of Colorado Springs. As RD reported, the u…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…a Junior Varsity running back for Stony Pointe High School in Round Rock, Texas, was reportedly paralyzed from the waist down in a “helmet-to-helmet collision.” Two days later on Friday, September 4, football led to tragedy in Louisiana, where Tyrell Cameron, also sixteen, of Franklin Parish High School, died after breaking his neck on a punt return. The day after that, a linebacker for Georgetown University named Ty Williams broke five vertebrae…