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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…said the Rev. Joel Hunter, an evangelical megachurch pastor from Orlando, Florida, and another advisory board member. “So I am not enthusiastic, but I’m not disappointed, because we knew what to expect. I’m encouraged he is not totally flipping to the other side. We’ve got to be patient here.” Douglas Kmiec, a Pepperdine University law professor, Catholic opponent of abortion and former Reagan administration lawyer who took a lot of heat for endo…

Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…online conservative pundit machine is dealing with the FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago—comparing it to the actions of a Roman dictator, calling for a new secession movement, or likening the FBI to Nazi brownshirts. On August 9th, the FBI executed a warrant to search the premises for boxes of classified material that the former president had removed from the White House and never returned. According to Politico, Trump is being investig…

Romney’s Religion of Happiness vs. Gingrich’s Religion of Grievance

By Sarah Posner

…most recent Public Policy Polling survey, Gingrich is leading Romney among Florida evangelicals, 37-33%. But the evangelical makeup of the Republican electorate (38%) in Florida is virtually the reverse of South Carolina, where they comprised 65% of voters, and which is why, in part, Romney is headed toward victory here tomorrow. At the Romney rally, the verdict on Gingrich was mixed. Liz Reiman, a Romney voter from Jacksonville, said she had been…

No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

Chuck Baldwin, Florida pastor, admirer of the John Birch Society, Ron Paul devotee, lifelong member of Gun Owners of America, and 2008 Constitution Party presidential candidate, had a Black Robed Regiment long before Glenn Beck did. Baldwin’s evolution from Jerry Falwell’s ally in Florida — he served as the state chair of the Moral Majority in the 1980s — to uber-patriot penning columns like his 2004 “I Am A Conservative Christian, And The Religi…

Personalities, Politics and Penises: National Baptist Convention Dodged a Bullet

By Jonathan L. Walton

…e exposed in 1997 after his then wife discovered and set ablaze a $700,000 Florida home that he owned with his mistress. The arson set off a full-scale financial investigation revealing that Lyons had used his position to bilk major corporations and charities out of over $5 million. Lyons subsequently pled guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison for fraud, extortion, racketeering, grand theft and tax evasion. It seems to me, then, that th…

Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution

By Andrew L. Seidel

…s. Remember, the entire burlesque is meant to camouflage their inadequacy. Florida Gov. Ron Desantis just exempted gas stoves—appliances that may actually be harmful to human health—from Florida’s six percent sales tax. Nevermind that 92% of Floridians chose electric stoves before this was made into an issue. Now, as my colleague Annika Brockschmidt discussed recently, victims of these hucksters can buy a possibly harmful appliance and then flock…

Book Burning and the Scapegoating of Islam

By Eric Reitan

…nation (and much of the world) watched Terry Jones, pastor of a minuscule Florida congregation, threaten to burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11, then abruptly change his mind only to have notorious hater Fred Phelps jump into the gap. But while much of the media attention to this story has actually revolved around, well, the media attention itself, this is a good time to ask ourselves what it means, historically and symbolically, to burn a…

Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?

By Chrissy Stroop

…the horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. (Not coincidentally, this Christian nationalist state law comes right out of the Project Blitz playbook.) One of the main issues we fixated on in my evangelical childhood, right up there with abortion and gay people existing, was prayer in school, and how “awful” it was that “activist judges” had “banned prayer” in public schools. (We generally didn’t mention that,…

Your Hatred Will Make Me Famous

By Joseph Laycock

…in 2004 and 2008. He has also run for congress in New Jersey, Indiana, and Florida as well as governor of Minnesota in 2006. Although Sharkey ran as a Republican in 2000 and 2002, in 2005 he acquired his public persona as “The Impaler” and created the Vampyres, Witches, and Pagans party. Claiming to be a descendent of Romanian monarch Vlad “Dracula” Tepes, in 2008 Sharkey promised public execution by impalement for terrorists and child molesters,…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…in public schools and other public buildings, have been signed into law in Florida, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee so far in 2018. Similar bills were enacted in past years in Colorado, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Virginia.* At the teleconference to launch Project Blitz on February 16, 2016, David Barton, explained to state legislators that the IGWT bills and the bills in Category 1 are, “kinda like whack-a-mole for the other side. It’ll drive t…