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The Only Thing Evangelicals Will Never Forgive Is Not Hating the “Other”

By Frank Schaeffer

…as he was said to have been in the wake of the battle over gay marriage in California last year. As the Washington Times reported on April 11, 2009, “I was extremely troubled,” said Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. “Absolutely baffling,” huffed Wendy Wright, president of the far-right Concerned Women of America organization. Warren learned, if he didn’t already know, that the only thing eva…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…second largest bulk purchaser in the country, second only to the bankrupt California education system. And many other states follow Texas’ lead and buy the same version. So that means students across the country could be forced to read McLeroy’s myopic vision of America’s past. The organization, which champions faith and defends religious freedom, sent a letter to top publishing companies. Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, president of Interfaith Allianc…

Invoking God’s Name Like a Bludgeon

By Lauri Lebo

…o think everyone who goes to college is Christian. For years now, southern California’s Saddleback Community College, a public school part of the South Orange County Community College District, has been offering up Christian prayers at annual scholarship award presentations, graduations and other events despite ongoing requests by students, faculty and members of the public that the prayers offend their religious beliefs. Donald Wagner, president…

Campaigns of Omission

By Sarah Posner

…reprising his refusal to take a position in the Proposition 8 campaign in California last year, didn’t weigh in on Maine’s referendum, which repealed a law passed in the state legislature and signed by the governor. You can pretend the culture wars are over, and pretend that there are more moderate religious voters who are moving on to other, “broader” issues, but that doesn’t make the religious right’s money and stamina disappear. Saying nothing…

Back Sabbath: Is the Lord’s Day Making a Comeback?

By Joanna Brooks

…wimming—not even in our backyard pool under the perfect 80 degree Southern California skies. Observant mainstream Mormons still keep the Sabbath this way, pretty much. Except for the phones. The magic phones with their swirling screens. The digital anti-morphine pump. The twenty-first century cigarette. A friend recently told me that at her local shul, the rabbi was handing out little Shabbat sleeping bags for iPhones. Find your iPhone sleeping ba…

Rebranding the Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…h polygamists as well as with recent fallout from its heavy involvement in California’s Proposition 8 campaign. The Church is struggling to retool its approach to missionary work away from the time-honored tradition of door-to-door tracting as growth rates flatline worldwide, in sharp contrast with sociologist Rodney Stark’s famous projection that there could be as many as 265 million Mormons by the late 21st century. Retention of members too is a…

Kagan, “Jewish Bolshevism,” and the Legacy of a Nomination

By Gordon D. Newby

…or the Supreme Court. Now that Kagan has been confirmed by the Senate, and California’s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage has been overturned, rightist activists have achieved one of their goals: discrediting the judicial system and Democratic support for justice issues in the eyes of their base. All this is just in time for the midterm elections. So how did all this happen? In May of this year, Manuel Miranda, a noted right-wing activist, sent o…

Freedom of Religion Means Freedom for All

By Lauri Lebo

…here. A recent protest over plans to build an Islamic center in Temecula, California revealed an interesting irony. Nine years ago, the city dealt with similar opposition to plans to build another house of worship. Then, people were protesting the Church of Latter Day Saints. You can’t have it both ways. When one’s freedom to practice one’s faith gets quashed by the tyranny of the majority or by a vocal minority, we are all vulnerable to the same…

No Space for American Islam?

By Mark Bergen

…of worship proves this is simply not about its location. A group in rural California is working fervently to halt construction of a new mosque in their changing community. In Staten Island, a short ferry ride from Ground Zero, a Catholic church prepared to sell its unused convent space to a group planning a new mosque. Protests erupted, and the church’s board voted to retract the offer. “We just want to leave our neighborhood the way it is,” one…

A State Without a Mexican

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…is a struggle that affects all of us with its impact on the economic, social and cultural fabric of our society.” I wonder if they could have anticipated the hatred and backlash against immigrants that would be embodied by SB1070. Tales abound in print, on radio, online, and television media of Latinos/as afraid to be out on the streets. There have been reports of people afraid to leave their homes to go for groceries or to take the kids to schoo…