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Trump May Be the End of the World As We Know It—But For Some Evangelicals, That’s Just Fine

By Nelle Smith

…’90s, I was bright-eyed, home-schooled, and evangelical on a farm in rural Ohio. Although my family’s church attendance was spotty—we didn’t really trust the church system—we were very Christian and the Bible was the last word in science, education and morality. We also had a proclivity for prophecy chasers and “end times” preachers. We owned a copy of The Late Great Planet Earth and watched “Jack Van Impe Presents” every week on our local Christi…

Baring Their Testimonies: Mormon Women Get Naked for the Camera

By Holly Welker

…inter; my father is a physician. So even as I grew up Mormon in small-town Ohio, I came from a background that normalized bodies from an artistic and medical point of view. My parents never made a big deal if we happened to walk around the house naked—not that we were nudists, but we were comfortable in our bodies. My mom always had art books in the house and as a kid I spent a lot of time looking at them. Nudity in art was never an issue to me….

I Call BS on Nun Reality Show

By Gwynne Watkins

…<iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/zwW0WWjNujE?feature=player_embedded” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown, Ohio, posted this video to explain discernment. Think it can compete with Honey Boo Boo? You can watch more of their videos here….

Secular Group Calls On Obama To “Keep His Word” on Faith-Based Office

By Sarah Posner

…the second anniversary of President Obama’s campaign speech in Zanesville, Ohio, in which he laid out his plan for an Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The speech thrilled advocates of a government partnership with faith-based groups to dispense services to the needy, but it also allayed the concerns of church-state separation advocates who had been critics of the Bush administration’s executive orders permitting religious-based…

Faith-Based Initiatives in the Obama Administration?

By Bill Berkowitz

…have.” In a July speech to the Eastside Community Ministry of Zanesville, Ohio, Obama pledged to overhaul and expand President Bush’s faith-based initiatives if he became the nation’s 44th president. Obama’s plan for a “Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships” would “help set our national agenda” and deal with such issues as AIDS in inner cities and climate change. “The challenges we face today—from saving our planet to ending pover…

How Donald Trump Has Exposed Rifts in the Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…llion he raised, the establishment’s next choices, Senator Marco Rubio and Ohio Governor John Kasich, have basically similar views. Kasich said the 12 million illegals should be “legalized once we find out who they are,” and Rubio said Obama’s executive amnesty “can’t be terminated because there are already people benefiting from it.” Rubio’s statement was made in Spanish on the Spanish-language network Univision, which is reason enough to elimina…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…ael’s center-left daily Haaretz, Obama pointedly told a Jewish audience in Ohio that the Republicans did not espouse Jewish interests, but held a distinctly Likud party point of view. Americans seem to have assimilated Israeli political culture so thoroughly over the previous decades that they could appreciate Obama’s specific ideological nuances. The same thing happened with the McCain campaign, which, for better or worse, parroted a right-wing a…

Hearts and (Versus?) Minds: Bachmann’s Ultrasound Bill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…und bill. It wouldn’t ban abortion after a detectable heartbeat, as in the Ohio heartbeat bill. And it doesn’t require a vaginal probe and a scolding lecture performed by a doctor under threat, as did Rick Perry’s bill. (So… yay?) This bill—“Heartbeat Informed Consent Act”—would require a woman to get an ultrasound and view the images before being allowed to have an abortion. The technician must describe any heart activity that she or he detects….

Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?

By Eric C. Miller

…xpressed through the years. One example I give comes from Moral Majority’s Ohio chapter that opened one meeting with a sermon, “Roman Catholic Church: Harlot of Rome.” Mindful of Moral Majority’s failures, the Christian Coalition made more welcoming overtures to Catholics and Mormons in the 1990s but with limited success. Mormons stayed away from the Christian Coalition, and the LDS Church banned the organization’s materials from its church buildi…

Some Of My Best Friends Are Nazi Reenactors! And Soft Porn Producers!

By Sarah Posner

Rich Iott, the Republican House candidate in Ohio’s 9th district who has been discovered to enjoy Nazi war reenactments in his spare time, has enlisted a Jewish friend to defend him on his campaign website. Coming to the defense of Iott, the tea party candidate who has apparently scared the bejeezus out of Republican whip Eric Cantor, is Richard Gabai, a Hollywood actor, writer, and producer known (or perhaps not) for titles such as Assault of th…