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Gulf Residents Urged to Unite in Prayer

By Lauri Lebo

…ayer. Jindal was joined by governors in other Gulf states including Texas, Alabama and Mississippi. Today, on the 70th day, Tropical Storm Alex is expected to be upgraded to the season’s first hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. But the storm looks like it could be a mixed blessing: On one hand, according to the Associated Press, “skimming vessels may be idled because they can’t operate in such swells. Floating oil-containment booms could be rendered…

Christian or Nothing: Buddhist Prisoner to be Executed Without Buddhist Chaplain (Updated)

By Andrew L. Seidel

…and Justice Brett Kavanaugh changed their votes from the nearly identical Alabama case mentioned above. Several observers attribute the change of heart to the strong dissent written in that case. “It’s happening again.” American justice seems to favor Christians, everyone else be damned. Texas is set to execute Patrick Murphy, who became a Buddhist a decade ago, and the state gave Murphy a choice: he can have either “a Christian prison chaplain o…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…hern Baptist Convention made waves by narrowly electing Ed Litton, a white Alabama pastor known for his commitment to racial reconciliation, to serve as its new president. Litton beat out his opponent, far-right Georgia pastor Mike Stone, by fewer than 600 of over 13,000 votes in a runoff election that many believed would be a turning point for a denomination looking to clarify its role in a deeply polarized nation. The SBC also has its own intern…

Bishops Release Religious Liberty Manifesto Vowing Disobedience to “Unjust Laws”

By Sarah Posner

…ers of sex. The Bishops object to harsh immigration laws, such as those in Alabama, which bar “harboring” undocumented immigrants, “what the Church deems Christian charity and pastoral care to those immigrants.” As noble as an objection to these odious laws may be, I find it difficult to see an infringement of religious liberty of the shelterers of undocumented immigrants as their most noxious feature. Although they do not explicitly refer to the…

Texas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors

By Sunnivie Brydum

…reg Abbott signs the bill as anticipated, Texas will join South Dakota and Alabama in granting uniquely broad permission for faith-based child welfare agencies to refuse to place children with well-qualified families, for the sole reason that those families don’t subscribe to the agency’s particular interpretation of religious doctrine. What’s more, an underreported clause in the bill codifies into law any agency’s absolute right to compel minors…

To Pray or to Prey: Racism, Religion and Violence in Charleston

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…mbing September 15, 1963 in Birmingham. Black churches met fiery graves in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Georgia across the decades of the 20th century. Equally troubling to the moral health of America, white southerners momentarily suspended worship or Sunday school to enjoy the heinous spectacle of lynching black bodies and then reconvened their religious activities with a sense of fulfilled religious duty. America…

Meet the Christian Reconstructionists Behind the Latest Birther Theory

By Sarah Posner

…emove his 2.6-ton monument to the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court. Moore is a hero to the IOTC; Peroutka told the First Friday audience that he was “honored” to serve on Moore’s presidential exploratory committee, and that Moore would be the speaker at next month’s First Friday event. Titus’ “natural born citizen” theory, which he appears to have come up with entirely on his own, goes something like this: the birth c…

Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…Shuler’s Blue Dog caucus lost 24 of its 58 House seats in 2010, including Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith who became a Republican, so it’s clear that being conservative didn’t keep them safe. But the party doesn’t necessarily take kindly to insurgent challengers, and with heavy hitters like Bill Clinton and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz having campaigned personally for Shuler in the past (Shuler was recruited by the Clinton-Rahm Emanuel squad to run in t…

Gingrich’s Anti-Secularism Greatest Hits

By Sarah Posner

…ided with Judge Moore.” That is, Gingrich expressed support for the former Alabama Supreme Court justice who lost his seat on the bench for defying a federal court order to remove a 2.6-ton monument of the Ten Commandments from his courthouse. Gingrich agreed with Lofton that the federal court’s ruling was wrong, but also maintained that Moore should have appealed to Congress. Which was odd given that Gingrich went on to say that Washington “elite…

An Independence Day Sermonette

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the laws of nature and nature’s God.” Chairman of the Republican Party in Alabama, Bill Armistead called the rulings, “an affront to the Christian principles that this nation was founded on. ” Pat Robertson evoked Sodom and Gomorrah in his reaction, warning folks to remember that there “God did something pretty drastic.” To the religious right the DOMA ruling, especially, is a sign of a disobedient nation turning its back on God. But to my view i…