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Stephen Broden, Beck’s Black Robed Regiment In Action

By Sarah Posner

…istian organization. (It also supports Allen West, running for Congress in Florida, who writes for a south Florida biker magazine, in which he has written that “the upcoming election is the time to get rid of ‘Barry Obongo,’ and asks readers to imagine having sex with [Democratic Congresswoman Debbie] Wasserman Schultz,” according to the Sun-Sentinel.) Broden represents not just the religious right, and not just the tea party, but the volatile tea…

Atheist Holiday Display: “A” Does Not Stand for “Art”

By Peter Manseau

…andidate nominated by their party who happened to be an atheist.” Gallup’s numbers “were considerably more favorable for hypothetical candidates who happened to be black (94 percent), Jewish (92 percent), women (88 percent), Hispanic (87 percent), Mormon (72 percent) or homosexual (55 percent).” What’s going on here? It may be that among the groups included in the poll, only atheists consistently define themselves through negation. This may be una…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ir multi-national, multi-racial and multi-ethnic character. That said, the numbers of nations and people that we mention are sourced solely on the claims of the groups themselves. We have no way to independently verify these numbers, so they should be used advisedly. Simply put, the global vision of the NAR is based on their understanding of the Great Commission text of Matthew 28:18-20, with an emphasis on “discipling nations” (28:19). Internatio…

Onward Christian Terrorists; Fighting Evil in the Obama Era

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…was a Presbyterian pastor who killed several staff members of a Pensacola, Florida clinic that performed abortions. Hill was convicted by the State of Florida, sentenced to the death penalty, and recently executed for his crime. Bray himself served prison time for a lesser offense, bombing several abortion-related clinics on the Eastern seaboard. Some years ago I interviewed Bray at his home in Bowie, Maryland [see Terror in the Mind of God, UC Pr…

Mike Huckabee’s Fox News Problem

By Sarah Posner

…cal conservative.” Then, Lewis maintained, when the candidates moved on to Florida, “Fox News reported that Huckabee wasn’t campaigning there.” Sean Hannity, she continued, “said it on his radio show and wouldn’t correct it” and it was an “outright lie.” “You could’ve made a case for election tampering,” she added. I haven’t, naturally, reviewed all of Fox News’ coverage of the Florida primary. But according to these women, the alleged snubbing of…

Establishment Clause, Meet Free Exercise

By Lauri Lebo

A school prayer battle in northwest Florida that has spread to the state legislature is a hugely messy example of how the First Amendment’s religious freedom clauses can so often pitted be against each other. The battle began in 2008 in the Santa Rosa school district, which came under fire after two students filed suit with the American Civil Liberties Union who said that “officials regularly promoted religion and led prayer at school events.” Ac…

Marco Rubio: Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

McKay Coppins of BuzzFeed reports this morning that Florida Senator Marco Rubio was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was eight years old and was an active and “enthusiastic” member of the faith during his youth. In fact, Rubio’s name remains on the membership records of the LDS Church to this day. Rubio’s family encountered Mormonism after moving to Las Vegas, a town with deep Mormon roots and a signifi…

Clergy Come Out as Atheists

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

I really do sympathize with Teresa MacBain. The Tallahassee, Florida United Methodist Church pastor has just recently come out. No, she’s not a lesbian. This is how she explained it to NPR recently: “I’m currently an active pastor and I’m also an atheist,” she says. “I live a double life. I feel pretty good on Monday, but by Thursday—when Sunday’s right around the corner—I start having stomachaches, headaches, just knowing that I got to stand up…

Gay-Hating Church Burns “Idols”: A Report

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…When Terry Jones, pastor of Dove World Christian Outreach in Gainesville, Florida, reneged on his promise to burn a Qur’an on September 11, 2010—the last day of Ramadan and the ninth anniversary of the attacks of radical Muslims on American soil—Westboro Baptist Church was quick to pick up the torch. Though members of the two churches had stood side by side in April when members of Westboro traveled to Gainesville to picket area churches and the…

Marco Rubio’s “Constitutional Scholar”

By Julie Ingersoll

…im Stratton at the Orlando Sentinel alerted me to an event held in central Florida yesterday in which tea party Senate candidate Marco Rubio aligned himself with Glenn Beck’s BFF David Barton. Barton, the headline speaker at the event in support of Rubio’s candidacy, is the fundamentalist Christian promoter of “Christian American History” and a revisionist history of race in America that paints the Republican party as the party of racial equality….