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Teflon Antichrist: How Did a President Who Fit the Role So Well Avoid the Label?

By Jay Rubenstein

…rphosis into an evangelical hero. American Christians didn’t just like his policies, they venerated him as a near supernatural being—the last hope against Antichrist. Such a response, to any political leader, is unusual. Historically, from the Roman Empire to contemporary America, Christians have viewed heads of state with apocalyptic hostility. The pattern began at the end of the First Century with John of Patmos’s book of Revelation, its every m…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ine their plans to take over the GOP and establish theocratic politics and policies as a permanent feature of American public life; and in Salon he exposed the bizarre alliance between Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Sun Myung Moon in advance of the Million Family March, causing prominent political leaders and entertainers to avoid the event. He has also written extensively about anti-abortion terrorism in the United States. In 1997, Clarkson wrote Etern…

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

By Eric C. Miller

…of power. During the Obama years, religious conservatives have objected to policies and legislation like the Affordable Care Act on the grounds of religious freedom. This was also the rallying cry in response to the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage. But will conservative evangelicals, Mormons, and Catholics be as closely united should a conservative Republican win the White House in 2016? The presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Geor…

Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation

By Neil J. Young

…ical businesses shoot for racial diversity or promote “color blind” office policies. That is a stark departure from the openly discriminatory practices of the past. But race is also downplayed as a determiner or dynamic in one’s life while work or, rather, attachment to a faith in the free market and the American Dream of meritocratic uplift, is made front and center. Such a religiously-infused politics regarding the economy is and was almost univ…

Faith-Based Initiatives in the Obama Administration?

By Bill Berkowitz

…rnment dollars to agencies with behavioral codes and Christian-only hiring policies: “If you are [suggesting] we ought to enlarge the ministerial exemption in civil-rights law to give religious nonprofits a right to discriminate against tax-funded employees on religious grounds, then I would urge caution. To level the playing field does not mean to tilt it in favor of religious nonprofits. Besides, most community-serving religious nonprofits, incl…

The Visceral Vote: Obama-as-Sojourner v. McCain-as-Mythic-Hero

By Ira Chernus

…keeping him competitive. That does not mean the voters prefer McCain’s war policies. Since last February, when it became clear that the Arizona senator would be the GOP’s nominee, the pattern has not changed: Even when a comfortable majority of those polled support Obama’s policy — withdrawing troops on a fixed timetable — more say they trust McCain than Obama to “do the right thing” in Iraq. Why? In June, a Pew Center for the People and the Press…

Religious Opposition To LGBT Equality Softening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…moving toward a new understanding of God’s diverse creation. The time for policies based on our love of God and call to serve has come. Churches are learning to affirm gifts for ministry rather than reject ministers because of whom they chose as a life partner.” Several pro-gay measures are on the agenda for the PCUSA including benefits for same-gender spouses and domestic partners of church employees, the right of clergy to perform legal wedding…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…want to destroy it, and therefore also from the national and international policies that impede the promotion of positive values.” On this marching route there has been complete consensus. Even the only bishop of black Africa who in recent months had spoken out in favor of “openness” to divorce, Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, elected by the bishops of Ghana as their delegate to the synod, was found to be in agreement with all present in t…

The Bishops Did Send a Message with Their Vote on Biden and Communion; Are We Sure It Was The One They Intended?

By Daniel Schultz

…Biden’s personal piety, but charged that he “has pledged to pursue certain policies that would advance moral evils and threaten human life and dignity…” They weren’t referring to building walls, supporting the death penalty, interfering with voting rights, and/or withholding healthcare from those made poor. The chorus was a tired refrain: “abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender.” It was as if Catholics cared about nothing else during a glob…

The Religious Right Has Come Out of the Closet

By Patricia Miller

…largely dropped these standards for a candidate they believe will deliver policies that benefit them. But it’s easy to argue that that concern about “high moral character” was always a veneer over political expediency because “moral character” was so thoroughly fused with two issues: opposition to abortion and, later, same-sex marriage. The result is a shape-shifting political animal described brilliantly by Jane Mayer in her New Yorker profile o…