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Op-Ed: Ramadan and Religious Freedom

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali

…them humble. It’s the most important holiday of the year for Muslims, equivalent to Christmas or Easter. It saddens me, therefore, that a holiday and fasting month that inspires Muslims to do good things provokes a volatile reaction in a country that prides itself on religious freedom. In Tennessee, many of the Muslim workers (who comprise over half of the work force at the plant) asked to take the day off on Eid, making operation of the plant dif…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…between McCain and Obama is like the Grand Canyon.” And Garlow warned that California was about to pass a law that would require pastors to perform same-sex marriages. Despite appeals from younger evangelicals that the leaders of the Religious Right should pay attention to such matters as the environment and various social issues—or at least to give the impression of such concern—the gathering apparently brushed aside the advice. They chose to ret…

Republican Party: You Are What You Are!

By Jonathan L. Walton

…The “Obama Bucks” distributed on the Chaffey Community Republican Women of California newsletter [ironically created to parody the ideology of the people who ultimately took it seriously] and the “Waterboard Barack Obama” posting on the official Web site of the Sacramento Republican Party have pushed me over the cliff of compassion and attempts at understanding the conservative agenda. The RNC can no longer simply denounce such hateful acts withou…

By the Way: Fractured Religious Right Endorses McCain

By Randall Balmer

…between McCain and Obama is like the Grand Canyon.” And Garlow warned that California was about to pass a law that would require pastors to perform same-sex marriages. Despite appeals from younger evangelicals that the leaders of the Religious Right should pay attention to such matters as the environment and various social issues—or at least to give the impression of such concern—the gathering apparently brushed aside the advice. They chose to ret…

Obama’s Faith-Based Makeover

By Bill Berkowitz

…nted out that while Obama’s plan “sounds appealing,” his opposition to California‘s anti-same-sex marriage ballot initiative “provide a frightening glimpse” into what the plan might really bring. “While telling the world he will up hold the faith-based initiative as the cornerstone of his administration, Obama says that a cornerstone of society—heterosexual marriage—is ‘divisive and discriminatory,’ wrote Perkins. “Doesn’t this…

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…y at a “prophecy conference” in a packed church in affluent Santa Barbara, California. Don’t worry about human suffering in the Middle East, the pastors taught, worry about God’s will. People nodded and took notes, and in that room everything I thought I knew about the world felt worthless before the vision of mystical order. Talk like this can’t be used: speak it, even hear it, and it uses you. You become it. Something similar might be said for p…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…s concentrated in states that are almost bound to go Democratic (New York, California, Illinois). Among the big swing states, only Florida supposedly has a crucial Jewish vote. Yet it turns out to be only about 5%. Surely the Catholic vote even in Florida is bigger than that. Why do McCain and his campaign strategists think that they can risk offending Catholics more than they can risk offending Jews? What does that tell us about their assessment…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…s fire of my spirit” on the West Coast of America—a “fresh new breath upon California” and not, Alec insisted, a mere repeat of the 1906 Azusa Street Revival. She said God promised a “cleansing” of Los Angeles and its “gatekeepers of the media and the entertainment industry.” And she warned the city of San Francisco, “overwhelm[ed]” by “the weight of sin,” that it would be “brought to your knees.” With their headquarters now in Jerusalem, God TV l…

“Marriage Savers” Lobbies for Repeal of No-Fault Divorce

By Kathryn Joyce

…ant to alleviate. Before the reforms (ironically begun by then-governor of California Ronald Reagan), couples had to prove wrongdoing such as adultery or abuse: a requirement that led to laughable instances of couples collaborating to stage “affairs” in order to justify the end of their union. Basing its implied equation of liberal divorce laws with unjust war, McManus justifies the term “Unilateral Divorce” because “in four out of five cases, one…

Cloverfield: Sin & Redemption, with Monsters

By Gabriel Mckee

…f humankind didn’t awaken him with nuclear weapons. Mothra wouldn’t attack California if greedy capitalists didn’t kidnap his miniature priestesses. The monsters symbolically destroy our human world, and we cheer because we think it’s all our fault. We deserve it, this says—a theology of sin and divine retribution. The kaiju-as-divine-wrath theme is nowhere as clear as in Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys, possibly the genre’s best film since the origin…