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Sullivan v. Gallagher: Catholics Debate LGBT Rights At Georgetown

By Sarah Posner

…ality to Nazism. There was, of course, no need to debate Catholics for Equality’s mission by mentioning Soros. The fact that NOM did speaks to an effort to deploy conservative tropes about who is or isn’t the “real” religious person, and to drop code that political adversaries betray God to support evil. But it was Gallagher who had the gall to call out Catholics for Equality in her prepared remarks. “There is still time to repent,” she said witho…

2012 Presidential Hopefuls: God Game is On

By Sarah Posner

…Bachmann, Tea Party religious right heroine, wants to run for president. That would mean that, despite some talk from Mitch Daniels about a “truce” in the “culture wars,” that the Republican presidential primary field will be crowded with candidates who want to talk about God, the Christian nation, the divinity of the Constitution, and “Judeo-Christian values.” The field will be heavy with hardcore culture warriors: aside from Bachmann, Sarah Pal…

Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

By Anna Bigelow

…as put into the service of the judgments claiming sharia as their source, that is to say that the legal system that led to the application of hudud punishments was not based on traditional Islamic jurisprudence. Yet in a nation where rule of law has been repeatedly compromised by corruption, military dictatorships, and unequal access, the concept of religiously based law has a great deal of appeal to many people as a theoretically incorruptible an…

“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture

By Sarah Posner

…e prayed for anyone considering a run in his district to “lose interest.” That “that hedge of thorns has protected me all these years,” Webster continued, even when his political opponents referred to him and allies as “conservative, gun-toting Bible thumpers.” He claims that “pride is so destructive,” yet seems quite proud that his “hedge of thorns” has made his political career a success. Razing Ruth, another anti-biblical patriarchy blog, descr…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…ating abortion, a position I as a Catholic do not share. But it is to say that from what I can tell the institutional Catholic Church subsidizes this event so significantly that truth in advertising suggests a name change. I did see one marcher wearing a yarmulke on the Metro going home, but this crowd is Catholic. Clothes alone are a reliable indicator. Parish sweatshirts and Catholic college jackets are the outfits of choice on a cold day. One g…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…n back for Christ” and who, while running for president, proudly declared that “what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards.” Joel Beinin of Stanford University, writing at Middle East Channel, also notes how the Brotherhood was late to the protests, debunking the American right’s insistence that the Brotherhood is behind the protests, and therefore that toppling Mubarek would mean shari’ah law and all that: The Musl…

CPAC Speaker Admires Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…ebate among serious Muslim scholars about that.” As far as fear-mongering that that Muslims seek to supplant the Constitution with shari’ah, Khan noted, “there is room for individual religious practice under the First Amendment and that includes personal and private contracts which can be based on any manner of law including religious law as long as it is consistent with local and state law and the U.S. Constitution.” Jewish law can apply to prenu…

Art(ful) History in Texas

By Lauri Lebo

…history and presenting an inaccurate view of America—including the notion that this nation was based on Christian principles and that the founding fathers didn’t intend for there to be separation of church and state. The new standards serve as publishing guidelines for writers of textbooks, and Texas is the second largest bulk purchaser of textbooks in the country. But how far publishers will go to sell books in such a lucrative market is a matter…

Texas Textbook Massacre

By Lauri Lebo

…ent critics, say the impact on the actual writing of textbooks may not be that dire. Still, that doesn’t spell good news for public education. For no matter what the outcome of the standards on textbooks—either in Texas or across the country—the board is clearly rewriting history to fit a conservative agenda and a Christian-dominated worldview. Jay Diskey, executive director of the school division of the Association of American Publishers, called…

Alums Speak Out Against Anti-Gay Christian College

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s,” repealing the policy is apparently not one of the steps on the table. What that really means is, no matter what administrators might do, gay and lesbian kids will still be terrified to be who they are on campus, whether they are “practicing” or not. There are many Christian colleges and universities around the country who have these kinds of policies. So many, in fact, that Soulforce—a gay and lesbian Christian justice organization—has organiz…