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State Director of Christian Right Legislative Group, ‘Project Blitz,’ Calls for Lynching of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Updated)

By Frederick Clarkson

….S. Constitution, and suggested, much like the infamous Judge Roy Moore of Alabama, that Muslims should be barred from holding public office. Rep. Omar, originally a refugee immigrant from Somalia, is the first woman of color to hold federal elective office from Minnesota and one of the first Muslim women in Congress. The threat against Rep. Omar was particularly ill-considered in that she represents the 5th Congressional District, which includes…

Baptist Professors Attack McLaren’s New Kind of Christianity

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ther King Jr.’s predecessor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1960, white Southern Baptists and black National Baptists gathered at the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore to discuss racial tension in the city. During the worship service, historian Taylor Branch recounts that Vernon Johns sat visibly annoyed as he listened to the white preacher preach on salvation and being “washed in the blood of the Lamb.” When it was Jo…

Christian Pol, Attacked for Opposing ‘In God We Trust’ in School, Talks Church and State

By Frederick Clarkson

…and providing for religious exemptions from civil rights laws. This year, Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana and Tennessee passed laws requiring or allowing public schools to display the U.S. motto, “In God We Trust.” The Minnesota legislation, which included an In God We Trust amendment, passed but was vetoed by the governor. Marty expects the issue will be back in some form in 2019. As Project Blitz strategists saw it, they could gain politic…

Adult Realism and the State of This Union

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…very sort of thing that led Chief Justice Roberts to suggest last year in Alabama that Supreme Court justices had little place at such partisan affairs; his decision to attend the State of the Union address may have been, in part, a response to this most welcome gesture toward bipartsanship. It was telling, too, that the most partisan of our current justices (Alito, Scalia, and Thomas) chose to stay away. Still, this decision did leave people in…

A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…Or, as my mother once said with a laugh when I was off to speak in Mobile, Alabama: “It’s kind of hip to be a gay atheist [in Cambridge, Massachussetts]. Not so much most everywhere else.” I was scheduled to speak in an extended dialogue with the evangelical Christian presenter—as an atheist who is also a former evangelical Christian. Additionally, I was to engage other panelists and audience members, most of whom would be religious. As a queer pe…

Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It

By John Stoehr

…Winn Parish, Louisiana, refused to secede from the Union. Winston County, Alabama, declared itself the Free State of Winston. Unionist farmers and woodsmen in Jones County, Mississippi, declared the Free State of Jones.” By February 1864, Davis despaired: “Public meetings of treasonable character, in the name of state sovereignty, are being held.” Thus states’ rights as an ideology was contradictory and could not mobilize the white South for the…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…ers in the state. Trump nearly doubled Cruz’s share of evangelicals in the Alabama primary, winning 43 percent to Cruz’s 22 percent. (Trump has no doubt benefitted from a divided field. Should the race boil down to a Trump-Cruz faceoff, Cruz would likely win the evangelical vote.) While there’s a lot more to understand still about evangelical support for Trump, there’s no doubt it has occasioned spirited debate and real soul searching in evangelic…

Gay Judge’s Prop. 8 Decision Holds

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…udge “misrepresenting himself as the brother of a boy killed by racists in Alabama in 1963.” Ed Whelan at the National Review quotes an email from an attorney friend who goes on to characterize Ware as a lazy liberal: Since then, he “enjoys” a well-earned reputation for laziness. He has transformed the back wall of his courtroom, not his chambers mind you, into a shrine to the civil rights movement with posters of Malcolm X, candidate Barack Obama…

October “Baby” is a Grown Woman

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…horrid woman named Alanna (Colleen Trusler). Hannah and Jason set out for Alabama where Hannah was born. (They chastely maintain separate sleeping arrangements, in case you were concerned.) Time and again, Hannah is assisted by kindly men who are won over by her beauty and vulnerability: a hotel clerk, a priest, and law enforcement. Oh, goodness, especially law enforcement. On two different occasions Hannah’s tears and self-disclosure cause a pol…

How Sikhs Handle Hate

By Rajdeep Singh and Simran Jeet Singh

…from a national hero: Bill Baxley. Between 1971 and 1979, Baxley served as Alabama’s Attorney General. During his tenure, Baxley famously prosecuted one of the men responsible for the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an act of domestic terrorism that resulted in the death of four girls between the ages of 11 and 14. This infuriated the Ku Klux Klan, which issued a written threat to Baxley. Not to be deterred, the Attorney General re…