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The New Culture War: “Real” Americans vs. the “Mobs” of Occupy Wall Street

By Sarah Posner

…current twist: his “concern” about the “growing mobs occupying Wall Street and other cities across the country.” On the heels of this incendiary statement, Cantor, who is Jewish, paid homage to the Christian nation mythology — the shining city on the hill, American exceptionalism, which Cantor defined as “winning the battle of freedom over tyranny.” How Occupy Wall Street is tyranny, Cantor didn’t say, but I suspect this won’t be the first attempt…

Bachmann Weaves Own Salvation Story into Christian Nation Mythology

By Sarah Posner

…sus she wasn’t really a Christian. “Clean me out, make me new,” Bachmann recalled praying. Then, “something has changed inside of me… I radically abandoned myself to Jesus Christ,” telling him, “take me, I’m yours.” Bachmann recounted how she bagan “feasting in the word of God.” She added, “I didn’t settle. I wanted to know Jesus Christ, in his fullness, every part of him.” That all demonstrated just how well Bachmann knows to play to an evangelic…

On Gaffney’s Radio Show, Rep. King Suggests Muslims Aren’t American

By Sarah Posner

…ouse Homeland Security Committee who plans on holding hearings on the “radicalization” of American Muslims, said on Frank Gaffney’s radio program last week that Muslims aren’t real Americans in combatting terrorism: Joining anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney on Gaffney’s radio program last week, King doubled down on his promise to launch a witch-hunt against Muslims. He repeated a falsehood that he stated earlier — that American Muslims…

Group Behind King James Bible Congressional Resolution Thinks Obama Might Be Antichrist

By Sarah Posner

…think that anyone would think about passing this at a time when we have fiscal, foreign policy and other matters of greater weight.” Lynn pointed out that even religious right figures have taken issue with the KJV; in the late 1990s, activists Gary Bauer, then of the Family Research Council, and Peter LaBarbera of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, urged Christians not to use the KJV because, Bauer said, “it was commissioned by a homosexual.…

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

By Mary E. Hunt

…w concept), and the observance of the Holy Hours for Life (another theological novelty) led by pro-life seminarians. Perhaps in addition to being a spiritual exercise the Vigil was also a good way to “house” a lot of people without running into fire code violations. I could not find any other religious events advertised. Could it be that people of other faiths simply held private devotions? Perhaps, but more likely the United States Conference of…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…ple who demand that religion must play a role in America’s democracy. Ironically, one of the most vocal proponent of religious activism in politics is Mike Huckabee himself, who has repeatedly called Americans to “take this nation 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 Channe…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…American Catholicism, ever produced. Father Matthew was neither famous nor self-promoting, which is what makes the lyrical strains of the notes he did produce so very eloquent and so very worth our hearing. Both men seem to me now the product of a different age and a different time, and more to the point, both men were the result of a different way of inhabiting time—a monastic, a poetic, and ultimately a rather silent way. Both men came of age in…

Pastor Rob Bell Catches Hell From Conservatives

By Eric Reitan

…gnore. And if the book you’re writing happens to be a systematic philosophical defense of universalism and critique of the Christian doctrine of hell, then one of the things you can’t ignore—at least this past week—is the name “Rob Bell.” It turns out that my colleague John Kronen and I may not be the only ones about to come out with a book challenging traditional Christian views of the afterlife. Bell, the enormously popular pastor of the enormo…

Exclusive: Religious Leaders for Immigration Equality for Gay and Lesbian Couples

By Sarah Posner

…lity, an advocacy group that has pushed for immigration reform, and specifically the Uniting American Families Act, which would equal grant citizenship status for the undocumented partners of U.S. citizens who are gay or lesbian, is compiling a large number of religious leaders, organizations, and denominations, to sign on to a letter supporting the legislation. As I reported last year, UAFA would correct a glaring inequality in our current immig…

Utah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics

By Joanna Brooks

…ve that in its openness and publicity is viewed as a strong shift in political strategy by the Church, which often prefers to work behind-the-scenes. The Church’s top lobbyists reportedly spent 10 days on Capitol Hill in Salt Lake City on the immigration issue. Last November, the Church publicly declared its support for a “Utah Compact” designed by Utah business and political leaders identifying five principles to guide immigration debate. The Com…