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White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…gained notoriety as a “finishing school educating the far-right leaders of tomorrow.” The Frenchman cites Richard Viguerie and Paul Weyrich, the “Goldwater Boys” and architects of the political infrastructure of the modern Christian and Political Right as the strategists whose tactics he looked to and copied when building what he calls “a conservative revolution” in France. He recalls that it was necessary to have “wealthy businessmen” willing to…

Silver Bells and Atheist Billboards

By Steve A. Wiggins

…y. All we need is an apple, snake, and fig leaf. These are the teachers of tomorrow’s clergy. A hymn at my the fundamentalist church of my childhood included the lyrics, “He [Jesus at the crucifixion] could have called 10,000 angels, instead He died alone for you and me.” He could have called 10,000 angels, but instead he called 10,000 religion scholars. (And let’s not start a Twelve Days of Christmas cascading laundry list here, or this essay wil…

Ralph Reed At the Helm of the Religious Right, Again

By Sarah Posner

…and Freedom Coalition conference, which is taking place here in Washington tomorrow and Saturday, by describing it as Reed’s “revival.” Despite Reed’s past ethical problems, most notably his involvement in Jack Abramoff’s double-crossing of religious right groups, the resurrected hero suggests to the Times that conservative operatives came calling, saying that the GOP hasn’t had as good a grassroots operations as when Reed ran the Christian Coalit…

Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…m in August, CUFI founder John Hagee is hosting Beck for a conference call tomorrow so he can “address the mounting threats to Israel and what we can do to stand with Israel today.” This comes on the heels of Sen. Joe Lieberman endorsement of Beck’s Jerusalem event. Lieberman once compared Hagee to Moses, “a man of God” who has become a “leader of a mighty multitude.” The Beck-Hagee alliance dates back years, too, with Beck hosting the televangeli…

One More Day until Marriage Equality vote in New York?

By Peter Montgomery

…the governor can extend the legislative session beyond today’s deadline and has said that he would do so. Today, a Buffalo television station reported that the marriage vote would likely take place tomorrow; it said the governor and Republicans were still working on reaching agreement on other unresolved legislative business regarding rent control and property taxes….

Sister Wives Stars File Suit to Legalize Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

Tomorrow in Salt Lake City, legal scholar and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley will file suit to challenge Utah statutes criminalizing cohabitation and bigamy. The plaintiffs in the suit? Kody Brown and his four wives, stars of the reality show Sister Wives. Turley is expected to argue for the decriminalization of polygamy by citing Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 US Supreme Court decision that decriminalized sodomy on the g…

Bachmann and Religion:
It’s Complicated

By Sarah Posner

…one campaigning to lead America into the future believes that its days are numbered and millions of its citizens are doomed. Bachmann has toned down her religious rhetoric considerably since hitting the campaign trail. Also jarring is Bachmann’s belief that “nothing is more important than” converting people before the world ends. As she weighs in on critical debates like whether or not to let the U.S. default on its obligations, it’s troubling tha…

Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network

By Haroon Moghul

…ry networks, and through their media appearances, access and acolytes, generate a snowball effect. They have amplified questions on Islam and kept them in the public eye. These five have pushed many of the questions and debates that occupy much of our national conversation on Islam and Muslims, as well as similar conversations in Europe—Fear, Inc. opens by sharing just how often Breivik quoted and cited America’s Islam haters. Breivik may have cl…

Perry’s God-Talk at Liberty University

By Sarah Posner

…en world. The mistakes of yesterday say nothing about the possibilities of tomorrow.” The speech was quintessentially evangelical, but without the hallmarks of the neo-Pentecostalism that pervaded his prayer event in Houston, The Response, last month. No revelations straight from God. No signs and wonders. Just an ordinary, lost and broken guy with a Road to Damascus moment stripped dry of spirit-filled moments of lightening and tongue-talking. Cl…

Perry Thinks Palestinians Should Be Shafted, No Surprise

By Sarah Posner

…East diplomacy told Kessler Perry appeared to be “remarkably uninformed.” Tomorrow, though, Perry will be holding a “pro-Israel” press conference with none other than Republicans’ favorite Israeli politician, Likud MK and Knesset Deputy Speaker Danny Danon. The press conference is obviously timed to oppose the bid by Palestinian leaders for U.N. recognition, a notion so difficult for the “pro-Israel” camp to accept that the Obama administration o…