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Why America’s Handmaid’s Tale Doesn’t Look Like Hulu’s

By Christopher Douglas

…aftermath of the 2000 election, the GOP argued to stop recounting votes in Florida; when the Republican-majority Supreme Court agreed, it handed Florida, and the general election, to the born-again George W. Bush. In recent years, the Republican Party has tended not to view election wins by Democratic candidates as conferring legitimacy. The GOP reportedly made the decision before President Obama’s inauguration, and in the midst of the worst finan…

The Failure of Obama’s Faith Strategy Revealed

By Sarah Posner

…as reached out to Mr. Wallis, Mr. Hunter and three other ministers for telephone prayer sessions and discussions about the intersection of religion and public policy. Here’s the corner Obama painted himself into: in a 2008 effort to appeal to evangelicals, he reached out to and surrounded himself with anti-gay, anti-abortion ministers who nonetheless touted their concerns with other issues such as poverty, the economy, and the environment. It’s no…

Marco Rubio: Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

McKay Coppins of BuzzFeed reports this morning that Florida Senator Marco Rubio was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was eight years old and was an active and “enthusiastic” member of the faith during his youth. In fact, Rubio’s name remains on the membership records of the LDS Church to this day. Rubio’s family encountered Mormonism after moving to Las Vegas, a town with deep Mormon roots and a signifi…

Ponzi Pastor, Bacon Terrorism, & Spiritual Jewelry

By Michael J. Altman

…and hip hop beats shocked listeners of a local Christian radio station in Florida. Elsewhere in Florida, a thief robbed a church, felt guilty, returned the stolen electronics, and joined the church. Some Christian pastors are trying to bring more humor to the pulpit. In New York, a Department of Transportation supervisor talked a man down from jumping off a bridge by reminding the jumper of his Christian faith. A former pastor in Indiana is going…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…in public schools and other public buildings, have been signed into law in Florida, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee so far in 2018. Similar bills were enacted in past years in Colorado, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Virginia.* At the teleconference to launch Project Blitz on February 16, 2016, David Barton, explained to state legislators that the IGWT bills and the bills in Category 1 are, “kinda like whack-a-mole for the other side. It’ll drive t…

AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…oting in 2012 to the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018, to name two of the most high profile. These latest AR-15-themed antics by elected Republicans also highlight one of the few things the modern GOP stands for: performative cruelty. Anything to “trigger the libs” will do, including re-traumatizing the victims of school shootings. Remember Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing Stoneman Douglas survivor David Hogg (…

No More Pencils, No More Books: The Ultimate Goal of All Those Anti-Education Bills That Nobody’s Talking About

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ing about it. (Please read Robert Jones’ skewering of one such proposal in Florida which makes it illegal for public schools to cause “discomfort” to white men.) We’ve seen the revival of the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” proposals, also in Florida. In Tennessee, Pulitzer-prize winning Holocaust novel Maus has been banned, quite a story to break on Holocaust Remembrance Day. These bills are awful and rightly vilified for their anti-equality, anti-real…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…ocratic (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 of the political landscape? Perhaps internal polling sho…

Electionpocalypse, Part II: The Mythical Jewish Vote

By Sarah Posner

…population, but are overrepresented in some sought-after swing states like Florida, Ohio, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. Memories of hanging chads and an election decided by 537 votes have prompted a frenzy of Yiddish: from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s “Oy” billboards in Florida to the pro-Obama “Call Your Zeyde” video released this week. The historian Jonathan Sarna has chronicled the trajectory of the Jewish vote since Reconstruction and notes a…

Week in Religion, Sunday Edition

By Michael J. Altman

…kids are getting too many days off. More atheist billboards, this time in Florida. Denver Broncos rookie Tim Tebow has added a tonsure haircut to his mix of evangelical Christianity and football. The new do has drawn comparisons between the former Florida Gator star and Saint Francis of Assisi. Then there’s the question of why the usual scripture citation on Tebow’s eye-black didn’t make in onto the cover of the latest NCAA football video game. P…