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This Quote About ‘Pregnant’ Church From Outgoing SBC President is Deeply Troubling For Anyone Concerned About Sexual Abuse

By Jill Hicks-Keeton

…p. Much of the SBC news cycle has now moved on to the surprise election of Alabama pastor Ed Litton as the incoming president, the result of what Ruth Graham of the New York Times called “a dramatic showdown” in this denomination that “often serves as a bellwether for white American evangelicalism.” But the quote above, from one of the more mundane moments of the meeting is, in my judgment, a better benchmark for assessing the current state of the…

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…is trying to get more Muslims writing for TV and movies in Hollywood. The number of US Muslims accused of terrorism dropped by half in 2010, a new study reports. A pair of doves just didn’t want to leave the Pope’s window this week. People who believe the end of the world will come on 12/21/12 are flocking to a French mountain. A Norwegian boy fended off a pack of wolves by terrorizing them with a song by the slightly Christian band Creed. German…

“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

…claimed, “We win if we just keep having children, ’cause we’re going to outnumber them!”—a staple argument of the Quiverfull movement. Weeks earlier, Santorum had transformed this rhetoric into policy proposal at a South Carolina Fuddruckers appearance with the Duggars, where he argued that low birth rates and a declining American population (also longstanding concerns among the Quiverfull movement) should be fought by tripling the child tax deduc…

American Idol(atry): McCain-as-Jesus

By Brian Kaylor

…ious rhetoric attracts many political followers, but taken too far it might just drive voters away as with the Roy Moore’s failed gubernatorial crusade in Alabama. Such a baptized quest for votes could prove Everhart to be a false prophet….

Kentucky Court Clerk, A “Professing Apostolic Christian,” Questions Legal Authority

By Sarah Posner

…re literal interpreters of the Bible,” Butler said.* That the Bible is the number one authority, Butler added, “would’ve been drummed into her since she was a little girl.” So how did Davis become the center of a national firestorm? That has a lot to do with how the legal advocates who share Davis’s belief that the Bible, not civil law, is the ultimate authority, took that belief to court. For the long historical view, it’s useful to read Julie In…

Roy Moore’s Presidential Ambitions and “Biblical Law”

By Julie Ingersoll

Former Alabama Judge Roy “Ten Commandments” Moore has set up a presidential exploratory committee and has been making appearances in Iowa. A hero to some segments of the religious right, he’s also been active in the Tea Party movement; earlier this year, was awarded the “All American Award” by the Central Texas Tea Party. Moore’s underlying philosophy of law is that only God and the Bible can be the source of moral authority. Moore has long been…

Double Helix: Obama, Race, Science, and Religion

By Arri Eisen

…rm the foundations of their field. The infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Alabama, which went on openly for decades, researching if the natural history of syphilis is the same in blacks and whites (letting the disease go untreated in black men even after the advent of penicillin) only received an official apology from the American government in the 1990s. Herrnstein and Murray’s 1994 book The Bell Curve, claiming that different races have differe…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…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 them crazy…

Mad Scientists?

By Arri Eisen

…es in on him as a top suspect in the US anthrax mail deaths; University of Alabama biology professor Amy Bishop guns down her colleagues in a faculty meeting; top climate scientists’ hacked email reveals childish bickering and apparent suppression of research that goes against global warming; Nobel-winning UN scientist Rajendra K. Pachauri accused of serious financial conflicts of interest; top university psychiatrists under Senate investigation f…

The Power of Bad Faith! Prophesying a “Death Panel” for Health Care Reform

By Jonathan L. Walton

…President Obama’s healthcare proposal live in states that have the highest numbers without insurance coverage. Southern states like Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia where at minimum an excess of 20% of residents are uninsured. So it seems that he parts of the country that are most in need of health care reform are most likely to have citizens who decry “socialism” and believe in government initiated “death panels.” Now it would be easy to…