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Why Roy Moore’s Evangelical Supporters Won’t Abandon Him

By Julie Ingersoll

…hey didn’t actually have sex and “he was single” at the time. Moore is the Alabama Republican Senate candidate and former State Supreme Court Chief Justice, familiar to RD readers from the too-many-to-cite articles documenting his ties to white supremacists and Christian Reconstructionists. Incredulous observers won’t be able to make sense of Moore’s supporters while seeing the allegations only in terms of inappropriate behavior, or even alleged s…

Netflix Removing Antigay Film Isn’t “Free Speech,” it’s Free Market

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nacted a law allowing “faith-based” adoption agencies to refuse to place children in homes headed by LGBT people, while lawmakers in Alabama and Georgia filed similar bills….

A Pastor Takes on BP in New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

…e economic squeeze. Of the 40,000 Vietnamese families living in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, one in three works in the seafood industry. For Louisiana, most of the Vietnamese fishermen affected live in New Orleans East, in the communities of Versailles and Village L’est, both served by the Mary Queen of Viet Nam church. According to Census figures, 75% of Vietnamese-American adults don’t speak fluent English, and this issue presented itsel…

Global Warming Denialists the New Creationists?

By Lauri Lebo

…gotten legislators to introduce bills in states such as Missouri, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana advocating for academic freedom to teach “the controversy” regarding scientific issues like evolutionary theory. (Note: In the scientific community, there is no controversy over the reality of evolutionary processes.) So far, only Louisiana has taken the bait and passed an academic freedom law. Now it seems the reality of climate…

Mitt Learns to Say “Y’all” as Primary Heads South

By Joanna Brooks

…n heads back to the South this Tuesday, when he’ll battle for delegates in Alabama and Mississippi, where (as of Sunday night) polls have him in a virtual three-way tie with Gingrich and Santorum. As a wonky Yankee Mormon with a moderate past, Romney has always been a tough sell in the South. But how much of this has to do with his Mormonism? For context, I spoke with Patrick Mason, chair of the Mormon Studies program at Claremont Graduate Univers…

Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…peared in 2006. In one prototypical action, in 2004, Brownback traveled to Alabama to be present for the unveiling of a blatantly theocratic Constitution Restoration Act, designed to remove church-state conflicts from the jurisdiction of the federal courts. For context, the position to which Brownback has been nominated has existed since 1998; if confirmed by the Senate, Brownback would be the fifth Ambassador-at-Large leading the office within th…

What Does Proper Christian Womanhood Have to do with the Ray Rice Story?

By Eric C. Miller

…to keep women on the narrow path of good Christian wifeliness. In one 1855 Alabama decision, a judge explained his deference to an abusive husband this way: Between persons of education, refinement, and delicacy, the slightest blow in anger might be cruelty; while between persons of a different character and walk in life, blows might occasionally pass without marring to any great extent their conjugal relations, or materially interfering with thei…

From Original Sin to Flattering Mirror: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

By Jeanne Theoharis

…s coffin lie in honor in the Capitol, to the First Family’s trip to Selma, Alabama, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. These national events honored not just the work of the civil rights activists but the advancement of the nation itself. They marked the Americanness of the civil rights struggle, and held up the power of US democracy and progress to the world. Political leaders, pundits, and citizens came to see and tell…

The Pope, the GOP, and the March for Life

By Sarah Posner

…unremarkable point that the kind of Republican who wins elections in, say, Alabama, likely would have something of a tough row to hoe in New York. “If they are extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York,” Cuomo said in a radio interview Friday. Cuomo defined “extreme conservatism” as being “anti-gay” by opposing same-sex marriage rights, opposed to abortion rights and favoring legalization of assault weapons. Cuomo official…

From Kneel-Ins to the Condemnation of “Racial Sin”: The Meaning of the PCA’s “Overture on Pursuing Racial Reconciliation”

By Paul Harvey

…Empire, and you’ll see what’s happening here,” a church elder in Tuskegee, Alabama said in 1965. Black and white students and other participants in the kneel-ins to desegregate churches consistently spoke of their commitment to enacting the ideal of the “Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man” at the churches, while white southern churchgoers often saw them as “agitators” who sought to make “political” or “sociological” points and publicly e…