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Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Adopt Skousen Curriculum

By Julie Ingersoll

…it didn’t end well. In 1987, during the bicentennial of the Constitution, California’s Bicentennial Commission approved the promotion of another of Skousen’s books, The Making of America, apparently without actually reading it. According to the New York Times (about an essay in the book): Referring to the standard of living on plantations, the essay said, “If the pickaninnies ran naked it was generally from choice, and when the white boys had to…

Creationism and Evolution are Competing ‘Myths’

By Kelly E. Hayes

…ncounter and the presence of other creationist museums in Arkansas, Texas, California and Florida suggests that the war is far from over. It remains to be seen whether the leaders of the creationist movement will be able to effectively mobilize enough American voters to bring about the kinds of sociopolitical changes for which their paradigmatic model provides a superhuman charter. It is clear, however, that supporters of evolution would do well t…

Touched by a Michael Landon: America’s Jewish Angel

By Peter Manseau

…Paul Wolff, now a professor of screenwriting at the University of Southern California. Wolff’s big break came when his agent secured for him a meeting with Michael Landon. As Wolff recalls, he had written a short story about a coffin maker who didn’t use nails. In the first draft, Wolff’s craftsman wasn’t explicitly Jewish, but he was, Wolff says, someone like his grandfather. “He was a worker, not a scholar,” Wolff explains. “A lot of the Jews wh…

How Religious Progressives Should Challenge the Anti-State State

By Joanna Brooks

…e already seen their impact on the public schools we rely on every day. In California, a state that undertook what has been described as the largest prison-building initiative in the history of the modern world, we’ve seen our state legislature paralyzed by an anti-tax legislative minority, with severe impacts to public education from K-16, impacts felt by the children of conservatives and liberals alike. Conservatives may describe their fears for…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…ut Los Angeles, Pomona, Maywood, Marin County, and various other places in California. By the time I got home, I realized that the book I was writing had been turned upside down. I wouldn’t be tagging a few thinly described examples onto the end of a systemic power analysis. I would have to begin with the stories I was hearing and remain grounded in stories throughout. In the winter of 2007, I led another seminar for IAF organizers and leaders, th…

As Debt Crisis Escalates, Tea Party Acts in Bad Faith

By Joanna Brooks

…e.” We’ve seen the emergence of the “anti-state state” in my home state of California, where for decades prison building (and the warehousing of thousands upon thousands of young working-class people of color) replaced actual economic planning as the state’s response to economic restructuring and the loss of our manufacturing sector. The Tea Party response to the nation’s economic situation is to hobble federal power and use national debt as a pol…

Bad Faith: The Catholic Hierarchy’s Pointless Campaign Against LGBT Rights

By Casey and Mary Ellen Lopata

…ter Archbishop Gomez announced his opposition to the legislation requiring California schools to give an accurate recounting of the nation’s history. Gov. Jerry Brown, a Roman Catholic, signed it into law. Those of us who support equality for LGBT people in civil society do so not in spite of our Catholic faith but because of it. We learned in childhood that Jesus moved freely among the outcast and the marginalized, that he warned his followers to…

A Peek Inside the ‘Onion’ of Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…he issue of child labor. The US District Court for the Central District of California decided not to take up the case for now because, if they do, they would have to in a way put the religion itself on trial and ask whether or not it should be considered a religion. If it is not, then we might legitimately ask the question of how kids of 12, 14, or 16 years old have been allowed to work 16- or 18-hour days, seven days a week. But if it is a religi…

Lesbian Nuns: Still Immodest After All These Years

By Susan Henking

…critical to abolishing the sodomy laws, and he and Nancy Cott testified in California’s Proposition 8 case about same-sex marriage (2010), which is making its way to the Supreme Court. I want to end with a question I will ask all interviewees: If you were to imagine the future, or to imagine the most hopeful future, what would the impact of your book be? And how would our world be different? My hope is that my book and that of other historians wil…

Secret Treasure, Bible’s Real Housewives, & ‘Dear Lord, please don’t let me f-up’

By Michael J. Altman

…harities who do not want to offer adoption to same-sex partners. A bill in California that would integrate LGBT history into the social studies curriculum sits on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. Conservative religious groups are hoping and praying he won’t sign it. A conservative group in Iowa hopes candidates will sign its “Marriage Vow” which includes promises that candidates will oppose gay marriage and remain faithful to their spouses. The embattled…