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WikiLeaks Strikes the Vatican, a Camel in the Pews, and Luke Skywalker Tolerance

By Michael J. Altman

…na College. She worked in the school’s finance office. In West Palm Beach, Florida, a camel fell into pews full of spectators during a church nativity play. No people or animals were injured, though the camel will not be part of the Christmas pageant when it opens this weekend. A donkey and sheep will still take part. Elsewhere in Florida, a dispute in Boca Raton is raising questions about whether or not a menorah is a religious symbol. But the Lo…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ojects, Prospects—that took place at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, Florida, on September 8. The panelists were introduced by Blake Chastain, who also recorded the event and released the audio later as a special episode of his podcast, Exvangelical. At the event, journalism professor David Wheeler talked about his experiences studying in, and teaching at, an evangelical college; Kathryn Brightbill talked about her Christian Right homeschool…

Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?

By Chrissy Stroop

…the horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. (Not coincidentally, this Christian nationalist state law comes right out of the Project Blitz playbook.) One of the main issues we fixated on in my evangelical childhood, right up there with abortion and gay people existing, was prayer in school, and how “awful” it was that “activist judges” had “banned prayer” in public schools. (We generally didn’t mention that,…

The “Scandal” of the Catholic Vote

By Kate Childs Graham

…of marriage and the family would have taken a hit in places like Arizona, Florida and California. Indeed, in Florida and California, their vote proved to be decisive…Because those who reject traditional values and religion voted heavily for Barack Obama, it’s a sure bet the culture war will only get hotter. We expect to be quite busy.” – Catholic Vote On Marriage And Family: Much To Cheer About, Bill Donahue of the Catholic League for Religious a…

Tea Party Bullies on Homosexuality: “No Punishment Too Severe?”

By Julie Ingersoll

…mong others) Sharron Angle of Nevada, Ken Buck of Colorado, Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Joe Miller of Alaska, and Christine O’Donnell of Delaware. You can bet that no matter how the numbers finally shake out in next month’s election, Barton and DeMint, and their views on “Judeo-Christian heritage” and “biblical law,” will continue to have allies in high plac…

Keep These Satanists Out of Congress!

By Joseph Laycock

On April 1, Jake Rush, a conservative congressional candidate from Florida, was outed for his involvement in vampire role-playing games. The story, which was apparently spread by supporters of his opponent, incumbent Ted Yoho, accused Rush of living a “bizarre double life” and dropped plenty of choice words like “ritual,” “occult,” and “Satanic.” Unfortunately for Yoho’s supporters the appeal to moral panic may have backfired. Rush released a st…

Gays and Lesbians Must Protest Islamophobia

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mpending burning of Qur’ans this weekend at a small church in Gainesville, Florida, is a stark reminder of why gay and lesbian people cannot be hoodwinked into an alliance with any party that actively hates another group of people for any reason. Islam, like Christianity, has a history of being anti-gay (as one of my sisters loves to remind me, “Muslims don’t like your kind”), but that’s no excuse for gays and lesbians to be anti-Muslim. Instead,…

Abuse in the Name of God? Children and Faith Healing

By Shawn Francis Peters

…s who reject medicine and turn to prayer when their children are ailing. A number of groups have lobbied for the repeal of such religious exemptions, chief among them the advocacy organization Children’s Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD). Its head, Rita Swan, has argued that these stipulations, while safeguarding the religious liberty of parents, endanger the health of children and violate several different interrelated constitutional standards….

Book Burning and the Scapegoating of Islam

By Eric Reitan

…nation (and much of the world) watched Terry Jones, pastor of a minuscule Florida congregation, threaten to burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11, then abruptly change his mind only to have notorious hater Fred Phelps jump into the gap. But while much of the media attention to this story has actually revolved around, well, the media attention itself, this is a good time to ask ourselves what it means, historically and symbolically, to burn a…

Free Yiddish Lessons, Vacation Liberty School, and Brangelina’s Universalism: The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…offers Christians a comic critique of atheists. But atheists in Lakeland, Florida don’t think opening City Commission meetings with prayer is a laughing matter. The Atheists of Florida has filed a suit against the city and the mayor in U.S. District Court. Meanwhile, the North Carolina House of Representatives is rethinking its own prayerful opening to sessions. If your kids don’t have a clear picture of America as a “Christian nation” you can se…