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Jim DeMint: First Great Awakening Won American Revolution

By Daniel Schultz

Umm, yeah (via CNN): “Tea Party crowds [have] a spiritual component. I think it’s very akin to the Great Awakening before the American Revolution,” DeMint told David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network in an interview airing Thursday. “A lot of our founders believed the American Revolution was won before we ever got into a fight with the British. It was a spiritual renewal.” Funny, that’s not how I remember my Intro to American History cl…

Gay Marriage: Can We Get a Little Respect?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…uality it is clearly a matter of civil rights. For those who oppose it, as CNN reports, not so much. In the video one anti-marriage equality protester yells: “It is not a civil rights issue. It is an issue with morality.” Really? Marriage is an issue of morality? Let’s follow that line of logic for just a moment. What kind of morality are we discussing here? Should marriage only be reserved for the moral? Does being heterosexual automatically make…

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…n, Haley reverted course once again on the Confederate flag, claiming in a CNN interview that its legacy was pristine before the murders in 2015: And here is this guy that comes out with this manifesto, holding the Confederate flag and had just hijacked everything that people thought of (about the flag). […] But you know people saw it as service, and sacrifice and heritage – but once he did that, there was no way to overcome it. The myth of the “L…

Replacing Godless Hollywood with Bible-Based “Cultural Dominion”

By Julie Ingersoll

…nor on the Constitution Party ticket, endorsed by conservative blogger and CNN contributor Erick Erickson. Tea party groups are learning about the “biblical basis” of the Constitution from the Constitution Party-related Institute on the Constitution. The younger Phillips travels the country, to conventions and conferences sponsored by Vision Forum and its Reconstructionist allies, and is a renowned speaker at homeschool conventions that draw a muc…

DNC Platform, Thy Name is Esther

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…intentional, but she still sees God reflected in the words, as she said to CNN’s Piers Morgan: “We have a commitment through all faith traditions that our values are reflected in our policy. And that means that we should look out for the least of these, that we should fight for the middle class, that we should let everybody in America have an opportunity to be successful.” I agree and I see plenty of God in the DNC platform (not so much in the GOP…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…deny custody to any parent who leaves a straight relationship to be gay.” CNN reports this is a slightly watered down version of a law he proposed last year that would have stripped gay people of parenting rights. The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) released a report on developments for LGBTI people in Russia during 2013, including the “propaganda” law, the ban on adoptions of Russian children by foreig…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hy Australia is so far behind the times on same-sex marriage.” She cites a number of factors, including the lack of a bill or charter of rights as well as the way the issue has been used in electoral politics, as then-opposition leader Kevin Rudd did during the 2007 election, when he “used his opposition to same-sex marriage to reassure socially conservative, religious voters.” (Rudd shifted his position to support marriage equality in 2013.) In a…

Despite Reports, GOP Has Not ‘Turned on Trump’ For Call to Terminate the Constitution — Fascism isn’t a Dealbreaker for Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ut did you see this crazy thing on Twitter? Mike Turner is one of the tiny number of Republicans in a position of influence within the GOP at the moment who has disavowed Trump’s remarks directly—although as far as I can tell, he hasn’t said anything about whether these remarks would prevent him from supporting the former president in 2024. Like Turner, minority whip John Thune, the second most powerful Republican in the Senate, said “of course I…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for the national vote and called again for a free vote in the parliament. CNN has profiled some of the couples who are waiting, among them a man and woman who pledged four years ago not to marry until their gay friends could. BuzzFeed’s Lane Sainty reports: Many conservative commentators have characterised the LGBTI community as childish, petulant, and anti-democratic for opposing a national vote on marriage. But Greig sees it differently: he thi…

The Evidence Mounts: Most Americans Support Same-Sex Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…is out with a new poll showing, as did recent ABC News/Washington Post and CNN/Opinion Research Corp. polls, that a majority of Americans support same-sex marriage. The PRRI poll shows 51% of Americans support same-sex marriage, while 43% oppose it. Significantly, 56% support adoption by gay and lesbian couples, while only 36% oppose it. Broken down by religion and political affiliation: A solid majority of Catholics and white mainline Protestants…