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SC Southern Baptist Convention Head: Gingrich’s Adultery Okay, Romney’s Mormonism Not

By Joanna Brooks

…ping anti-Mormonism, this little gem came across the wire: the new head of South Carolina’s Southern Baptist Convention (the largest religious group in the state) says that for many faith-motivated voters, Mitt Romney’s Mormonism would be a greater moral problem that Newt Gingrich’s serial adultery. Rev. Brad Atkins told a local South Carolina newspaper franchise that conservatives could “process and pray” their way through Gingrich’s adultery but…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y that is being generated by Muslim religious fundamentalists, reports the South China Morning Post: Unlike in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia, there are no laws against homosexuality in Indonesia. So, like everyone else in Indonesia, the LGBT community should be afforded protection under human rights and equality laws. In recent years, however, regional governments, such as in Aceh province, which practises sharia law, have introduced regulat…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…own as North Dakota. It was a reference to the contemporaneous practice of South African apartheid’s formation of homelands, but the phrase invoked the Biblical story of Noah’s curse on Ham, which had been used for centuries to justify policies enforcing the servility of people of African descent to whites. The phrase, in fact, had been used as part of the defense of Christian Segregation in the South after Reconstruction and even, sometimes, into…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…disenfranchised and subjugated again (to get a quick sense, Google “Black Codes”). White Supremacist leaders developed a predictable chorus as a PR strategy: the violence was a justified Southern white defense of their liberty against the aggressions of greedy “carpetbaggers” from the North and corrupt Blacks who ruled in the South. These outside agitators were the real instigators and had disrupted otherwise peaceful race relations since “slaver…

Satire is Religion

By Austin Dacey

…story or to persecuted religious minorities today. I’m not suggesting that South Park has much of a theology beyond a lightweight libertarianism that says we can all get along so long as no one tries to “impose their beliefs” on anyone else. In practice, the creators seemed to acquiesce all too easily to Comedy Central’s imposition of black bars and bleeps on their episode. However, Stone and Parker were exercising their freedom of religious consc…

The ADL is Correct that Antisemitism is Rising — But the Main (and Most Dangerous) Source Isn’t the Left, It’s Always Been the Right

By Shane Burley

…tism function as a centerpiece of the Right’s political project, either in coded forms through ideas like the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, or in explicit forms found amongst neo-Nazis. “We find overt antisemitic attitudes are rare on the left but common on the right,” wrote Eitan Hersh and Laura Royden in their 2023 study analyzing antisemitism “across the ideological spectrum.” This is consistent with the findings of just about every ot…

Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews

By Ben Lorber

On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrorism, immigration, surveillance, intelligence gathering and other apparatuses to “disrupt and degrade” Palestinian rights organizations and a range of progressive funding infrastructure. Spearheaded by Heritage’s National Task Force to Combat Antisemit…

A Love Letter (and Challenge) to Evangelical Women, ‘For Our Daughters’ Documents Devastating Cost of Christian Patriarchy

By Caroline Matas

…it homes in on the stories of sexual abuse—and their cover-ups within the Southern Baptist Convention and beyond—that demonstrate the human cost of a theology that encourages male control over women with few caveats. Among those featured are Christa Brown, who began writing publicly in 2006 about her own abuse at the hands of Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated pastor Tommy Gilmore, sparking a wave of other women to step forward with their own…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

…The Atlantic. This ostensibly centrist magazine has given Moore, a former Southern Baptist Convention bigwig and the current editor-in-chief of the major evangelical magazine Christianity Today, space to rebuke his (mostly White) evangelical coreligionists for spreading the false and harmful narrative that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating people’s pets. Citing the bomb threats that shut down local schools after former president…

Loyalty and Chaos Play a Role in Trump’s Nominations, But This Schoolyard Tactic May Provide a Better Explanation

By Steven Gardiner

Thus far much of the commentary about Trump’s cabinet and staff picks alternates between “He values loyalty above all else” and “He wants to generate chaos and break the federal government.” There’s significant truth in both statements. However, a more fundamental psycho-social program appears to be at work in Trump’s nomination of people like Matt Gaetz for Attorney General and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services—as…