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Gingrich IA Political Director Resigns after “Cult of Mormon” Comments Go Public

By Joanna Brooks

…eaving his organization scrambling to meet filing deadlines in states like Ohio and Missouri. And this is not the first time carelessness has cost Gingrich key staff members in Iowa. In May 2011, Iowa political director Will Rogers resigned—along with the entire Iowa staff—out of sheer frustration with Gingrich’s lack of organization. Is it possible that Gingrich could have saved himself this embarrassment by vetting Bergman a little more closely…

The Speech Mitt Romney Never Gave

By Joanna Brooks

…they left their towns and their farms and moved into Mormon communities in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois—to practice their faith as a way of life. They dreamed that old biblical dream of building “Zion”—a place where, as the Old Testament teaches, there would be no strangers. It’s a dream that shares so much in common with the American dream: of starting over, of building on this beautiful continent a place of opportunity. But people with big drea…

Glenn Beck Hijacks It’s a Wonderful Life

By Lauri Lebo

…how, he announced he was going to do his show from the town of Wilmington, Ohio on December 15. Of the countless towns across the country hard hit by the recession, Wilmington, which has only about 12,000 people, may be one of the worst. After the international shipping firm DHL restructured and pulled up stakes in 2008, approximately 9,000 people from the area lost their jobs. Beck claims the town “is fighting to be Bedford Falls, not Pottersvill…

Election Takeaway: Fake God Talk Doesn’t Cut It with Americans

By Anthea Butler

…s and their audience, claiming there was still a path for Romney to win in Ohio. Now, Rove and the RNC’s fates are linked with the hard-line religious ideologues whose power is on the wane. From Akin’s “legitimate” rape to Richard Mourdock’s “semi-omnipotent God,” the party looks like a version of Inherit the Wind without the monkeys to provide levity. No matter how much Glenn Beck believed that Romney could win, or Billy Graham’s pretense that h…

Christian Nationalist Judge Strikes Down FDA-Approved Abortion Pill for Brazenly Ideological Reasons

By Andrew L. Seidel

…e Mojave desert. And trying to get Jesus portraits up in public schools in Ohio. The Institute’s founder, Kelly Shackelford, often preaches about his work in churches. He has ties to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who praised Shackelford’s work to mega-donors shortly after Alito joined the high court: “Sam told us that Kelly is someone we should know,” he wrote in an email and confirmed to the New York Times. As I wrote in American Crusade: “…

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…with Fox News. In 2004, it meant preachers crisscrossing swing states like Ohio, campaigning simultaneously for George W. Bush’s reelection and the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. But just three election cycles later, opposing same-sex marriage, particularly portraying it as catastrophic to the maintenance of “Christian values,” clashes profoundly with rapid and unprecedented changes in the law and cultural attitudes. Facing what many on both si…

Conservative Catholic Elites Oppose Trump… as He Rides Catholic Vote to Victory in Michigan

By Patricia Miller

…demagogue LGBT people to get the crucial margin of victory in states like Ohio to win a second term. (Remember when “judges from Boston” were going to force sodomites on the good people of the heartland?) And who were similarly silent when the party tried to capitalize on the coded racism of the anti-Obama forces in 2012 or upend the Affordable Care Act, even though the Catholic Church has been advocating for universal health care since Model Ts…

Jews and Christians for Santorum?

By Sarah Posner

A new website, and a new robocall in Ohio, is claiming that Christians and Jews are against Mitt Romney and for Rick Santorum, mostly because Romney is for your kid’s male teacher wearing a dress and heels to school, and Santorum is for “social sanity.” Here’s the text of the robocall, via the website JewsandChristianstogether.org: Hi, my name is Brian Camenker; I’m a Jew from Massachusetts. And, this is Darcy Brandon; I’m a Christian from Califo…

Voices From the Womb

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…dangered by anti-abortion legislation, as happened during deliberations on Ohio’s “heartbeat” bill. So far all we know is that the fetuses will “speak”—where “speak” means “perform physiological processes that can be detected using medical equipment”—and somehow this “speech” amounts to an opinion which (oh, hey!) neatly matches the opinions espoused by Voices From The Womb. Which is an, er, interesting way of showing respect to a party whom one c…

Freshwater Becomes Martyr in 3…2…1…

By Lauri Lebo

…rs in Genesis has weighed in on last week’s firing of John Freshwater, the Ohio middle-school science teacher who taught students in public school that homosexuality is a sin, evolution is a lie and science can’t be trusted and then burned a cross into a kid’s arm with a Tesla coil. AIG is the young earth creationist apologetics organization which is receiving state tax breaks to build a gigantic Noah’s Ark theme park in Kentucky. AIG’s defense of…