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What Does God Tweet?, AFA Cites Hitler on Gays…

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…hat religious output was declining. The Supreme Court will be ruling on an Arizona program that essentially subsidizes religious education. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State are obviously displeased with the program: “I hope the high court sees through it,” said the executive director on Monday. A blogger at Spiritual Politics wondered whether Catholic Supreme Court justices would recuse themselves in the Doe v. Holy See case…

A Fleeting Moment of Democracy for California’s Same-Sex Couples

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…amendment in November and Republican candidate John McCain’s home state of Arizona considering the same. Twenty-seven states already have Constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage. If heterosexual marriage were so sacred, we’d expect conservatives to be just as noisy about television shows like The Bachelor, or a host of other programs that cavalierly join people in matrimony for a bump in the Nielsen ratings. But we don’t. Cultural…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…lic schools” where children are a “captive audience.” She observed that in Arizona, for example, “They had already passed a law allowing IGWT posters to hang in the public schools. This year, they passed a law allowing the state motto, “God Enriches,” to hang on the wall alongside it. Each step might seem minor, but students will now be attending schools that send these two religious messages to students every day.” “For students who don’t believe…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…s for Senate Sharron Angle (Nevada), Marco Rubio (Florida), J.D. Hayworth (Arizona), David Vitter (Louisiana), Tom Coburn (Oklahoma), and Jim DeMint (South Carolina), as well as eight House candidates. The Angle campaign embraced the endorsement, with her spokesperson saying, “Not only is Mrs. Angle unafraid of guns, but she is also unafraid to stand up against those who would attempt to deny the legal rights of other gun owners.” Pratt, whose adv…

Will Trump’s Weakness Threaten White Evangelical Support?

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

…church, Bible in hand, after violently dispersing peaceful protesters. In Arizona last week, he addressed a Students for Trump conference held at an evangelical megachurch: “We don’t back down from left-wing bullies,” he railed, “and the only authority we worship is our God.” Trump’s efforts to woo back evangelical voters through symbolic acts and religious rhetoric, however, have been undercut by a potentially devastating plot twist: the appeara…

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…is trying to get more Muslims writing for TV and movies in Hollywood. The number of US Muslims accused of terrorism dropped by half in 2010, a new study reports. A pair of doves just didn’t want to leave the Pope’s window this week. People who believe the end of the world will come on 12/21/12 are flocking to a French mountain. A Norwegian boy fended off a pack of wolves by terrorizing them with a song by the slightly Christian band Creed. German…

How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking

By Susannah Crockford

…ngs. In my own ethnographic research on the spiritual community in Sedona, Arizona, variations of prosperity consciousness were common. Positive energy attracts positive outcomes, I was told. Abundance, often a byword for wealth, can be manifested through positive thinking and affirmation. Saying “I AM abundant” every morning would bring more money into one’s life. Negative thinking, and by extension negative people, were to be avoided, as if thei…

Romney “Walks the Line” on Immigration

By Joanna Brooks

…ey himself has advocated “self-deportation” and has voiced support for the Arizona-style SB 1070 approach designed to goad immigrants to self-deport. At the same time, his continued flirtation with Marco Rubio as running mate shows that he knows that the GOP long game—and maybe its swing state short game too—depends on appearing…at least appearing…to be Latino-friendly. In fact, the choreography of “walking the line” (and fomenting outrage among b…

Ending DADT = Draft?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he ban.” Since the survey doesn’t show the results Perkins and others like Arizona Senator John McCain want – then the survey must be flawed. ”[T]his study was directed at how to implement the repeal, not whether the repeal should take place or not,” McCain told NBC’s David Gregory Sunday. Which is simply another red herring, because if soldiers were opposed to the repeal then they would be telling pollsters that having openly gay servicemembers w…

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…tched around several city blocks, districts that were used to double-digit numbers were overwhelmed with thousands of participants, and the vast majority were adamant Sanders supporters. The night was unprecedented in the modern Mormon world. https://twitter.com/sltrib/status/710953531021221888 Close observers expected the “Mormon Vote” to go Sanders’s way—the latest polling had him up eight points, Sanders held huge rallies in both states, and Hi…