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Palin Goes ‘Hopey-Changey,’ But Don’t Call it Political

By Julie Ingersoll

…e bill; they invoked “states’ rights” and the 10th Amendment in support of Arizona’s controversial immigration law even as they insisted that “we’re not supposed to be talking politics.” Palin even reiterated her thoroughly discredited assertion that “Obamacare” will result in “death panels” and therefore “must be overturned.” At each point the audience cheered loudly—almost defiantly—giving it the air of a campaign rally. John Thrasher (the state…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…akes on supporters of the “freedom to discriminate” law that was passed in Arizona but vetoed by the governor after a national controversy. “After more than a century of segregation,” she writes, “people across the country stood up to refuse another century of shunnings in the name of God.” But she warns against complancency as there are other movements to write “moral” discrimination into law. “After all, the next time, you may be what someone co…

A Lone Blogger vs. the McCain-Hagee Alliance

By Bruce Wilson

…Cain might have prevailed over George W. Bush in that 2000 primary had the Arizona Senator sought the favor of Christian fundamentalist king-makers rather than denouncing them with such rhetoric. Presumably, McCain had access to the results of a landmark 2002 academic study (updating an earlier 1994 study) on the influence of the Christian right in American state-level GOP party structures. Kimberly Conger and John C. Green’s study, entitled “Spre…

Mauled by an Angel: Why Do Americans Need “God’s Secret Agents”?

By W. Scott Poole

…” Lucky for us, the archangel Michael is on our side and a waitress in the Arizona desert is giving birth to a child who embodies some kind of messianic hope and so must be kept alive. The thin and mostly uninspired plot plays out with a host of angelic terminators trying to finish off this divine John Connor, as Michael tries to prevent his murder. What is interesting, however, is that Stewart never lets God off the hook in the way one might expe…

Kavanaugh Hearings Are a Commentary on Mormonism

By Holly Welker

…to go through a church court and excommunication. Norman Hancock of Mesa, Arizona, decided he wanted to leave the church on his own terms and was outraged when the church excommunicated him anyway. He had to sue the church for $18 million before the church created a pathway for people to leave without being tried, convicted, and labeled excommunicants. So situations like the one Hatch finds so repugnant are integral to LDS experience. There were…

Caught in a Fever Dream of Originalism, Can SCOTUS Majority Learn the Lessons of Early America Before it’s Too Late?

By J.L. Tomlin and Thomas Lecaque

…icans to contest votes from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. The fever dreams of originalism, of Founders’ intentions, of the mythological idea that Revolutionary America wanted the union of church and state—be it Charlie Kirk’s ramblings or the Black-Robed Regiment idea popular in the Christian Right—are completely ahistorical. From the earliest stages of colonization, British Americans inherited a British imperial worldvie…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…march drew tens of thousands – or hundreds of thousands depending on whose numbers you believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the culmination of weeks of protest organized by the National Front for the Family. Days before, the Supreme Court ruled that adoption by same-sex couples should be considered, like other adoptions, according to the best interest of the child. In preparation for Saturday’s anti-marria…

Ben Carson’s Flat Tax Gets the Bible Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…roposal is based on biblical tithing is a “radical oversimplification in a number of ways,” says a tax lawyer and expert on the tithing concepts described in the Old Testament. Adam Chodorow, a professor of law at Arizona State University, has written extensively on whether flat tax proposals that purport to be based on the biblical system of tithing accurately reflect the systems described in the text—and, significantly, rabbinical interpretation…

The Archbishop’s Firestorm

By John Witte Jr.

…rs traditional marriage and same-sex marriage, to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Arizona, where couples are offered either a simple contract marriage or a covenant marriage with more rigorous rules of entrance and exit. Still other options now draw in religious law, too. In more than twenty states, marriages arranged by Hindu, Muslim, and Unification Church officials have been upheld, with divorce the only option left for parties who claim coercion or s…

Memo To Kathleen Parker on ‘Father Sky’ Reference in Tucson Memorial

By Daniel Schultz

…all right, I understand. Religion isn’t your beat. Besides, New Mexico and Arizona are exactly alike. How is a major CNN contributor like you to know what they do out in the sticks? And sure, “Father Sky and Mother Earth” isn’t exactly “In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” It’s downright weird, isn’t it? It’s almost as bad as “Brother Sun” or “Sister Moon,” or “Brothers Wind and Air.” Really? How about “Sister Water”? C’mon…