Religion Dispatches
…te Republicans have begun to realize the indefensibility of this position. Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, who is a doctor, acknowledged, albeit imperfectly, that jettisoning maternity coverage to attract men to plans would be undesirable, as it’s an issue not limited to women. “As best I can tell, women don’t get pregnant without sperm,” he said. But there’s also an opening for Democrats here amid renewed calls for the party to get with the progr…
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…ead more widely, though—men were also curious about birth and generation.) Cheaply printed and soon translated from German into vernacular languages across Europe, the Rose Garden became a durable best-seller. For midwives, the Rose Garden’s images fulfilled a practical need. Midwives (and other birth attendants) sensed the position of the fetus through touch. When a fetus presented in a position other than head down, a skilled midwife could, in s…
Read More…berate recollection of a lost Eden and an original sin. Walker Percy was a Louisiana Catholic who was acutely sensitive to the unholy marriage of evangelical Christianity, race-baiting rhetoric and the political insanity to which it led. Colin Powell gave subtle voice to that precise worry yesterday. Barack Obama and Colin Powell are men of whom this nation can and should be proud. They have, like the nation they wish to serve, come a very long wa…
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…est in the New World. France’s colonial holdings were vast: called simply “Louisiana,” they encompassed the entire Mississippi River Valley and ran from New Orleans to Canada. But thus far, little had come of the French colonial venture. Law reasoned that the previous failures were due to the fact that these organizations were undercapitalized and poorly managed. He proposed raising one hundred million livres through an initial stock offer of 200,…
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…uding House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Bobby Jindal, now the governor of Louisiana, Nathan Deal, now the governor of Georgia, and Mike Pence, a conservative hero who’s now running for governor of Indiana. While campaigning for president, Bachmann took up the “tyrannical judges” mantle, this time in connection with the Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling that the state’s gay marriage ban was unconstitutional. She applauded the ouster of “black-robed mast…
Read More…an Family Association and Lane’s American Renewal Project, and promoted by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. According to the Christian Examiner, Jindal wrote a letter promoting the training as well. “There is a great need for the kind of leaders we read about in the Old Testament, ‘The Men of Issachar’ (1 Chronicles 12:32),” wrote the governor and potential presidential candidate. “We need such men and women of wisdom today who will accept the cha…
Read More…uding House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Bobby Jindal, now the governor of Louisiana, Nathan Deal, now the governor of Georgia, and Mike Pence, a conservative hero who’s now running for governor of Indiana. Moore argues in his letter to Bentley today that “The laws of this state have always recognized the Biblical admonition stated by our Lord,” citing Mark 10:6-9 (“But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. . . What therefo…
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…r Dobson. And Perkins has ties with white supremacist groups in his native Louisiana. But the generational challenges facing the religious right go beyond leadership. According to a survey by Edison Media Research, among white evangelicals ages 18 to 29, Barack Obama received double the support in the 2008 presidential election than John Kerry had four years earlier. This was despite the fact that Obama’s social policies were virtually indistingui…
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…s freedom. Rev. Tony Spell of the Life Tabernacle Church near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has repeatedly disobeyed Gov. John Bel Edwards’s stay-at-home orders by holding church services, sometimes busing in hundreds of people to attend. “I pray,” he told worshipers, “that the spirit of God will reveal … that I’m exercising my First Amendment rights and my freedom of worship.” Surely, giving up public worship can be a painful sacrifice. But it’s also a…
Read More…early primary states that weren’t organized around a particular candidate. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is planning a similar event in Baton Rouge next year, and Lane is reportedly inviting 100,000 pastors. In the past, these events have focused on themes like “Rediscovering God in America,” and Lane has described his efforts—which he says date back to the 1990s—as “the mobilization of pastors and pews to restore America to her Judeo-Christian…
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