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Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

…t hosted by former Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2011, and most recently by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal last weekend. About his role in mobilizing evangelicals in the 2008 election, Lane told me, “why the left continues to attack public involvement by folks with faith in the public square is beyond comprehension to most people… What we’re doing is the mobilization of pastors and pews to restore America to her Judeo-Christian heritage. That’s ou…

Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…d increasing political clout since Perkins took the helm in 2003. A former Louisiana state senator himself, Perkins has worked to ingratiate himself with holders of the nation’s highest office since the Reagan years. Perkins made a reported 14 visits to the White House during George W. Bush’s first term and was an integral lobbyist in favor of a bill that would have imposed jail time on doctors and other adults that helped abortion-seekers under 1…

Tim Pawlenty’s Dilemma: How Far Will His Anti-Choice Extremism Go?

By Sarah Posner

…as enjoined pending a legal challenge. This year’s actions bring to 27 the number of states with state-directed counseling requirements in effect. (emphasis added). The Minnesota bill did require that the woman be informed “whether or not an anesthetic or analgesic would eliminate or alleviate organic pain to the unborn child caused by the particular method of abortion to be employed and the particular medical benefits and risks associated with th…

Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide

By Sean O'Neil

…lision.” Two days later on Friday, September 4, football led to tragedy in Louisiana, where Tyrell Cameron, also sixteen, of Franklin Parish High School, died after breaking his neck on a punt return. The day after that, a linebacker for Georgetown University named Ty Williams broke five vertebrae in his neck on a tackle that initially left him with partial movement and minimal feeling in his legs. It is now impossible to ignore the risks of the g…

Student Says He’s Ostracized for Objecting to Graduation Prayer

By Lauri Lebo

So, a kid at a Louisiana high school sends an email to the school superintendent, pointing out that not everyone is a Christian in his school, or even a believer in God. The kid also says that if the district holds its traditional prayer at the May 20 graduation ceremony, he will be forced to call the American Civil Liberties Union. The district consults with its solicitor and sure enough, the lawyer tells them that government-led prayer violates…

Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right

By R.L. Stollar

…win in these leagues. Laralee Herron, who competed in homeschool debate in Louisiana from 2003 to 2005, told RD that, in her experience, “there is no true spirit of debate there.” Rather, “most [competitors] merely gave speeches instead of engaging in actual debate. [The leagues were] not used as an opportunity to learn, but rather to affirm and accept fundamentalist ideology.” When debate backfires Even with the many guardrails set in place by th…

A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…ent with strong religious beliefs. Trump cannot even pretend to qualify. A number of analysts, particularly liberal ones, see it as the big reveal, that the Christian right is right, not Christian. The political right has captured the Christians, not the reverse. It’s about politics, class and honor, not God. Arlie Hochschild, in her new book, Strangers in Their Own Land, based on her ethnography of Calcasieu Parish in Southern Louisiana, explores…

It’s Time to Reconsider Graduation Prayer in Public High Schools

By Bruce Ledewitz

…the Scopes Monkey Trial all over again. This year, that town was Bastrop, Louisiana, and the local atheist student was Damon Fowler, who emailed the superintendent of schools, pointing out the unconstitutionality of the traditional prayer. The prayer was dropped in favor of a moment of silence and predictably the local community was very upset by this action. No one can criticize Fowler. It was courageous of him to stand up for his beliefs when h…

The Archbishop’s Firestorm

By John Witte Jr.

…Massachusetts, which offers 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 partie…

The Battle for the Evangelical Vote

By Sarah Posner

…sponse (hosted by then-Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2011, and this year by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal). Horowitz reports that the AFA “pays him a retainer and provides him with legal and accounting assistance;” in return, AFA “gets its name on all of Mr. Lane’s events and adds to its database the contact information of all the pastors he organizes.” The AFA is known for its virulently anti-gay and anti-immigrant stances, and not just because…