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

By R.L. Stollar

…ong, emotional reactions from people with his rhetoric. Born and raised in California in an evangelical homeschooling family, Eastman currently serves as a Representative in the Alaska State House. In that position since 2017, he’s attracted national attention from his refusal to honor Hmong and Black veterans of the American military, his lifetime membership with the far-right militia organization Oath Keepers, his support of child marriage, and…

Talking Prop. 8: Of Rites and Rights

By Peter Laarman

…has been struck down, a Notice of Appeal has been filed, and the State of California and its citizens await the judges ruling with regard to the resumption of same-sex marriages. It seems certain that the appeal will, in all likelihood, reach the Supreme Court—and for that reason among others, this remains an important landmark case to watch. I’d like to start out by asking Candace to discuss how religion has been a powerful obstacle for gays and…

It’s Only a Game: How Not to Think about Video Game Violence

By Joanna Brooks

…o game producers, upholding a federal appeals court decision overturning a California state law (passed in 2005 but never enforced) that prohibited the sales of violent video games to minors. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia presented the 7-2 ruling as a defense of free speech and the free circulation of ideas. That’s been a consistent theme for the Roberts court, which in recent years has in the name of freedom of speech legalized…

It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton

By Paul Harvey

…burban warriors” who empowered the rise of the Goldwater Right in Cold-War California, and then to what came to be called the “New Christian Right” of the 1970s and 1980s. Communism disappeared from the enemies list after 1989 (except for older Christian Right stalwart David Noebel, who keeps even that faith while leading the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade even into his retirement), but Islam, an economic “New World Order,” the “gay agenda,” the…

To Be Atheist, Feminist, and Black

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…emporary media. What’s your next book? A novel on a disreputable physicist’s drive to establish an all-black suburban development in Southern California in the era before the mortgage lending debacle….

Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

By Frederick Clarkson

…ok, Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement, is a very readable analysis of exactly how powerless Mexican Americans, led by the legendary Cesar Chavez, overcame impossible odds to form the United Farm Workers union while capturing the heart and the imagination of the nation. But Ganz wants to do much more than to retell a familiar story; he seeks to find in this analysis lessons that t…

Conservatives Panic as Gay Marriage Looms

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e conservatives have seen the writing on the wall and are ready to concede California to the devil rather than take the chance of a SCOTUS decision in favor of same-sex marriage. Mother Jones reports that David Barton, a religious right activist who served as vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party from 1998 to 2006, in an appearance on American Family Radio told his conservative comrades to let the gays win this one: Well, I’m telling you, th…

Anti-Gay Marriage Arguments for Prop. 8 Fall Short

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntral question as he and two other judges heard from both sides on whether California’s ballot measure banning marriage equality for gays and lesbians should stand. Charles Cooper, a lawyer who argued in favor of Prop. 8 using some difficult to follow circular logic, argued that California has a rational reason for distinguishing between same-sex and opposite sex couples, and therefore to deny marriage equality. Cooper argued that if the word “mar…

LDS Church Response to Prop. 8 Begs Question of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

…The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints regrets today’s decision. California voters have twice determined in a general election that marriage should be recognized as only between a man and a woman. We have always had that view. Courts should not alter that definition, especially when the people of California have spoken so clearly on the subject. Millions of voters in California sent a message that traditional marriage is crucial to socie…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ional seminary training, including a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, most of the NAR leaders have not. This contributes to the elusive nature of their religious identities and offices. But even while abhorring traditional higher education, NAR leaders are seeking to establish their own forms of credentialing, such as Wagner University and the controversial new Kingdom University. Apostolic governance Wagner was the movement’s gui…