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

By Frederick Clarkson

…s, and anti-gay adoption bills that are being considered by both houses in Kansas, as well as in Oklahoma. Both houses of the Georgia legislature considered this kind of bill during its legislative session this year and they’re expected to be carried over into the 2019 session. These bills don’t seem to be based on the Project Blitz model, but are similar in intent.Whatever their current legislative fate, Project Blitz clearly envisions them as pa…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…s, and anti-gay adoption bills that are being considered by both houses in Kansas, as well as in Oklahoma. Both houses of the Georgia legislature considered this kind of bill during its legislative session this year and they’re expected to be carried over into the 2019 session. These bills don’t seem to be based on the Project Blitz model, but are similar in intent.Whatever their current legislative fate, Project Blitz clearly envisions them as pa…

Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable

By Mary E. Hunt

…wish them well. The obviously forced resignation of Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph Missouri three years after his conviction of failing to report the strong suspicion of child sexual abuse is some evidence that public outcry matters. But in an age of instantaneous communication, three years is practically a generation and that generation is out the door. Moreover, the newly named Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, Chile is alleged to hav…

America’s Savior: Lincolnolatry’s Hidden Cost

By Peter Laarman

…ffusions, and the 12-day procession of the casket by rail through New York City and then slowly on to Springfield. As Lepore writes, it is the very stuff of legend—and dangerous legend. It leaves in place the mistaken but still very widespread notions that Father Abraham was somehow moved by compassion to free the poor defenseless slaves and that bringing release to the captives was in fact a primary part of Lincoln’s presidential ambition. Neithe…

New Accusations Force the Question: Will Bishops “Be Held Accountable” on Sexual Abuse, as Francis Promised?

By Patricia Miller

…for years) did move immediately to force out Jamie Moore, the long-time music director at St. Victoria Catholic Church in Victoria, Minnesota, the minute he found out that Moore had married his partner the previous weekend. And while it’s true that Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn, who was found guilty of failing to report a priest who had pornographic pictures of young girls on his computer, is now under investigation by the Vatican, it took two ye…

Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…ls, a problem that has persisted since the 1925 Scopes Trial. In 2005, the Kansas State Board of Education voted to allow Intelligent Design to be taught in science classes as an alternative theory to evolution. Intelligent Design (or ID), which has been described as “Creationism presented in non-religious terms,” posits that certain features of the universe are best explained by an intelligent designer (read: God). Proponents of ID argue that stu…

ID, Please Come Out

By Paul Wallace

…ght alongside evolution in Missouri’s science classrooms. According to the Kansas City Star, Brattin says the bill is “not about religion.” Yet in the selfsame report he says, “I keep pointing to a Gallup poll that shows 90 percent of Americans believe in a higher power. And yet our schools only teach that we emerged from primordial ooze. I think students should get both sides of the issue and get to come to their own conclusions.” The logical fal…

Presbyterians Re-ordain First Openly Gay Minister

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tion,” said Margie Phelps, daughter of Fred Phelps, founder of the Topeka, Kansas-based church which coined the phrase “God hates fags.” The man who delivered the sermon at Anderson’s re-ordination used to feel that way. Just two years ago Rev. Mark Achtemeier of Dubuque, Iowa, was leading the charge against the ordination of gay and lesbian ministers – but stunned his followers with an about-face on the issue: In an interview, Achtemeier, 56, sai…

Gay-Bashing the Religious Right’s Forever Issue

By Peter Montgomery

…oing to fight that with everything we have. The law of the land is marriage between and man and a woman and that needs to be upheld.” Freshman Republican Mike Pompeo of Kansas chimed in, “we cannot use military to promote social ideas that do not reflect the values of our nation.”…

Perry v. Romney Showdown Tonight

By Joanna Brooks

…surgency.” Perry nabbed an endorsement from Sam Brownback, the governor of Kansas and former Senator. Perry continues to work his appeal to religious conservatives, dancing with the folks who brought him this far. (As Sarah Posner reported here at RD Tuesday, Perry appointed as co-chairs of his Florida campaign notable evangelical Christians including John Stemberger of the Florida Family Policy Council, he who claimed that Mitt Romney was “not Mo…