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Catholic Charities Cuts Off Health Insurance To Employees’ Spouses in DC

By Sarah Posner

…currently aiming to pass the Senate version via reconciliation, to avoid a Republican filibuster, and Rep. Stupak has continued to insist he has the votes to block it in the House. That threat, though, might prove toothless, as some members who voted against the bill in November might switch their votes this time around. But the bishops’ continued opposition to a bill—just like its moves in D.C. to exclude its own employees’ families from coverage…

The January 6 Select Committee Cannot Ignore This Christian Movement

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ey demanded accountability. They turned to this committee, made up of U.S. Representatives whose lives they saved, who represent the democracy they saved, and they asked for justice and accountability. Our country needs it. But we will only get that reckoning if we grapple with the role that Christian Nationalism played in violently assaulting our democracy. Let’s hope this select committee doesn’t ignore, or worse, cover for, Christian Nationalis…

Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments

By Sarah Posner

…right. At the top of this morning’s alert, it cites Steinhauser’s previous reporting on its lobbying against background checks: Schumer’s spokesman Brian Fallon took note of Gun Owners of America’s role in the debate, tweeting a link to the [New York] Times profile and saying the group ‘is making deal on even background checks extremely hard.’” – TPM Media, “Democrats Blame Gun Owners of America for Gun Control Setback,” April 8, 2013 Julie Ingers…

A Buddhist and a Hindu Walk into the Congress…

By Joanna Piacenza

…er Buddhists in the House, these Asian-born religions are each roughly one rep away from being properly represented. America’s Muslim population is a disputed topic, but the fact that there are only two Muslims in congress almost certainly means they’re underrepresented, which goes along with our country’s fear of putting Muslim men and women in authoritative government roles. In an anonymous poll, 28 of the 535 members of Congress revealed that t…

White Evangelicals More Likely to Watch Fox, Fear Shari’ah Law

By Sarah Posner

…es towards the hearings planned by House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Peter King (R-NY) into what he claims is extremism in the American Muslim community. While the headline on the survey results is “Majority of Americans Say Congressional Hearings on Alleged Extremism In Muslim Communities Are ‘Good Idea,’” the data actually show not that many respondents had actually heard about King’s hearings. The group that was most likely to have h…

The H Word

By Shalom Goldman

…ront of our eyes a similar death and a similar taking away.” The Minnesota Republican’s rhetoric is often bombastic (she has dubbed the president’s health care plan “a monster”), but in using Holocaust imagery, Bachmann may have crossed a line she wasn’t aware of. For the public response—and the response within Congress—to her analogy was swift and critical. In October of 2009 Richard Land, the head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission o…

Larry King’s Immoral Debate on Homosexuality and the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…when they say the command is to love. The command that covers them all, predominant, “love the lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Love your neighbor as yourself.” And so—so, love is the predominant thing. God is love. The scripture says Jesus displays how to do this. Jesus warns religious leaders, strongly, that we must not use the scriptures to point our fingers at other people without letting the fingers point at us a…

Oral Roberts’ Legacy in Televangelism

By Sarah Posner

…nt of ORU over a scandal alleging that he and his wife, Lindsay, diverted donor funds to family vacations and renovations of their Tulsa home. Other ORU alumni include Rep. Michele Bachmann, Ted Haggard, Teen Mania founder Ron Luce, and Christian right “historian” David Barton….

Mike Huckabee’s Fox News Problem

By Sarah Posner

…r, but “in the present climate, that could help him.” They lamented the predominance of signs for Palin and Ron Paul at tea party events. Lewis said, “Palin has a bright personality, there’s so much story around her, it’s almost like she sucks the air out of the room.” “Governor Huckabee is viewed as a statesman and she’s viewed as a celebrity,” said Walker, the Alaskan. I asked these women what they made of Huckabee speaking at the Values Voters…

The Debt Ceiling Crisis and Biblical Economics

By Julie Ingersoll

…h will provide the opportunity for biblically-based Christians to exercise dominion by replacing existing humanistic institutions with biblical ones. In Honest Money, he wrote: “First, the bankers and the politicians will continue to try to make the present system work. This will make the present system worse. Second, there will be a collapse in stages: inflation, then mass inflation, then price controls, then tyranny, and finally a worldwide defl…