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Religious Right: God Should Kill Health Care Reform to Save America from Herod

By Sarah Posner

…We, black and white, brown and yellow, rich and poor, urban and suburban, Republican, Democrats, and independents, come together and rise against the spirit of Herod, a culture of death and moral relativism. We need your kingdom come and thy will to be done. Let this nation once again adhere to the very tenets of our republic, one truly committed to life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, in Jesus’ name we pray. Now we know what Rodriguez mea…

Rand Paul Is Not Anti-Authority

By Sarah Posner

…e the story of Rand Paul’s college hijinks in GQ, took to the pages of The New Republic (where Jonathan Chait started the handwringing in the first place) to denounce the ad as the “most despicable of the year.” If that’s the case, then Zengerle’s own reporting falls into the same category. In his TNR blog post, he complains that “no candidate over the age of, say, 30 should be held politically accountable for anything he or she did in college—sho…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…esolve to press forward.” The conservative media machine, from Live Action News, to Newsbusters, to Free Republic, ran with Mason’s story of being attacked by violent pro-choice advocates, pushing the narrative that violent assaults against pro-life Americans are on the rise. The Daily Beast reacted on the day of the press release by publishing its third story on the Masons in the space of a week, complete with the same home vandalism photos the a…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lanes pulling banners utilizing similar graphics to the anti-trans bus ads promoted by religious conservatives in several countries this year. El Pais notes connections between HazteOir and its activist cousin CitizenGo and Alexey Komov, WCF’s Putin-connected representative in Russia, and asks whether the groups may serve, intentionally or not, as agents of Russian foreign policy goals. Australia: Supreme Court OKs mail ballot on marriage, opponen…

Church and State in Japan: The Case of the Yasukuni Shrine

By Mark R. Mullins

…ead international concern. The governments of South Korea and the Peoples’ Republic of China issued strong official statements and criticisms of his actions. It did not escape notice in the United States either. At a hearing before the House of Representatives Committee on International Relations on September 14, 2006, Republican Henry Hyde and Democratic member Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, both expressed their concerns about Japan’s “histori…

How Steve Stockman Is Challenging John Cornyn Without Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ts,” proclaiming: You are in a foxhole fighting to save our constitutional Republic… …and the last thing you need is a Republican bayonet in your back. But that’s what liberal John Cornyn has been doing to you every day. And we have less than 90 days to stop him. Stockman is known as a Tea Party Republican, one for whom the rigid conservatism of all those RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) is not pure enough. (Even WorldNetDaily, hardly one to shir…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…cracy; a Martin Luther baroque. Both churches fashion themselves a kind of new Israel, both hold up living apostles, and neither uses crosses in worship. Both situate latter-day revelations in the New World, and employ Mesoamerican imagery in their art and architecture. Both have centralized authorities headquartered in unlikely towns. And both movements favor dramatic temples that resemble, to varying degrees, the unfortunate love child of Washin…

DeSantis is a No-Show, the Right’s ‘Secret Sauce,’ and Final Thoughts on Pray Vote Stand

By PRA Staff

…ure warriors, as it says in 1 Chronicles 12:32, “understood the times and knew what to do.” Like many other speakers, Griffin lavishes praise upon Tony Perkins, saying God “knew how to use” Perkins to advance the movement forward. Next Sam Brownback, longtime Christian Right operative and Former Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom in the Trump administration, speaks to the crowd. Brownback refers to the Christian Right’s long standing legal…

Céad Mile Fáilte: Open Hearts, Shifting Power Paradigms, and the Irish Same-Sex Referendum

By Gareth Higgins

…to meet the needs or answer the questions most of us have. Religion in the Republic of Ireland cannot avoid this any more, and even the Archbishop of Dublin says that he knows the Church needs a “reality check.” In the North, however, where space to talk about these things was squeezed out for so long by the Troubles, we’ve only just begun to have a public conversation about pluralism, and hardly even started to talk about the possibility that LGB…

This is Not a Religion Column: Christian Candidate Quiz Bowl

By Jeff Sharlet

…conspiracy, and money laundering. And yet, if there is this sense in those newly expanded liberal circles that the Republican Party is broken, shattered from within, there remains dangerous confusion about its rank and file. Democrats hope and declare that the Christian Right is a spent force, Timeexclaims that it’s now the Democrats who get religion, and faith-based advisors counsel the party that it will win evangelical voters, stripped of their…