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New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country

By David R. Brockman

…bed of Christian Americanism. Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy recently published my Christian Americanism in Texas Politics since 2008, the first extensive study of the subject. The report profiles the major proponents of Christian Americanism in Texas―politicians and non-governmental activists―and examines the tools they use to promote the ideology. Though focused on Texas, the report has national implications. Several major p…

The Divide Between “Trumpvangelicals” and the Rest of Us

By Jonathan Orbell

…n. Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC’s) public policy arm, has written passionately and persistently against Trump for months now. Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, argued that voting for Trump is something “Jesus Wouldn’t Do.” Most surprisingly, Max Lucado, a notoriously apolitical evangelical pastor and author, penned an op-ed denouncing Trump’s lack of decency. Evangelicals of this…

Public Prayer Verdict Shows Its True Colors

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…invocations, the Town of Greece has recently changed their SCOTUS-approved policy to one that requires invocation-givers to be members of “assemblies with an established presence in the Town of Greece that regularly meet for the primary purpose of sharing a religious perspective.” The standard of “established presence” is already shaky when it comes to town meetings. I grew up in a small town and was dragged to many town meetings as a child, my di…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…ed family morality systems’ that can influence and eventually shape social policy at the United Nations.” Carlson, the Lutheran head of the Illinois-based Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society, is a compelling conservative historian who uses secular arguments to advance religious right ideas. A chief example of this is “The Natural Family Manifesto,” a guiding document of the WCF community, co-written by Carlson and Paul Mero, head of th…

Ross Douthat’s Missing Pregnant Women

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ductive organs, you know? Squicky.) But then we get to this: Beneath these policy debates, though, lie cultural forces that no legislator can really hope to change. The retreat from child rearing is, at some level, a symptom of late-modern exhaustion—a decadence that first arose in the West but now haunts rich societies around the globe. It’s a spirit that privileges the present over the future, chooses stagnation over innovation, prefers what alr…

Who (or What) are Sarah Palin’s Prayer Warriors?

By Sarah Posner

…“Angels and Demons.” He writes that instead of hunkering down and learning policy, she read emails from “prayer warriors” on her Blackberry. On the eve of her debate with Joe Biden, he tells us, she read an email from evangelist Lou Engle telling her it was her “Esther moment” and “your identity is ‘Sarah Barracuda.’” (As I reported at the time, Engle told this to anyone who would listen.) Gross continues with an attempt to explain what a “prayer…

Mormons, Jews Reach Accord Over Proxy Baptism

By Joanna Brooks

…bmitted for baptism by zealous Church members again and again), now that’s changed. New features have been programmed into the computer system that manages millions upon millions of names of deceased individuals submitted for proxy baptism in order to require that Mormons submitting names show direct family lineage and to require them to answer to the Church policy on the Holocaust exemption. As a Mormon woman married to a Jewish man, I could not…

Religious Leaders Pressure Congress To Support Religious Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…discriminate in hiring if they are funded with private money, before Bush changed the policy via executive order, they could not do so if they received federal funds. “This could be fixed by executive order,” said Lynn. “It was dreamed up out of whole cloth by the last administration, they could be eliminated and rewritten by this administration and be in my judgment, comporting with the Constitution and with the civil rights framework of this co…

Rick Santorum’s Crusade To Save “Christendom”

By Sarah Posner

…t not a violent jihadist” because he has been critical of American foreign policy, and innocent lives lost around the world as a result of it. He told Fox News that Rauf isn’t a “moderate” and implied he’s therefore anti-American. Santorum’s attempt to portray Islam as an enemy of America, its values, and indeed western civilization is nothing new. After Santorum lost his Senate seat in 2006, he became the director of the conservative Ethics and P…

Congressional Inaction Leaves Stem-Cell Research At Risk

By Lauri Lebo

…yonic stem cells illegal—including work allowed under the more restrictive policy adopted by President George W. Bush in 2001. For years, private financing has been used to create embryonic stem cell lines, mostly from discarded embryos from fertility clinics. The process destroys the embryos. President Bush agreed to finance embryonic stem-cell research, but limited federally financed research to 21 cell lines already in existence by 2001. Under…