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Georgia Legislator Behind Bill Criminalizing Miscarriage is Christian Reconstructionist

By Julie Ingersoll

…te legislature’s website claims he “has been called ‘the conscience of the Republican Caucus’ because he believes that civil government should return to its biblically and constitutionally defined role.” That same website has a nifty little option that allows you to sort proposed bills according to their sponsors; so it was easy to get a sense of what he means by government’s biblically-defined role. He sponsored legislation to eliminate restricti…

The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

…patriarchy and a soulless planet-destroying capitalism are joined at the hip, there is indeed hope for a different kind of future. I began this assessment by lamenting insipidity and lack of focus among Religious Left leaders, and there is plenty of that to be sure. Dereliction of duty is nothing new, and there’s no point in sugarcoating the bad news. But I also give thanks at year’s end for the righteous remnant. I give thanks for all those who…

Suspicion of the Modern Age: The Pope Regresses

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…conservative bloc that worked against the Liberal reforms and self-stated “new openness to the modern world,” that were the crowning achievements of the Second Vatican Council. Since 1979, the Papal establishment has been hard art work to roll back the Liberal achievements of that Council. They are announcing a new suspicion of the Modern age. In fact, it was LeFebvre who consecrated these four bishops on 30 June 1988, and their excommunication ha…

Conservatives Stoke Fear of Fifth Column

By Sarah Posner

…rion Fund, which has ties to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish group Aish Hatorah, promotes its films to neoconservative and Christian-right audiences, who no doubt hear a familiar ring to the charges of Myrick et al. But despite its efforts to make these charges seem like a “moderate” view, they are far outside the mainstream. When I wrote about the Clarion Fund and its films last year, Paul Barrett, an editor at Business Week and author of American Isla…

Education, Texas-Style

By Lauri Lebo

…hers protected religious freedom in America by barring the government from promoting or disfavoring any particular religion above all others.” The list goes on… But they went too far when they voted to cut the writings of Thomas Jefferson from a discussion of Enlightenment ideas and the impact they had on political revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century. (They also cut out the word “Enlightenment.”) Of course, Jefferson, a deist who…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…ory of Ferguson is a whole lot longer.” Tyler recognized each of them and knew them by name. She had become well-acquainted with them during the first 100 days of protests after August 9th. Many of them were the same officers who beat, gassed and arrested her along with other protesters. Her decision to become an activist and start the social justice organization Hands Up United was further complicated by the fact her father is a Missouri police o…

Bringing the Senate Back to Decency: An Election Day Morning After

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…himself to learn after this midterm election. Not more coddling of old and new right-running Republican legislators. There has been enough of that already, and he has reaped a bitter harvest. He has emboldened some of the most vociferous candidates who really got their hate on this season. The president ran on the promise of dramatic change; he is a leader of uncommon ability and gravitas. Time to lead, then. It would take a president uniquely gif…

The Quixotic Task of Debunking David Barton

By Paul Harvey

…hat he believed not in a “wall of separation” of church and state but in a Republic that would actively promote Christianity, that his sexual morality was unimpeachable, that he didn’t really edit out the miraculous stories of the New Testament, that he founded the Virginia Bible Society, and on and on. They find without fail that the claims fall into one of the following categories: 1) complete falsehoods (there are plenty of those); 2) mislead…

The Penis+Vagina Monologues

By Sarah Posner

…ute’s alleged “loopholes.” What’s more, since Arizona, unlike its neighbor New Mexico, doesn’t recognize sexual orientation as a protected class in its anti-discrimination laws, all the photographers and bakers and everyone else in Arizona were already perfectly free to turn LGBT people away without legal consequences. In that sense, sure, SB 1062 wasn’t anti-gay, it was double-anti-gay because its sponsors clearly thought the state’s already disc…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…ions subsequently led to Russia’s occupation of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria. President Obama “deepen[ed] U.S. ties and U.S. trade with Communist regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia.” In the Middle East, “in mid-2010 Iran launched a nuclear bomb which exploded in the middle of Tel Aviv, destroying much of that city.” Israel was forced to “cede huge amounts of territory to the Palestinians,” and now “its future remains unce…