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Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…to reconcile to his American union, whom he had branded “scabs” and wanted reported to immigration authorities. This is far from the whole story. In fact Chavez did organize and reconcile undocumented workers to his union. He also worked to repeal the infamous bracero program which imported exploited laborers from Mexico leading to the law’s 1965 expiration and he traveled to Mexico for a meeting with politicians to discuss improving working condi…

The Conflation of Antisemitism and Israel Criticism Isn’t Unique, But It Is a Problem

By Elizabeth Shively

…oth a political and a religious problem. The media finds it challenging to report on these issues because, not surprisingly, all states that claim to represent a particular tradition claim to embody its most authentic and authoritative version. Who wants to become a theologian to challenge state establishments? Many liberals and leftist critics also prefer to quarantine discussions of religion. These conversations are difficult. Ilhan Omar knows t…

Iowa OKs Gay Marriage, WWCD? (What Will California Do?)

By Bill Berkowitz

…te by the Legislature this year or next, the soonest gay marriage could be repealed would be 2014,” AP pointed out. “Along with a constitutional amendment, the legislature must also enact marriage license residency requirements so that Iowa does not become the gay marriage Mecca due to the Supreme Court’s latest experiment in social engineering,” said Iowa Congressman Rep. Steve King (R-Kiron). (A summary of the decision from the Iowa Supreme Cour…

Rev. Sun Myung Moon Dead at 92

By Sarah Posner

…n Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin—the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him, calling him “none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Re…

Gingrich’s Apocalyptic Fantasies, Again

By Sarah Posner

…The instigator of a Congressionally-authorized Commission to study EMP is Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, a Maryland Republican and Seventh-Day Adventist profiled in the denomination’s magazine Spectrum for his role in a survivalist documentary in which he “shares his fear of impending threats to America and advocates that people move out of urban areas.” And even though the EMP is nothing more than sci-fi fantasy, according to experts, Bartlett’s theories…

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…didly about his personal Christian faith. Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, spoke about what good might come out of the Arizona shooting tragedy. One of the rescued Chilean mine workers, Jose Henriquez, described the spiritual practices of the miners while they were trapped underground. The Prayer Breakfast continued to face criticism and protest, especially from gay rights advocates, angry with the breakfast’s organizers a…

Arkansas’s Creationism Bill is Also Motivated by Anti-Trans Bigotry

By Andrew L. Seidel

…be simply coincidence, but the genesis of the creationism bill is telling. Rep. Mary Bentley preached a creationist sermon on the House floor (see below) urging her colleagues to pass the anti-trans youth bill on March 10. The very next day, March 11, she sponsored and proposed her new bill to put creationism in public schools. The former seems to have sparked the latter. A day later, March 12, Bentley recounted and posted her anti-trans creationi…

Defense Bill Contains Stealth Attack on LGBT Rights

By Patricia Miller

…a new strategy in continued battles over religiously-based discrimination. Republican Rep. Steve Russell added an amendment to the Defense appropriations bill that would require the government to grant religious organizations it contracts with “protections and exemptions” consistent with the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The only problem is, these laws don’t contain any LGBT anti-discrimination protections, so harmonizi…

“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local

By Frederick Clarkson

…and for biblical truth in the public square.” This event featured Wommack, Republican U.S. Reps. Doug Lamborn and Lauren Boebert (who has, just this week, been identified as a liaison with the organizers of the January 6 assault on the US Capitol); evangelist Mario Murillo, Pastor Duane Sheriff, Christian Right activist Bishop E.W. Jackson and Coalition executive director, Richard Harris. (Videos of their presentations are available here.) About a…

Silence of Latino Religious Leaders Enable GOP Tolerance of Trump Spectacle

By Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh

…their church members? Well, there are always those spurious religious freedom cases to rally around, making sure the local panaderia doesn’t make a dulce de leche cake for the wrong wedding party. So what indeed are we all left with when spectacle is virtuous because it’s spectacle? Because it’s empty of ethical motives and empty of just consequences? We’re precisely here, where Latino/a economic power can shut down some business deals, but can n…