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Census Reveals Gay People are Shockingly… Normal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ss the United States. Even here in my own incredibly conservative state of South Carolina, the number of same-sex couples increased and a quarter of them are raising children. It’s those kinds of facts that have right-wing media like the Christian Post scratching their heads, with headlines like this that rival anything over at The Onion: “Gay Couples Spread in U.S., Behave Like Straight Couples” Um, yeah, well, duh. What exactly are gay couples s…

“Real” Evangelicals Don’t Support Trump? Not So Fast…

By Neil J. Young

…sonal life. But Trump’s primary victories in evangelical-heavy states like South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama, pushed that opposition into overdrive. And it’s also prompted evangelical leaders to mount a defense of their faith by tearing apart what they have called the “myth” of the evangelical Trump voter. It’s understandable why they have done so. Portrayed as hypocrites who’ve abandoned their “values voters” reputation for the lust…

Mike Johnson isn’t Just Your Average Christian Right Avatar — He’s Influenced by Fringe Movements Unfamiliar to Most Political Analysts

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ite Christian nationalist (and a true believer at that), part of a growing number who see right-wing reactionary Christianity, White supremacy, and authoritarian politics as an integral part of “real” American identity. Those who do not fall under it must submit, or be forced, if need be, through violence. Johnson was elected to the House of Representatives in 2016, after serving two years in the Louisiana state legislature. Before his time in Con…

As New Poll Finds “Increased Xenophobic Streak,” Republicans Heighten Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

By Sarah Posner

…t of permitting Muslims to immigrate here “lunacy.” He added at a forum in South Carolina that there was “no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror,” and that “we need to be working to provide a safe haven for those Christians who are being persecuted and facing genocide, and at the same time we shouldn’t be letting terrorists into America.” Jeb Bush also said the U.S. should focus on resettling Christians. It’s hard to know who i…

Stephen Broden, Beck’s Black Robed Regiment In Action

By Sarah Posner

…ass Foundation, whose chair, Timothy Johnson (also vice-chair of the North Carolina Republican Party), has a violent criminal record. Broden is a tea party favorite who has spoken at tea party rallies and who claimed at Michele Bachmann’s Code Red rally against health care reform that health care reform was “against the law of nature and nature’s God” and “against the Judeo-Christian ethic that this nation was built upon.” Broden also appears in M…

Huckabee’s Second Bapticostal Bid for the GOP Nomination

By Sarah Posner

…Romney, who also did, splitting the evangelical vote in states like South Carolina with John McCain, Huckabee was unable to pull out a victory. That led to some regrets and recriminations later, when religious right leaders realized they were stuck with McCain, an evangelically inadequate candidate (until he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate). Huckabee is one candidate who can cleverly navigate different parts of Evangelical-Land, especially…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

…feminism continue to haunt the Tea Party and the Republicans this week. Is South Carolina’s Nikkie Haley Christian enough for the evangelicals in her state? How can Sarah Palin claim to be a feminist? Or is she just another member of the Reproductive Right? While our own Sarah Posner’s conversation with Mollie Ziegler Hemingway about religion and politics was featured on the NYTimes.com site, others argue that journalism has replaced religion as t…

Atheists Battle for High School Clubs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…on to such clubs is based in religion—as was the fight over a GSA in Irmo, South Carolina. The principal of Irmo High School, Eddie Walker, eventually resigned over the club, later saying he opposed it because he views “the world from a biblical perspective and my view of that was that it was wrong.” Gays and lesbians are not alone in their battle for high school clubs. Next up: atheists. The Secular Student Alliance, which promotes atheism and hu…

2012 GOP Candidate Would Reinstate DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…serve is not too far from the Army base at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. Because of our proximity to the Air Force Chaplain Corps College housed there we often get chaplain students attending our services. It’s part of their training to get off the base and attend church services of denominations that they may not otherwise experience. A uniformed young man showed up at one of our services recently and, as part of his assignment, inter…

The Revival of the Pastors’ Policy Briefings

By Sarah Posner

…If the Iowa Renewal Project — if not the ones in later primary states like South Carolina and Florida — helped Huckabee win the caucuses there, having other presidential hopefuls will certainly dilute the meetings’ apparent endorsement of one candidate over another. One thing is certain though: there won’t be any dilution of the “Judeo-Christian heritage” themes by any of the candidates who want to get the Iowa advantage, even supposedly culture w…