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Are Southern Baptists Softening Stance on Immigration?

By Mike Greer

In recent comments after visiting Central American refugees in Texas, the Southern Baptists’ emerging point man in the culture wars, Russell Moore, cleverly managed to capitalize on the polarizing problem, even after the public statement of Texas’ Catholic Bishops that “Now is not the moment for inflammatory political rhetoric, but of compassionate and orderly resolution to the conditions of these women and children who are already in a difficult…

McCullen v. Coakley and the Meaning of Protests

By Sarah Posner

…ss to abortion largely went unnoticed, and thus popularly unopposed, until Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis’s filibuster brought attention to the strategy.”) But even as he is right that this “professionalization” has occurred, harassment and even violence against abortion providers haven’t gone away. As these statistics on violence and disruption of abortion providers compiled by the National Abortion Federation show, such incidents have decreased, a…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…s in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in El Paso, Texas, were granted asylum in December. Jagdish Kumar and Sukhwinder Sukhwinder left India in June 2012 and travelled by various means for a year through Dubai, Cyprus and several South and Central American countries before arriving on foot from Mexico at the Texas border. The two had no visas, but immediately applied for political asylum at the border and were taken into I…

How Steve Stockman Is Challenging John Cornyn Without Religion

By Sarah Posner

…nslation: I have a biblical worldview.) “I was the original sponsor of the Sanctity of Life Act and will block any federal judge who is not 100% pro-life.” (I.e., those black-robed tyrants who are legislating anti-Christian law from the bench.) “I am sponsoring the Sanctity of Life Act again, H.R. 2764. It would automatically overturn Roe v. Wade, protecting human life between conception and birth.” (Fertilized eggs are persons, with God-given co…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…ing passage, Lankford compares two mass shootings in 2009: that of Nidal Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist who killed 13 servicemen and women and wounded 29 at Fort Hood, Texas, and George Sodini, who killed 3 women and wounded 12 at a Pennsylvania fitness club. Both men had no friends, work issues, difficulties meeting women, and felt victimized—Sodini by women and Hasan by his fellow soldiers for being a Muslim. And both men intended to die. Sodin…

Religion and the GOP’s Immigration Problem

By Sarah Posner

…The Tea Party audience booed Perry when he reiterated his support for the Texas law, known as the Texas DREAM Act. Perry, as well as the other candidates, refused to endorse the federal DREAM Act, which languishes in Congress and would, if passed, provide a path to citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants who pursue higher education or join the military. The House passed it last year, but Republicans fillibustered it in the Senate. As…

“I’ll Pray For You”—Powerful or Pointless?

By Christine Wicker

…s holy that it’s become a jokey put-down. An atheist friend who lives in Texas grits her teeth every time she hears someone tuck her problems away with the promise to do something she’d rather they didn’t. Turkish author Orhan Pamuk gave one of my favorite practices a killing clout when he noted how often praying for those we pity comforts us while distancing us from the need to do anything else. During my times as a newspaper reporter, I once a…

Akin Revival

By Sarah Posner

…the Missouri Renewal Project, a spin-off of an idea Lane first hatched in Texas, when pastors organized for Governor Rick Perry’s reelection in 2006. They’ve been active in several states since that time; Lane told me in 2008 that their purpose was to “the mobilization of pastors and pews to restore America to her Judeo-Christian heritage.” The Bott Radio Network, one of the sponsors, posted a photo of pastors laying hands on Akin. Hamburger not…

Auditor Calls ‘Gay Parenting’ Study ‘Bullshit’

By Peter Montgomery

…ised by homosexual parents, sociologist Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at Augstin has overturned the conventional academic wisdom that such children suffer no disadvantages when compared to children raised by their married mother and father.” Says Ferguson, “This is not only breathless but inaccurate.” In addition to the audit commissioned by Social Science Research editor Wright, the University of Texas has launched its own investigatio…

Religious Right Elites Still Looking for a Candidate

By Sarah Posner

…greater influence of a local powerbroker— Bob Vander Plaats, who endorsed Santorum. While these leaders could cycle back to Perry, I seriously doubt that will be the result. If there’s anything that evangelicals truly hate, it’s the stereotype that they’re not ready for prime time. But the reality is they are running out of choices, coming down to either Gingrich or Santorum. If an endorsement of either man arrived, that would mark the first time…