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God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…stablishment Clause theory—that Obama is not a “natural-born citizen,” a designation that would render him ineligible to be president due to his “divided loyalties.” Deuteronomy 17, he insists, demands that that the “king” be selected from one’s own “brethren.” As an outsider Obama isn’t a “real” American, worthy—according to the Bible or the Constitution—of being president. The “Judicial Tyranny” Canard In 2003, motivated by Moore’s Ten Commandme…

Paranoia Over Foreigners in Egypt Eclipsed by Cooperation

By H.A. Hellyer

…des, although in different ways. In anti-government Tahrir Square, I saw a sign instructing Americans to stay out of Egypt’s business – while I heard pro-government supporters (peacefully queuing along with everyone else to get into Tahrir) claiming that foreign agents were in the middle of all this. Not that this translated into any sort of unsafe environment for foreigners in Tahrir itself. Tahrir, despite being the scene of a protest bereft of…

Tiger’s Confession: Maybe Marriage Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

By Anthea Butler

…idealized vision of marriage, and the danger and excitement of infidelity. Signs and statistics however, point to an erosion of the institution of marriage and its meaning. Conservatives refer to marriage as a sacred institution, for heterosexuals only, and liberals refer to it as a right for all, straight or gay, which should be easily dissolvable if the couple so chooses. The struggles over same sex marriage are embedded in a version of this het…

Romney and the End-Times

By Sarah Posner

…lyptic preacher John Hagee. I would very much like to know whether they co-sign Hagee’s apocalyptic visions. I want to know the same answers about Romney, but not because he’s Mormon. Equally as pertinent to what Romney himself believes is what he thinks his base believes, and to what extent, as president, he’d be worrying about placating them. Remember, he was trying to show Mickelson he believes the same things evangelicals do. He’s running for…

Can’t “Truss” a White Conservative’s Pledge

By Anthea Butler

…is a white male conservative authoring some sappy pledge for candidates to sign. After reading the report on John Ensign and Mark Sandford hitting the Appalachian Trail, and the RNC using funds at a sex-themed voyeur nightclub, moralizing, asinine pledges aren’t going to stop anyone, including the candidates, from having sex and watching lots of porn. Add in the ahistoricism of the right, and it’s laughable that any pledge from this hypocritical b…

Beyond Christianity or Creed: Religion of Realism from a Chicago Cop

By Spencer Dew

…write the terms on yet another scrap of paper. ‘Do they go together? Can a sign of the right realism be that it leads to this religion?’” With Whitman, with Melville, Preib feels and is drawn to “their strong conviction, a faith in their writing, a religious sense.” Indeed, he is a devotee of this religion himself; his car littered, literally, with fragments of thoughts and observations, artifacts of his commitment to “a kind of faith that lingers…

A Marriage Manifesto… Of Sorts

By Tom Ackerman

Editor’s Note: Welcome new readers! If you like this post sign up for RD’s daily email newsletter here. —- I no longer recognize marriage. It’s a new thing I’m trying. Turns out it’s fun. Yesterday I called a woman’s spouse her boyfriend. She says, correcting me, “He’s my husband,” “Oh,” I say, “I no longer recognize marriage.” The impact is obvious. I tried it on a man who has been in a relationship for years, “How’s your longtime companion, Jil…

Bryan Fischer’s Homophobic Attacks on Romney’s Spox

By Sarah Posner

…ue with Grenell over his criticism of the Bush administration’s failure to sign a December 2008 U.N. resolution that called for decriminalizing homosexuality across the globe. While at the United Nations, Grenell fought unsuccessfully to have his partner, Matt Lashey, listed among the spouses in the United Nations’s Blue Book, a personnel directory. “It’s concerning that you would have somebody tapped to be potentially in an administration that wo…

Evangelicals Looking for Walker to “Do Nothing” in 2016 Election

By Sarah Posner

…, crucially, “gets” evangelical culture. Bush’s Right to Rise PAC recently signed Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, as a senior advisor—a move the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody called the move “a big get” for courting the evangelical vote. While Sekulow has been at the forefront of the culture wars, the ACLJ is also one of several religious right legal firms who, for example, brought lega…

Hypocritical Freakout over Shari’ah, but Not Biblical Law

By Sarah Posner

…nstitution. As a law professor correctly noted in the article, “If we both sign a contract agreeing to be governed by German law, then Florida courts will interpret German law.” Such arrangements are also, notably, quite common in religious settings. Let’s take one example apropros to the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act: the Christian health care sharing ministries who lobbied for and received an exemption from the individual mandate in the…