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Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…d a consultant to the Romney campaign in 2008. He is a frequent guest on Fox News and has been a panelist for the Washington Post’s On Faith section, where he sought to “expose” the imam behind the Park51 mosque (formerly The Cordoba House), piling on a right-wing campaign to portray the effort as anti-American and supportive of terrorism. “God’s Timing” Bourland was the point person in the establishment of the African Centre for Law and Justice i…

Dear White Evangelicals: A Black Square Ain’t Gonna Cut It

By Jhas Williams

…scribe in totality the ways in which they wish to be treated fairly. It’s exhausting to explain and tiring to unpack. After all, we don’t exactly have a racism-free America to compare it to since, sadly, such a nation has never existed. Besides, how does one person teach another to treat human beings like human beings? But I can tell you without a doubt that a start would have been not being able to count on one hand the number of Black children i…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…eir newfound media savvy the Catholic bishops may want their own concert next year. They would do better offering good coffee and hand warmers. This was the 38th such March for Life. In all likelihood, there will be another one next January 22nd. But let’s call things by their names—a Catholic demonstration that is made to appear far more generic than it is. It reminds me of the theological sleight of hand that would have everyone think that all C…

Common Ground: Winning the Battle, Losing the Culture War

By Chip Berlet

…ronts under special political leadership.” These facts are neither new nor news except, perhaps, inside the Beltway. “White evangelicals are the most likely to have social issue priorities,” Green explains. The way voters concerned about values lean in any specific election after weighing social and economic issues “may simply be differences in values prompted in large measure by campaigns where the GOP stresses morality with success and the Democ…

Gimme That Old Spice Religion

By Frederick Clarkson

…s’ brother, Brad), is illustrated with a photo of Matthew dressed like a Texas gentleman rancher, holding a long unlit cigar, and inexplicably accompanied by two armed Sudanese “freedom fighters” in military garb. “The photo was taken,” Jennifer writes, “in the upper Nile. My husband, cool as a cucumber in the 120-degree heat, demonstrates that it is possible to be well-dressed even in the far reaches of Africa.” RD contributor Kathryn Joyce, auth…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…christ. The fact that the US Postal Service assigned “666” as Topeka’s zip code prefix the year I was born underscored my destiny as ultimate evil; even if Phelps said that about all homosexuals. Phelps is currently making his case about homosexuality to the US Supreme Court in Snyder v. Phelps. Legal scholars think the case is about First Amendment freedoms of speech and religion; military families think it’s about honoring our war dead; and many…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…closing remarks on the commission’s recent 300-page report on “Peaceful Coexistence” between nondiscrimination principles and civil liberties. “Religious liberty was never intended to give one religion dominion over other religions, or a veto power over the civil rights and civil liberties of others. However, today, as in the past, religion is being used as both a weapon and a shield by those seeking to deny others equality.” Indeed, if we are dis…

Carrie Prejean, God’s Prophet or Porn Star?

By Paula M. Cooey

…ified only as “CF,” asserted that it was obvious that God intended heterosexual sex only, based on anatomy and electricity (not election). CF likened male-female intercourse to plugging in a television set, writing, “If you look at the anatomy of a male and female, you’ll notice that it works in the same way. The male end goes into the female end. And, you need to know that the ‘inward’ end on a male, is NOT a female end! That is an ‘EXIT ONLY’ en…

Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…nofficial-but-growing Congressional “dominionist caucus,” which includes the Vice President. And if he finds himself sitting on the Senate Judiciary Committee (which would be the most appropriate committee for a new lawmaker of Moore’s experience), even fellow Republicans should be prepared to hew to Moore’s world-view, or suffer the consequences. Because, as Clarkson explained: “Roy Moore will never stop.”…

Trump’s Nominee to Fill RBG’s Seat Is Unfit. By Definition.

By Andrew L. Seidel

…n camera, for all to see. No principled jurist would accept this nomination. No honest or honorable justice could. The Republicans may not be better than this unseemly, unprincipled exploitation of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, but the next justice must be better. Any nominee Trump approaches for this position ought to decline and direct Trump to Justice Ginsburg’s final public statement, her deathbed desire: “My most fervent wish is that I…