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How Intelligent Design Advocates Helped Shape the Christian Right’s Texas Curriculum Standards

By Lauri Lebo

…they forgot to mention that concept in the one document that outlines the code by which this nation would be governed. In the article, Dunbar outlines a proposed legal strategy to defend linking the two documents: Dunbar began the lecture by discussing a national day of thanksgiving that Gen. George Washington called for after the defeat of the British at Saratoga in 1777—showing, in her reckoning, a religious base in the thinking of the country’…

Santorum Spokesperson Confuses “Radical Environmentalism” with “Radical Islamic” Policies with “Theological Secularism”

By Sarah Posner

…ans like: if they can claim they came from God, not the government, or at least from the government via God.) In Michigan today, Santorum is rehashing this speech claiming that “climate science” is actually “political science.” Translation: there is no science, there is only God. Any attempt at science is necessarily political, and therefore illegitimate if in conflict with a “Christian worldview.” Don’t be fooled by Santorum’s defense that he bel…

CPAC Speaker Admires Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…ose either secretly or overtly a Taliban-like, religious, strict religious code upon all Americans, which is ridiculous.” Honor killings, forced marriages, female genital mutilation, and other abuses are “un-Islamic,” he said, adding that there is “no debate among serious Muslim scholars about that.” As far as fear-mongering that that Muslims seek to supplant the Constitution with shari’ah, Khan noted, “there is room for individual religious pract…

Gingrich on “Teh Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to defend “traditional” marriage and defend “religious liberty,” which is code for defending the religious right’s ability to bully gay and lesbian people at will using God as their shield. But, wait, there’s more. Gingrich has hit the conservative Christian trifecta by sitting down with the Des Moines Register’s editorial board to affirm that opposition to marriage equality stating that there is a “big difference between saying that you’re to ha…

Francis the Jesuit: a Philosopher-Pope?

By J. Michelle Molina

…e the full thirty-day version of this 16th-century meditative practice at least twice, and has repeated the shorter, eight-day version every year since he entered the Society of Jesus in 1958. Yet self-fashioning in the Jesuit mode is not the historically-bound system that “16th-century meditative practice” might imply. Rather, the Ignatian Exercises are philosophical, a Catholic interpretation of the ancient imperative to “know thyself.” To co…

Glenn Beck Hijacks It’s a Wonderful Life

By Lauri Lebo

…nd active commitment to “social justice,” something that Beck has said are code words for Communism and Nazism. Look, Frank Capra wasn’t exactly known for his subtle messages. Yet, somehow, Beck manages to reinterpret the movie through an unregulated free-market ideological Ayn Rand prism and message of Christian conservatism. For real? Either Beck has never watched the movie, or he’s so conservatively deluded that he thinks Mr. Potter is the hero…

Satan, Contributor to Teen Vogue‘s New “Sodomy” Section?

By Mark D. Jordan

…male homosexuality. I’m reminded of an anecdote told about a conversation between a leading conservative cardinal and Pope Paul VI before the pope reaffirmed the prohibition on artificial means of contraception. Cardinal Ottaviani is rumored to have said something like, “If we approve contraceptives, then we lose a main argument against homosexuality.” I have no idea whether that story is true, but it’s logic is certainly familiar—and not only am…

Benny Hinn Can’t Heal His Marriage

By Anthea Butler

…Christians is not reason enough for a divorce and, more often than not, is code for “serious sin.” Pentecostals have a history of being strict about reasons to divorce, adultery being scripturally the only reason to do so. For those who divorce and who have a denominational affiliation through ministerial license, a divorce can mean, at best, additional scrutiny and at worst, stripping of ministerial credentials. Of course, that never has stopped…

Religious Discrimination and the Violence Against Women Act

By Sarah Posner

…“an expression of its religious beliefs?” Throughout this entire standoff between the opponents of the 2007 OLC memo and the Obama administration—a conflict that is now more than five years old—the Justice Department has failed to explain why it persists with this interpretation of RFRA, why it thinks it is justifiable for taxpayers to fund hiring discrimination that is otherwise illegal, or how it ensures that the self-certified organizations ac…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…possibilities and choose the worst is very helpful.” I take this quote seriously, but in other interviews and in the words of Hazel’s parents, he expresses a delicate hope for memory—at least a little bit of memory—and love between parents and children. Bravo, Mr. Green. You have created the best and the worst of all possible worlds….