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How a Catholic-Majority SCOTUS Fulfilled an Evangelical Dream

By Katherine Kelaidis

…Catholics and other religious conservatives, often minorities within their communities, became the most visible members of those respective communities in politics. And white evangelicals got numbers at the polls and access to the more highly educated Catholic community from which to draw people for key roles like Supreme Court justice. With this in mind, it seems hard to accept as coincidence that the current Court’s demographics began to take sh…

Channeling T.S. Eliot, Ross Douthat Fears The Loss of Taboo

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…k by a couple guys who operate a marginal web site called revolutionmuslim.com. There are some interesting dimensions to this topic but in short Arsalan Iftikhar at CNN.com said it best when, echoing RD’s Hussein Rashid, he concluded: Sadly, instead of dealing with the real cases of racism, bigotry and xenophobia regularly injected into our public airwaves by some of our political leaders and opinion makers, we have instead allowed ourselves to ge…

Same-Sex Marriage Showdown in California

By Bill Berkowitz

…to 8 percent of the votes cast during the last governor’s race, to qualify for the ballot. The initiative campaign has been spearheaded by an organization called ProtectMarriage.com which, according to its website, is a project of an entity called California Renewal. ProtectMarriage.com, chaired Ron Prentice….

By the Way: Richard Land Must Go

By Randall Balmer

…resident of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. At the very least, we now can now confirm what Land and the religious right regard as “ethical” behavior. As Bob Allen, managing editor of EthicsDaily.com explains about the epithet “schmuck” (as if any explanation were needed): “The slang term for a stupid, obnoxious or oafish person entered the English lexicon as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an ob…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…“April Fools.” Were They Kidding with Scope Bacon? Yes. Consumer products companies also launched fake products for April Fool’s Day. Procter & Gamble rolled out Scope Bacon, a bacon-flavored mouthwash “for breath that sizzles.” So convincing was this product launch, complete with Facebook ad campaign and promotional website including a promo video that went viral, that a number of customers were disappointed and angry to find out that it was a f…

E-Not-So-Harmonious

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s is a terrible decision, and we hope this is going to hurt their bottom line,” he notes. “Again, this is a time of testing for Christians, and you’ve got to stand and defend truth. American freedom will die if we let it be driven down to nothing by the courts.” So, anti-gay forces first complain that we can’t keep our relationships together, then they complain that we shouldn’t be allowed to enter a “’til death do us part” marriage – now, we can’…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…ianity around the globe.”⁹ Again, while factually correct that statement becomes deceptive when compared with the account of Islam just one page later: “In the centuries after Muhammad’s death, Muslims spread their religion by conquest.”10 Students reading those pages would naturally come away with the idea that Christianity’s spread was more peaceful than that of Islam. In fact, Islam spread at times by conquest (for instance, in North Africa), a…

The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…In God We Trust in public schools and government buildings, or resolutions commemorating everything from Religious Freedom Day to Christmas—is intended to become easier as they systematically build political momentum toward more controversial legislation, like religious exemptions from providing health care to LGBTQ people, and, over the long run, to create a more theocratic society. At least, that’s the plan. Going down the Jeffersonian road Domi…

Proposition 8—the Rematch?

By Bill Berkowitz

…arly when you work with women,” Creson pointed out. “Women will actually become the change agents, not only within their families, but also in the community—if you can give them access to information. If you can do that in their mother tongue, it’s much more powerful.” Breakaway Episcopalians—Part II: As discussed here last week, conservative clergy have decided to form an entity separate from the official Episcopal Church. According to the Christ…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…gth,” twinning xenophobia with motifs of American decline. https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1711156038026903649 https://twitter.com/NateAFischer/status/1711082206280536558 The demonization of protesters followed the well-worn script of pre-existing culture war crusades. “What Hamas did to Israel is being watched closely by BLM race arsonists in America,” warned TPUSA head Charlie Kirk, suggesting Black protesters might violently attack U.S. ci…