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Might, Right, and White Privilege: It’s Morning in America, the Sequel

By Diane Winston

…s an economic success. Notwithstanding news stories about tax evasion, bad business decisions, and unpaid contractors, Trump says he a billionaire. His name is a brand, he had a successful TV show and he lives large. Trump is a patriot. He wants America to be great again, he will put America first and he knows who the real Americans are. Trump is a Christian. Trump may not be an exemplary believer, but he says he is one—and scores of ministers, ra…

Tea Partiers and Religious Right Court at Values Voter Summit

By Sarah Posner

…ate that we ought to look to to build our life upon and our family and our business and our civil society. That’s where the people who founded America looked.” According to its Web site, “The Scriptures contain a theology of the family, the church, and the state. Principles in God’s written Word that relate to civil government, politics, economics, and education are timeless and universally useful for the benefit of any culture on Earth today.” Th…

Romney: “A Life Balanced Between Fear and Greed”?

By Joanna Brooks

…ies led Washington Post columnist James Downie to ask Monday what Romney’s business-world strategy would mean for the American economy. Who are the investors for whom Romney would seek to maximize profit? Downie writes: “In this post-Citizens United world, the voters of America are not Bain’s investors, but the workers at companies Romney’s Bain took over. The wealthy donors who are financing Romney’s campaign are the investors.” As both the Oba…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ounded the firm in 1997) is stepping down in order to concentrate on other business opportunities. According to Scahill, Prince “sought to cast his departure as a natural part of the firm’s ‘ongoing evolution’: ‘As many of you know, because we focus on continually improving our business that Xe is in the process of a comprehensive restructuring,’ he wrote. ‘It is with pride in our many accomplishments and confidence in Xe’s future that I announce…

Neil Gorsuch Shows How Donald Trump Loses (Some) White Evangelical Christians

By John Stoehr

…, writing the high court’s majority opinion, saying that white evangelical business owners can obey the law or obey God but not both. If that’s not a “de-motivator,” as Reed calls it, nothing is. Ralph Reed is a political animal, as many white evangelicals are. They are not Trump’s biggest problem, though. His biggest problem is the truly orthodox, people identifying as Christian first, American second. The ruling is for them a major setback. Many…

Oil Spill Blues: Prayer, Science, and Grassroots Activism

By Lauri Lebo

…ntal, health, and justice needs of the communities. Landry handed them his business card and they agreed to talk later. Landry is admittedly still struggling with his message, but he knows he’s fed up with seeing such helplessness in his people. “For 300 years, people have getting screwed here,” he said. “Acadians and Indians, it doesn’t matter as long as you’re poor.” An Amazing Amount of Uncertainty In the small communities that rise up out of t…

Is Religion the Only Tool Left for Legal Discrimination?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…on those “religious freedom” complaints which aim to use an individual or business’s “sincerely held religious belief” to discriminate against LGBT people. All of which prompts the question: Is “religious freedom” the last frontier of legally permissible discrimination? Those opposed to LGBT equality are keenly aware that federal law does not protect LGBT people from discrimination in the workplace, housing, education, or public accommodations. A…

Is Obama the Antichrist? Why Armageddon Stands Between the President and the Evangelical Vote

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…the evangelical movement since the Great Depression. Obama is caught in a classic catch-22. The Antichrist, the Bible explains, is going to masquerade as an angel of light. This means that the more Obama accomplishes as president and the more he improves America’s image abroad, the more suspicious evangelicals will become; they don’t want to be duped by the devil. Obama’s talk of more cooperation with other nations, the possibility of a national…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…d to seek or accept work, which was the view (supported by the teaching of classical and neo-classical economists) on which the nation’s existing poor law system was based. The belief that joblessness is the fault of the jobless has returned today in the assumption, shared by most Republicans, that the unemployed can be prodded into getting a job by the withdrawal of the “crutch” that extended unemployment insurance supposedly provides. Many liber…

Muslim Students Shocked By Professor’s Column

By Haroon Moghul

…the danger every single Muslim might pose: “a seemingly integrated Muslim American—a friendly donut vendor in New York, say, or an officer in the US Army at Fort Hood—discards his apparent integration into American society and elects to vindicate his religion in an act of messianic violence.” Friendly Muslims! Seemingly integrated! Beware, America. Freedom of religion might doom you: Must we continue to be neutral in handling all people from diff…