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Joe the Plumber: Horatio Alger with Plumber’s Crack

By Jonathan L. Walton

…r John McCain continued his “Joe the Plumber” bus tour. Throughout central Florida McCain rehashed his attacks against Senator Obama by enlisting other “regular Joes” to reinforce his message that Senator Obama’s tax plan will unduly punish successful small businesses. Of course we know that the character known to millions as Joe the Plumber is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, the Ohio resident who engaged Senator Obama on his tax plan earlier this month….

Prepare for Attack on Science by Newly-Elected Republicans

By Lauri Lebo

…volution. Rubio voiced support for parents trying to push creationism into Florida schools. Paul refuses to answer a question regarding his belief on the age of the earth. The new senators join incumbents like Vitter, a married “family values” candidate who sailed to victory after being outed for having sex with prostitutes (Just how much hypocrisy does it take to get a conservative Christian boosted from office in that state?), and who has earmar…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…t an “administrative state” supposedly captured by a radical Marxist left. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who endorsed Trump after suspending his own presidential campaign just before the New Hampshire primary, [20] has made an aggressive use of government power his administration’s hallmark. Trump’s authoritarian and anti-deep state rhetoric has also been embraced by GOP presidential contenders like Vivek Ramaswamy,[21] who also endorsed Trump af…

Christian Right Claims to be ‘Above Politics’ Are Unbelievable

By Chrissy Stroop

…as done more to uncover and unpack this influence than University of North Florida Religious Studies Professor Julie Ingersoll, whose work carefully examines the ludicrous claims of Christian Reconstructionists that their drive for “dominion” is apolitical. Asked to comment for this piece, Ingersoll said: “Christian Reconstructionists assert that God has delegated earthly authority to three institutions: the church, the family, and the civil gover…

Week in Religion: Satan Sandwich, Captain Israel v. Foreskin Man, Christian Missile Launchers

By Michael J. Altman

…ball league is attracting Jewish American players skipped over by the NBA. Florida Marlins baseball manager Jack McKeon prays to St. Thérèse during the national anthem before every game. Do you speak the Christian lingo? The Air Force has suspended an ethics briefing for missile launch commanders that relied heavily on Christian doctrines. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will exhibit a set of Rembrandt’s paintings of Jesus that have hitherto never…

Gingrich, Israel, and the Assassinate Obama Comments

By Shalom Goldman

…ld substantially neutralize the millions of dollars already being spent in Florida by Mr. Romney and Restore Our Future, a super PAC supporting him.” One factor that has endeared Gingrich to the Adelsons and other supporters of the Israeli Right is Newt’s promise to order—on his first day in the Oval Office—the move of the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, an idea that, in addition to giving Israeli diplomats many sleepless ni…

Sanctuary and the Second Amendment: Do Guns Deserve Special Protection?

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…can remain safe from the claims of the deceased’s family upon their blood (Numbers 35:9-34). This sanctuary is limited to manslaughter, not murder, and it’s not to be exchanged for a financial ransom. It’s an interrupter, not an excuser, of bloody violence, “for blood pollutes the land” (Numbers 35:33). In early Christendom, the designation of churches as places of sanctuary was enshrined in Roman law, and the practice of religious sanctuary conti…

Breivik’s Emasculation Paranoia Fueled Vision for Patriarchal “Reforms”

By Julie Ingersoll

…women more stupid and less enlightened than men, since they in such great numbers are paving the way for their own submission? He comes up with an equally provocative answer: “When women are paving the way for sharia, this is presumably because women want sharia.” They don’t want freedom because they feel attracted to subservience and subjugation. The English author Fay Weldon has noted that “For women, there is something sexually very alluring a…

Megachurches Mega-Mortgages Mega-Late

By Jonathan L. Walton

…begun on Randy White’s Without Walls International Church campus in Tampa, Florida. With member contributions down around 30 percent as a result of the divorce and rising unemployment rates among parishioners, the church has struggled to maintain two properties totaling around 25 million in mortgage debt. Similar is true in Atlanta with Bishop Weeks. Last month sheriff deputies evicted the Global Destiny Church from its facility as the landlord re…

The Right Attacks Obama’s Religious Advisors

By Sarah Posner

…therism and Manchurian candidate smears. He picked Pastor Joel Hunter, the Florida megachurch pastor who once was slated to take over the Christian Coalition, sits on the board of the National Association of Evangelicals, and endorsed Mike Huckabee in the GOP primary, to deliver the benediction at the Democratic National Convention. He tapped Rick Warren for the invocation at his inauguration. He annoyed progressives with his picks for his Advisor…