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Tea Partiers and Religious Right Court at Values Voter Summit

By Sarah Posner

…ples as they influence others.” McDowell said he had read Christian Reconstructionist founder R.J. Rushdoony, and agreed with some of his teachings. He wrote (relying on Rushdoony) in a 2003 article that, “In light of the Scriptures, we cannot say that slavery, in a broad and general sense, is sin.” Other Rushdoony admirers include conservative movement mastermind Howard Phillips, whom journalist Adele Stan reported is pulling the strings behind m…

Frank Gaffney Appointed to Clarion Fund Board

By Sarah Posner

…way of life.” During the 2008 presidential campaign, the Clarion Fund made headlines when it launched a campaign to insert copies of Obsession into Sunday newspapers in battleground states. Think Progress recently reported that the group planned for its anti-Islam campaign to be “something pleasing to the eye, edgy, hip and fun!” Obsession, which compares “radical Islam” to Nazism, was widely condemned by Jewish leaders and others in 2008. Rabbi J…

In Wake of Murder in Uganda, LGBT Group Protests Prayer Breakfast

By Kay Steiger

…zation. Pastor Scott Lively, president of a group called Defend the Family International, who is not connected to the Family but is considered an instigator of homophobia in Uganda, wrote on the group’s website: Ugandan homosexual activist David Kato was recently beaten to death with a hammer, a horrific crime. These very media have rushed eagerly to judge this a hate crime and to blame those, like me, who have spoken against homosexuality in Ugan…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…in the process. . .The battle is not over; there is not yet the definitive word. . . For me, many words will still be said about this issue. This is still a controversial and complicated issue for our contemporary culture.” The archbishop also expressed his “tremendous sadness” at the “tsunami of secularization” that has overtaken culture and continued, according to the National Catholic Reporter: “Apuron called the government’s claim it has a rig…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…economic woes plaguing the state and the country if elected president,” OneNewsNow, a news service sponsored by the American Family Association, recently reported. Matthew 25 Network founder Mara Vanderslice “says her group is hoping to run its latest pro-Obama ad in Cleveland, Youngstown, Cincinnati, and Columbus, as well as in smaller locales such as Findlay and Mount Vernon. Salem Radio affiliate WFHM 95.5 ‘The Fish’ in Cleveland is already run…

Like “The Bachelor,” But for Jesus: “The Sisterhood” Episode 1 Recap

By Jo Piazza

…the brides of Christ neutralizes the amount of BS I have introduced to the world. So I’m personally fascinated by the new reality show, “The Sisterhood” which debuted on the Lifetime network last night. Produced by Shannon Evangelista and Eric Evangelista, the folks responsible for giving us “Breaking Amish,” the show follows five young women as they allegedly discern to become sisters. The women they’ve selected are camera-friendly (i.e. pretty)…

When Religion is a Refuge for Scoundrels: ‘Ryan Budget’ Edition

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ional authority with universal jurisdiction.” Pope after pope call for a “true world political authority” and a “world bank” to preside over a “global, universal common good.” Nations need to “transfer a part of each nation’s powers to a world authority and to regional authorities.” What is called for is not a tyrannical despotic world authority. The Catholic tradition of “subsidiarity” means that nothing should be done by a higher authority that…

Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…ganization Really Change? This came at the end of a big year in the ex-gay world. Speculation about the state of Exodus International, the country’s largest organization of ex-gay ministries and the movement’s most public face, began in November of last year with suggestions that Exodus was in the midst of a financial crisis and an identity crisis. Once a darling of Christian Right donors, Exodus has been suffering since the recession, laying off…

First U.S. Visit of the Virgin Mary Confirmed in Wisconsin

By Lewis Wallace

…r Jones, Song of Bernadette, made the saint a star in the English-speaking world. But it also has a particular theological significance: the specific wording of Bernadette’s 1858 conversations with the Virgin conveniently reinforced Pope Pius IX’s 1854 declaration of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. Adele Brise’s apparition shares similar theological grounding to Bernadette’s: it is said to affirm an 1851 statement from the Bishops of th…

6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun

By Haroon Moghul

…, suffers the world’s greatest brain drain; Russia’s economy is in the doldrums; and Assad only rules through astonishingly brutal force.) At some point, though, terrible violence ceases to have its intended effect, as perverse as that may sound. Imagine what happens when dysfunctional religion meets radical insurgency meets huge refugee flows, mass dislocations produced by a severe climate and an ugly geopolitical alliance against democracy, plur…