Religion Dispatches
…st few election cycles. For the first time in decades, the county had gone blue, turning out majorities for Governor Tim Kaine in 2005 and President Obama in 2008. Last night that trend reversed course, as Republicans took not just Fairfax but the entire commonwealth, winning races for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general by wide margins. The gubernatorial victory is particularly the apple of Pat Robertson’s eye. His vision of takin…
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…and founder of the Home Schooling Defense League, warns of the “Nannies in Blue Berets,” coming to occupy America and impose a world order on all American families. Ferris is also author of the Parental Rights amendment to the Constitution that will, he told Mike Huckabee in an interview on Fox, “put a permanent stake in the vampire of international law”. Despite 80 sponsors in the House of Representatives and one Senator), the amendment is not li…
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…xuality. From BuzzFeed’s report: “I am young, I am gay, I am black: a true-blue Territorian,” he said. “I am a Centralian man. I am the nation’s first openly gay Indigenous parliamentarian. I am eternally proud of who I am and where I come from. I own it and wear it with pride. “I look forward to the day when this country will recognise my rights as equal rights, when I too can marry in my country, on my country, as a recognised first Australian….
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…y-opping and bopping her way into having these new voters register to vote blue rather than red. I don’t know what’s worse, the Right’s conspiracy that Swift is a tool for the Biden administration, or the fact that they need these conspiracies in order to create strategies to prevent new voters from voting. Kelce too is a symbol of “one side”—you’re either for or against him, them, the team, their political views, etc. He represents part of a cult…
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…Janie Spahr is a grandmother with a shock of short gray hair and piercing blue eyes that simultaneously express pastoral kindness and prophetic fire. She is officially retired from the ministry, but continues to find fascinating ways to spend that retirement—this is her second case in three years involving marriages of same-gender couples. The last case ended up before the Permanent Judicial Commission of the General Assembly (the highest court i…
Read More…eath were greatly exaggerated. President Obama might have “turned Virginia blue” last year, but old habits die hard there. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, a graduate of Pat Robertson’s Regent University, is holding onto a double-digit lead over the lackluster Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds. Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for Attorney General, holds a comparable lead over the Democrat Steve Shannon. Both Republicans m…
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…of pundits and personalities, from Bible-thumping social conservatives to blue-blooded economic elites, to assorted others who pledge to serve both God and mammon with equal fervor. For many progressives, the tensions and contradictions at work within movement conservatism make its practitioners difficult to understand, or even hypocritical. According to a new book by Michael J. Lee those tensions and contradictions have been frustrating for cons…
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…ew that he bore a striking resemblance to pictorial representations of the blue-eyed Aryan Jesus: Warner Sallman’s hugely popular renderings, among others. His “blond Jesus” looks helped, but his confidence helped even more at a time when white American Christians were a little bit anxious about the atomic threat, about the communist threat, and even about their unprecedented postwar prosperity under the corporate state. Graham’s humble farm boy b…
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…lues voters” who, it was reported with great certainty, turned out in huge numbers for George W. Bush. Subsequent studies have shown that the 2004 exit polls that conclusion was based on were deeply flawed. The pollster’s question was, “Which one issue mattered most in deciding how you voted for president?” Respondents were given seven choices, with “moral values” tucked into a list of seven policy areas, such as “economy/jobs,” “health care,” “Ir…
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…unionized state prison guards getting the custody jobs. Even in this deep blue state, the lucrative incarceration business feeds Democrats and Republicans alike. Every single progressive group in California, and a significant part of the fiscally-conservative “Right on Crime” cohort, is mobilizing to block the horrific Brown plan. But because Brown apparently has Democratic Assembly Speaker John Perez wrapped around his little finger (Perez: “We…
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