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Mitt Out-Mans Trump by Rejecting Birther Nonsense

By Joanna Brooks

…ngelicals, and, last Sunday, made his Tea Party rally debut in Boca Raton, Florida. And what better way to grab the Republican spotlight than by casting aspersions on Islam, which, as Trump told the Christian Broadcasting Network, has a “very negative vibe,” and by questioning Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship. In recent polls, Trump leads the field with 37% of birther Republicans ranking him their top pick. All of which confirms Mitt Romney as the…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…wed Islam to be spread so one day he could burn a copy of the “Koran” in a Florida backwater and help bring about the return of Jesus), hellfire and brimstone no longer cloud most of our secular minds. But Edwards’ metaphorical glittering swords have been transformed into AK-37s and anti-aircraft guns, while ploughshares gather dust. Of all the dictators and presidents-for-life on the brink of popular collapse, Libya’s Qaddafi is probably the most…

Expelled: Christian Student Claims Discrimination, But Judge Says No

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…with their criteria. Just ask Jarretta Hamilton, a fourth grade teacher at Florida Christian School, who was fired after she got pregnant nearly a month before marrying her fiancé. Or, ask Bruce K. Waltke, an Old Testament professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, based in Jackson, Mississippi, who was fired after saying Christians can believe in evolution. The religious right can’t have it both ways—expelling and firing people they disagree wit…

Why Corporations Should Have the Right to Bear Arms

By Gordon Haber

…the process armed barristas may resort to internecine violence. Indeed, in Florida, we might expect coffee shops to attempt war with each other, given the vagaries of the Stand Your Grounds law. It would be equally un-American to limit the extension of this basic human right to an incorporeal entity created solely for the purposes of producing a profit. We must also extend this right to non-profits, even when their purposes may in fact be un-Ameri…

Virginia Mollenkott: Warrior in the Battle for Evangelical Acceptance of Gays (1932-2020)

By Anne Linstatter

…s book met widespread opposition among evangelicals. “We’ll never know the number of LGBTQ Christian lives saved by this groundbreaking book,” comments Christian Feminism Today on its website. An earlier book, Women, Men, and the Bible, attracted widespread attention in 1977, giving hope to women raised in conservative denominations that required women’s submission to men. Mollenkott spoke at two of the first conferences of evangelical feminists:…

Paula White’s Coronation, “Rabbi” Messer’s “Apology,” and Great Parody

By Anthea Butler

…aged to maneuver herself into dead pastor Zachary Tim’s pulpit in Orlando, Florida. Tim’s wife has been vocal about her displeasure, and there may be action taken against White. What this debacle for Long and White shows clearly is that people are willing to follow pulpit pimps, even when they clearly pursuing only their own lust for power. Those who continue to follow them can only be certain of two things: lighter wallets and fewer brain cells….

The Faith-Based Militia: When is Terrorism ‘Christian’?

By Frederick Clarkson

…a kind of biblical vigilante assassin—who was executed for the murder of a Florida abortion provider and his security escort. Hill also believed in the need for militias and for a theocratic Christian revolution. But one would not know all that to read mainstream press accounts. And while the sentencing was massively covered by national and international media, it would have been fair to describe Roeder as a “Christian terrorist,” though the media…

Better Dead Than ‘Fed’: Behind Palin’s Dig at ‘Unbiblical’ Fed

By Julie Ingersoll

…nders (I-Vermont) has championed it in the Senate and Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida), defeated last week in his reelection bid, helped Paul push it through the House. But Paul lashed out at Sanders earlier this year, saying he “sold out” for a weaker version of the audit bill, after the version that passed the Senate did not require annual audits.) The Tea Partiers, who have come to see the Federal Reserve as the source of the nation’s economic pro…

Trump White House Cranks Religion to 11 As Impeachment Looms

By Andrew L. Seidel

…for the president,” said one of the preachers. In June, White prayed at a Florida Trump rally and declared, “Let every demonic network that has aligned itself against the purpose, against the calling of President Trump, let it be broken, let it be torn down in the name of Jesus,” and that “Trump will overcome every strategy from hell and every strategy from the enemy.” Such revivals are nothing new—for Trump or for other presidents waging a publi…

Serra’s Actions Aren’t the Only Reason to Lament His Canonization

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…ndez, a Native leader married to a Spaniard and residing in St. Augustine, Florida at Misión Nombre de Dios. She worked to feed the hungry and became a Catholic without abandoning many of her own traditions. From now on when I hear St. Serra, I will choose to remember her name, and Toypurina’s, and countless others. When I published my remarks earlier this year about why Serra was not a saint, I was speaking to his placement within the complex sit…