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Trump Smashing Religious Right Formula to Bits

By Sarah Posner

…frenzy driving his campaign, nor is he the first demagogue with a huge megaphone to call for banning Muslims from the United States. Yesterday, in promoting his plan to ban Muslims, Trump cited a dubious poll conducted for the “very highly respected” Center for Security Policy in support of his proposal. While the Center for Security Policy and its president, Frank Gaffney, indeed are respected and promoted in certain circles, in 2011 Gaffney was…

AIPAC and the Israel Lobby: A Graphic Retrospective

By Dan Archer

…cle. The comment about Rosen’s past as an espionage defendant concerns his August 4, 2005 Indictment on suspicion of passing US government information to Israel. Panel 5: Quote from page 2 of Kenen’s book, Israel’s Defense Line: Her Friends and Foes in Washington. Panel 7: For a full list of its offices, go here. Panel 8.1 For more information on the differences, go here. Panel 8.2 3 page comic below, “Lunch on K Street,” depicts the lobbying proc…

Perry Prayer Event “Getting Traction” with Religious Right Elites

By Sarah Posner

The religious right is signing on en masse to Rick Perry’s August 6 prayer rally. From a press release from American Family Association, sponsor of the event: American Family Association says three more respected Christian leaders have been named as co-chairpersons of the upcoming The Response: a call to prayer for a nation in crisis prayer event. The new co-chairpersons are Penny Nance, President and CEO of Concerned Women for America; Tony Perk…

The Woody Allen Problem: How Do We Read Pacifist Theologian (and Sexual Abuser) John Howard Yoder?

By Stephanie Krehbiel

…ional damage control than about justice or healing for Yoder’s victims. In August of last year, Mennonite Church USA officials announced that they would reinvestigate the case through means of a “discernment group,” which Mark Oppenheimer wrote about for the New York Times. He opened the piece with the a question blunter than almost any Mennonite I’ve ever met would pose: “Can a bad person be a good theologian?” I’ve been thinking of Yoder since W…

God’s Amicus Curiae on Town of Greece v. Galloway SCOTUS Case

By Peter Laarman

The following was originally posted back in August. But as the Supreme Court considers the arguments it heard yesterday the editors are proud to re-present to RD readers Peter Laarman’s Amicus Curiae brief from the Lord. –eds. I was a little surprised on Friday to find a front-page LA Times piece indicating that the Obama Administration sides with conservative Republicans and the Religious Right in a Supreme Court case involving prayer at local g…

It’s Not Just About Ground Zero

By Mark S. Byrnes

On August 8, the New York Times ran an article about growing opposition to mosques around the country, an opposition neatly summarized by a sign held by one protester: “Mosques are monuments to terrorism.” The sign is from a protest in Temecula, California, which is over 2700 miles from the World Trade Center site. Protests have also greeted another proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and it became something of an issue in the recent Repu…

Books Must be Hardbound, Quotes Whole, and Genitalia Scrubbed

By Joseph Laycock

…ides of the Atlantic bear an eerie similarity to the case in Bronson. Last August, Hermant Mehta wrote on a case in Georgia where atheists objected that a cabin in a government-owned state park offered Bibles in the nightstand. The Bibles were initially removed, but governor Nathan Deal ordered them put back. He argued that that Bibles did not violate the establishment clause because they had been paid for by outside groups. He then added that, “A…

Purpose-Driven Empire

By Bill Berkowitz

…the government either turned its back or was too hamstrung to respond. In August of this year, the Institute for Southern Studies published (PDF) “Faith in the Gulf: Lessons From The Religious Response To Hurricane Katrina,” a comprehensive study documenting the role that faith-based groups have played in responding to Hurricane Katrina, both in its immediate aftermath, and today, over three years later. Researched and written by Desiree Evans, C…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…h doesn’t have as many members as it used to have.” I spoke with Bass this August in a café near her home in Alexandria, Virginia. In Christianity After Religion, you wrote about how the spiritual-but-not-religious trend is actually a new Great Awakening or new Reformation. In Grounded, you’re saying this spiritual revolution might help to heal some of humanity’s wounds? That’s exactly why I’m thinking about race so much right now. I think we’re w…

Blackwater’s Free-Market Crusade

By Nathan Schneider

…k Prince had come full circle. Prince’s freedom, however, may not last. On August 4, Jeremy Scahill reported in The Nation that the night before, a pair of anonymous former Blackwater employees had filed sworn affidavits (John Doe #1 and #2) against Prince and his company in a Virginia federal court. Neither informant feels at liberty to reveal his identity for fear of retribution. The former employees allege that, during ongoing federal investiga…