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New Ex-Offender Program Puts Church Ahead Of State

By Mark Bergen

…nt funding, required inmate participants “to attend Bible study, Christian classes, and church services,” in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Alex Luchenitser, the lead litigator for Americans United in the case, wrote in a legal journal, “Inmates who did not subscribe to the program’s religious teachings faced discrimination and pressure to convert.” Despite legal challenges, PFM continued to minister in prisons and t…

Invoking God’s Name Like a Bludgeon

By Lauri Lebo

…ee speech. If you don’t believe in God, that’s fine. The government has no business trying to convince you otherwise. You’re welcome to sit down. We invited you to stand, but no one made you. But if you do believe, I would ask you, personally and not on behalf of the government, to take a moment to thank Him, for the many gifts you believe you have received from Him, including the opportunity to pursue an education in a country explicitly founded…

ENDA = Men in Dresses?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s into your child’s classroom. Under ENDA your children will be trapped in classes taught by drag queens and transgender activists. This is a pro-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) bill that will force every business with 15 or more employees to hire and affirm men who wear dresses and individuals who have undergone a complete or half “sex change.” This includes every school in America and children will be victimized by these bizarre indiv…

Father Does Not Know Best: How To Fix the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…ior was easy to pull off, unquestioned by those who had been taught it was business as usual. Creeping Infallibility Two Roman Catholic theological confusions make the problems even more complex. One is the notion of secrecy and the other is a misunderstanding of infallibility. There is a culture of secrecy in Catholicism that is rooted in the “seal of the confessional.” That means that when a Catholic confesses a sin to a priest in the Sacrament…

Israeli Right Demonizes Israeli Left, With American Money

By Diane Winston

…omotes on-the-ground change. But the attack by Im Tirtzu signals an end to business as usual. Following the Money Im Tirtzu calls itself a centrist organization that wants to strengthen political Zionism. But according to an investigative report by Ha’aretz, the movement is funded by right-wing groups and individuals, including John Hagee, the controversial Texas minister whose endorsement of Republican presidential candidate John McCain was rejec…

Kenneth Starr in the “Athens of Texas”

By Randall Balmer

…or did Starr seem just a tad too interested in the tawdry Monica Lewinsky business?) Starr also has been dean of the notoriously right-wing Pepperdine Law School, and he has been in the forefront of supporters for California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that reversed the legalization of same-sex marriages. At the announcement of his appointment, Starr sought to play down his past. “Baylor’s pursuit of knowledge,” he intoned, leaning clo…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…stions about the legality of financial transactions related to Robertson’s business empire. Although at this point there’s no way to determine how well these accusations would hold up in court, we can easily imagine more diligent investigations. 3) Robertson becomes a leading presidential candidate. In the 1988 presidential primaries, Robertson was the early Republican front-runner—a classic case dramatizing his centrality to the NCR and the NCR’s…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…ore parsing similarities and differences we might first consider the locus classicus for all things apocalyptic. That would be THE Apocalypse, a.k.a. The Revelation to St. John the Divine: the Technicolor showpiece that forms the very last book of the Christian Bible. For biblical scholars, “apocalyptic” refers to an entire genre of material generated by frightened people in trouble. John’s Revelation grows out of the trials and tribulations of a…

Pat Robertson: No Longer a Relevant Player

By Becky Garrison

…ow you slice this baloney, God makes it pretty clear that vengeance is his business and not ours. (See Romans 12:19–21). In a few brief moments, Robertson managed to flush over two thousand years of Judeo-Christian teachings down the toilet. As I witnessed that notorious segment on The 700 Club, my “judge not that you not be judged” button got jammed. I’m trying to fix it, but it keeps short-circuiting on me. Maybe I’m not being Christlike, but I…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…on American Indians and racist stereotypes, and one of the first items of business was a discussion of why this particular code name was chosen. Geronimo was the name given by Mexicans to Goyalthlay, a Chiricahua Apache religious leader (1829–1909), while Americans who lived in the Arizona territory used his name to invoke “terror” in the hearts of white settlers to justify military actions against Indians—including the Apache. Goyalthlay’s earl…