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Komen & Islamophobia, A New Conservative MO?

By Hussein Rashid

….” In September, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, on which the Florida congressman sits, began an investigation into Planned Parenthood over the organization’s “compliance with federal restrictions on funding abortions.” This move of using legal weight to accuse someone of a crime, without actually finding wrongdoing is rampant in the Islamophobia industry. The equivalent is the “unindicted co-conspirator” charge, a ploy which has been…

Whither the Religious Right?

By Ira Chernus

…s right is now getting just about the degree of political victory that its numbers and political power justify. We’re all pretty even now. The rapid rise and even more rapid fall of Huckabee is the biggest non-story (i.e., story gone MIA in the MSM) of the campaign season so far. True, from the MSM standpoint there were all sorts of reasons that Huckabee should not have been taken seriously as a candidate for president. But the Iowa Republicans su…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…how Anderson had responded to the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida: “These homosexuals are a bunch of perverts and pedophiles, that’s who was a victim here, a bunch of disgusting homosexuals at a gay bar,” he said. He later added: “The good news is that at least 50 of these pedophiles are not going to be harming children anymore. The bad news is that a lot of the homos in the bar are still alive, so they’re going to continue to mol…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…lam. At last week’s First Coast Tea Party-sponsored event in Jacksonville, Florida—“What Every American Needs to Know About the Koran”—Federer came equipped not only with a flashy video presentation and slideshow, but also with a vast collection of distortions and misrepresentations about Islam. Despite repeated assertions that the Tea Party is really about taxes, this was an out-and-out “God and country,” “Christian nation,” Islamophobia-promotin…

Qur’an Burning Creates Nutjob Envy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…paid any attention when they did it—but this cartoon-mustached preacher in Florida gets on the Today show and gets coverage in all the major media when simply threatens to do it. Here’s a media lesson for Phelps: timing is everything, Freddie. If you had threatened to burn Qur’ans in the middle of the Park 51 saga, pumped by the media during the silly season before midterm elections, perhaps you would have finally had your 15 minutes or more to sp…

Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?

By Meera Subramanian

…’s religions have fallen away. In 1987, the Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye in Florida’s Dade County banned animal sacrifice after it began plans to build a church where religious rites including animal sacrifice would take place. Six years later, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the city ban violated the church’s religious freedoms. It was the same year that Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which prevents laws that place…

Defining the Progressive Movement: A Response to Rabbi Lerner

By Thurman Hart

…riage to the gay members of our families. Similar measures were adopted in Florida and Arizona. In Arkansas, the ability of children to enjoy protective rights of any unmarried parents, gay or straight, through fostering or adoption was stripped. These are truly unjust actions. But if we allow the progressive movement to be broadly reactive without first building the shared values and beliefs that make such actions sustainable, then our house will…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…a healing revival of the Canadian evangelist Todd Bentley, from Lakeland, Florida, which Charisma dubbed the “Lakeland Healing Outpouring.” During the revival, which has been ongoing for more than a month, Wendy Alec claimed to have received a prophecy from God that “THIS is just the warm-up party—for what you shall see in the coming days shall even make these days pale—with what I have up my sleeve.” Alec also claimed a few weeks ago that Jesus…

This Radical Religious Freedom Dissent Reveals Kavanaugh’s Views on Sex and Power

By Patricia Miller

…under RFRA. It’s a stunning piece of logic that could open the door to any number opt-outs from civil law as long as objections were “sincerely held” and tangentially related to claims of religious belief. In practice, of course, this would give religious entities such as Priests for Life, the Catholic Church, and their numerous evangelical allies who also filed objections to the contraceptive mandate enormous sway over the reproductive lives of w…

An Immoderate Proposal: Sam Rodriguez, “Centrist” Evangelical, to Give Benediction at RNC

By Sarah Posner

…ngelicals constitute a significant presence in the swing states of Nevada, Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico, where they may play a decisive role this year.” But Molly Rohal, a communications associate with the Pew Hispanic Center, said, “We do not have large enough samples in our national surveys to analyze Latino evangelicals at the state level. The sample sizes in the state-level exit polls from 2008 are also a bit too small to analyze Latino e…