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How a Fringe Theocratic Movement Helped Shape the Religious Right As We Know It

By Sarah Posner

…World of Christian Reconstruction Julie Ingersoll Oxford University Press (August, 2015) Christian Reconstructionists argue that the Bible must govern every aspect of life. In their framework, known as “jurisdictional authority” or “sphere sovereignty,” God delegates biblical authority to three distinct, and severely limited, spheres of “government.” There is family government, ecclesiastical (church) government, and civil government, each with it…

Should Romney be Asked about Mormon Women’s Issues at the Debates?

By Joanna Brooks

…out to and enfranchised a range of Mormon women’s voices in this important August article in the Salt Lake Tribune. Ask Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Mormon feminist Laurel Thatcher Ulrich who in Stack’s article calls the past decades in Mormon women’s history the “Great Disappearance” for Mormon women. When one recalls that Mormon women in the late 19th century were national suffrage activists and in the early 20th century were building ho…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…gs took place in the Colombian cities of Bogotá and Cartagena last May and August respectively. Seven LGBT rights advocates from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic recently visited D.C., New York, Texas and California as part of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Activists from Latvia, Serbia, Russia, Georgia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and other countries have traveled to the U.S. ov…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…gram descriptions. Whatever his fate in these matters, Rapert epitomizes a number of trends on the Christian Right, here in the End Times. While the notion that the Christian Right is dead, diminished or in precipitous decline may never die, the movement nevertheless continues to grow and adapt to the ever-evolving religious and political landscape. Its strength has never been in the raw numbers of conservative evangelicals and conservative Cathol…

Why Tea Party (Hearts) David Barton

By Lauri Lebo

…he American Way also quotes RD’s Julie Ingersoll from a piece she wrote in August: David Barton, Glenn Beck’s favorite history “professor,” is the creator and purveyor of a revisionist history of race in America that is rapidly gaining traction in conservative and Tea Party circles. That history, drawn in part from the writings of Christian Reconstructionists, recasts modern-day Republicans as the racially inclusive party, and modern-day Democrats…

Leaving America to Marry

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ritual experience standing in the middle of Ottawa City Hall in Canada. On August 27, 2009, my partner Wanda and I walked into this government office to ask for a marriage license. It’s an exercise we’ve done for several years over Valentine’s Day week at our own government office in Columbia, South Carolina. Each year, we go and fill out the forms, dutifully scratching out “husband” and “wife” and replacing it with “Spouse 1” and “Spouse 2.” Each…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

August 1, 2014 WASHINGTON—For a third day, protesters have blocked the entrance of the Library of Congress, demonstrating against plans for a controversial, Islamic-themed mural. Bearing signs reading “No Islamization – USA,” the protesters called for government action to defund the proposed mural, which would occupy a prominent space on the dome of the library’s Main Reading Room, and is set to depict a turbaned figure holding scientific impleme…

Blame Series Bonus: How Federal Policy Created America’s Fergusons

By Andrew Aghapour

…important for understanding the African American protests in Ferguson last August? Well, you have a community now that is heavily low-income with many families receiving some form of public assistance, and a very high unemployment rate because there’s little access to jobs that have moved away. So you have a community that is depressed. In such communities where there’s little hope and high unemployment, there are more single-parent households bec…

White Evangelical Leaders Still Too Preoccupied With ‘Order’ to Listen to Black Truth

By Chrissy Stroop

…e people” among the white supremacists who descended on Charlottesville in August 2017, took to CBN to declare of Trump, “there is not a racist bone in his body.” (In an unexpected exception to the general pattern, on June 1, Pat Robertson himself called for first degree murder charges against Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes, and suggested that Trump should have called fo…

Violence of the Lambs: The Legacy of Anti-Choice Extremist Father Norman Weslin

By Kathryn Joyce

…DC bio, and does not seem to have eulogized Weslin.) Twenty years later, a number of Weslin’s Atlanta cohort—like Shannon, Dinwiddie and Bray—would become chief supporters of Scott Roeder, the Operation Rescue follower who shot Dr. Tiller at his church in 2009. The 1988 arrestees were housed separately for 40 days, resulting in the creation of an ad-hoc movement school that the prisoners compared to the civil rights schools of Birmingham jails in…