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Pennsylvania School Voucher Plan Would Allow Religious Discrimination

By Lauri Lebo

…that includes school voucher funding. Other states, such as Louisiana and Florida, are considering similar legislation. But Pennsylvania remains at the forefront of the debate. Nowhere else has such a strange mix of bedfellows come together in support of vouchers. As Talk2Action reported last month: Pennsylvania could be a case study for nationwide anti-public education partnerships, formed by Religious Right activists joining forces with radical…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…al gestures toward peace in the Middle East, we also saw a remarkably high number of attacks on Islam, on Iran, and on Arab Americans. There was the Republican outing of Barack Obama as a ‘secret Muslim’ and the promotion of this theory to both elderly Jews and conservative Christians. One survey, released in October, showed that at a sizable portion of the Texas voters polled actually believed Obama to be a Muslim. The other glaring example was t…

Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow

By Chrissy Stroop

…ys false and offensive things, even though Trump has made an unprecedented number of false or misleading statements during his tenure of less than three years in office—over 10,000 of them, according to The Washington Post. Authoritarians have a very different relationship to the truth than the rest of us, so when Trump claims he had the largest inauguration crowd in history, or Jeffress spouts the absurd lie that Democrats worship an ancient Meso…

Obama’s Jewish Problem

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…opulation, but they are mostly concentrated in the states with the highest number of delegate and electoral votes (New York, California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois), they contribute financially to politicians disproportionately to their percentage, and they are often in key roles as opinion shapers in the communities where they work or live. Democratic Party appeals to the Jewish vote are not much different than appeals to other con…

Religious Leaders Demand Apology from West for Anti-Islam Comments

By Sarah Posner

…f religious leaders has sent a letter to freshman Republican Allen West of Florida, calling him to apologize for anti-Islam remarks he made recently on an episode of “The Shalom Show.” On the program, he said that his congressional colleague Keith Ellison, who is one of two Muslim members of Congress, is the “antithesis of the principles on which this country was established.” The signatories to the letter include the Rev. Welton Gaddy, President…

Glenn Beck’s and Newt Gingrich’s Christian Nation

By Sarah Posner

…ival” events. Will Bunch reported for the Philadelphia Daily News from the Florida revival: But from the stage, the seven-hour event was little about Obama – and a lot about God. The kickoff speaker was David Barton – a leader in the recent fight to push conservative and Christian themes into Texas textbooks – and Beck’s own stage appearances, including a long closing speech, were larded with references to finding Jesus and his 12-step recovery fr…

Tropical Storm Isaac Bears Down on RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…eather forecasters are keeping an eye on tropical storm Isaac, heading for Florida with Tampa and the Republican National Convention in its path. Is it a sign from God? That’s what the Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank cheekily suggested yesterday, stringing together the bad forecast with Missouri Representative Todd Akins’s atrocious comments on “legitimate rape” and the public relations disaster of that sort of blasphemous Republican skinny-dip in…

SoHo Properties CEO: Media Reports of Park51 Move a “Falsehood”

By Hussein Rashid

In the wake of media reports that Terry Jones, the Gainesville, Florida pastor who was going to burn a Qur’an on Saturday, had agreed to not proceed with his plan because the promoters of the Park51 project had agreed to move it to a different location, Sharif El-Gamal, Chairman and CEO of SoHo Properties, which owns the site, today issued this statement to RD: It is untrue that the community center known as Park51 in lower Manhattan is being mov…

Iz Not Okay Wif Our Sky Kitteh: Debating Repro Rights in Lolcat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…e project sure to be eligible for arts funding. Ready? King Lear, starring Florida congressman Cliff Stearns as the title character, Planned Parenthood as Cordelia, and “documented lack of corruption in how federal funding is handled” as “love.” With all of the dialogue changed to lolcat. Here’s how it would go down: King Stearns: I haz a big pile of fedril munny. Iz fun! I chases it! Iz funn! If I can haz proof that ur never too bad fur teh munny…

From Christian Temperance to D.A.R.E. — The War on Drugs Has its Roots in White Christian Nationalism

By Andrew Monteith

…ie Cox recently noted in The New Republic that conservative legislators in Florida and Texas have been resurrecting doctrines from the original Drug War that would permit authorities to prosecute even mild participation in drug use, such as handing someone a syringe, as a poisoning homicide. Cox is correct to point out that “poisoning” was a trope of the early Drug War but, along with many professional historians, there is one detail her article g…