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The Washington Post’s Marriage Counselor

By Sarah Posner

…ch tells women that marriage will solve their problems, is still up on its website.” Let’s remember, of course, that editors, not writers, create headlines. But the content of the piece isn’t much better. Wilcox and Wilson claim that women and children are “safer in married homes,” that married men “behave better,” that women who are married tend to live in “safer neighborhoods” — you get the idea. Why bother addressing misogyny when marriage will…

Onward Christian Terrorists; Fighting Evil in the Obama Era

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…to the Wikipedia page, should you then decide to click through to the AOG website please note that it can be very disturbing]. Roeder has been associated with the movement for some years, and his actions—such as pouring glue into the locks of clinics that perform abortions—are straight out of the Army of God Manual, said to have been authored by Rev. Michael Bray, the Army’s “chaplain.” Last week, soon after Roeder’s attack on Dr. Tiller, Bray wr…

Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…overwhelming observable evidence. Henderson’s letter was published on his website, thus beginning the Pastafarian movement. Henderson’s critique of ID was undeniably clever, but also continued a long tradition of arguments against religious truth claims. Since the Enlightenment, writers such as Voltaire have used satire as their weapon of choice when critiquing religion. Richard Dawkins praised FSM in his atheist manifesto, The God Delusion, and…

Cardinal Who Once Compared Gay People to Klan Warns Church is Being “Despoiled”

By Sarah Posner

Small update below. Via the website Catholic Culture, Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George frets that Catholic hospitals will be forced to close down rather than comply with the contraceptive coverage requirement. In the process, Cardinal George, who has previously compared gay rights parades to the Ku Klux Klan, issues a parade of doozies, including a warning that the church is being “despoiled of her institutions.” George later apologized for th…

How Herbalife’s Gospel of Health and Wealth Fuels a Billion-Dollar Deception

By Michael Schulson

…set about trying to destroy the company. Ackman made an Herbalife takedown website, supported anti-Herbalife groups, and managed to get the FTC to open an investigation into Herbalife’s sales model in 2014. It may have been all for naught. The conflict surfaced again last week when Herbalife’s CEO told investors that the company was nearing a settlement with the FTC. Those comments boosted Herbalife’s share prices and renewed speculation about whe…

Same-Sex Marriage Showdown in California

By Bill Berkowitz

…last governor’s race, to qualify for the ballot. The initiative campaign has been spearheaded by an organization called ProtectMarriage.com which, according to its website, is a project of an entity called California Renewal. ProtectMarriage.com, chaired Ron Prentice….

Barna Plays God, School Board Boot Camp, and the Birth of the ‘SAGECON’: Day 3

By PRA Staff

…s is quick to have the audience take the SAGECON survey available on FRC’s website. Just another convenient way to categorize and create order. FRC’s Matt Carpenter leads the next panel on Faith, Politics, and Hispanic Realignment, with two Trump strategists and the president of the Latino Coalition for Israel. The panel takes a stronger rhetorical hardline than yesterday. Carpenter sets the tone immediately, asking the Latino Coalition’s Mario Br…

Christianity and Gun Control

By Sarah Posner

…ar arms—is to defend yourself against a tyrant.” As the GOA boasted on its website, “Candidates Backed by Gun Owners of America Scored Tremendous Wins in 2010 Elections,” including nine Republican members of the Senate, and 42 in the House. Some of those members, as documented by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, engaged in rhetoric suggesting, like Titus and Pratt did, that armed uprising against “tyranny” might be necessary, or painted politic…

Kindred Hatemongers: Why American Islamophobes and Muslim Protesters Need Each Other

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…s Sadek, another US-based Coptic Christian, helped promote the film on his website, and may have been the one who arranged for a translation into Arabic and the promotion of the video in Cairo. In Egypt and throughout the Muslim world, the filmmakers finally received the negative publicity and public protests that they’d sought all along. But although many Muslims were offended by the tawdry mocking of their Prophet in the film, the violent respon…

The “Obamosque” Smears and the Money Fueling Them

By Sarah Posner

…he use of terms like “Obamosque?” Or this photograph on the Special Guests website? Today Special Guests is also promoting the special guest of Scott Wheeler, a long-time operative of right-wing smear campaigns against Democratic candidates and office-holders. Wheeler is the executive director of the National Republican Trust PAC, which during the 2008 presidential campaign ran incendiary ads attempting to link Obama to terrorism. He’s a veteran o…