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Mitt Romney: Wooden Pastor or Real Boy?

By Mary Barker

…2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Our executive meetings followed a business format with charts and graphs that provided attendance statistics. The goal was to increase attendance; to move the line on the graph up. The strategy was to go name by name through the list of inactive members and research their particular interests. Active members would then be assigned to become their “friend,” calling them up and feigning interest in their hobb…

Romney: Your Data is Mine, But My Tithing is Secret!

By Sarah Posner

…ta-savvy, but Romney’s project appears to take a page from the Fortune 500 business world and dig deeper into available consumer data. . . . Businesses use those kinds of analytics firms to answer key questions for clients, such as where to build a retail store or where to mail pamphlets touting a new product. The analysis doesn’t directly bring in campaign contributions, but it generates the equivalent of sales leads for Romney’s campaign. The pr…

Anti-Contraception Activists Claim Their Suits are Last Resort to Undermine Health Care

By Sarah Posner

…gal challenges against the HHS mandate brought by hospitals, universities, businesses, and other organizations will move forward… These lawsuits are the only remaining legal challenges to the health care law.” These suits, of course, are based on entirely different constitutional grounds than the case decided today, in which the challengers claimed that the individual mandate violated the Commerce Clause. The challenges to the contraception mandat…

Christian Publishing v. the Vagina

By Katie Toth

…t, but if you don’t want it somebody else will,” says Zacharias. Christian businesses have to consider their markets, she says, and she’s okay with that. Where’s Your Jesus Now (Zondervan) included discussions about how to fix the relationship between the church and the gay community. It was not carried by Lifeway. “That’s Lifeway’s loss.” In that situation, Zacharias did her own heavy lifting. She found an independent publicist to help her market…

Bruni on Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…cracy, and one in particular that protects religious freedom, it’s a risky business defining who are the “real” Christians, particularly when religion is being politicized. Michele Bachmann is wrong, politically speaking, not because she has a different view of Christianity than Frank Bruni. She’s wrong because she’s exploiting a particular conservative and literalist version of religion to undermine democratic principles and upend the constitutio…

For Douthat, Church Either Uncompromising or a Secular Den of Promiscuity and Irrelevance

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…going to one meeting and hanging streamers. The rest is your own personal business.” Dr. Tinker attends a church that’s easy to get to, full of people she can relate to, where her kids like Sunday school, the music is nice, and the religious beliefs are given a soft sell. By the time Sunday rolls around, Dr. Tinker is exhausted and doesn’t want to be scolded or harangued. These are three really different ways of being religious. Could you raise t…

How Not to Talk to the NAACP

By Joanna Brooks

…he Affordable Healthcare Act as “Obamacare” in your own house, that’s your business. But when you get invited to the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, you don’t say “Obamacare” because you don’t use fighting words when you’re a guest in somebody else’s house. It’s bad manners. No one imagined Mitt Romney was going to win any votes in that NAACP convention hall in Houston. For so many reasons. For…

Ralph Reed’s Divinely Profitable Mission: Defeating Democrats

By Peter Montgomery

…for Law and Justice’s Jay Sekulow, who has, according to investigative news stories, turned his advocacy work into a lucrative business for the whole family….

“How the Mormons Make Money” Speaks Volumes About Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…o charitable relief. LDS Church for-profit holdings are run as competitive businesses. According to the Bloomberg report, religious considerations do not drive day-to-day decision-making. I’ve argued frequently here that those who fear Romney’s religion impacting his day-to-day conduct as president purposefully misunderstand his career. The Bloomberg-Businessweek article shows that Mormon institutional culture fully supports Romney’s profit-orient…

Ex-Gay Groups Go Back to the Future

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lying to ourselves and others. We were hurting people,” Bussee recalls. Now that “pray away the gay” is quickly headed for the historical dustbin, Gagnon and his “ex-gay” enthusiasts will need a new generation of leaders to keep the snake oil business going. I have a suggestion. Instead of relying on new “science” why not get medieval on homosexuality and hire former Navy Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt? He recently claimed on The David Pack…