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Hate Crimes Drop, But are Gays Safer?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…negative perceptions of gay and lesbian people.” The Southern Baptists in South Carolina are even urging their pastors to preach even more negative messages about homosexuality. We may see the results in those efforts in next year’s hate crimes numbers. Burroway also notes that to keep the numbers in perspective we have to consider population size as well. For example, African Americans make up about 12.4% of the population and there were 819 rep…

“Liberal Nazis”: The Republican Crusade Against NPR

By Paul Harvey

…ry high probability of approval in the House next year, with Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) promising to sponsor it in the Senate. Lamborn’s bill in the lame-duck Congress received unanimous Republican support, and also drew three Democratic votes. The vote calculus will change, of course, in January. The possibility of innovative programming at NPR could do so, as well. Lamborn has justified his efforts with the usual deficit-cutting rhetoric. The…

Tony Perkins: Soldiers Will Quit if Gays Can Serve Openly

By Daniel Schultz

…ally conservative institution. It recruits heavily from rural areas in the South, the Midwest, and the Inter-Mountain states. In our larger cities, black and Hispanic recruits are encouraged to consider the military — which has historically been a great ladder of achievement for racial and ethnic minorities. These are the very areas and groups who have been most resistant to the demands of the homosexual lobby. These are the very regions and group…

“You’ve Never Met a Muslim”

By Hussein Rashid

…—but that will in no way reduce the sadness I will always feel when I look south on the anniversary of 9/11 and see the Tribute in Light where the World Trade Center once stood. As General Powell rightly said, there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim in this country. Being Muslim does not make me any less American. Haroon Moghul_________ How Far is it to Islam? We spent the first Monday evening of my senior year plastering every dorm we could…

2012 GOP Candidate Would Reinstate DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat I serve is not too far from the Army base at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. Because of our proximity to the Air Force Chaplain Corps College housed there we often get chaplain students attending our services. It’s part of their training to get off the base and attend church services of denominations that they may not otherwise experience. A uniformed young man showed up at one of our services recently and, as part of his assignment,…

Post-Election, “Is The Black Church Dead?” Redux

By Anthea Butler

…r primaries), and two are heading to Congress. Tim Scott will be the first African-American Republican to represent South Carolina in Congress since Reconstruction. (He beat out Strom Thurmond’s son in the primaries.) Iraq war veteran Allen West will be headed to Congress from Florida, despite having been fined for improperly firing his weapon to force information from a detainee while serving in Iraq, and for his connections to a criminal motorcy…

Polling Place as Sacred Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s Sharron Angle in Nevada, Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, Nikki Haley in South Carolina and other women whose policy ideas seem just as vicious as many men in office. My line buddy may even have stepped up to the voting machine after our conversation and cast his vote for Haley, thinking her more kind than her male Democratic opponent simply because she is a woman. The atmosphere of the polling place, however, was much like Stewart’s idea of a “…

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…anarchists, hate war protestors, hate government, hate the North, hate the South, hate the gays…. Aside from the raw political value of hate, think of the potential for media exposure when you are a religious hater. When the Dalai Lama comes to town (to start with a counter-example) with monks, cultural activities, and lectures, the fundamental core of his teaching—compassion—is a media buzzkill. Even with Richard Gere in tow, his visits are mostl…

The Fear is Real: A New View of Halloween “Hell Houses”

By Lucia Hulsether

…rticipants—a total of 25,000 every October—on a 90-minute walk through the South Georgia woods. We observed intensely violent renditions of standard end-times scenarios: the rapture of believers; an ensuing period of torture and tribulation for the faithless “left behind”; a climactic battle between Jesus and Satan; and a final judgment in which Jesus orders a teenage church-girl to be dragged by demons into hell for “knowing me only in your head,…

Mike Huckabee’s Army of Anti-Gay Zealots

By Sarah Posner

…ent of Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign, back when Huckabee was complaining about the others much like he is complaining about Rove now. Huckabee earned a spot as the only GOP presidential prospect to speak to Pastors’ Policy Briefings that Wildmon headlined in early primary states like Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida. At the Florida event, Huckabee suggested that America with secular governance was just like Nazi Germany. Huckabee had been…