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Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…Khaled Abou El Fadl, a Muslim who teaches at UCLA School of Law, told the Washington Post that “[USCIRF has] a very pronounced view of the world, and it is that victims of religious discrimination are invariably Christian. It was rather suffocating.” Apart from allegations of anti-Muslim bias, the commission has been charged with claims of bias toward Christians’ rights since its founding in the late 1990s. A consultation on religious persecution…

“Simmering anger may drive religious right back to polls”

By Daniel Schultz

…ding-dang government tells him, blah blah blah. Every election season, the Washington Times dusts off their file and runs the same story with enough updated quotes to gull the unsuspecting into believing it’s news. It’s like Pravda, except owned by the Moonies and hemorrhaging money. I will however point out one particular section of the piece: Mr. Dobson initially endorsed Mr. Paul’s opponent, but switched his backing in the days before the prima…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…es governmental affairs and is the chief lobbyist of the 30-million-member Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Evangelicals, this year he was named by TIME magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people, he’s a Republican, and he’s a leader in the Creation Care movement—a Christian evangelical response to global warming. He is Richard Cizik and he’s a longtime friend of Sen. John McCain. These days, Cizik says that he doesn’…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…ublic conversation about poverty. “She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans’ benefits for four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare. Her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.” Reagan’s caricature of the “welfare queen” cemented it in the American imaginary: By the time the “welfare queen” finally emerged on the national stage, the American pu…

Ponzi Schemes and Prophecy

By Sarah Posner

…y-sponsored debate tonight in Tampa, Florida. A Bachmann adviser tells the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, “Clearly she feels differently about the value of Social Security than Gov. Perry does. She believes Social Security needs to be saved, that it’s an important safety net for Americans who have paid into it all their lives.” Perry did not invent the Ponzi scheme analogy for Social Security; back in 1995, economist James Glassman (he who wro…

The Invention of a Corporate Christian America

By Andrew Aghapour

…Founders made their feelings clear in the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli—begun by Washington, signed by Adams, passed unanimously by a Senate half-full of signers of the Constitution—that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Over the nineteenth century, especially during the crisis of the Civil War, there were many Americans who insisted we should be (or already were) an officially Chri…

Senator Brownback Says Other Senators Aren’t “Real” Catholics

By Frances Kissling

…o the Senate Ethics Committee by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Catholic Advocate and the controversial Brownback letter are initiatives of Deal Hudson, whom many readers will remember as the Catholic outreach advisor to President Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign. Hudson was flying high as the lead Catholic in Washington circles buddy-buddy with Karl Rove and gate keeper to seats in the convention sky boxes until an August 2…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…lk off the job in protest, in stores from California to Maryland, Texas to Washington. Warehouse workers at Wal-Mart distribution centers outside Chicago and in Los Angeles have also gone out on strike—and won. The full reinstatement and back pay granted to the workers (averaging $900 for each) was unprecedented, leading one of the strikers to comment, “I think there’s been a hit in Wal-Mart’s armor.” The retail employees are part of the Organiza…

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…w discriminated against Catholics is rendered even more absurd by the hard numbers: in 2011 alone, according to the federal government database at www.usaspending.gov, Catholic Charities received over $753 million in federal funding. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has not, as the president promised on the campaign trail, reformed faith-based funding to ensure, among other things, that groups receiving taxpayer aid do not discriminate in hirin…

American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope

By Mary E. Hunt

…civil disobedience and goes to jail to help stop war or nuclear weapons. A number of the questions are clearly designed to elicit answers the Vatican knows full well it won’t like. The data will provide the pretext for concluding that the decline in numbers in progressive groups is a result of their lack of obedience and conformity to the men’s rules. Solution: tighten up the ranks. Enter the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, the alte…