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...respect that not all Christians think like me, and that the groups in question—the Alliance Defense Fund, Focus on the Family, and the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, all behind the Day of Truth—are essentially fundamentalist or Biblical literalist groups. And there are really no two ways about it: there are a myriad of literal references to the sinfulness of homosexuality in the Bible...
...James Bond became Sean Connery. Then Bond turned into Roger Moore. Convinced that Bond was Connery, some moviegoers dismissed Moore as an impostor. Charlton Heston, conversely, performed a miracle of dramatic consolidation in the 1950s and '60s. He became Moses, Ben-Hur, Michelangelo, Andrew Jackson and John the Baptist: everyone this side of God. Heston possessed such brooding gravitas that he could plausibly pass for an abstraction, the decalogue with a strong chin...
That's right: Ann Coulter burns too fiercely for both the temples of the secular left--the New York Times--and of the religious right--Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church. But it's suspicious when conventional wisdom ossifies around someone so thoroughly. Why does she make so many people itch...
...wonders whether this is more inappropriate than fishnet stockings—but then, Chick-fil-a, the event’s main sponsor, is a Southern Baptist company that closes on Sundays...
...Catholics are the largest single denomination, although taken as a whole members of various Protestant denominations (Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian being the largest) outnumber Catholics in both chambers. The high Catholic number isn't surprising considering that about a quarter of Americans are Catholic. But in other ways, Congress is a bit different from the American public in terms of religion. John Green, a political science professor at the University of Akron who studies religion and politics, estimated that the American electorate of 2004 included about 14% of people who called themselves "unaffiliated believers," "seculars," or "atheists, agonistic." Only...