Author: Mark Silk
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Don’t posthumous Mormon baptisms = religious freedom?
The doorbell rings. It’s two clean-cut guys in dark suits. Mormon missionaries. They ask if I’d like to know more about their religion. I say no thanks, I’ve got one already. Judaism. They evince some interest. Another time, I say. Another time, they say. Good-bye. Good-bye. I shut the door. Do I appreciate the interruption?…
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Why Trump commuted Chabad
There is some irony in Donald Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, the Chabad-Lubavitch hasid, on Wednesday. Rubashkin’s case came about in May of 2008, after immigration officials conducted a massive raid on his family’s kosher slaughtering plant in Postville, Iowa, and arrested 400 undocumented foreign workers. Agriprocessors, which Rubashkin ran, was…
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Moore lost enough white evangelicals to lose
FILE – In this Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, file photo, former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a rally, in Fairhope, Ala. According to a Washington Post story Nov. 9, an Alabama woman said Moore made inappropriate advances and had sexual contact with her when she was 14. (AP Photo/Brynn…
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Trump is losing (some) white evangelicals
Evangelical supporters place hands on and pray with President Trump in the Oval Office of the White House. Photo courtesy of Johnnie Moore.
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Roy Moore v. the Ninth Commandment
Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments monument that he had placed in the Alabama state judicial building. Jaelyn deMaria Leary/The Albuquerque Journal/AP
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Why Trump retweeted anti-Muslim propaganda
Dalya protests the Muslim travel ban at LAX on January 29, 2017. Photo courtesy of Dustin Pearlman Dustin Pearlman
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Killing the Johnson Amendment is about lots more than religion
Boxes of letters from clergy who are opposed to repealing the Johnson Amendment, a federal law that bars tax-exempt houses of worship from engaging in partisan politicking, prior to delivery on Capitol Hill. Photo courtesy of Americans United
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Let’s give them Alabama evangelicals a break
Saturday Night Live “Cold Open” portraying Roy Moore meeting with Mike Pence in the White House. Fair use