| 单词 | Bible Belt |
| 例句 | Other donors to the Christian Union are members of local elites across the Bible Belt. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z You probably don’t know this, but Oklahoma is called Tornado Alley, and also the Buckle of the Bible Belt, which means it’s a great place to hide. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Like the Sun Belt or the Bible Belt, there exists, on this multifarious earth of ours, a Hair Belt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The conservative Christian political movement seldom developed in poor, rural Bible Belt towns. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z My presence here at the northern notch of the Dutch Bible Belt — 50 minutes and a world away from Amsterdam — originated in the most incongruous of places: Twitter. How an unusual hashtag led to a personalized visit to an obscure area of the Netherlands 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z They were the kind of photos which send the Bible Belt into righteous fury and make feminists cringe. Resignation of Miss America lays bare nation's neuroses: from the archive, 24 July 1984 2013-07-24T06:30:00Z Sunday morning in the Bible Belt can only mean one thing, and I sought the wisdom of Father Google to find us a house of worship. A Muslim American’s Homecoming: Cowboys, Country Music, Chapatis 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z As the title implies, Bible Belt is infused with the religious imagery and hymnal structure that Birch grew up with. The gospel according to Diane Birch 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z But the sites are also situated firmly in the Bible Belt, where there’s less competition from other tourist attractions. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z There was the expected mild outrage from the Bible Belt, but generally the reaction was positive and the Earth continued to spin on its axis. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z More than 200 gay couples have been issued marriage licenses in the Bible Belt state after a judge struck down Arkansas' same-sex marriage ban. History shades Arkansas' gay marriage debate 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z When Pat entered Beaufort High his junior year, my senior year, Beaufort was pretty much just like any other small Southern community in the Bible Belt. How Pat Conroy and I became lifelong best friends 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z And there were crosses, all sizes and colors, the Bible Belt’s symbol of continuing hope. Three Musical Notes, 1,848 Miles and a Lifetime of Memories 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z The answers to these questions prove to be not particularly interesting, and the religiose conclusion appears to be a bid for support from the Bible Belt. Faster ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:29Z Hopefully the two films will complement each other as snapshots, set 10 years apart, of a rigid Bible Belt that’s proving too slow to unbuckle. Why are there so few queer female coming-of-age movies? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s an odd duck on a Bible Belt pond: serene on the surface, but churning underneath. ‘The Gospel of Eureka’ Review: Christianity and Queerness Intersect in a Small Town 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It even made sense somehow that “The Walking Dead” was set in the Bible Belt. Who will be next to go on ‘Walking Dead?’ Maybe it’s you. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Even though I grew up in the Bible Belt, I had really awesome parents who said, ‘If I ever hear you not accepting someone for who they are, you’re gonna get a butt-busting.’ Talking with Kristen Chenoweth: Little package, big voice (and opinions) 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z “The decline is taking place in every region of the country, including the Bible Belt,” said Alan Cooperman, director of religion research at Pew and lead editor of the study. Is Christianity toast? New report shows sharp decline in Americans who identify as Christian 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Think: "Desperate Housewives" but in the Bible Belt. After career success, Chenoweth is ready for love 2011-09-22T01:06:12Z Since she grew up in the Bible Belt, she considered rooting out purpose, associated with religious superstition, to be part of her education. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z They married on April 1, 1961, bought a used Plymouth Valiant and set off to become Pentecostal healing evangelists, traveling a circuit throughout the Bible Belt. Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye? 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Rudd grew up Jewish in the Bible Belt, in Kansas, where he "was very good friends with kids that had a very Christian upbringing and family." T Magazine: Leap of Faith 2012-11-27T14:00:16Z I was born in the Bible Belt, nine months after Roe v. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z No, we’re in the buckle of the Bible Belt here, my friend! Lucy Lawless Explains Why 'Salem' Is a New Kind of TV Horror 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z “We’re from Fort Worth,” he said, “the buckle of the Bible Belt. I’m Georgian by birth, Texan by choice.” The Museum of the Bible: The last place in D.C. you might expect to hear Queen, Kanye and the Clash 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z We spoke with Benny, 24, from their Los Angeles home, where they discussed landing their dream job, growing up gay in the Bible Belt and the virtues of YouTube. With ‘Glamorous,’ Miss Benny Gets a Platform Makeover 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z This was risky viewing in the Bible Belt, where many parents believed letting your child watch “The Simpsons” was commensurate with the hellfire reserved for those who, say, murdered their firstborn. What it's like to live in Kentucky and sell your debut novel to Hollywood 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Springfield is a heavily Christian community in the heart of the Bible Belt in southern Missouri. Brad Pitt's mother slams gay marriage, Obama 2012-07-06T23:20:32Z The album has an apocalyptic feel in parts, particularly on tracks such as "Stations of the Cross", which alludes to the New Orleans floods and Bible Belt preachers in Costello's impacted poetry. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z What was growing up gay in the Bible Belt like? With ‘Glamorous,’ Miss Benny Gets a Platform Makeover 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z In that town, a tight-knit community in the Bible Belt, my Arabness and my Muslim background were glaring targets. I Was Bullied for Being Arab. Nine Inch Nails Threw Me a Lifeline. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z My Black and LGBTQ+ friends in the Bible Belt got different, darker messages of course, not just about reproductive choices, but also their entire identities. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z He aims mainstream pop and country sounds at a thoroughly unexpected target: Bible Belt hypocrisy. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Has a Miserable Crush and 12 More New Songs 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z “Orlando was still the Bible Belt then,” says Carbonell, now 41. Orlando isn’t what you think it is 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Speaking of stereotypes, we're sitting in what a lot of people would consider flyover country, in one of the liberal-ish bubbles of the Bible Belt. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z This is the South, after all, the Bible Belt, and really, you’d be hard-pressed to find another denomination besides the Baptists except for maybe the Methodists. The Ga. towns that Sherman spared in his March to the Sea That could be a sign that Bible Belt areas were not as interested in "Hereafter," which deals with the afterlife in secular fashion without bringing God or religion into the picture. 'Paranormal' follow-up scares $41.5M out of fans 2010-10-24T19:46:00Z Or his opponent’s support for abortion rights, which deeply offends Bible Belt sensibilities? Perspective | A small-town Alabama newspaper takes a stand on Roy Moore. A very careful one. 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z “I’m a liberal from the Bible Belt,” she told Electric Literature in 2014. Faces to watch: Remember these authors and their books 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z This wasn’t in the Bible Belt — it was in Rhode Island. Atheists fight discrimination too 2012-08-09T18:26:00Z But even though we’re in the Bible Belt, there’s no weirdness, which is a good thing. Lucy Lawless Explains Why 'Salem' Is a New Kind of TV Horror 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Many a Beverly Hills swimming pool was dependent on popcorn sold in the Bible Belt. Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Louisville, so close to—or in, by some maps—the Bible Belt. “Where are your Bibles?”: Jesus, Kentucky and the best lattes in the South 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z What was really interesting was the diversity, because in my mind I saw a kind of Bible Belt America, before I did the research. After a Quick Breather, Chloë Grace Moretz Comes Out Fighting 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Dallas is sometimes known as the “buckle of the Bible Belt”, though there is competition for the honour. Clinging to religion 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z And now the mayor of a small town in the Bible Belt takes his own life. Another casualty in America's war on LGBTQ+ people | LZ Granderson 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Mencken, describes as “the buckle on the Bible Belt.” Review: John Douglas Thompson and Alfred Molina’s clash of titans transcends dated ‘Inherit the Wind’ 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Nashville is known as the “buckle of the Bible Belt,” a city with a church on every corner. After school shooting, Nashville’s Christian community grapples with guns 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Satanic panic plagued the Bible Belt the 1980s and 1990s, when devil worship was thought to be behind seemingly every inexplicable, heinous crime. The 50 best true-crime documentaries you can stream right now 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Evangelical Protestants make up the largest share of the Bible Belt state’s adults at 47%, according to the Pew Research Center. $50M shrine to honor slain priest, first US Catholic martyr 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z The outpouring reveals the way that Christian faith has long been intertwined with American football culture, tied to the sport through its popularity in the Bible Belt. Prayers for Damar Hamlin Show Bond Between Football and Faith 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “If you wanted to be a missionary, do you go to the Bible Belt? Or do you go to the dark continent of Africa?” California Sen. Alex Padilla is campaigning hard — just not for himself 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In the U.S., he envisions satellite campuses outside the Bible Belt – from New York and Boston to Seattle, Chicago, Washington and Miami. New Saddleback pastor sees women clergy in church’s future 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Now, in this Bible Belt town on the edge of the Appalachian Mountains, it means slot machines, blackjack and other games of chance at the newly opened Bristol Casino. Coal jobs are almost gone. Could a casino help rescue southwest Virginia? 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Thacker said that particularly in the Bible Belt, resistance to harm reduction springs from a stigma that still attaches to drug use. Fentanyl Test Strips Highlight Rift in Nation’s Struggle to Combat Drug Deaths 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z “It is found in the experience of growing up Jewish in the Bible Belt, the interior story reflected in family histories and tales and letters home.” Eli N. Evans, Who Wrote About Jews in the American South, Dies at 85 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Last year, as Olivia began focusing more on abortion rights advocacy, a young activist on the other end of the Bible Belt region began finding her voice in the antiabortion movement. Gen Z is influencing the abortion debate — from TikTok Graves noted Mississippi is in the Bible Belt, so, naturally, there are people in the state who are firmly antiabortion. For some, the abortion decision heralded good news — and misgivings 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z But to claim his place in history, up on a hill in this small town notched within America’s Bible Belt, it must be said: First gay mayor in U.S. didn't expect to be LGBTQ rights icon 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z But whether the Bible Belt is ready, I’m coming — emerging strong as an X-Men — from the shadowlands of performing in parks, rooftops and yards, through the last Stranger Things years. Commentary: My life as an intersex comedian living every letter in the queer alphabet 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z “The elections we saw in San Francisco — not exactly the Bible Belt — where parents rose up and threw school board members out, should tell everyone this is a major issue,” he said. How Christian home-schoolers laid the groundwork for ‘parental rights’ 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z He spent about two decades as a justice court judge, officiating marriages for lots of couples here in the heart of the Bible Belt. When the sheriff waged a war on drugs in a Mississippi county While Bible Belt states would probably ban abortion or significantly restrict it, other activists would push for more incremental change in states such as California and New York. Threat of losing Roe is clergy’s call to action for abortion rights 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Shah said she rarely disclosed that she provided abortion care, especially while in the Bible Belt. This doctor commutes 800 miles to provide abortion services in underserved communities 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z "Within the Christian community, there's a high level of trust. Especially here in the Bible Belt," she said. When Jesus is used to steal from his flock 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Living in a region of Virginia she called the Bible Belt, the 55-year-old said Youngkin’s education stance — especially on transgender bathrooms — pushed her to vote Republican. White women backed Glenn Youngkin for Virginia governor. That shouldn’t have come as a surprise, experts say. 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z “If you are a family and you think this might be a good Bible Belt place to raise your family, look at what we do to people in Oklahoma.” Oklahoma Governor Commutes Inmate’s Death Sentence Hours Before Execution 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z "If we can get this result in the Bible Belt in the midterms, then I'll be convinced," one senior official told me privately. Joe Biden's road show: A big win in California, but there's trouble ahead 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Two of her previous books are sympathetic engagements with the lives of sex workers, and the third is about the lives of gay men and women in Bible Belt America. Review | The traditional case against pornography, with a few 21st-century updates 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z House Ways and Means Committee and a man esteemed as a pillar of Bible Belt rectitude and respectability. Fanne Foxe, ‘Argentine Firecracker’ at center of D.C. sex scandal, dies at 84 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z In the Bible Belt, South Carolina led the fight for stricter rules on abortions during the 1980s and 1990s. South Carolina Senate passes bill outlawing most abortions 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z As an adult, she finally reckoned with the purity culture that dictated her girlhood in the Bible Belt and Eastern Europe. Channeling Harley Quinn and Lil' Kim, Ashnikko won the internet. Are the pop charts next? 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Firmly in the Bible Belt, South Carolina was at the forefront of stricter abortion laws before the turn of the century. Heartbeat abortion ban may finally pass in South Carolina 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Mississippi is the center of the Bible Belt, where residents consider themselves the most religious in the entire country, according to Pew Research Center. Mississippi churches face difficult decisions at Christmas 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z COLUMBUS, Georgia — Social and religious conservatives are the GOP’s secret weapon in the high-stakes Senate runoff races in this Bible Belt state. Secret weapon: GOP turns to Georgia evangelicals to save Senate majority 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Here in the Bible Belt, many say they’ve put everything in God’s hands. Opinion | The pandemic doesn’t care about your personal freedom 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z “The Republicans want it back. They never thought this district was going to be flippable ... The Central Valley, it’s the Bible Belt of California.” In a toss-up Central Valley district, Republicans and Democrats wage a vicious campaign 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The Bible Belt intersects the Netherlands from the southwest to the northeast and consists mainly of churches of the Reformed Protestant movement, formed in the 19th century, whose adherents also follow a traditional, conservative lifestyle. Churchgoers in Dutch 'Bible Belt' defy coronavirus instructions 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z She later said that she considered herself “the unluckiest, unhappiest girl in town,” given her family’s Jewish faith in the middle of the Bible Belt. Bette Greene, novelist whose ‘Summer of My German Soldier’ became a young-adult hit, dies at 86 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The convergence of poverty and religion in the Bible Belt has a long history, stretching back to the earliest settler-colonists in the slave era. The rise of Christian Nationalism in America 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z She mirrors some of his upbringing in America's Bible Belt during the 1980s. The X-Men spin-off ‘cut in half by Hollywood reality’ 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The Bible Belt informs much of Gifty’s understanding of America’s elaborate rituals of race, class and belief. After her epic debut novel on slavery's descendants, Yaa Gyasi wrote even closer to home 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Churches in California’s “Bible Belt” reopen, again, with new complications. Coronavirus deaths rise in L.A., Orange County 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z In parts of California’s so-called Bible Belt, the controversy over rising cases of infection and deaths related to the coronavirus has not stopped residents from packing in-person services. In California’s 'Bible Belt,' churches find ways around state's coronavirus lockdown orders 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z The buckle of the Bible Belt, South Carolina voted for Democrats all the way from Reconstruction into the 1960s, flipping Republican, like most of the Deep South, in response to the civil rights movement. Meet Jaime Harrison, the South Carolina Democrat taking the fight to Lindsey Graham 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Tornadoes are also much more common in the United States than in other parts of the world, and they occur more frequently in the Bible Belt, the locus of American evangelicalism and Pentecostalism. Review | In storms, Americans have long seen the hand of God 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “This is the Bible Belt,” Johnson tells me. Opinion | ‘Let Freedom Ring’ From Georgia 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Her experiences growing up in this Bible Belt oil town are a mix of bafflement, biting mockery and rueful humor — often featuring her father, a larger-than-life personality notable for his strong opinions and gleeful penny-pinching. Review | An insightful ode to oddballs 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Byron, a small city in the Bible Belt about 93 miles south of Atlanta, hired Mosby as its fire marshal in 2007. Georgia fire chief fired 18 months after gender transition files discrimination lawsuit 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Coastal residents, especially in the Bible Belt, tend to be, shall we say, spiritually alert, often to others’ benefit. Opinion | Our better angels are among us 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Echols’ interest in the occult, heavy metal and black clothing, in particular, prompted many in the Bible Belt state to label him the ringleader of a Satanic cult. ‘Forgotten West Memphis Three’ doc aims to give victims of notorious crime 'their voices back,’ host says 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z “We’re in the Bible Belt,” she said, “and a lot of schools here don’t like to admit drugs are a problem.” Teaching Children How to Reverse an Overdose 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Students at Watkins College of Art in Nashville describe it as an oasis in the Bible Belt, a small supportive campus welcoming to all and committed to free expression. Merger With Christian University Stokes Uproar Over Faith and Free Expression 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z “There may be a conception that people have – a misconception – that these are issues where legislators are only focusing on maybe in the Bible Belt,” she said. Planned Parenthood chief: we have to 'undo the damage' of abortion bans in the Trump era 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z He has since published four books and launched the “Bible Belt Tour” to promote his 2017 book, “What Is the Bible?” 12 major religious newsmakers — and stories — from the past decade 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z His parents — Mr. Gladwell is the son of a Jamaican mother and an English father — moved to Elmira, Ontario, “a small, conservative, Bible Belt town,” when he was a child. With ‘Talking to Strangers,’ Malcolm Gladwell Goes Dark 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s also deep in the heart of the Bible Belt and the Appalachian region. Tennessee editorial roundup 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z But then she moved to a town in “the buckle of the Bible Belt in the south”, she says. Tired of hiding: five doctors who provide abortions come out 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Though more Americans identify as nonreligious than ever before, the Bible Belt still lives up to its name in many ways. Review: ‘American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel’ aims to move hearts and minds 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The Bible Belt can be oppressive when you're a young punk rocker with a crazy haircut or blue hair. Beth Ditto: how we made Gossip's Standing in the Way of Control 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z “I never thought I’d hear a Bible Belt mother refer to a gay guy as wholesome.” Gay voters take pride in Pete Buttigieg's candidacy, but many question whether he can win 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z “I like New England. I was not thinking about going back home at all; going back to the Bible Belt,” he said. Pastor called to lead his father's church back 'home' - Washington Times 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z “I was so scared on this journey in the Bible Belt, and you put me at ease with no judgment,” one read. At abortion clinics, new laws sow confusion, uncertainty 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z In Tennessee, a Muslim group was denied permission to build a mosque in the Bible Belt city of Murfreesboro. Should this cross be removed from public land? 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z The Bible Belt has some lovely people but can be oppressive when you’re a young punk rocker with a crazy haircut or blue hair. Beth Ditto: how we made Gossip's Standing in the Way of Control 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z “It’s strange being mayor of a town where people are dead set against it, but we’re dependent on gambling, in the middle of the Bible Belt,” he said. A Small Town Bet on Sports Gambling. It’s Still Waiting. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Echols' interest in the occult, heavy metal and black clothing, in particular, prompted many in the Bible Belt state to label him the ringleader of a Satanic cult. Former West Memphis Three inmate Damien Echols says he pays ‘very little attention’ to true crime fandom 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z But black voters even in the Bible Belt are becoming more secular, and alternative activist networks are springing up online and elsewhere. Candidates press to connect with black voters 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z When Prior first arrived at Liberty, in 1999, she was worried that she might find the cultural strictures of the Bible Belt challenging. Conservative Evangelicals Attempt to Disentangle Their Faith from Trumpism 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z I grew up in the “Bible Belt” in South Carolina in an extremely conservative and religious family. 13 Political Secrets People Kept From Family and Friends. What’s Yours? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z When Steinberg decided to move to Tulsa, she wasn’t sure whether it was in the Midwest, or the Southwest, or somewhere else altogether—“the buckle of the Bible Belt,” she called it to friends. America’s Other Family-Separation Crisis 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Few things have appeared to test the bond between Mr. Trump and the South, a political coupling of a thrice-married New Yorker and voters in the Bible Belt that seemed unlikely from the start. He’s ‘One of Us’: The Undying Bond Between the Bible Belt and Trump 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Five years ago, I moved from the Bible Belt to New York City and ran headfirst into an unexpected language barrier. Opinion | It’s Getting Harder to Talk About God 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z She reminded me that this was the Bible Belt, and that the culture here was very different from the one where she grew up. Conservative Evangelicals Attempt to Disentangle Their Faith from Trumpism 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Consider where I saw Swift play: Oklahoma City – apart from Native Americans, heart of the white-bread Bible Belt – just a few hundred miles from Swift’s home state of Tennessee. From Joan Baez to Taylor Swift: how musicians found a political voice 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z But it also removes a signature issue from her arsenal, in a Bible Belt state, and some G.O.P. strategists said it would be surprising if she ultimately does not try to capitalize on it. Abortion Opposition Once Defined Marsha Blackburn. But Not in Senate Race. 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z “It becomes more and more difficult in America to make belief believable, but in this the Southern writer has the greatest possible advantage. He lives in the Bible Belt,” she wrote, and went on: Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z But here in the “Blue Ridge Bible Belt,” many say God — not man-made climate change — is to blame for the more extreme weather. Immense rains are causing more flash flooding, and experts say it’s getting worse 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Rural Florida is in the conservative Bible Belt in the Deep South, which can be homophobic and looks askance at sexual education. Top stories: Florida’s HIV problem, ancient skull surgery, and corrections to a flawed diet study 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z “It was like a Bible Belt of America way of doing things, frightening people,” she said. Opinion | Ireland’s Feminists Lost the Abortion Argument in ’83. This Time We Can Win. 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z The Southern “Bible Belt” states are the most religious, although Utah ranks up there too. Washingtonians are less religious than ever, Gallup poll finds 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “You never hear a peep about it anymore. In a very rural, Southern, Bible Belt community, we’ve been somewhat — I don’t want to say accepting — but we’ve allowed the school to provide support.” A powerful gay activist, a rural conservative town and a civil rights debate that won’t end 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z He gambled his political fortunes on the idea of a state lottery deep in the heart of the conservative Bible Belt and was elected governor in 1990. Zell Miller, Georgia governor and senator with unpredictable streak, dies at 86 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Raised in Pittsburgh, Moakler writes lyrics that are more Rust Belt than Bible Belt, full of platitudes about blue-collar resilience and the lessons learned in a “Steel Town.” 4 concerts to catch in the Washington area over the next several days 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The late Rice, a Bible Belt native, also wrote other, faith-based notables: Kirk Cousins’ family shows what matters 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Evangelical “Christianity,” as practiced in much of the Bible Belt, has as much in common with holy scripture as peas and apples. Opinion | America’s New Religion: Fox Evangelicalism 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z As for the Republican party, it was an embarrassing setback in a Bible Belt stronghold, but also a bullet dodged. Alabama has spoken: Roy Moore and the Bannon-faction will not be tolerated 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z “I brought my political beliefs in the ring because I predominantly wrestle in the Bible Belt, and I knew it would generate a reaction over there,” he says. Where liberals and conservatives debate with body slams 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z In the Bible Belt, evangelicals behold Trump as a fellow victim of sneering liberal elites. The time when America stopped being great 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z But maybe Democrats do not want to be competitive in the Bible Belt. Opinion | The Democrats in Their Labyrinth 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z "We're in the Bible Belt and that says it all. The church dictates the way of life and the politics of this place." Where Trump is seen as saviour - BBC News 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z In the Bible Belt town of Dayton, Tenn., a new statue of Darrow, the agnostic lawyer who lost the famous Scopes “monkey trial” in 1925, is testing tolerance. Donald Trump, Paris, Wimbledon: Your Friday Evening Briefing 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z In any case, he says convincingly, “the most interesting place in the world from a religious perspective is not the Islamic State or the Bible Belt, but Silicon Valley.” Opinion | In a robot showdown, humanity may happily surrender 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z A pastor in the Bible Belt opened his church to refugees. 'Dreamer' in Washington state still faces deportation as attorneys accuse immigration agents of deceipt 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The misgivings that Sessions harbors about secularists and nonbelievers – those who “don’t believe in a higher being” – is no mere eccentricity of a senator from the Bible Belt. Distrust of the non-religious runs deep in American history 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z On some vague associative level in my child’s mind, I understood the Rust Belt to be a castigating belt, same with the Bible Belt, in which I heard the whip-snap of a punishing God. The Rust Belt whips and snaps after eight years of Obama 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z On the Kansas border, 35 miles north of Joplin in the thick of the Bible Belt, people here believe they will stand before their creator one day. It’s hard to find a liberal resident in Liberal, Missouri 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Residents variously describe the town as a proud example of Southern hospitality, a growing “melting pot,” a suburb of “little blue dot” Nashville and the “buckle on the Bible Belt.” Muslims in a Bible Belt town hold their breath 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Growing up in Mississippi shaped my life in all sorts of ways, including seeing a Bible Belt, cultural Christianity that was often very tolerant of racism and bigotry. Russell Moore Can’t Support Either Candidate 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “Unfortunately their focus on the Bible Belt, it really disenfranchised young potential Republicans, and I think that they lost the race to connect with us,” Venne said. Clinton’s best hope with millennials? Conservatives. 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z So Pence, the vice-presidential nominee, is on a mission across America’s Bible Belt to persuade evangelicals to put their faith in Trump. Pence serves crucial role as Trump’s envoy to evangelicals 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z To guard against a backlash in the Bible Belt, applicants had to be 18 to 26 years old and respectable: a full-time student, or a wife and mother, or someone holding a full-time job. Suzanne Mitchell, Who Made the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders a Global Brand, Dies at 73 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The second thing is that we tend to think of these areas as the Bible Belt, where everyone is going to church and everyone is actively involved in religious community. Author J.D. Vance: Faith made me believe in a hopeful future 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z I was also the son of a minister in the Bible Belt, a place as conservative as it was homogeneous. How Marvel's Iceman superhero urged me to come out 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z At the same time, the Bible Belt, as a cultural force, is collapsing, said the Rev. Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist public policy agency. DIVIDED AMERICA: Evangelicals feel alienated, anxious 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z On Saturday, I attended my first same-sex wedding, hosted at a Christian church in the Bible Belt. What Christians Must Do In the Wake of Orlando 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z “We’re in the Bible Belt, and you don’t do things here like they do in New York, Philadelphia or Chicago.” After 98 years, Charleston funeral home closes doors 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Trump has dominated east of the Mississippi River, winning every contest — from New England to the Bible Belt, save for three: Maine, Ohio and Wisconsin. Voters in Eastern Seaboard primaries embrace Trump 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Cruz has now pretty well run through all the states where he can win, having been revealed as a Bible Belt candidate with an exceedingly narrow demographic. After New York, now what? Trump and Clinton win big — but this bizarre political year still holds mysteries 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z “The South is still the Bible Belt, but the gulf between urban and rural interests is deepening,” said Michael Bitzer, a professor of political science at Catawba College, a liberal arts college in Salisbury, N.C. The South's new divide: Blue cities and red states 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z “As a man of faith, this to me is very serious. … We’re always failing – we’re human – but this is the Bible Belt,” he says. Three Scandals Collide as Alabama Governor Accused of Adultery 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Trump faced another test in Mississippi, a heavily Republican Bible Belt state where he had long been favored because of his anti-immigration, nativist rhetoric. Trump wins Mississippi, Michigan primaries 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z But even though Mr. Cruz won a plurality of evangelicals in the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1, he faces uncertain prospects in Oklahoma and other Bible Belt states that will vote on Tuesday. Donald Trump, Despite Impieties, Wins Hearts of Evangelical Voters 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Falwell played no visible role in the Nevada contest, but could help Trump defeat Cruz in Bible Belt primaries that the Texas senator must win next week to remain viable. Republican Party's disruption laid bare in Trump's Nevada victory 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Cruz is eyeing Bible Belt states with disproportionately high numbers of white evangelical voters as well as caucus states where he thinks he can out-organize others. GOP candidates chart different paths as race goes national on Super Tuesday 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z He has vowed to press on, just as Mr. Cruz prepares to compete across a number of Bible Belt states on March 1. South Carolina and Nevada Takeaways: Messages Get Results 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Monroeville, tucked away 30 miles off exit 93 of I-65 in southwest Alabama, is Bible Belt country through and through. Remembering Harper Lee's Hometown 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s a fissure that has been widened by the 2016 presidential campaign, particularly as the race moves to South Carolina, a gateway to the Bible Belt and the next battleground primary state. Presidential race exposes growing divisions among evangelicals 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Cruz wasted little time Wednesday in signaling how he intended to run against the New York real estate mogul in the Bible Belt. A Multifront Republican Battle in South Carolina 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Newly top-scoring cities this year include Detroit, a Midwestern city struggling to recover from economic hardship, and Louisville, Kentucky, located in the nation's conservative "Bible Belt." Half of U.S. states have towns, cities scoring high on LGBT index 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But Newton is breaking new ground, and that ground is being disturbed by a 27-year-old African American in the Bible Belt. His dancing still raising eyebrows, Cam Newton is winning over Charlotte 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The South is still the Bible Belt, and that same Pew survey found that church affiliation remains stronger in the states of the old Confederacy than anywhere else in the United States. Play ball and belly up to the bar, even on Sunday: Influence of churches on the wane in South 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Life has changed in quiet and dramatic ways in this relatively liberal city on the northern edge of the Bible Belt since same-sex marriage became legal in Virginia just over a year ago. In the Bible Belt, Roanoke has become a hub of sorts for same-sex marriage 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump raised doubts about the electorate’s palatability for rival Ben Carson’s Seventh-day Adventist beliefs, but Bible Belt voters insisted Thursday that the denomination to which the candidate belongs isn’t an issue. Ben Carson’s religion not an issue for Bible Belt voters 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “I don’t know if we’re officially part of the Bible Belt or not, but this is an important part of how people think,” he told me. The Daily 202: GOP using Kim Davis saga, gay marriage backlash to galvanize evangelicals in low-turnout Kentucky governor’s race 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z "It is appalling that in a city like Houston, right in the middle of the Bible Belt, we have a homosexual mayor," Rafael Cruz said. Nondiscrimination ordinance puts Houston at the center of latest gay rights battle 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Only a week after the attack, many people in this region known as Oregon’s Bible Belt are quick to reaffirm their opposition to stricter gun laws. In Oregon visit, Obama will find grief but also resentment 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Religious faith is an important part of many people's lives in this rural part of Oregon, called by some "the Bible Belt of Oregon." Church leaders in rural Oregon town at forefront of healing process after campus killings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z As if we needed more proof that Vegas isn’t in the Bible Belt. How can you tell whether God supports your team? 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Illegal immigration is always a sizzling topic on Tony Beam's conservative call-in radio show in this small Bible Belt city. GOP's immigration dilemma comes to South Carolina: Hard line now may cost Latino votes later 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z “And there’s a lot of people from Gloucester who are like, ‘It’s the Bible Belt and Satan is in our town.’ Gavin Grimm, transgender student, faces bathroom battle in divided rural Virginia town 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z "And there's a lot of people from Gloucester who are like, 'It's the Bible Belt and Satan is in our town.'" Transgender Student's Battle Divides Rural Virginia Town 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The city’s crown jewel is Baylor, the world’s largest Baptist university, which in the 1880s attracted Baptists from across Texas to Waco, then known as the buckle of the Bible Belt. Texas officials under scrutiny for biker shootout case 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z The military prefers bases that resemble small fundamentalist towns in the Bible Belt rather than the big population centers of the United States. America occupies the planet: The grim realities of our endless War on Terror 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, was the folksy Bible Belt storyteller. Mean Boys 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z More than 70 churches cater to fewer than 14,000 people here, a ratio that’s high even for the Bible Belt. Out of the Woods 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Abdulazeez himself died in what the United States attorney here called a potential act of “domestic terrorism” in the heart of the Bible Belt. Gunman in Chattanooga: ‘Life Is Short and Bitter’ 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Davis is among a handful of public officials across the Bible Belt so repulsed by the thought of enabling a same-sex marriage that they are defying the U.S. Same-sex marriage fight turns to clerks who refuse licenses 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z He is among a handful of public officials across the Bible Belt so repulsed by the thought of enabling a same-sex marriage that they are defying the U.S. Probate judges opposed to gay marriage stand firm 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Davis is among a scattered assortment of public officials across the Bible Belt so repulsed by the thought of enabling a same-sex marriage that they are defying the U.S. Same-sex marriage fight turns to clerk who refuse licenses 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Drumheller, unlike the American Bible Belt, seems to have a taste for it. The town where dinosaurs and Jesus mingle - BBC News 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z There was $5,000 in the church bank account and $6,000 in bills when Larry Montgomery, a deacon, reached a conclusion once unthinkable in the heart of the Bible Belt. One church’s sunset means a new day for another 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z “The decline is taking place in every region of the country, including the Bible Belt,” said Alan Cooperman, the director of religion research at the Pew Research Center and the lead editor of the report. Big Drop in Share of Americans Calling Themselves Christian 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After years of subjecting it to crackdowns and police raids, Bible Belt oratory and admonitions about corruption, Alabama lawmakers are now seeking fiscal salvation from an old nemesis: gambling. Alabama, Facing Deficit, Reluctantly Mulls Gambling and Taxes 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The voice of the moment sounds like a Bible Belt preacher, ripping down the runway toward oratory liftoff. Jesse Jones is back: Seattle’s superhero consumer reporter is now at KIRO 7 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The Crawfords worried that the gender switch “would offend people’s sensitivity in the Bible Belt but that has not been the case at all,” Mark Crawford said. Intersex surgeries spark move away from drastic treatment 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Low well-being, on the other hand, is found “around the Bible Belt…the South and heading north up through the industrial midwest.” These Are America’s Happiest (and Most Miserable) States 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z In America, pre-sales were heavy in Southern “Bible Belt” states, which again goes to show the value of making movies not necessarily aimed at nerds and the LA/NYC crowd. Box Office: 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Whips Record $81.6M Weekend 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z And pre-sales were heavy in Southern “Bible Belt” states, which again goes to show the value of making movies not necessarily aimed at nerds and the LA/NYC crowd. Box Office: 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Spanks 'SpongeBob' With $30M Friday 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Advance sales have been particularly hot in Bible Belt states such as Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, and Alabama. The Fifty Shades of Grey Stimulus 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Sure enough, there it was: the charred corpse of a young black man, tied to a blistered tree in the heart of the Texas Bible Belt. When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt’s dark history of public lynchings 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Republican are really divided by the rural Bible Belt evangelicals and the business establishment. The Surprising Power of Blue-State Republicans 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The top city for biblical stricture was Birmingham, Ala., followed by Chattanooga, Tenn. All the 10 most-Bible-minded cities are, naturally, somewhere in the Bible Belt. These Are the Most Godless Cities in America 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, there our shirt-sleeved president sat, in America’s Bible Belt, in Nashville, Tennessee, trying to gain political points but misquoting scripture. DEBORAH SIMMONS: The Bible is a textbook, saving grace 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Blue Families, showed that divorce is more common in Bible Belt states than less religious liberal strongholds. Our Favorite Books of 2014: Newsweek Staff Picks Spending time in the southern Bible Belt as a young girl also contributed to her feminist views, she said. UW professor claims many titles, more passions 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Local activists in states generally considered off-limits to dramatic progressive reform – such as Oklahoma, deep in the Bible Belt – are likely to make a stab at getting legalization on their ballots. Pot Legalizers Look to 2016 After Alaska, D.C. and Oregon Wins 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z “Should Tennessee be the abortion capital of the Bible Belt?” said Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention, in a post on Twitter last month. Abortion Capital of Bible Belt? Tennessee Vote Tests That Idea 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Nine of the 10 cities where the giving rate was highest are in the so-called Bible Belt. Study Finds Shifts in Charitable Giving After Recession 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z This is Mississippi, after all, a state that embodies the values of the Bible Belt. Gay rights group, after recent victories, turns to a new frontier: the South “It will be interesting to see if they try once again to remove God from their platform, right here in the heart of the Bible Belt.” Birmingham Courts Democrats and Waves Off Skeptics 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Under the religiously conservative founder, the chain gained prominence for its Bible Belt observance of Sunday - none of its hundreds of restaurants are open on that day, to allow employees a day of rest. AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Everywhere else in the continental 48 — the Rust Belt, Bible Belt, Great Plains, Northeast Corridor and Wild Wild West — RG3 is simply a leading character in the national entertainment show known as NFL football. SNYDER: Robert Griffin III still finding place in QB class of 2012 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Is Mr. Dahl’s dream of opening a Pagan temple next to his house being denied because the idea does not go over so well in this Bible Belt town? Pagan High Priest Finds Few Believers Inside City Hall 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z “We are part of the Bible Belt. You read about this stuff going on in big cities. But in Carthage?” Military bans troops from Baptist church event honoring ‘God’s Rescue Squad’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The governor is primed for Iowa, crisscrossing the Bible Belt and preaching his belief that it’s the secularists who are ruining America with their extreme intolerance toward people of faith. Bobby Jindal’s sad search: How he seeks political relevance in today’s GOP 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Piazza's ruling last Friday cleared the way for the first same-sex marriages in America's conservative Bible Belt. Arkansas gay marriages on hold over law to prevent issue of licenses 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z As a Jew in the Bible Belt, I was in a minority. Letter From Mobile: Remembering to Pray 2014-02-04T14:00:01Z The Duck Dynasty mess revealed that not all fundamentalists live in the Bible Belt, and that some of the biggest hicks live in Hollywood. Duck Dynasty Mess and the Culture War 2013-12-29T12:35:24Z The mess revealed that not all fundamentalists live in the Bible Belt, and that some of the biggest hicks live in Hollywood. ‘Duck Dynasty’ Mess Revealed That Not All Fundamentalists Live in the Bible Belt 2013-12-29T05:01:58Z I’m sure if I traveled to someplace in the Bible Belt I might have a different experience. Cyan Banister: Adults Only Startups Deserve Respect Too 2013-09-23T11:22:00Z Oklahoma is among the states of the so-called "Bible Belt" where church attendance is highest. In deeply religious Oklahoma, prayer brings solace after tornado 2013-05-23T22:58:09Z They were born and raised on islands off the coast of Norway a couple of hundred miles north of Bergen, part of an area known as Norway’s Bible Belt. Profiles in Science: May-Britt and Edvard Moser Explore the Brain’s GPS 2013-04-29T18:10:16Z This year, with gay marriage proposals being considered in Illinois, Rhode Island and Minnesota, there has been little talk of a "Southern strategy" for Bible Belt states. In Bible Belt, rift emerges in pro-gay marriage movement 2013-03-13T05:13:23Z A documentary film on his story was deemed too controversial to show in the southern Bible Belt when it came out in 1972. The curious allure of child preachers 2012-08-28T23:38:04Z He was 41 and had spent almost his entire life in or near DeRidder, a small town in the heart of the Bible Belt. From Bible-Belt Pastor to Atheist Leader 2012-08-23T14:40:23Z Instead, those looking for a danger to the selection should consider Bible Belt, whose form against Dancing Rain last autumn puts her right in the mix. Shareta fancied to plunder Ebor meeting's Yorkshire Oaks for France 2012-08-22T16:43:29Z With two of the top states home to large Mormon populations and seven others comprising the so-called Bible Belt of heavily Protestant Christian states, rates of charitable giving appeared linked to religion, the report said. Mormon, Bible-Belt states are top givers to charities: report 2012-08-21T03:52:38Z The imposing dominance of Southern Republicans, particularly in the House, is starting to skew government policy towards Bible Belt economic interests. Why the Farm Bill is doomed (for now) 2012-07-24T17:30:00Z But she will need to be cherry-ripe to deal with Set To Music and Bible Belt, with preference for the latter whose form against Dancing Rain will surely make her very hard to beat. Talking Horses 2012-07-20T23:02:01Z David Simcock's I'm A Dreamer finished third, with Up completing a four-runner field following the defections of Was, Maybe and Bible Belt. Izzi Top finds rhythm to take centre stage for John Gosden at Curragh 2012-07-01T18:32:21Z In Bible Belt states like Missouri, the issue is far from resolved. Softball team excluded due to pastor's bisexuality 2012-05-16T21:58:13Z Without the clinic, elective, legal abortions could still be available at some doctors' offices in Mississippi - if women know where to look in this Bible Belt state. New law targets lone abortion clinic in Miss. 2012-04-12T23:31:05Z High temperatures and a sudden bloom have turned what some call the Bible Belt into the Pollen Belt. Early Spring Brings Flowers, but Also Pollen and Pests 2012-03-22T03:14:53Z The problem stretches across all types of belief, and ranges far beyond the Bible Belt. Affinity fraud: Fleecing the flock 2012-01-26T16:02:58Z This is great ---- Shove it conservatives,,, The Left Coast is on the bottom of the list & the Bible Belt is on the top! Gayest US town? Surprise: It's Salt Lake City 2012-01-10T19:49:09Z As evangelical schools capitalize on the desire of affluent Chinese families for the prestige of an American education, many Chinese students are learning first-hand how the Bible Belt got its name. Chinese Atheists Lured to Find Jesus at U.S. Christian Schools 2011-12-20T22:04:38Z It’s not for nothing that AMR is situated squarely in the heart of the conservative Bible Belt. American: Why Different Didn't Work 2011-11-29T20:04:09Z Religiously motivated blue laws were once common across the Bible Belt. Georgia, or Most of It, Ends Sunday Ban on Alcohol Sales 2011-11-12T00:38:34Z Voters in Mississippi defeated Proposition 26, the Personhood Proposition, but it will return; its backers tried twice in Colorado before moving into the deep South, assuming they would fare better in the Bible Belt. After the Mississippi Vote, the 'Personhood' Fight Is Not Going Away 2011-11-10T10:05:35Z JACKSON, Miss. — Abortion opponents say they're still pursuing life-at-fertilization ballot initiatives in six other states after Bible Belt voters in Mississippi defeated one Tuesday. 'Personhood' effort still alive after Miss. defeat 2011-11-09T14:12:40Z JACKSON, Miss. — Abortion opponents say they’re still pursuing life-at-fertilization ballot initiatives in six other states after Bible Belt voters in Mississippi defeated one Tuesday. Life-at-fertilization ballot props still sought in 6 states after 1 defeated in Mississippi 2011-11-09T13:38:48Z The measure divided the medical and religious communities in this Bible Belt state and caused some of the most ardent abortion opponents, including Republican Gov. Miss. votes on whether life begins at conception, an amendment effectively banning abortion 2011-11-09T02:28:41Z Growing up in the Bible Belt, Moore saw the pulpit as the center of community power. Liberty University?s Johnnie Moore speaks the language of young evangelicals 2011-10-15T22:36:00Z Up next for her is the TV show “Good Christian Belles,” described as “Desperate Housewives” for the Bible Belt. Kristin Chenoweth hopes to balance her personal and professional lives by finding love 2011-09-22T00:30:17Z He prefers the Bible Belt, where controversy is raw. | Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawkins, an Original Thinker Who Bashes Orthodoxy 2011-09-19T17:34:05Z "We are in the middle of the Bible Belt and we are not ashamed of it," said Katon Dawson, a former South Carolina party chairman who is now Perry's state campaign manager. South Carolina could be Rick Perry country in 2012 2011-09-06T17:14:21Z Crocker began posting films he made alone in his bedroom in the Tennessee "Bible Belt" when he found himself marooned at home after a period of sustained bullying at school. Meet Chris Crocker: Britney's champion and YouTube sensation 2011-08-20T23:07:10Z Such equivocation is anathema in Holland's Bible Belt, among the large number of people who live according to strict Christian orthodoxy. No-God squad 2011-08-05T10:18:25Z And Mississippi has zeroed in on what might seem like a surprising solution for a state in the Bible Belt: in March the state passed a law requiring school districts to offer sex education. Poor Man's Burden: Why Are HIV Rates So High in the Southern U.S.? 2011-06-30T12:15:15.653Z When asked if he thought marriage or civil union laws would ever become legal in Bible Belt Arkansas, Beebe said no. Beebe first Arkansas governor to speak to gay group 2011-06-29T02:18:03Z Calls like the one to Smelley were repeated across the ravaged Deep South of the United States, dubbed the "Bible Belt" for its strong religious tradition. In tornado-ravaged Bible Belt, churches mobilize to help 2011-05-07T17:55:19Z Because of its location on the edge of the Old South, people here refer to Panama City as the buckle of the Bible Belt. On Education: Atheists Speak Up at Bible Belt School 2011-04-04T00:00:45Z At home, his Christianity has been something of an embarrassment, but this would go down well in the Bible Belt. 'It's jolly well time' 2011-03-09T15:29:02Z And though he hails from the buckle of the Bible Belt, he is an unabashed big-tent, Big Business Republican who has never drunk very deeply from the social-values trough. Haley Barbour: GOP Kingmaker or Candidate? 2010-09-23T07:35:00Z But that was a Northeastern audience; the reaction might be very different at a performance in the Bible Belt. | New Jersey: In ?Creating Claire,? Religion vs. Science 2010-05-28T23:16:00Z Second chances also come naturally in the heart of the American Bible Belt. Jones finds peace living in Tornado Alley 2010-05-17T18:05:00Z After 10 losing seasons in Tampa Bay, the Rays changed their uniforms and dropped the “Devil” from their name, which was not a hit in Florida’s Bible Belt. Renaming a Franchise Means More Than Finding a New Mascot 2010-04-14T20:31:00Z But here in this Bible Belt town of 4,200, where Washington is seen not as the solution to problems but their cause, Texans are pushing back. A message for Washington on schools: Don't mess with Texas 2010-04-01T04:00:00Z Days after the district announced it would not host the prom, local townsfolk posted signs on the high school reading "What happened to the Bible Belt?" and "Why would we condone this?" Judge won't force Miss. district to hold prom 2010-03-23T20:39:00Z Days after the district announced it would not host the prom, local townsfolk posted signs on the high school reading ''What happened to the Bible Belt?'' and ''Why would we condone this?'' Judge Won?t Force School to Hold Prom 2010-03-23T20:59:00Z Clinton’s would-be successor, Vice President Al Gore, was embarrassed to campaign alongside Clinton, especially in the Bible Belt, and ended up losing states where Clinton was still popular. The President and the Prosecutor 2010-02-19T21:16:00Z This is the Bible Belt," he says, "and a lot of folks still believe in keeping the Lord's Day holy. 2010-02-14T06:05:00Z A Democrat, Mr Wilson started his political career at the age of 27 as a state representative for his home district in Texas, in the heart of the East Texas Bible Belt. 2010-02-11T16:25:00Z |
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