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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…Exchange Council and the Religious Right legal giant Alliance Defending Freedom. They are accompanied by newer advocacy groups created by former Trump administration officials, including the Center for Renewing America and Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, which alone took in $44 million in 2022.[17] Project 2025 builds on a tradition started when Heritage presented then President-elect Ronald Reagan with its “Mandate for Leadership” policy w…

10 Pro-LGBT #ChristiansVote Tweets From Anti-Gay, Pro-Trump Hashtag Hijack

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ag #ChristiansVote was intended to amplify faithful support for the so-called traditional values that some claim the Trump campaign, and the Republican Party in general, stand for. (Nevermind that the GOP candidate routinely violates many of the central edicts of the “traditional values” crowd, from his three separate marriages, to his alleged sexual assault of women, to his flip-flopping stance on abortion, to his well-documented tendency to lie,…

Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion

By Chrissy Stroop

…nding in favor of two less established groups whose applications were not recommended by career DOJ officials. The groups in question, the Nevada-based Hookers for Jesus, and the South Carolina-based Lincoln Tubman Foundation, had their grants pushed through by Katharine Sullivan, head of the Orwellianly named Office of Justice Programs, against the formal recommendations of career Justice Department officials which had been made based on the repo…

11 Election Tweets to Amuse, Infuriate, Enlighten, and Amuse You

By Evan Derkacz

…6181999618 3. This one’s more watchable. Promise: https://twitter.com/chilledasad100/status/1324303206755741697 4. For Republicans still fuzzy on the life cycle of a vote: https://twitter.com/FixYourLife/status/1324075698793836544 5. Bi-curious Republicans: https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1324200240694648834 6. For the president in your life utterly mystified by the fact that his leads began to “magically disappear” overnight: https://twitte…

The 11 Best #RealClergyBios Tweets

By Anita Little

…nister Mihee Kim-Kort, who launched #realclergybios as an offshoot of #realacademicbios, to get the story behind the hashtag. Scroll down for the 11 most insightful—or just plain cheeky—tweets. What pushed you to start #RealClergyBios? Clergy constantly seem to have these perfect bios on Twitter and elsewhere, but if we dig a little deeper into their lives, it’s not so shiny and happy. My friend, Elizabeth Grasham (@elizabethlgr), helped originate…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…iage amendments that passed in California, Arizona, and Florida as a much-needed culture wars booster shot. With pro-gay civil rights demonstrations continue across America, pro- and anti-gay spokespersons squaring off in debates on radio and television talk shows (for an especially spirited debate watch this clip of columnist and author Dan Savage and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council), and with Religious Right groups see in…

Encyclileaks: Was the ‘Laudato Si’ Leak a Sin or Just a Scoop?

By Kaya Oakes

…mong the Catholic journalists and religion writers on my Twitter feed approached Star Wars levels with astonishing rapidity. A papal encyclical arguably hadn’t been the subject of this much conjecture since Humanae Vitae in 1968, far before the dawn of social media. Conjectures piled up upon assumptions, and thousands of writers were looking forward to a sleepless night of encyclical reading followed by the bleary-eyed composition of hot takes and…

“I Can’t Defend My People”: Opting Out of Evangelicalism, Post-Election

By Anita Little

…helped to usher the real-life Biff Tannen to the seat of power. My social feeds have been full of expressions of disillusionment, like those of Yolanda Pierce and Brandi Miller here on RD. And indeed, as we see from the roundup of responses below, evangelical voices from across the spectrum have expressed everything from shock to bitterness to a public renunciation of the faith tradition they had considered their own. As our sensibilities are furt…

Evangelical Prof’s ‘Biblical Comma’ Tweet Exposes Paradox of ‘Respectable’ Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism

By Chrissy Stroop

…al threat of minority authoritarian rule by white right-wing Christians like Strachan. And when it comes to fear, if we have any hope of staving off that threat, we need our media gatekeepers and elite pundits to stop being afraid to criticize their kind of Christianity….

Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

By Chrissy Stroop

…vers, and religious minorities in discussing Christianity and ‘religious freedom.’” As a case in point, I brought up Christianity Today columnist Bonnie Kristian arguing in The Week that any objection to the Christian practice of proselytizing must be based in either partisanship or ignorance of Christianity. As her assertion of this clearly false dichotomy demonstrates, if we’re to take her at her word, Kristian is unable to conceive of literally…