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What Does Proper Christian Womanhood Have to do with the Ray Rice Story?

…most popular pastors calling us a “pussified nation,” to fierce national debates over abortion and birth control whose implicit terms are the assertion of control over women’s bodies. Though our jurisprudence is today unlikely to cite men’s divine responsibility as head of the household, much of our political-religious discourse continues to take gender “complementarity” for granted. This is not to suggest, of course, that all traditional thinkin…

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Religious Right Claims Heterosexual Marriage is a Requirement for Statehood

…uld somehow be kicked out of the union because they have violated some federal law defining marriage as a requirement for statehood. Such a “litmus test” does not exist. So far, all of the fear-based arguments against marriage equality have been losers. If there is any justice, this shameless twisting of history will meet with the same fate….

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Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

…racial imagination, which has for centuries equated blackness with moral debasement and vehemently denied the existence of “a virtuous black woman.” Despite the Catholic Church’s long (and painful) history of racial exclusion and segregation in its religious ranks, thousands of black women have dared to profess the sacred vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the Atlantic World. In doing so, they provided a powerful refutation to whites who…

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What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right

…took on large research projects with sweeping histories, contributing a great deal to the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage. But she also worked locally, organizing the women of her hometown of Fayetteville, New York to elect women to the school board. Like most women in her time, including Stanton and Anthony, she was not “for” abortion (“pro-choice” did not exist in any real way), but she did analyze the politics around it to…

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Coronavirus Exposes the Religious Right’s Racism

eases, the likelihood that someone associates immigration with disease increases greatly. What all this shows is that xenophobic responses to the coronavirus by Christian nationalists like Charlie Kirk, or their champions like Donald Trump, are entirely predictable. It has been this way for centuries. For those who believe the nation rightly belongs to “people like us” (read: White, native-born, Christians), anyone who falls into the category of “…

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Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Countries’ is Just a Cruder Term for What’s Been Said in American Churches for Generations

…from “shithole countries” out of the US, so nineteenth-century Americans erected barriers to the immigration of “heathens” to their “Christian land”: case in point, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. But Isaiah 35 promised that “the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose,” and missionaries saw themselves as the catalyst in making this happen throughout the suffering “heathen world.” They would make foragers into farmers, and in general make ev…

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