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      Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope?
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      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
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      Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
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      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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Andrew L. Seidel

Andrew L. Seidel is a constitutional attorney and Vice President of Strategic Communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. His first book The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American was burned by a Tennessee preacher. His latest book is American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom. Find Andrew on social media: @AndrewLSeidel

Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeAugust 19, 2024

Want to Know What Public Education Would Look Like Under Project 2025? Just Take a Look at Oklahoma

By Andrew L. Seidel

UPDATE (12:03 pm ET on 8/20/24): This piece has been updated to include information on…

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Archive, Politics/LawMay 29, 2024

An Interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin on the Feminist and Abolitionist Founder Who Has Slipped into a Memory Hole

By Andrew L. Seidel

He named our country the “United States of America.” The failed corset maker sailed to…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, UncategorizedJanuary 11, 2024

Oklahoma Bill Would Violate Basic Freedoms, Rewrite the Ten Commandments

By Andrew L. Seidel

In the waning days of 2023, a banner year for Christian nationalism, Oklahoma State Representative…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/LawJuly 3, 2023

The Traitor Chaplain Who Gave Government Prayer to America — A 4th of July Corrective

By Andrew L. Seidel

The “shot heard around the world” ignited the American Revolution and led to the independence…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, Media Analysis, OMFG, Politics/Law, Racial Justice, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeJune 30, 2023

Contrary to Popular Narrative the Supreme Court’s ‘303’ Decision Gutting Civil Rights Laws is not About an Individual Standing Up For Her Beliefs

By Andrew L. Seidel

Today the U.S. Supreme Court gutted our system of civil rights laws that have done…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeApril 10, 2023

Christian Nationalist Judge Strikes Down FDA-Approved Abortion Pill for Brazenly Ideological Reasons

By Andrew L. Seidel

Mifepristone is safer than aspirin. Much safer. The FDA approved the drug for early abortions…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 2, 2023

Christian Nationalist Legislator Introduces Anti-Trans ‘Millstone Act’ Suggesting Biblical Retribution

By Andrew L. Seidel

A biblical death sentence. In America, in 2023, a legislator has proposed The Millstone Act,…

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Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sex/Gender/JusticeDecember 16, 2022

What Protests and Executions in Iran Can Tell us About America and the Fall of Roe v. Wade

By Andrew L. Seidel

The separation of religion and government is a basic human right. The protests in Iran…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawAugust 31, 2022

The Link Between Texas’ Law Requiring ‘In God We Trust’ Signs in Schools and the January 6 Insurrection

By Andrew L. Seidel

A Texas law requiring public schools “to assert the country’s collective trust in God” by…

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Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyJune 30, 2022

Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law

By Andrew L. Seidel

Americans must stop thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a court of law….

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