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      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
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      Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
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      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
    • Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
      Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise
    • 2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
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      Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’
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      Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right
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      Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24
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      2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think
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Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Stephanie Russell-Kraft covered securities litigation and regulation, as well as general legal news, for Law360, a daily news wire for attorneys. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Fusion, Jezebel and AlterNet.

Archive, Books, CultureMay 30, 2017

The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

“I’m unbelievably bored writing about Judaism as a journalist,” author Gordon Haber said during a…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderOctober 12, 2016

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Religious “liberty” is code for something else entirely.

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderAugust 1, 2016

Will SB 1146 End LGBT Discrimination in California’s Religious Schools?

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

A new religious freedom battle has been brewing in California, but you probably haven’t heard of…

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Archive, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJuly 12, 2016

Mississippi’s Gov. Bryant Resorts To Far-Fetched Analogy To Defend Anti-LGBT HB 1523

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

According to Bryant, the carve-outs in HB 1523 are no different than federal laws protecting pacifists from military conscription.

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJuly 7, 2016

Religious Freedom Is No Carte Blanche: Highlights from Mississippi HB 1523 Court Ruling

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Mississippi’s House Bill 1523, the law the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Andrew Seidel called “excruciatingly…

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Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/Law, Religious LibertyJuly 5, 2016

5 Most Important Quotes from Trump’s Evangelical Summit

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

It seems like not a day goes by when a reporter or political commentator declares…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Religious Liberty, Remapping American Christianities, Sexuality/GenderJune 28, 2016

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

The massacre of 49 individuals in an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12 has ignited…

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Archive, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJune 23, 2016

Disingenuous Pleas for “Common Ground” on Religious Liberty Aren’t Likely to Find Any

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

If you were to skim John Gehring’s latest piece for Commonweal, you might think he’s…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJune 8, 2016

Mississippi Religious Lib Law Violates First Amendment and Shuts Out Religious Progressives

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

As I predicted after the first two lawsuits were filed against Mississippi’s House Bill 1523,…

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Archive, Politics/Law, Religious Liberty, Sexuality/GenderJune 1, 2016

Manufacturing Religious Freedom Martyrs

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

On May 12, the conservative advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom introduced the newest Christian martyrs…

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