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‘It’s Time to Defend our Children Outside of the Womb’: Pray Vote Stand Connects Anti-Abortion and Anti-Trans Messages

By PRA Staff

…kins then welcomes an anti-abortion panel on to the stage, featuring South Carolina State Senator Josh Kimbrell, who urges audience members to deflect questions about their own stances and punt back challenges to liberals who want to “kill babies until the day they are born.” Kimbrell echoes Perkins’ call to action, reflecting that “after Roe fell a lot of people believed that was it…but really the battle has just begun. We’ve just pressed reset t…

Why Trump’s Religious Liberty Order is “a Whole Lot of Nothing”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ike the passage of H.R. 172, introduced into the House in January by North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter B. Jones. (The bill hasn’t even gotten a preliminary reading yet.) We thought we’d have to sue Trump today. But it turned out the order signing was an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome. — ACLU National (@ACLU) May 4, 2017 Hobby Lobby Still Doesn’t Have to Pay for Your Birth Control (Or Pap Smears or Mammograms…) The or…

The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…enate’s passage of SB 6 (the so-called “bathroom bill” modeled after North Carolina’s disastrous HB 2), you and your colleagues told me I should be forced into a restroom that doesn’t match my identity, making me vulnerable to violence and harassment. And if, God forbid, I find myself on the receiving end of a pair of frightened fists or worse, I will be legally defenseless, since you and your colleagues have declined to extend hate crimes protect…

Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right

By R.L. Stollar

…a lifelong journey of questioning everything. Yoza, homeschooled in North Carolina, competed in the early years of HSLDA’s debate league. For Yoza, debate provided first and foremost community: “Up until debate,” he explained, “the only people I had contact with were from my parents’ fundamentalist church and the homeschool groups.” While Yoza’s debate community was still conservative, it was less so than church and school, “which cracked the doo…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…cial media. The restaurant quickly “got hundreds of death threats on their phones and social media.” Then a North Carolina man decided to investigate the pedophilia ring himself, bringing an assault rifle that he fired in the restaurant. (No one was hurt.) As the man later explained about the absence of child sex slaves there, “The intel on this wasn’t 100 percent.” As we’ve moved from an election dominated by fake news to a new Trump administrati…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…rent national candidacy, just seven years after he was outfoxed by Bush in South Carolina—saw many oddly confessional claims from McCain on subjects religious. “It wasn’t so much a rejection of the Episcopal Church,” McCain said in October 2007 of his move to the North Phoenix Baptist Church. “I came into that church, I sat down, I got the message of redemption and love and forgiveness, and it resonated with me. I found going to that church was be…

Gaining Except-ance: Army Chaplain Who Says “I Don’t” to Same-Sex Wedding Should Not Be Reprimanded

By Patrick Hornbeck

…s foster placement agency that turned away a lesbian couple, and the North Carolina magistrate who lost her job after refusing to perform same-sex marriages. These and similar cases are a subset of a much larger number of disputes about whether, when, and to what extent a person’s or organization’s religious beliefs can excuse them from their ordinary legal responsibilities. But military chaplaincy has long been understood as a profession where th…

Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity

By Anthea Butler

…s, and presidential candidates. Graham could thus, at once, be the perfect Southern folk preacher from North Carolina and have access to the halls of power. His particular brand of fiery preaching with a gentle call to Jesus might have been reminiscent of Billy Sunday, but it was every bit made for the modern era of television and visual culture. Standing like a blonde icon of white male American power, his good looks and message would carry him a…

GOP Education Bill Would Radically Rewrite Religious Freedom and License Virtually Any Form of Discrimination

By Patrick Hornbeck

…les, in 1970 the Internal Revenue Service revoked the tax-exempt status of South Carolina’s Bob Jones University because it had barred from admission first black applicants and, later, anyone who supported interracial marriage. The Supreme Court subsequently upheld the IRS’s decision in an 8-1 ruling, on the grounds that the agency had acted to further the government’s compelling interest in minimizing racial discrimination. But under the PROSPER…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…s a bit unwieldy. How do you feel about the cover? The University of North Carolina Press was very supportive of my decision to place Jane Manning James, who is the heart and soul of my book, on the cover. Ever since I saw this painting of James (which belongs to the LDS Church museum), I loved it. However I worried that it was too hagiographic. But my fears subsided when I discovered that the 1905 pioneer photo (which is included in the book’s op…