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Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…r Institute is a business/libertarian think tank affiliated with the State Policy Network, which parallels the Christian Right Family Policy Alliance, the joint state political arm of Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. Cat 5 Playbook There are five categories in the latest manual. Category 1 comprises bills and resolutions about God and country; notably posting In God We Trust displays in public schools. These bills were intended…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…a fairly narrow definition of that term when they describe the cruel Texas policy—it’s no longer tenable to argue that the attack is “merely” theoretical or rhetorical, even if a handful of state officials have said they believe the policy to be illegal and will refuse to comply. On Tuesday, the news dropped that Texas officials had opened “child abuse” investigations into parents who support their children in accessing age-appropriate gender-affi…

LDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19

By Joanna Brooks

…f missionary services as well, as did writer Jana Riess who celebrated the policy change but expressed limited disappointment that the new policy preserves a 24-month commitment for young men and an 18-month commitment for women missionaries. The missionary age change comes at a moment when the LDS Church is also preparing to roll out new curriculum that equalizes the emphasis on marriage and family in lessons taught to young men and young women….

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…to take place only among a married man and woman.” Smuggling religion into policy Dr. David R. Brockman, a Nonresident Scholar at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, told RD he sees Project Blitz “as a covert campaign for conservative Christian dominion over law and public policy.” “As I’ve written elsewhere,” he added, “dominionism as I understand it seeks to align law and public policy with conservative Christian beliefs.” Part…

How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

By Patricia Miller

…eties about about far-off forces like banks and the federal government that increasingly controlled the lives of Americans. And once issues enter this zone, they become irremediable by the mere tools of legislation and public policy. So today’s Republicans, who elevated policy questions about the delivery of health care into the great moral cause of our time, shouldn’t be surprised when they find that no amount of negotiations will find a solution…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…terly and is now at the neoconservative Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Steven Schwartz, executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, a group founded in 2004 which describes itself as “a think tank that challenges the dominance of American Muslim life by militant Islamist groups.” Stanford University historian and Middle East Studies expert Joel Beinin has lambasted the role of these “unsavory characters” in what he descr…

God’s Promise to Noah for Climate Change Denialism Cited by Potential Energy Policy Maker

By Lauri Lebo

…son for taking down the video was that it was, “… a violation of YouTube’s policy against spams, scams, and commercially deceptive content.” (YouTube’s complaint policy places the burden of proof on the person who has posted the video, not on the person making the complaint. So, if you don’t like a video somebody posted of you, you may say that it’s copyright infringement—or some other reason—and the video invariably gets removed. The person who p…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…haven’t published their county election manual online. Neither has America Policy Works. This suggests that the campaign has gone stealth since its ballyhooed launch. Garlow’s Well Versed ministry is listed among AFPI’s ‘movement partners,’ alongside business/libertarian groups like the Club for Growth, familiar Christian Right organizations like the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Family Research Council, and the Family Policy Alliance. Intriguingly…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…al system of universal health care. Kaufman said Israel’s liberal abortion policy had been “ingrained” since the state’s founding. On the American conservatives’ silence, she said, “most of the American anti-choice groups are not made up of Jewish women of any stripe, so most don’t really care what Israel’s policy is.” On the other hand, the views of Eli Schussheim, the head of the ultra-Orthodox Israeli anti-abortion group Efrat, are controversia…

Christian Health Sharing Ministries Aren’t All Corrupt — But Here’s Why They Are a Problem

By Chrissy Stroop

…d secondary education, I should know. Privatizing public goods is not good policy, and the Reaganite “starve the beast” approach to governance is bad enough on its own. But privatizing public goods so that they can be manipulated by adherents of an extremist ideology is even worse policy, and if those who assure us that they are very concerned with American polarization really want to get at its source, they should stop placing the blame on Americ…