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Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…y. It was the teachers, who were not armed, who did the most to save their students. The real heroes are dead. The cowards are alive. But the living get to write history. White power incarnate As a matter of fact, police departments across the country do as much to influence public opinion as they do “crime fighting.” Their influence is so great the public finds it completely understandable when cops refuse doing their jobs in the face of mere scr…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…law outlaws the teaching of any content related to gender or sexuality to students “in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” It is, according to DeSantis’ critics, a way to silence the LGBT community and erase the voices of LGBT youth and teachers. However, such laws hardly represent a new approach by revolutionary conservatives. In…

Meditation Sickness: Everyone is Talking About How Nobody is Talking About The Risks of Meditation

By Ira Helderman

…ation teachers and the protocols they do (or do not) utilize to respond to students who do encounter struggles. She’s been troubled by teachers who suggest that such meditators must have a pre-existing psychiatric condition, even as the evidence shows that many do not. Arguing that, if someone falls into depression it’s because they already had a propensity for it, sounds to Britton, as she told me, very much like “victim blaming”—an effort to def…

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

By PRA Staff

…being “secretly” transitioned, or in which schools can support transgender students’ social transition without needing to inform the students’ families. “Social intervention leads to surgical intervention,” says Broyles, which leads to “permanent sterilization” for some youth, which “robs them of their right to have children.” Perez earns a robust round of applause when he proclaims that “confusion is not from God.” If being trans is confused, and…

‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…hool’s anti-LGBTQ policies. McKeen defends his school for not allowing its students to “practice homosexuality” or be (openly) transgender because his school follows what he calls “the truth of God.” Co-panelist Troy McIntosh, Executive Director of Ohio Christian Education Network, speaks of his “model Christian school” that’s easily scalable and can be replicated by the dozens within years. Both celebrate the June Supreme Court ruling on Carson v…

The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…nce,” the array of voices clustered under the NatCon banner align around a number of goals and priorities. These include a near-total moratorium on immigration (whether documented or not); a robust Christian nationalism to dominate the public square; a rollback of LGBTQ rights; economic nationalism and opposition to “globalist” supranational institutions; hostility to China as a civilizational enemy; a seething vendetta against so-called “woke eli…

But What About the Parents? New York Times Falls Into the Anti-Trans ‘Parents’ Rights’ Trap

By Chrissy Stroop

…United States regarding the accommodation or forced outing of transgender students, one should empathize above all with the trans students. Instead of uncritically adopting right-wing tropes about parents’ rights, reporters should also explicitly consider the issue of children’s rights. And instead of focusing on why parents may resent states and school districts that afford their queer minors safe spaces without explicitly informing the parents,…

Christian Nationalism is Authentically Christian — And According to a New Poll Most White Evangelicals are Supporters

By Chrissy Stroop

…Bless the USA” as the grand finale of our school talent shows. High school students were also put to work mailing out right-wing voter guides on school time, while elementary students dutifully pledged allegiance to the American flag, the Christian flag, and the Bible each morning. I’ve belabored the point here at RD before, and it’s worth stating again: the political activities and ideology were an integral part of our religion, just as our Chris…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…art of the Republican Party’s agenda—but those times are long gone. And in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College, the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority finally delivered conservatives another important victory they’d been longing for ending affirmative action for colleges and universities (at least for non-White people). As Madiba K. Dennie writes for Balls and Stripes—the John Roberts-written majority o…

Can Democrats Question Amy Coney Barrett’s Faith? Yes! Should They? Well…

By Daniel Schultz

…ne. You could hear the same sentiment given in different vocabulary at any number of liberal schools, religious or otherwise. That being said, there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about Barrett’s religious views and how they might shape her time on the bench. As the Catholic scholar Massimo Faggioli points out at Politico, the secrecy surrounding groups like People of Praise means that there’s no way to evaluate to whom she has pledged obe…