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Between Butker, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes TradCaths are Having a Moment — A Moment With Something to Tell us About Christian Nationalism

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…ive this stamp of approval. In other words, Benedictine is part of the far-right and Traditionalist wing of US Catholicism, “a small number” of truly faithful even by their own admission. And even at Benedictine, the speech didn’t escape criticism. Despite being a very trad college, many students reacted to both the declaration that women should primarily find meaning in being a wife and mother as well as the anti-LGBTQ statements made by Butker….

Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

…, and Vonette Bright, the widow of Campus Crusade for Christ founder Bill Bright—were honored on the stage, Bright, to the delight of all ages in the audience, called for the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms and the restoration of school prayer. (Her late husband was instrumental in organizing Washington for Jesus and America for Jesus rallies in the 1980s, which focused on similar themes to those behind The Response.) T…

Beneath the ‘Wacky’ Paula White Video is a Dark and Deeply Undemocratic World Propping Up the President

By Frederick Clarkson

…lare that you will keep the POTUS (sic) in his purpose and in his position right now.” “We override the will of man for the will of God, right now.” She called on God to take down “any demonic agenda that has been released over this election,” any “fraud” and any organization that is unaligned with his purpose. “We ask for swift victory even now.” White went on like this until, catching herself, she looks to the camera and says “I know you will mi…

Vatican Fires Shot at US Religious Right, Calls Out “Religious Liberty” Industry and “Evangelical-Catholic Alliance”

By Patricia Miller

…tican has discovered what had become the defining feature of the Christian Right in America: the conservative evangelical-Catholic convergence. And while Spadaro and Figueroa are critical of the sublimation of gospel values to the goal of right-wing political domination, it’s worth noting that the two issues that drove this convergence in the first place—abortion and same-sex marriage—haven’t exactly been abandoned by Pope Francis. As for the “glu…

Gary North (1942-2022) Sought to Deny Religious Liberty to ‘the Enemies of God’ — But He Was Willing to Wait Patiently For The Revolution to Develop

By Frederick Clarkson

…ence in 2007 cosponsored by several leading organizations of the Christian Right. I wrote about the role of Gary North in the ideological development of the Christian Right in my 1997 book Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy. Scholars Sara Diamond, Julie Ingersoll, Michael McVicar and Frances Fitzgerald, among others, have also noted the significance of North in these historical developments. Somehow North’s obituarists…

DADT Repeal and DREAM Defeat: A Failure of Evangelical Influence?

By Sarah Posner

…DREAM Act — on behalf of the Freedom Federation, a coalition of religious right groups that claims to be reaching out beyond the religious right’s historically white base. The first words on the subject line were, “Freedom Federation Pledges Full Mobilization on Behalf of . . .” and I thought, ah, they’re getting up in arms about the failure of the DREAM Act. But, sadly, no, it’s a promise to mobilize a claimed 40 million supporters “to overturn…

The Most Forgotten Queer Folks in the US are Fighting Back Against a Powerful — and Publicly Funded — Group That Discriminates With Impunity

By Chrissy Stroop

…religious beliefs” to justify. In a fair society, others’ “sincerely held religious beliefs” shouldn’t limit the rights of those who don’t share them, and religious bigotry is—that’s right—still bigotry. REAP is bringing the fight to Christian Right institutions themselves, and it deserves our every support as it does so….

King Hearings: Right to Attorney = Enabling Extremism?

By Hussein Rashid

…, but because they are experts in dealing with these individuals. It is my right as an American citizen, and I hold my rights dearly. The objection to these hearings is Constitutional: you cannot single out a group of people as a class for the actions of a few from that class. That’s not equal protection under the law. But while Jasser is absolutely right about the debates that need to happen within religious communities it’s not the government’s…

Religious Right “Compassion” and Other Lies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…so totally brand new, and patently offensive, that it just knocks the wind right out of me. Take this gem quoted in the Colorado Springs Gazette over the weekend in a story about the recent rash of gay teen suicides: Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., said the rash September suicides by gays might be linked to the students believing they were born gay. “That creates hopelessness,” he…

What the Hell is Wrong With Us? A Muslim Response to America’s Failure to Change

By Haroon Moghul

…Islam, but it isn’t absolute. If your property can harm someone, then the right to life supersedes the right to engage in commerce or build wealth. So consider the question of speed limits again. As cars become safer and smarter, maybe the speed limit can go up. But as traffic increases, maybe it should go down. (I don’t know, I’m not a traffic engineer.) Then there’s the urgent question of pedestrian safety. Oh, and fuel efficiency, not to menti…