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Five Signs Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale” Dystopia May Be Nigh

By Patricia Miller

…providing abortion, even if a woman is paying some or all of the premium. Texas just passed two bills that would ban the safest, most common second-trimester abortion method and require women who have an abortion to pay for the burial or cremation of aborted fetuses. Arkansas passed a law that would not only ban the safest second-trimester procedure, but potentially allow husbands or fathers to block a woman’s abortion. According to the Daily Bea…

Pastor Who Called Mormonism a “Cult” Backs Mitt Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…rst Baptist Church, is now supporting Mitt Romney for President, he told a Texas radio station. This is the same Pastor Robert Jeffress who grabbed headlines last fall when he stormed into the Values Voter Summit and proclaimed that Mormonism was a “cult.” (An act which, as it turns out, may have been publicity stunt to drive Jeffress’ book sales.) The most vocally anti-Mormon evangelical public figures are leaving the barricades. Partisanship tru…

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

By Patrick Hornbeck

…the Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, the Texas 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 responsibili…

Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle — ‘The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy’

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…ck minister Dwight McKissic removed his 1,600 member congregation from the Texas state convention over the organization’s outspoken repudiation of critical race theory. But McKissic’s departure would become the first of many desertions from the SBC after noted Bible teacher Beth Moore and ethicist Russell Moore resigned from the denomination over its mishandling of sexual abuse allegations and tolerance for white supremacists. The Bible Told Them…

Firing a Woman for Her Choice of Husband

By Kate Childs Graham

…as fired from her position at Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, Texas. The reason? Well, on November 22, LaFortune married Benjamin Stakes—a divorcé. The status of LaFortune’s husband-to-be was revealed in a school newspaper featuring the couple’s upcoming nuptials. According to Catholic doctrine, marriage must be between an unmarried man and unmarried woman. Citing this doctrine, Deacon Patrick Cunningham of Central Catholic High sugge…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…multiple far-right attacks in recent years, from Buffalo in 2022 to Allen, Texas and Jacksonville in 2023. Still, despite the documented connection to violence, media pundits and politicians continue to amplify these ideas without much thought or consideration as to their impact. Just last week, Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy argued on the GOP debate stage that the great replacement theory isn’t a conspiracy theory, but a “basic statement…

Reason for Cautious Optimism in the Mauna Kea Telescope Standoff

By Jean Rosenfeld

…Building in Oklahoma City. In other cases violence is avoided. The Garland Texas Police Department allowed a scholar of religion to advise them that the Chen Tao movement would not commit collective suicide once the date of their apocalypse, March 31, 1998, had passed without incident. In 1996 the FBI gave negotiators the authority to prolong the confrontation with an armed group in Jordan, Montana, until it was defused by intermediaries. Both res…

Should We Expect to See a Rise in Christian Nationalist Violence in the US?

By Nilay Saiya

…rcent of the total population. Similar sentiments have been expressed by a number of other prominent politicians with Christian nationalist inclinations, including Florida governor Ron Desantis, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, and Texas senator Ted Cruz. This fusion of religion and nation has created a fertile breeding ground for a culture of violence to take root. Of course, Christian nationali…

How a 15th Century Book on Witchcraft Helps Make Sense of Trump’s Bizarre Baby Execution Story

By Karen E. Park

…after they are born. On February 12, at his border wall rally in El Paso, Texas, Trump accused governor Ralph Northam of Virginia of plotting to execute babies: The governor stated he would even allow a newborn baby to come out into the world, and wrap the baby, and make the baby comfortable, then talk to the mother and talk to the father, and then execute the baby. Later in February he tweeted that “the Democrat position on abortion is now so ex…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…g school buildings. The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where the shooter used an AR-15-style weapon he’d purchased from the gun company Daniel Defense, has followed the same pattern—but with a recognition that the love of the AR-15 style weapon isn’t just about “freedom” or Second Amendment absolutism. It’s also about Christian Nationalism. Daniel Defense had, on May 16th, posted a now-deleted Tweet advertising the same…