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“If Every Church Said, ‘We Will Take Over Our Community'”: The (Christian Right) Revolution Starts Small and Local

By Frederick Clarkson

…rd Harris. (Videos of their presentations are available here.) About a thousand attendees, including many students, participated in training workshops on such Christian Right priorities as “reaching ethnic communities” (which has been a key part of the strategy of the Christian Right and the GOP for more than a decade, including in 2020); how to start a Culture Impact Team (church-based political committees of the Family Research Council and its s…

Is the Growing Anti-Pope ‘Rad-Trad’ Community Poised to Become ‘Qatholics’? History Isn’t Encouraging

By Joshua P Hevert and Thomas Lecaque

…nfiltration of the American Catholic Church is now giving way to a growing number of “Q-atholics.” PRRI’s March poll on QAnon’s influence in religious groups has been widely discussed, mostly with regard to evangelical Protestants, but 16% of Hispanic Catholics and 11% of white Catholics agreed with the core QAnon idea that the world is being run by a secret group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles running a global sex-trafficking operation. This sti…

Authoritarian SCOTUS Didn’t ‘Just Happen’: As Roe Hangs By a Thread the Press Struggles with Context and Framing

By Chrissy Stroop

…se Trump appointed three justices (with no mention of the right-wing malfeasance that allowed that to happen), you are simply not framing your story responsibly. Meanwhile, The Washington Post and its affiliate publication The Lily (“a destination for stories central to the everyday lives of millennial women”) have been busy painting anti-choice women leaders in heroic terms. For example, in mid-November WaPo printed a glowing puff piece about Chr…

Unintended Consequences: Overturning Roe v. Wade May Endanger This Cherished Evangelical Practice

By R.L. Stollar

…Protestants support significant restrictions on abortion, almost twice the number of white mainline Protestants (39%) and substantially higher than even Catholics (45%). As many homeschoolers are evangelical Christians, it makes sense that homeschoolers have been key forced-birth advocates. But that’s also because forced-birth messages are being promoted from the top of the homeschool pyramid. (“The homeschool world is organized as a pyramid,” wri…

QAnon isn’t a Cult — a Problematic Term — But Michael Protzman’s Q-Adjacent ‘Negative48’ Certainly Is

By Thomas Lecaque

…ading to these rallies has revitalized his clique, bringing people back to Texas from out of state to join him. And all the while, the rhetoric is maintained—secret codes in the numbers, the dead are really alive, and the group should stay together. We know that “cult” is not an appropriate term for just any religious grouping. It’s a political term for a movement. But Protzman’s group bears all of the hallmarks of that problematic term, in the wa…

Leaked ‘Freedom Convoy’ Donor Comments Clearly Demonstrate Christian Nationalist Presence

By Thomas Lecaque

…to a much, much, much broader field of commentary. There are literally thousands upon thousands of comments in this single donor file engaging in a range of theologies and ideological commentaries, in service of funding an insurrection in Canada. However sparse these particular examples may be, I hope that researchers will invest the time to dig into the religious narratives being sent, alongside money, to the siege of Ottawa—because even as the m…

Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…d, is already being written into legislation on the state level. Recently, Texas governor Greg Abbott called for health care workers and members of the public to report the parents of transgender minors to authorities for child abuse if children are receiving gender-affirming medical care. Preventing fraud by preventing (the wrong) people from voting at all In line with GOP rhetoric on the 2020 election, Scott’s plan announces what’s already happe…

GOP Candidate for PA Governor Affiliated with Far-Right Gun Church, ‘Rod of Iron Ministries’ — Here’s an Annotated Sermon by Leader Sean Moon

By Thomas Lecaque

…e of Pennsylvania and the internet. They’ve purchased compounds in central Texas—some 40 miles north of Waco, which is relevant to the following commentary—and in east Tennessee. And, with both a gubernatorial candidate and candidate for lieutenant governor attending their events, as well as their interactions with Trump, it’s worth looking into their beliefs. What follows is an annotated sermon of Pastor Sean’s from May 27, 2021, in the midst of…

No Father, The Gay Sky Isn’t Falling

By Jay Michaelson

…f course, I understand that such distinctions may fly in the face of a thousand years of Church teaching. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t real. Ironically, if we followed the Church’s theocratic logic, we’d validate polygamy first, same-sex marriage second. After all, polygamy was a biblical value, practiced by Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Solomon… the list goes on. If religious values (which, according to dogma, are absolutely and objectively…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…virtuous girls.” Reformation Day. You’re in luck if you live near Dallas, Texas, you can attend Generals International’s Reformation Day celebration and pray for a “fresh start” for America, just in time for the elections. Reformation Day features Cindy Jacobs and Dutch Sheets, self-proclaimed apostles associated with the dominionist New Apostolic Reformation. Jacobs warns that President Obama is bringing God’s wrath in the form of natural disast…