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The Right’s ‘Grooming’ Rhetoric Didn’t Begin with QAnon — You Have to Go Back a Bit Further to Get to the Source

By Sophie Bjork-James

…g a godly life. In my book, The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family, I show how this fixation on heterosexuality links theology and politics, and has led to widespread ostracisms within the church of individuals who either come out as LGBTQI+ or who support LGBT rights. Describing education about sexual diversity as “grooming” speaks to this evangelical focus on heterosexuality. However, equating exposure to the reali…

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Chauvin Verdict isn’t a Turning Point in Equal Justice, But it Does Suggest a New Political Norm

By John Stoehr

…w assumption has taken shape, or is taking shape, in the aftermath of the Trump era, a period that ripped the bark off “conservatism” in ways respectable white people had never admitted before. Accusing a jury of “mob justice” in ruling that a white cop is guilty of murdering a Black man, as Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini did on Twitter following the verdict, might have resonated with a lot of respectable white people if not for the fact that a rea…

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Dear Readers: Letter From an Anonymous Liberal Pastor in Trump Country

By Thomas Warming

…ing that seems even remotely divisive, which typically means checking your politics at the door. Small rural churches don’t appreciate being lectured to about social justice or speaking truth to power. They tend to the conservative. I don’t exactly do surveys, but the congregation is probably about two-thirds Trump voters, in line with the surrounding county. They’re not necessarily fire-breathing radical right-wingers—in fact, very few of them ar…

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Is Refusal to Write Anti-Gay Cake Message a Violation of Religious Freedom?

By Kara Loewentheil

…rejection of the cake is not about religion, it’s about a secular value or politics: the baker won’t bake any homophobic cakes, no matter whether a religious person or a secular person asks. This is an interesting argument, one that Professor Caroline Corbin made in a twitter conversation we had about the case. .@KaraLoew @sarahposner hmm Even if refused to bake cake, refusal based on polical beliefs not religion #HateCake — Caroline Mala Corbin (…

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We Can Finally Put the Lie to Trumpism: 5 Myths Debunked By a Biden Victory

By John Stoehr

…772,933, or 47.7 percent.) Incumbents almost always win. Moreover, Donald Trump didn’t run for reelection on any issue or problem. Only on himself. Put all the above together to appreciate how special Biden’s accomplishment is. As I’ve said previously, this isn’t just a victory. It’s an outright rejection of the last four years. (I would add, moreover, that it’s a rejection of 40 years of Republican orthodoxy.) That rejection should include the my…

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Evidence Strongly Suggests Trump Was Collaborating with Christian Nationalist Leaders Before January 6th

By Matthew D. Taylor and Bradley Onishi

…tensive spiritual warfare campaign, all of which became entwined with the Trump Administration and Trump 2020 Campaign. Just a couple weeks before the 2020 election, Trump was presented with an ATH flag by one of Wagner’s apostles, Paul Marc Goulet, while visiting a church in Las Vegas. This Appeal to Heaven vigor about Trump and revival dovetailed with hundreds of prophecies from the NAR and other networks of charismatic prophets echoing that God…

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The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?

By Anna Clark

…Walters said. “They improve community in its culture. Their businesses and newspapers are important in the black community in terms of its coherence.” Moreover, the Fruit of Islam (the prestigious group of men trained as bodyguards and security workers) are hired or have volunteered for large-scale safety efforts in, for example, the cities of Washington DC and Detroit. By being ingrained in community life, the Nation set itself up for what would…

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How a Ruling for Masterpiece Cakeshop Could Embolden White Nationalists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…premacy as legitimate. But given the current climate Wenger worries that a ruling affirming the religious freedom and expression claims ADF is advancing in Masterpiece Cakeshop would draw those dark forces out of the shadows. “I think we could see white supremacist arguments carving out religious exemptions to non-discrimination laws, which were rejected in the past,” she said. “Given the public resurgence of Nazis and white supremacists, I think…

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Marriage Equality Is the Next Roe v. Wade… And That’s Okay

By Patricia Miller

…mocratic Party. If Greenhouse and Siegel are correct that it was “ordinary politics” that produced the long-running conflict over abortion, and the concomitant political polarization, there’s no reason to believe that same-sex marriage won’t become similarly entangled. That’s because even though the contours of the battle may be different, it’s the same fight over the meaning of family, the authority of traditional (usually religious) leaders, the…

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5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…oral consciousness of society (again, as they define moral consciousness): running institutions, clinics, social services and the like, preaching and spreading its idea of Islam, without getting too tangled up in politics. At the same time, the political leader who comes to power in Egypt will likely be personally religious, proud to identify as an Egyptian, an Arab, and a Muslim. Because Egypt never went through the radical secularization that Tu…

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