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I Grew Up Evangelical and the Christian Nationalist Insurrection Did Not Surprise Me

By Deirdre Sugiuchi

…and Turning Point Action, the political action arm of Turning Point USA, a right-wing campus group headed by Charlie Kirk.” In the ensuing days since the siege, I’ve watched videos of a white man in a QAnon shirt chasing a Black police officer, Eugene Goodman; of a crowd of white men beating a police officer with an American flag; of a crowd of white men crushing a police officer’s head as he tried to block them from entering the Capitol; and of w…

Gingrich Claims Obama Violates Catholics’ Right to Worship

By Sarah Posner

…s any conscience objection in a way that is a fundamental violation of our right to to worship without interference from the government.” Not only did Gingrich conflate abortion and contraception, he expanded the definition of what “worship” is. Because of course the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment prohibits government interference with freedom of worship. But the Obama administration’s rule does not impede anyone’s right to worship. T…

Already Beatified by the Right for Surviving an Assassination Attempt, Must We All Pray for Donald Trump?

By Daniel Schultz

…that Trump was shielded by the “armor of God,” a catchphrase for militant right-wing Christians. Another popular talking point on the right, that Trump is under “God’s protection,” quickly runs into questions of theodicy—i.e., if there is a God, why would they permit evil? If Trump is truly under divine protection, what’s the Secret Service, a bunch of potted plants? And what sort of cockamamie God would protect someone like a presidential candid…

In Convention Event Democrats Embrace the ‘Nones’

By Chrissy Stroop

…rts both with the sense that they’re on the “front lines” of the Christian Right’s culture warring, a point stressed by both Salman and Smith, and with the sociological finding that in states where the Christian Right pushes anti-gay initiatives, the religiously unaffiliated demographic increases. Smith, who is openly queer, also noted that the Christian Right has weaponized its concept of “religious freedom” against the LGBTQ community in particu…

Religious Conspiracy Theories About Giffords Shooting Emerge

By Sarah Posner

…n Gallups’ video as “one of the leading proponents of the Second Amendment right of Americans to arm and defend themselves without government encroachment on that right.” The video maintains that “there will always be guns” (but is amended by a subtitle which reads, “Of course there WILL be a world without weapons of any time [sic] when Jesus rules and reigns. But in THIS world – guns will always be in ‘someone’s’ hands.”) “Can we really trust our…

Constitutional Attorney Changes into Drag During Talk on Cancelation of West Texas A&M Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…but also with a drag show on campus this coming spring. In a time when the Right is relentlessly attacking LGBTQ people and families, drag performances, and transgender rights, young people like Stovall provide hope. It’s also encouraging to see national figures like Seidel, author most recently of American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom, join the fight for LGBTQ justice at the grassroots level where the key battle…

Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…f Eden trend you’re spotting in the race for president? The trick from the right is to reignite the politics of anger so successfully done by Richard Nixon. To really paint President Obama not just as wrong but as evil. They want to get people to vote against him rather than for Romney. I think “Etch-a-Sketch” is close to describing Romney, but I think he’s more a Rorschach Test. The right sees in him what they want to see—he is very much an objec…

Religious Right Dream of Privatized Public Education Gets Boost

By Julie Ingersoll

…democracy. An RD commenter, frharry, to my previous post about this topic, rightly noted the danger of these “individualistic and tribal impulses”: “Increasingly Americans are saying we do not want to be a nation, we do not want to be a single people. And without a single story, we won’t be. Without a shared set of knowledge and understandings, we can’t be. And without the resolve to remain united, we have no way to be.” He suggested I had missed…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…slam and the Shariah” and cannot defend the “more extreme aspects of human rights” such as the rights of LGBT people, reports Rachel Middleton in International Business Times. Human Rights Watch’s Asia deputy director Phil Robertson later told a news conference that he was shocked by Najib’s promise to uphold human rights only within the Islamic context saying that Kuala Lumpur should withdraw from the United Nations if the government was not seri…

Setting a Low Bar: Religious Entities Praised for Treating Covid Religious Exemptions Responsibly

By Chrissy Stroop

…bership in some of these religious institutions attractive in large enough numbers that their leaders feel compelled to publicly distance themselves from their flocks? (And speaking of numbers, the inclusion of data on religious affiliation and support for vaccine exemptions would have improved the AP article significantly.) But the bigger story here, which slides into the background, is that America’s right-wing politics of “religious freedom” ru…