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Will Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…in its misreading of the legal basis for nationwide marriage equality. The Washington Post‘s Dale Carpenter meticulously catalogued just “how wrong” the court was in its interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, suggesting that landmark case dealt only with the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and not all the attendant rights that accompany a legally recognized marriage. As such, the Texas Supreme…

Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

…d Johnson as the “historian of human dignity.” Another recent piece in the Washington Post by Justin Dyer—executive director of the conservative Civitas Institute at the University of Texas—emphasized that the American nation’s founders believed that “concepts of fundamental human dignity and moral equality are rooted, ultimately, in the book of Genesis.” We might contrast the vaguely narcotic, soporific impact of these recent mentions of human di…

How Ben Carson Uses “Secular Progressives” as a Shield

By Sarah Posner

…reports dispassionately. As Paul Waldman writes in an astute piece at the Washington Post, this scrutiny of the accuracy of Carson’s autobiography tells us little about what kind of president he’d be. But Carson’s wild claims, say, about the purpose of the pyramids, the origins of the universe, or his rejection of evolution, Waldman contends, “suggest not only that his beliefs are impervious to evidence but also an alarming lack of what we might…

The End of Carson?

By Sarah Posner

…have dinner with Carson. In fact, the general’s records suggest he was in Washington that day and played tennis at 6:45 p.m.” Granted, Carson could have had his dates confused. He wrote the book (with a ghostwriter) in 1990, more than 20 years after the events in question. And he may have confused an offer from the general to recommend him for West Point with a “scholarship.” Maybe. By that time, though, he had gone through college and medical sc…

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Red/Blue ‘National Divorce’ Looks an Awful Lot Like a Confederate Flag

By Thomas Lecaque and Joshua Call

…residents’ Day, a day we’ve set aside to honor the legacies of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (an admittedly fraught endeavor, particularly in the case of the slaveholding first president). Because what is “national divorce” but the Second Klan persevering? Hyperbole is nothing new to political discourse, writ broadly. But Greene’s recent remarks, part of a longer Twitter thread, are a stretch, even for the increasingly outlandish rhet…

AR-15 Lapel Pins are More Than Political Provocation — They’re Symbols of the Violence at the Heart of White Christian Nationalism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…n so brazen or flamboyant. The AR-15—the gun with which a disproportionate number of mass shootings in the US are committed—has become a central part of White Christian nationalist iconography, as well as a stark expression of the violent ideology behind it. On January 6, 2021 a banner with the slogan “God Guns and Guts Made in America, Let’s Keep all Three,” was carried by insurrectionists storming the Capitol. Yet despite all this, Republicans a…

For Many Christian Zionists, Israeli Protesters are a Threat to God’s Plan

By Aidan Orly

…tol Hill Prayer Partners (CHPP), a Christian Nationalist ministry based in Washington DC, emailed an ‘Emergency News Alert’ stating: “Israel as a nation has never been in as much danger as she is right now!” The ministry names “external forces from the Deep State/globalists [who] have used their sway to funnel monies to the liberals in Israel, to fund these protests.” In addition to being an antisemitic trope, the idea that a group of liberal elit…

Christian Nationalist Judge Strikes Down FDA-Approved Abortion Pill for Brazenly Ideological Reasons

By Andrew L. Seidel

…is message was worn by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s toddler, according to the Washington Post. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk—who overturned the drug that is, again, safer than aspirin—is a Christian nationalist in a robe that enables him to impose his religion on the entire country. And this is a lifetime appointment. Or, to put it in terms that reflect the hostile takeover of our judiciary, Kacsmaryk is an ideologue. Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society po…

What’s In A Bible Version? Trump’s Choice of Photo-Op Bible Tells its Own Story

By Daniel Schultz

…er that Trump was holding it upside-down, you can clearly see in photos by Washington Post journalist Sergio Peçanha that he does in fact know which direction to face the printed word. In one of the close-up shots, you can even make out the translation: Revised Standard Version. William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove relate that: According to David Brody and Scott Lamb’s unironic “spiritual biography,” “The Faith of Donald Trump,” the Revise…

A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist

By Bradley Onishi

…used by former Newsweek editor Kenneth Woodward in a recent op-ed for the Washington Post. Woodward begins by explaining that he answered the questions used by Whitehead and Perry in Taking America Back for God (though strangely he doesn’t mention the book or authors explicitly). Here are the questions Woodward answered. The federal government should: Declare the United States a Christian nation. Advocate Christian values. Enforce strict separati…