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If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…o shooting. While some large media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post have called the shooter’s motivations racist, there are still many euphemisms swirling around, like “racially motivated,” for example, despite the fact that the shooter himself identifies as a racist. This article in The Week actually notes that the shooter “described himself…as a white supremacist,” yet it still uses the euphemistic phrase “racially motivat…

Trump’s Fervent Christian Zionists Poised to Lead the Military — And US-Israel Relations

By Ben Lorber

…is not possible…I will submit to you, in light of the support you have in Washington DC, the support you have amongst patriotic Americans, amongst Evangelical Christians, amongst Believers, amongst Republicans even amongst some Democrats…buy the [lottery] ticket, take your action, do what needs to be done here in Israel. Because I truly believe this is a moment where America will have your back. Hegseth’s sweeping command would likely be even mor…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…d providers somehow “complicit” in the mandate a massive overreach. In the Washington Post, Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia argues that finding for the Little Sisters and their co-plaintiffs would “endanger religious liberty” because it would give religious objectors carte blanche to determine “what is a substantial burden on their exercise of religion; the courts must take their word for it.” Veit then goes on to make the rather biz…

Blank Sabbath: Sens. Sponsor Bill to Curb Wage Theft

By Peter Laarman

Yesterday in Washington leaders from Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) made the rounds of Congressional offices, drumming up support for a measure proposed by Senators Sherrod Brown, Tom Harkin, and Richard Blumenthal that would begin to curb wage theft. The Senate legislation would specifically bar the misclassification of millions of workers as “independent contractors” rather than employees in an attempt to avoid paying payroll taxes. But IWJ al…

How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…, the editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, told the Washington Post‘s Joe Heim that Heimbach should “be taken as seriously as David Duke.” The same article that declared Matthew Heimbach a rising star of the far-right also mentioned in passing that his racial views had “led to his excommunication from his Orthodox Christian church.” It was mercifully excluded that Heimbach’s excommunication came only weeks after his formal r…

Hannity Incites Threats to DC Church where Obamas Attended Easter Services

By Sarah Posner

This post has been updated. The Washington Post is reporting that Shiloh Baptist Church, where the Obamas attended Easter services, and which was founded in the 1860s by former slaves, has received over 100 threats after Sean Hannity played a clip of its pastor, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith, discussing racism in America: “We received a fax that had the image of a monkey with a target across is face,” Smith said. “My secretary has received telep…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…ade sons might be recruited as flower girls for leather-daddy nuptials broadcast their fretting over the airwaves unembarrassed by the illogic behind the idea that boys who like girls will start liking boys if boys who like boys are allowed to file jointly. And can’t you just hear the shredders a-whirring at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Meanwhile a black-budget surveillance spider with a dozen eyes (and counting) spins its electronic web in low earth…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…” that the bank of American justice was bankrupt, and brought his dream to Washington. It was, he told his audience, “a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.” King—America’s twentieth century Jeremiah—called a nation to honor its deepest commitments, to pay the promissory note that was written at the nation’s founding. The most recent example of such an understanding was in plain view on March 18, when Barack Obama voiced his view that althou…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…homosexuality) or the worship of the occult or the devil should not be broadcast.” The Free to Air Radio Program Code says “information, themes or subplots on lifestyles such as homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexualism, transsexualism, transvestism, paedophilia and incest should be treated with utmost caution. Their treatment should not in any way promote, justify or glamorize such lifestyles. Explicit dialogue or information concerning the above to…

Pence Meets With One of Putin’s Top Clerics: Strange Bedfellows at BGEA’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians

By Chrissy Stroop

…this series of events as if he had made the decision to move the event to Washington, D.C., in part in response to Russia’s anti-Protestant actions. The Yarovaya Laws—the so-called anti-terrorism measures that contain the relevant provisions on religious activities—went into effect that July, and immediately began to be enforced. Despite coverage in Christianity Today, however, there seems to be relatively little outcry among American Evangelical…