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“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…r vision, candidly describing the resolutions as seeking to “define public policies of the state in favor of biblical values concerning marriage and sexuality.” The playbook advises, that “just because the Supreme Court has dictated that States must allow civil marriages between same-sex couples, States may still discourage that practice and encourage intimate sexual relations to take place only among a married man and woman.” Smuggling religion i…

How the Catholic Church Broke the Health Insurance it Advocated For

By Patricia Miller

…use.” Now aside from the fact that “forcing” women to buy health insurance policies that cover prostate cancer is, in the bad vacation home analogy, like “buying a bungalow on the Jersey Shore that you are never going to use,” Shimkus is correct. Before the ACA, many individual insurance policies didn’t cover maternity care. Women who wanted that luxury needed to pay for a pregnancy rider that ran about $5,000—in other words, they needed to pay fo…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…ny religious resonance at all—such as the efficacy of supply-side economic policies, or the idea that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction and ties to Al Qaeda—are likewise successful partly because of this conservative cognitive training in the rejection of mainstream media and the cultivation of other sources of information, like Fox News at first, but also now websites like Breitbart, 4chan, Infowars, and others. The goal of “fake new…

After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

By Robert Repino

…hile failing to explain whom they’d be willing to vote for, which specific policies they would support, and which policies actually have any realistic chance of being implemented within our lifetimes. For example, in a commentary from late 2021 anticipating the fall of Roe, Erika Bachiochi, a fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, suggested that somehow, some way, the pro-life movement can compel the Republican Party to bolste…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…he longer I live the more I want to…give my political support to a person. Policies are important, but candidates lie about their policies all the time in order to get elected. The same elite establishment that Jesus condemned remains the real enemy today. Falwell Jr.’s need to make Carter acceptable to the Liberty crowd (who Carter joked was larger than Trump’s crowd the previous year) did not end there. Unlike his father, Falwell Jr. praised Car…

Bart Stupak’s Demand: What It Would Mean

By Sarah Posner

…ue under this bill. What it would allow is women who buy private insurance policies through that exchange would be able to buy policies with abortion coverage in them. And here’s the key issue that’s being debated right now in the House, and it’s a huge issue, is what if you’re a woman buying an insurance policy, a private policy in the exchange, and you need a public subsidy to afford it? Could you use that public money? The answer is no. The fun…

Evangelicals Call Christian Zionist Uncritical “Support” for Israel “Appalling” and “Intolerable”

By Sarah Posner

…to Israel’s security, and we are seriously worried about your support for policies that violate biblical warnings about injustice and may lead to the outcome you most fear—serious harm to or even destruction of Israel. We write as evangelicals to you, our fellow evangelicals. On the shared basis of biblical authority, we ask you to reconsider your interpretation of Scripture, for the sake of God, humanity, the United States, and, yes, Israel itse…

With no Viable Alternative on Ballot, Anti-immigrant Movement Claims Victory and Releases Wish Lists

By Ethan Fauré

…anizations including The Heritage Foundation that would codify many of the policies listed above. In the coming weeks, FAIR is also likely to publish a list of additional steps the incoming administration can take, many via executive action, as it did in 2016. Recent history suggests most, if not all, of these policies will be pursued. FAIR and its sibling organizations attained significant influence during the Trump administration, providing both…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…the endpoint of the Progressive Era and what were largely women-led social policies to improve the world for women and children—things like a minimum “family wage,” subsidized day care and mother’s pensions. Instead of substantive social policies that would challenge the established order and give women more power and freedom, women gained the “freedom” to dress more daringly and drink and have sex like men. We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the a…

Religion Scholars Convene, Have Nowhere to Sit

By Ivan Strenski

…past. But, for whatever reason, the combination of convention centers and policies preferring junior faculty has conspired to produce a bad result. The obvious grumblings about impersonal convention centers needn’t be rehearsed. Instead, I want to drill down a little deeper into key details. First, where can I sit down? Outside the meeting rooms, couches or chairs, much less comfortable ones, do not exist. Convention centers should stop it alread…