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As Midterms Approach, White Christian Nationalism is Mainstream for the GOP — And it’s Only Getting Worse

By Annika Brockschmidt

…es, Onishi explains, Christians have been flocking to the region of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and parts of Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon, which Rawles has named “the American Redoubt.” The goal, as Onishi notes, is an insidious one: “For Rawles and Baldwin, the goal is to create a separate society of American Christians who will defend their families and communities when the next civil war dawns.” It would be wrong however, to believe that…

MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

…tive tax collector Zacchaeus climbed to see Jesus in the gospel of Luke. A Montana woman took a crowbar to a controversial piece of artwork in a Colorado gallery that allegedly depicts Jesus during a sex act. See for yourself here. In South Carolina a woman claims Jesus is depicted in her MRI. Mixing scripture reading and prayer with exercise may be the best way to get the elderly to work. President George W. Bush is reading a new biography of Die…

Funding of Religious Education is ‘6-Lane Highway’ Through Church-State Wall

By Peter Laarman

…terday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of Montana’s ban on direct state aid for religious education barely registered in a media environment saturated by impeachment news. But there’s big trouble ahead if, as expected, the justices invalidate the ban. As Andrew Seidel noted yesterday on RD, this would mark a long-sought big win on the scorecard of the well-organized and decades-old movement to upend traditional und…

Reason for Cautious Optimism in the Mauna Kea Telescope Standoff

By Jean Rosenfeld

…the authority to prolong the confrontation with an armed group in Jordan, Montana, until it was defused by intermediaries. Both resolutions advanced the government’s understanding that each group has specific ultimate concerns, myths, forms of enactment, and languages that require expert decoding while the clock is ticking. The latest religious standoff occurred July 21, 2019 at the foot of Mauna Kea, a mountain held sacred by Hawaiian sovereignt…

Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow

By Chrissy Stroop

…ys false and offensive things, even though Trump has made an unprecedented number of false or misleading statements during his tenure of less than three years in office—over 10,000 of them, according to The Washington Post. Authoritarians have a very different relationship to the truth than the rest of us, so when Trump claims he had the largest inauguration crowd in history, or Jeffress spouts the absurd lie that Democrats worship an ancient Meso…

NYPD Secretly Branded Mosques “Terrorism Enterprises”

By Rob Shryock

…ematic claim that the NYPD stopped 16 terrorist attacks on his watch. (The number, according to Pro Publica, is more in the realm of three) But has targeting mosques actually helped to protect New Yorkers? After all, the NYPD itself admitted that its investigation into the Muslim community produced zero leads. And there is compelling evidence that mosque attendance actually helps prevent terrorism. A 2011 study found that 95% percent of Muslims wh…

No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…inst “tyranny,” and has announced he’s moving his family from Pensacola to Montana, a state he told me “where freedom has a chance.” He said that he didn’t expect states to secede anytime soon, but that “if it does happen, I would support it.” (Earlier this year, Baldwin declared the breakup of the United States “inevitable.”) He told me, “I think it is inevitable unless we get back to those principles that we talked about. . . . it is still prema…

Indians v. The US Department of the Interior, Or, The Horse Who Couldn’t Read

By Johnny P. Flynn

…Bureau of Indian Affairs. Eloise Cobell went off to college, came home to Montana, and eventually ended up as a banker. One day she went to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tried to find out how much “Indian Money” she had in her individual trust fund account and was told that no one knew the amount, but to “trust” them, since they knew. That was a lie. Remember, when Indians were given land by the Dawes Allotment Act in 1887, we already owned th…

Dr. Kervorkian Dies

By Susan Henking

…ometimes successful movement for the right to die. Oregon, Washington, and Montana, for example, have laws that resulted from decades-long advocacy for death with dignity. And there are organizations that continue to advocate for rights such as Death with Dignity. Perhaps we are all shaped by his legacy insofar as we have living wills. The nomenclature of all this matters, of course. Suicide. Assisted suicide. Euthanasia. Murder. Mercy killing. Li…

How the Catholic Church Broke the Health Insurance it Advocated For

By Patricia Miller

…licies that cover prenatal care and contraceptives to “buy[ing] a cabin in Montana that you’re never going to 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 want…