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Meet Arizona’s Even More Anti-Immigrant Bill

By Lauri Lebo

…leadership, lack of priorities and complete lack of understanding by some Arizona lawmakers of what it means to respect and uphold the Constitution of the United States and Arizona.” “SB 1611 represents an unprecedented attack on the rights of students and creates a permanent underclass of young people in this state who will be shut out of a basic education,” added Meetze. “It defies the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1982 decision, Plyler v. Doe, which…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…deeply concerned about the interpenetration of the two. When asked by the Arizona Republic about where he got his ideas, Jake Angeli mentioned “internet research” and Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper. Cooper was another Arizona resident, killed by police, whose book went on to influence QAnon and the right-wing Patriot movement. YouTube research led Angeli to spiritual content and QAnon. The two may seem disparate, but this appearance is mis…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Anti-Immigrant Legislator Takes Aim At Arizona Children

By Joanna Brooks

…ccess to the great welfare state we’ve created.” Pearce (along with former Arizona governor Evan Mecham, also LDS) attended lectures delivered by LDS ultra-conservative Cleon Skousen, founder of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, in Arizona in the 1980s and 1990s. Perhaps Skousen’s “originalist” views of the U.S. Constitution have led Pearce and other supporters of this new anti-immigrant legislation to believe that they are uniquely…

Pennsylvania Anti-Immigration Law Unconstitutional

By Lauri Lebo

…ch filed an amicus brief on behalf of 81 members of Congress defending the Arizona statute, called the court’s ruling “an extremely disappointing decision that further harms the citizens of Arizona.” But Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, who has been part of a group of evangelicals lobbying for immigration reform (albeit without equal rights for LGBT people), said: “I agree with the judge’s ruling because immigration is a federal, not a state issue….

Going Negative: Traditionalist Churches Gang Up on ‘Progressive Christianity’ in Arizona

By Daniel Schultz

…y is totally bonkers. As reported by the local Fox television affiliate in Phoenix, eight traditionalist churches in the suburb of Fountain Hills, Ariz., have combined forces to work against “Progressive Christianity” and its beliefs. There’s only one problem: literally just down the street from one of the conservative churches, there’s a self-described “progressive Christian” congregation, Fountains United Methodist Church. Fountains’ pastor, the…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…d kids sent their sons to pick pineapples in Hawaii. Were watermelons the Arizona version? [Laughs.] It wasn’t like that. My dad grew up on a farm and wanted me to have the same experience, so I spent my summers in Phoenix doing manual labor. From it I came to realize that the hardest working people I’d ever known were undocumented. And I would do this work just for a summer, but they were at it six days a week, all year. It really opened my e…

Poll: Gays Oppose Arizona Immigration Law

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ut of 10 (60%) heterosexual adults who also have seen, read or heard about Arizona’s forthcoming statute say they support Arizona’s new immigration policies, with 41% saying they strongly support these changes.” Why the difference? It’s the oppression, silly. As Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications (one of the co-sponsors of the poll) explained: “it’s not surprising that many LGBT individuals are opposed to many forms of statutory discri…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…way from the hard work of repentance, who tickle our ears with promises of cheap grace, and offer a vision of the cross of Jesus that has nothing to say to the crosses, and lynching trees, of history. But, if we do, we will be settling for the gospel of Caesar, not the good news of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is time to put down the chalk, stop drawing pyrotechnical conspiracy theories that play into our worst fears and listen, instead, for the diffi…

COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem

By Katherine Kelaidis

…a destructive Orthodox monk superstar. Just outside the town of Florence, Arizona, 63 miles southeast of Phoenix, in the middle of the desert, stands St. Anthony’s Monastery. Though built to resemble the great monastic houses of the medieval Christian East, there’s something too clean, too luxurious about St. Anthony’s to pass muster. It’s the mother house of 18 monasteries that, until his death last December, were all more or less under the dire…