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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…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…is being tracked by journalist Rex Wockner. Japan: Gay-Friendly Workplace Policies Reflect Company Mergers, Generation Gap Bloomberg reports that gay-friendly workplace policies are beginning to catch on in Japan, where taboos against discussing homosexuality and strong pressures to conform have traditionally made it hard for people to be open about their sexuality in the workplace. Among the reasons for the change are the integration of employee…

A Tale of Two Fascisms: ‘Douchey’ JD Vance vs. ‘Creepy’ Blake Masters

By Annika Brockschmidt

…to the public before his own campaign could. And yet, Masters’ and Vance’s policies and their extreme stances are similar, sometimes interchangeable. So apart from differing conditions in both states, part of the answer may lie not so much in their policies, but in the different types of fascism that they espouse. Their style—while similar rhetorically—is actually quite different. Vance has embraced a brawly kind of strong-man persona, a burly guy…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

By Carmen Celestini and Amarnath Amarasingam

…ted cities, thereby controlling them more easily through restrictive urban policies and surveillance. There are of course ongoing conspiracy theories related to COVID restrictions, gun control laws, climate change, martial law and FEMA camps, as well as microchipping and digital IDs. These ideas are disparate, but often interwoven and share common themes of distrust in government and the belief in the existence of plans to erode individual freedom…

Lincoln and Obama: A Precarious Parallel

By Susan Henking

…ttel slavery, and embedded as well in contradictions of such equality with policies regarding Native Americans and women, the paradox of high ideals and historic failures is a defining characteristic of our nation. Just read the Emma Lazarus quotation gracing the Statue of Liberty alongside the Asian Exclusion Act or contemporary immigration policies. Or remember that on November 4, 2008, as Obama was elected, Arkansas banned adoption by individua…

Why America’s Handmaid’s Tale Doesn’t Look Like Hulu’s

By Christopher Douglas

…ns went looking for willing church partners to oppose Roosevelt’s New Deal policies in the 1930s. That alliance between big business and conservative Christian leaders culminated in the 1950s Cold War, as exemplified in the anti-Communist development of slogans such as “One Nation Under God” and “In God We Trust.” At first bipartisan, Christian patriotism crystalized as a particularly Republican virtue during the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan administ…

Without Judgment Day or Karma How Does a Humanist Confront ‘Trump Funk’?

By Ivan Strenski

…eaders needn’t be reminded of the list of depressing executive actions and policies feeding our collective depression. That’s not why I write now. I do so to try to understand why, after nearly 2 years, the Trump Funk seems a nearly bottomless pit of emotional darkness, worse even than what we’d have the right to expect in the wake of a mere election defeat? Why the oft heard, but inarticulate, lament of pundits over Trump’s growing list of misdee…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…gram’s political aspects were woven into its religious tenets and economic policies, both of which supported Christian free enterprise, traditional values and a gendered workforce. Writes Moreton: “They [Walton Scholars] perceived their own careers and free-market policies generally as a form of public service, on the pattern of the Christian business departments they attended. For its part, Wal-Mart and its suppliers reaped tangible rewards from…

Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…eligious persecution and discrimination worldwide, recommend and implement policies in respective regions or countries, and develop programs to promote religious freedom.” But given Brownback’s history of using “religious freedom” as a sword to discriminate against LGBT people, his nomination offers the strongest evidence yet that, when the Trump administration talks about “religious freedom,” it actually means “Christian supremacy.” Though Brownb…

Is Obama Satan’s Warm-up Act?

By Mark Hulsether

…ch a socialist working for such a world. His key argument was that Obama’s policies suggest that prophecies are falling into place. In other words, Obama is playing his part as a key leader of the bad guys even if he’s not the Antichrist himself. Not surprisingly, “confusion in the Middle East” figured prominently in LaHaye’s vision. Citing Ezekiel 38 and 39, which according to LaHaye are about contemporary Russian and Middle Eastern politics, he…