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Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…to receive the balanced instruction about religion they need to thrive in today’s more ethnically and religiously diverse America. And the larger question remains whether a politically-elected SBOE will ever be able to accomplish that work. *** *For those interested, the work groups’ recommendations for streamlining the high school TEKS are available here. The final version, reflecting changes made by SBOE board members, is available here. **For…

Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Florin HIlbay asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a challenge to the Family Code ban on same-sex couples marrying. The government’s lawyer said the petition was flawed because Jesus Nicardo M Falcis III, the gay man who filed it could not show “injury in fact” from the law and had not included Congress in his petition. Falcis also said that homosexuals, like heterosexuals, can also fulfill the essential marital obligations laid down by the Family C…

The Forgotten Struggle Over Gender and Bigotry in Christianity

By Stephen J. Patterson

…logical liberalism and social democratic reform in early-twentieth-century Germany, saw it differently. He argued that Galatians 3:28 was at the heart of Paul’s radical social vision—even if his own nerves would not quite tolerate the fullness of that vision in real time.2 Today, most scholars do not deny the radical social and political implications of the saying, but they also do not assign the verse directly to Paul. To be sure, Paul wrote it i…

Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?

By SJ Crasnow

…al and mental disabilities as well as homosexuals.” Race and religion were coded into this exclusion, with non-white and non-Christian persons likewise considered undesirable. In a 2017 opinion piece for The Hill, historian Rebecca Erbelding explains that the “laws of 1921 and 1924, written by eugenicists and cheered by white supremacists, came a decade before the Nazi Party took power in Germany” and they stayed on the books through the 1930s and…

When Nazi Comparisons are “Civil”

By Sarah Posner

…ter battle over health care reform, Colson compared our government to Nazi Germany and fretted about “totalitarianism” and “tyranny.” Not just uncivil, but actually plainly false and absolutely incendiary. When religious right figures released the Manhattan Declaration in November 2009, Colson, one of the document’s first enthusiastic signers, urged people not only to sign it, but to read Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism, which he called…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…become legal in a de facto sense. But what kind of threat do militias pose today? In many ways, the threat is the same as it was in the early 1990s when the contemporary militia movement first burst onto the scene. Then, as now, militia-inspired county resolutions threatened federal and state governments by flouting their laws. The county stamp of approval also gave militias license to harass federal agents and ordinary citizens who disagreed with…

Christian Media Battle Over Controversial Figure

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…nd exaggerations; one of his sources, Hokuto Ide, a reporter for Christian Today—a Jang-affiliated publication in Japan not to be confused with Christianity Today—describes CT’s articles as “predatory efforts by those with commercial interests,” and suggests they’re motivated by “trying to break Olivet’s deal to purchase [the] Glorieta [Conference Center].” I asked Jonathan Park via email why he thought Christianity Today put so much time and effo…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…and they helped create a realignment of forces that continues to plague us today. How does that show itself today? Primarily in the anti-immigrant movement—the lobbyists, Minuteman vigilantes, and racist think tanks that support them. It is here that the idea that the United States is or should be a “White” country takes on the form of a policy issue. If you follow the discussion among anti-immigrant groups, the dominant discourse is about how the…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…similation is never complete with any group, it certainly will not be with today’s immigrants either. They will change the culture, for better or for worse, just as their predecessors have—but I would say, they will change it likely to a greater degree because the initial gap is wider.” If people from different parts of the European continent “remain different all the way up until today,” he reasons, “what about people from different continents?”…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…before Nineteen Eighty-four (1949)—are prescient for the American context today: Ever since [Hitler] came to power—till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter—I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs—an…