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Maybe Trump Should Pray About His Problems With Religious Voters?

By Daniel Schultz

…ll down 61% of the vote, but yikes. If you’re a Republican, that’s a scary number. You might reasonably intuit Trump’s miserable numbers with Catholic voters are the result of his poor showing with Hispanic voters, or stem from his “virulent” immigration policy. Certainly, getting scolded by Pope Francis or the likes of Cardinal Dolan (himself no left-winger) doesn’t help. But in fact, it’s white Catholics who have turned against Trump. He’s reall…

‘Back Door’ Voucher Plan Diverts Tax Dollars to Religious Schools

By Lauri Lebo

…ugh one existing private school subsidy has been found sorely wanting. The Florida Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program has poured nearly $500 million in tax revenue into private schools since 2002, yet only limited oversight mechanisms have been put in place to ensure that students are learning, reported the Jacksonville Times-Union. Under the program, companies can choose to divert up to 75 percent of the corporate income tax they owe…

‘Pro-Life’ Theater, Open White Nationalism, and Virility Fear — Day 3 of NatCon

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…e conservative journal First Things, proudly recounted his role as part of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s far-right takeover of the New College of Florida, where he served on the board of trustees. He called for red-state governors to appoint conservatives as trustees of state universities, where they can use the board as a “power center” to gut DEI, revise curricula, review tenured professors, and enlist donor pressure. “Do it behind closed door…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…ed by this kind of hate-speech. Ron McNeil lost the Republican primary for Florida’s District 2 House seat. Unlike some other politicos McNeil didn’t wait until the weeks before the election to make Islam a campaign issue. Back in August he sought to make New York’s Park51 community center a Florida issue. “I’m totally against it. If I had my way, it would pretty much be over my dead body. That religion is against everything America stands for. If…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ho knew that he would be arrested, convicted, and executed by the State of Florida for his actions, which he was in 2003. This would make Hill something of a Christian suicide attacker. What is interesting about Hill and his supporters is not just his political views, but also his religious ones. As I reported in my book, Terror in the Mind of God, and in an essay for RD several months ago, Hill framed his actions as those of a Christian warrior e…

Is Romney Gaining Ground among White Evangelical Voters?

By Joanna Brooks

…ntorum, and 5% for Ron Paul. In 2008, Romney drew 31% of white evangelical Florida Republican primary voters, while 31% voted for Mike Huckabee and 28% for John McCain. Florida’s results add further complication and dimension to the already disorganized picture of evangelical voting behavior this primary season. In Iowa, evangelical voters favored Santorum; in New Hampshire, Romney; in South Carolina, Gingrich—even after a convention of evangelica…

Atheist Monument: Proof of Unintelligent Design

By Gordon Haber

…NTS” is inscribed into the base. I suppose I should add that I believe the Florida courts made the right decision in allowing the American Atheists their monument. But it seems to me that the controversy is misplaced. According to the local Chamber of Commerce, “Bradford County provides many jobs through its many correctional facilities. Florida State Prison, or more commonly known as ‘Death Row,’ is located in Bradford County.” These facts, to my…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…errevolution in American politics. First there’s Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and a potential challenger to former president Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. Then there’s Christopher Rufo, the ideologue who’s been one of the central figures in the conservative crusade against critical race theory. Hochman cites Rufo in order to demonstrate the secular novelty of the latter’s approach to politics: “The goal is to protect these peopl…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…n our side. Number 1 could be “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” Number 2: “God doesn’t discriminate.” Number 3: “Sex is only for procreation.” And so on. We could get clever, of course, and assign separate groups of numbers to arguments pro and con or to thematic clusters. I can even imagine some seminary librarian proposing a sort of Dewey Decimal System to organize the arguments. This would allow long series of arguments to be cited b…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…cation, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourg…