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‘This is a War Meeting…This is Gonna Get Dirty,’ Anti-Woke Capitalism, & American ‘History’: Day 2 Roundup

By PRA Staff

…ith “weapons and armor” to zealously defend Christian Right ideologies and policies. Her allegory closes with Nehemiah 4:20: “Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!” In her interpretation, when organizations like the Family Research Council sound the alarm on opportunities to advance or protect the Christian Right’s vision, true believers in the gospel must respond with institutional and weaponized ac…

Liberals Need Not Choose Between Sexual Abuse Survivors and the Religious Minority Communities That Failed Them

By Afzal Upal

…the Jama’at leadership commit to zero tolerance for abuse and put in place policies and procedures universally adopted by organizations that deal with vulnerable populations, including background screening & fingerprinting of all those who deal with vulnerable populations; training for all officials to recognize signs of abuse; and a policy requiring all officials to report any allegations of abuse to appropriate civil authorities. Abuse, victim s…

GOP Education Bill Would Radically Rewrite Religious Freedom and License Virtually Any Form of Discrimination

By Patrick Hornbeck

…der the PROSPER Act, so long as Bob Jones could explain how its admissions policies reflect its Christian identity, the IRS could not have penalized it in the first place. As Times reporter Anemona Hartocollis noted, the PROSPER Act would likewise shield a religious institution from federal penalties if, in the face of some statutory requirement, it barred students from engaging in same-sex relationships, or if it violated Department of Education…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…in terms of advertising.” Talen points a finger at the city’s development policies under Bloomberg, arguing that its support for big business and gentrification is ruining New York’s real treasures, its neighborhoods. These policies are not inevitable good sense, Talen insists, but intrusions of corporate power. People’s willingness to accept the status quo is a failure of imagination that he hopes to remedy. For more than a decade, the Reverend…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…an Services, Rep. Tom Price, has a long history of opposing LGBT-inclusive policies. Price, specifically, is a staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act, and is expected to be a key figure in the yet-to-be-announced plan to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. And Price is no friend to the gays. According to LGBT media watchdog GLAAD’s “Trump Accountability Project,” the Georgia Republican scored a zero (out of 100) on the Human Rights Campaign’s Con…

7 Problems with Trump’s Hastily-Tweeted Trans Military Ban

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ile, the U.S. Naval Institute offered a subtle snub, posting its presiding policies on trans sailors, which continues to state that those who meet the military’s physical fitness requirements are welcome to serve, regardless of gender identity: https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/890208254869078017 As with most of Trump’s regressive policy suggestions on “culture war” issues, Mike Pence and his allies have been pushing for this Foreign Polic…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…n prayer for an end to Planned Parenthood and its detrimental programs and policies. ++++++++++ Evangelicals and the growing green movement “[M]illions of evangelicals—often perceived to be on the sidelines of the green movement—have become more environmentally conscious in the last year,” a new study released by The Barna Group, a Christian polling firm, has found. “Yet, evangelicals do so with some skepticism about the environmental movement, sp…

Revisiting Philip Roth’s 2004 Novel that Predicted the Trump Election

By Michael Schulson

…the United States out of World War II, and gradually amps up anti-Semitic policies until Jews, isolated from their local communities, become the targets of American pogroms. It would be a mistake to read the book as a straightforward alternate history. The mild surrealistic thrills of the genre are there, but they’re not central to the novel. Nor is the book a warning about American bigotry, exactly. As always, hatred and violence are the inscrut…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…t there’s no line. There’s no way. Sometimes I talk about how our economic policies in Latin America have created forced migration, principally because of the change in the value of crops and the capacity to make your living on the land—which is what people had done for centuries in Mexico and Latin America. Our trade agreements undercut that, which then created a huge dislocation. Those trade agreements are great for manufacturing and industry, b…

‘Landmark’ Speech From LDS Leader on LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom Was More Like a Sunnier Groundhog Day

By Aly Marino

…nce as Oaks would get. There was no announcement regarding a change in LDS policies on LGBTQ people and LGBTQ rights, including the policy that dictates excommunication for any Mormons who “act on their same-gender attractions.” There was no acknowledgement of Oaks’s longstanding history of spewing anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric or condoning electroshock therapy to “cure” LGBTQ+ people at Brigham Young University while he was the school’s President. What Oa…