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A Queer Atheist In the Heart of Mormon Country

By Chris Stedman

…ld speak calmly and decisively at an anti-discrimination rally. But in the car that evening he spoke quickly and excitedly, stumbling over his words a bit but still impressively knowledgeable and articulate, referencing countless texts and ideas I’d never even heard of. I asked if we could stop to pick up some food and, with french fries in our laps, he gave me a quick tour of Salt Lake City, demonstrating an intimate knowledge of the area and the…

Pete “Spare Tire” DeGraaf’s Operation Rescue Ties

By Sarah Posner

…event is planned for this summer outside the Maryland clinic of Dr. Leroy Carhart, another target of vicious anti-choice agitators.) Writing about the Summer of Mercy in Marie Claire in 2007, Amanda Robb described the 1991 Wichita scene: That August, in Wichita, KS, whole families crawled across parking lots, winding up as heaps of “babies” at clinic doors. Children laid down in front of doctors’ cars to stop them from driving to work. Protestors…

Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream

By Annika Brockschmidt

…s troubling when this ideology is mainstreamed through figures like Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan, who runs a hugely successful podcast on Spotify. For Carlson, the alleged decline of conservative values, and thus the decline of America, can be explained directly by the effeminization of men. For him, violence and masculinity are intertwined: he nodded in agreement while right-wing radio commentator and ex-soldier Jesse Kelly said on his show tha…

How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking

By Susannah Crockford

…driving ability, an interlocutor told me that she wanted to get out of my car because by simply saying those words I could cause a traffic accident. Yet there’s a branch of Christianity, called the prosperity gospel, that promises health and wealth regardless of socioeconomic status. One prominent proponent is Paula White, a televangelist, and spiritual advisor to Donald Trump. Prosperity gospel’s blend of optimism, individualism, and personal re…

Zucchini Season Brings out Ruthlessness in Everyone

By Lauri Lebo

…o my back porch when I was looking the other way. Because no one is more ruthless than a gardener with a garden full of zucchini. Garrison Keillor once said the only time Lutherans in Lake Wobegon lock their car doors in the church parking lot is in August. Otherwise they are likely to come out of Sunday service to find that someone has left a grocery bag full of zucchinis on the front car seat….

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…do that when Donald Trump “couldn’t care less” if he mispronounces it? Who cares, right? We may not care, but as speed-talking right-winger Ben Shapiro says, “facts don’t care about your feelings.” Hell, even he picked the lock on the box his ventriloquist keeps him in to tweet about the weird racial attacks on Harris. Facts are facts. Oakland-born Kamala Harris’ father is a Jamaican American Stanford professor emeritus, and her mother was an Indi…

Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ere is how Project Push Back works. Order a packet of 25 Project Push Back cards. Take the cards to your church or Sunday School class and give them to your friends. Encourage them to join the AFA Action Alert team and get informed about issues that are critical to our families. It’s that simple! Each packet contains one card with “information concerning AFA, including instructions on how to participate in AFA’s online Action Alert site.” You can…

Rep. Cleaver’s ‘Awoman’ Prayer Enrages Christian Nationalists Who Taste Their Own Medicine and Still Miss the Point

By Andrew L. Seidel

…if they wish, they are free to do so. And they may pray to whichever gods care to listen and end their prayers with the verbal flourish or fetish of their choosing. But they should not do so with a government microphone, and not on the taxpayers’ time and dime. We’ve seen plenty of divisive prayers from the conservative side. Often deliberately so, wielding prayer like a cudgel. The Pennsylvania legislator’s Jesus-laden, jaw-dropping prayer utter…

The Burning Houses of Worship We Missed

By Gordon Haber

…g District of Western China, where officials have reportedly bulldozed over 800 mosques. Authorities have also detained hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in re-education camps. The scale of the suffering is difficult to imagine. In fairness, there’s been a lot of good reporting about the plight of the Uighurs. And yet I believe the outpouring of emotion for more recognizable places—especially Notre Dame—is instructive. Samuel Johnson defined sympat…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…d? Is picketing the picketers really the best solution? In my fantasies, I carry very persuasive signs that actually get those who hate fags, overtly or covertly, to understand that they need to change. Certainly a fantasy, but one that our civil religion depends on: educability. And if you want to check out some of the wonderful real-life-not-fantasy anti-Westboro picketing ever, click here and add them to your picketing, fantastical or real. I…