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When Religious Freedom Means Freedom for Religious Violence

By Frederick Clarkson

…nother for the Idaho panhandle—border regions intended to draw the maximum number of attendees. Election, medical, and vaccine conspiracists, along with insurrection veterans like Flynn, Eric Trump, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and Roger Stone grab most of the media attention. But a disturbing religious dimension has received far less attention; that is, until November, when Flynn blurted out their broad intention at a San Antonio rally, “If we ar…

There’s no Legal Reason for Churches to Receive Quarantine Exceptions

By Chrissy Stroop

…d by houses of worship. While solidly blue states including Washington and Oregon, where I reside, have explicitly mandated that restrictions include “faith-based” gatherings, some other states, including Ohio, have, like Michigan, explicitly clarified that churches may continue to hold in-person services. Indeed, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s executive order includes “religious facilities, entities and groups and religious gatherings” under “Essent…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…dealing with. But the miniseries is much more the story of a “nobody” from Oregon named Doug Coe who ended up serving as the outfit’s head honcho from 1969 until his death just two years ago at the age of 88. I came away awed by Sharlet’s courage in infiltrating the group, but even more awed by Coe’s evident religious genius. By which I mean the special kind of charisma that only certain very remarkable uncharismatic people can project. One can’t…

Does Religious Freedom Extend to Child Endangerment? It’s Not as Simple as It Seems

By Rebecca Moore

…th-based shield for felony crimes such as manslaughter,” while states like Oregon and Tennessee have abandoned similar statutes in recent years. The watchdog organization, Child-Friendly Faith Project, aims to protect children from what it calls “religious child maltreatment.” This includes sexual and other forms of abuse as well as medical neglect. The recent report on widespread sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania indicates t…

Herd Heroism in an Age of Rebels: The Cultural Roots of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement

By Michael Schulson

…ckages easily. But Beagley, a member of the Followers of Christ Church, in Oregon, had avoided medical treatment, in accordance with his church’s beliefs—and the wishes of his parents. “This is who we are,” his mother, Marci Beagley, told investigators. “This is what we do.” Why do people like the Beagleys do what they do? That’s the question behind Bad Faith (Basic, 2015), Paul Offit’s new book about parents who seek to exempt their children from…

The ‘White Lie’ Connecting Trump’s Pardon of Arsonists, Immigration Fiasco, and Charlottesville

By Jonathan Russell

…ut Trump’s most recent pardons of Dwight and Steve Hammond, the father-son Oregon rancher duo whose arson convictions in 2012 inspired the White right-wing Bundy militia’s armed takeover and occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016, offers a perspective from which to view the very specific way Trump has actively traded on the close kinship between Whiteness and the ritualistic (re)enactment of land, resource, and space dominion i…

Will 2018 Be the Year of Catholic Health Care Dominance?

By Patricia Miller

…ic systems to gobble up secular hospitals and impose the ERDs on them. The number of Catholic hospitals increased by 22% between 2001 and 2016 following an earlier waver of mergers, according to a report by MergerWatch. Market consolidation by Catholic providers will also allow these systems to dominate insurance contracts, which often results in patients being forced to choose hospitals from a single health system, which in the case of Catholic p…

Nike’s Token Equality: New Campaign Masks the Truth About Workers’ Rights

By Gerald J. Beyer

…ted that Knight rescinded a proposed $30 million gift to the University of Oregon because it enlisted the WRC. Some may say equality means having the ability to vote, determine whom one marries, where one works, lives, etc. Wages and working conditions are determined by the market. Those workers can work elsewhere…that’s the beauty of capitalism… They are wrong! Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best: “What does it profit a man to be able t…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…s, as some far-right leaders urged in 2020.[30] It would, as University of Oregon scholar Joseph Lowndes has noted, eliminate “barriers that thwarted many of his authoritarian impulses.”[31] The project excites far-right operative Steve Bannon, who has called Heritage the MAGA movement’s “Revolutionary Guard”[32] and has repeatedly hosted Project 2025 director Paul Dans on his War Room podcast. Dans, who calls himself “a full-blooded deplorable,”[…

Scott Lively’s Crimes Against Humanity Aren’t Conservative Christian Outliers

By Sunnivie Brydum

…made a name for himself peddling anti-LGBT animus as “the word of God” in Oregon and California, where he served as the state director for the American Family Association. (That’s the SPLC-certified anti-LGBT hate group helmed by fellow wingnut Bryan Fischer.) Lively still operates a pair of ministries out of Springfield, Mass., in addition to several right-wing ministry groups that focus on demonizing LGBT people in places as far-flung as Latvia…