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

By Peter Montgomery

…t with their religious worldview: “When the Founders spoke of ‘pursuit of Happiness,’ what they meant might be understood today as in essence ‘pursuit of Blessedness,’” the report declares, adding, “That is, an individual must be free to live as his Creator ordained—to flourish. Our Constitution grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want, but what we ought.”[59] Project 2025’s agenda also reflects the MAGA movement’s obsession with criti…

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

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…aying McCord was “coming to the aid of vandals.”[76] But other supervisors appear to have taken the memo more seriously. At Halifax County’s September 2020 board meeting, where the resolution was first discussed, Supervisor William Bryant Claiborne explained his reticence to support it by pointing to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Kyle Rittenhouse answered a militia muster call and ended up shooting three protestors at a Black Lives Matter protest, kil…

Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ruly comfortable with. Instead of expanding the “big tent” of the party to appeal to anti-Trump Republicans and as many socially conservative White Christians as possible, why not focus on appealing to the people who turn up to vote for you in far greater numbers? Of course, it made perfect sense for Democrats to give space to Georgia Senator and Baptist preacher Raphael Warnock to deliver what essentially amounted to a sermon at the DNC. After al…

Religious Discrimination and the Violence Against Women Act

By Sarah Posner

…der identity (as defined in paragraph 249(c)(4) of title 18, United States Code), sexual orientation, or disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under [VAWA], and any other program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated for grants, cooperative agreements, and other assistance…

Is the Satanic Temple Just an Elaborate Prank? 10 Questions for the Author of ‘Speak of the Devil’

By Joseph Laycock

…like our readers to know about your book? If you buy the book, cut out the correct pages using the Fibonacci sequence, and lay them out on the floor in the shape of a pentagram, it will reveal a secret code allowing you to join the ranks of Illuminati and obtain untold riches and power. This is a very complicated procedure and you may have to buy several copies to get it right….

Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…t only their opposition to nuclear arms but also the specific, sacramental approach they took in their protest. Last spring, their attorneys argued that the charges against them should be dismissed became they impinge upon the Plowshares 7’s religious freedom. This claim rested on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a 1993 law that requires the federal government not to “substantially burden” someone’s practice of religion unless a “comp…

Authoritarian Populism Vs Human Rights, The Campaign Against ‘Gender Ideology’ and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gets nod from censors China’s “first gay-themed commercial movie” has been approved by official censors for a second time and will open sometime later this year. It is not clear whether the film had to be cut in order to win approval this year; it had originally been scheduled for release last March, but as China Film Insider notes, “It was around that time that Chinese censors said they were banning depictions of gay people on television.” Cuba:…

Leave Your Stereotypes at the Door: 10Q on “Keeping it Halal”

By John O'Brien

…the young woman and her family than whether or not the parents think it is appropriate to engage in any sort of dating behavior. Either way, I was not interested in making life difficult for the people I was studying, so that came out of the book. Fortunately, I think there is enough material from the boys’ side in the book to demonstrate the desire of these young people to date in ways that felt both acceptably American and appropriately “Islamic…

Does It Matter If Islam Is A Religion? An American Ahmadi Explains The Effects Of Religious Discrimination

By Daniel Schultz

…om coming to Mecca for the Hajj: So they added a passage in every passport application, which is like eight lines, that has essentially vile statements against the prophet we believe in as the Messiah of the age. He’s a liar, he’s this, he’s that, and you have to sign that statement. In essence, an Ahmadi will not sign it. So if you don’t sign it, you’re ultimately considered to be a non-Muslim. That is how they come up with a gauge. It starts to…

The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized: Taking Resistance Beyond the Spiritual Industrial Complex

By Andrea R. Jain

…events, cloak themselves in Spiritual Gangster leggings with “Good karma” appliqued across the butt, or shop for “eco-friendly” biodegradable paper plates at Whole Foods. There is a difference between gestural subversion and collective resistance. According to the website of the athleisure apparel company Spiritual Gangster, “We exercise love as the most powerful form of activism.” The company donates an unspecified percentage of every sale to pr…