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By Sarah Posner

The Hill reports that Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey of Georgia walked out of the president’s speech to the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday. Said his spokesperson: “He was disturbed and offended by the president’s use of prayer and reflection time for partisan politics and class warfare,” [Jen] Talaber said. “Rep. Gingrey enjoyed listening to the keynote speaker and found the breakfast to be inspiring until President Obama began politick…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…to advance American strategic objectives: gathering cultural intelligence, promoting religious tolerance, and patching up relations with local citizens whose lives have been damaged or destroyed by American military actions. In Afghanistan, the US required Navy Chaplains to give Koran lessons to citizens in an effort to cultivate particular understandings of Islam. A program called Voices of Religious Tolerance had US Marines taking Afghan elders…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, and could face a life sentence in an Egyptian prison if found guilty of “promoting sexual deviancy” and other charges tied to her alleged crime: waving a rainbow flag at a concert. The 28-year-old denies waving the flag but is one of 57 people arrested so far in Egypt’s widest anti-gay crackdown yet, a swift zero-tolerance response to a rare show of public support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in the conservative Musli…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ng Evangelism has offices in Virginia Beach, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia and its 2007 revenue amounted to $42,658,159. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, whose President, CEO and General Counsel is Alan Sears, had 2007 revenue of $31,674,124. The Rev. Donald Wildmon’s Tupelo, Mississippi-based American Family Association had $22,547,087 in revenue in 2007.v Founded by Dobson and run by Tony Perkins, the Washington, D.C….

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…taken down. It cost him re-election—just like it did the then-Governor of Georgia, Roy Barnes, who had also decided to abandon the Confederate flag in 2001. Beasley was present when Haley signed the bill that ordered the flag to be taken down in 2015. Haley was hailed as one of a new Republican generation of leaders from the South—leaders who came without the racist baggage of the past. This wishful thinking would be short lived. Four years later…

Conservative Christians Insist the Toxic Theology Portrayed in the Duggar Family Doc is ‘Fringe’ — But is it Really All That Different?

By Caroline Matas

…Antonio Spurs James Leininger, former Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX), and Georgia State Senator Ralph T. Hudgens. Gothard’s foundational beliefs—the eponymous “basic life principles” and their attendant 49 “character qualities,” including deference, meekness, obedience, and orderliness—have also made their way into the bloodstream of a variety of American institutions. In 1992, IBLP board member Thomas Hill established the “secular” face of the I…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…es—is not a real thing, then why are states like Wisconsin and Florida and Georgia and Texas so determined to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Black people to cast a vote? Why have ten states, in fact, restricted voting in recent years? Why are Republicans in Missouri doing away with a voter-approved independent and nonpartisan way of apportioning representation? Why do 53% of white men still side with Trump, according to the latest Pew R…

‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…York!” Its crime: the release of the illegal, “this monster,” who went to Georgia and killed “our girl,” Laken Riley. Therefore, New York’s courts have no standing: They dispatch brown-skinned killers (he was released after an arrest for operating a car dangerously with a child) to murder pretty White girls and yet convict a president for, what, scoring with a pretty White girl? Here is the topsy-turvy world of American liberalism: a bad man rewa…

Battling The Antichrist By Outlawing Microchips

By Joseph Laycock

…ermal implants. A similar bill has just passed the house in Tennessee. The Georgia State Senate also passed an anti-microchip bill last month, sponsored by two Chips: Republican State Senators Chip Pearson and Chip Rogers, both Baptists and active in their churches. Beast 2.0 The sponsors of these bills, all of them Republicans and outspoken conservative Christians, claim that preventing the forced implantation of microchips is a civil rights issu…

Largely Overshadowed by the Election, ‘Red Pill, Blue Pill’ Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is ‘Killing Us All’

By Katherine Stewart

…e first place, advocates for Christian nationalist ideas—meaning that they promote the myth that America is by origin and by right a Christian nation, that it’s lost its way at the hands of a militant secular elite, and that white Christians in particular are now the principal victims of persecution in American society. They’re all committed and partisan Republicans. And finally, they are disposed to believe in—or at least to promote—unsubstantiat…