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Election Survey: White Evangelicals Remain Cultural Outliers on Race, Trump, Immigration

By Candace E. West

…te people believe that recent instances of police killing Black people are part of a larger pattern rather than separate, singular events. Perhaps the more surprising information in the survey comes when we focus on how white evangelical Protestants’ views compare to those of the other major religious demographics surveyed. In general terms, majorities of every major religious group—except white evangelicals—believe that Trump has “damaged the dig…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…d Tanton’s ties to the nativist movement in a 2009 report based on his own papers, finding that: [T]he papers in the Bentley Library show that Tanton has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, former Klan lawyers and the leading white nationalist thinkers of the era. He introduced key FAIR leaders to the president of the Pioneer Fund, a white supremacist group set up to encourage “…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…f six other plaintiffs, including the anti-abortion group Priests for Life and two Catholic dioceses. And who is this Zubik that the opponents of the mandate are so eager to hide behind the habits of the Little Sisters? He is Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh, whose diocese is challenging the accomondation. Apparently the Becket Fund isn’t too eager to remind anyone that it’s actually a bunch of old men who belong to one of the world’s most patriar…

Did Catholic Church Abuses Amount to “Organized Crime”?

By Patricia Miller

…re a thing of the past and that the church has moved into a new, more transparent future. But to paraphrase a classic mob movie, just when they think they’re out, they get pulled back in. First, it was Spotlight’s focus on the Boston-area abuse scandal that proved to be the tipping point for public awareness of widespread abusive priest-shuffling. It also reminded people of just how hard senior Vatican officials like Cardinal Bernard Law worked to…

Is This Finally the Reckoning for the Catholic Church on Sexual Abuse?

By Patricia Miller

…t we didn’t know then was that we were up against criminal behavior—people participating in criminal behavior and ignoring criminal behavior.” As last week’s move by the Justice Department to launch an investigation into the abuse of children and young adults by Catholic clergy (and the subsequent cover-up by bishops) makes clear, Hunt was prescient. Given the ever-widening sexual abuse crisis in the Church, it can be difficult to find an inflecti…

The Christian Guilty Conscience Over the History of Anti-Semitism Isn’t Enough

By Peter Laarman

…ntral role in supporting Jew hatred—will not suffice. We might ponder this paradox: How is it that Judaism is both the most admired major faith and the most reviled? Is there a a deep and dangerous sibling rivalry at work here—a weird resentment that lurks even in the hearts of those of us who think we’ve completely uprooted all traces of anti-Semitism from our consciousness? Further, in thinking about the resurgence of white nationalism, do we se…

Anti-Immigrant Fervor Is a Part of America’s Story

By Robert Bartholomew and Anja Reumschussel

…reason—only fear and prejudice. The Catholic scare and the Jewish refugee panic parallel exaggerated fears over Muslim refugees and asylum-seekers who are fleeing war and persecution, and the Trump administration’s attempt to prevent them from entering the country on security grounds. While the threat is real, most U.S. terrorists are homegrown. According to a recent study of terrorism in the United States spanning four decades—a time during whic…

‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

By Eric C. Miller

…ti-Communists rather than bad ex-fascists. They were able to submerge that part of their past simply by modifying the type of language that they had used earlier in their careers and talking instead about the threats that a barbaric Soviet Union posed to a European civilization. So in a strange way, crucial parts of the Judeo-Bolshevik myth survived after the war, even under the umbrella of Judeo-Christian civilization. In light of this complicate…

The EPA and Evangelical (Anti)Environmentalism

By Aaron Weaver

…iners gathered outside the hearing to join Watts in preaching against the EPA’s proposal to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan, a key component of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, aims to reduce pollution at power plants, the nation’s largest source of carbon-dioxide emissions, 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. It is believed that this 30-percent reduction will provide $55 billion to $93 billion per year…

Science, Syphilis, and the Evolution of Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…just what happened this month to Wellesley historian Susan Reverby and her paper on syphilis experiments in Guatemala carried out by the US in 1946. The paper was published online on the Wellesley website at 9 a.m. EST, October 2, 2010, while President Obama called Guatemalan President Àlvaro Colom Caballeros to apologize. Sixty-four years ago, as the Nuremburg trials investigating Nazi abuse of people in the name of science were going on in post-…