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Armed with New 2020 Election Data, What Should Democrats’ (Non-)Faith Outreach Look Like?

By Chrissy Stroop

…t the nonreligious vote as a valued constituency. “Secular Americans are a reliable base for Democrats,” he writes, “yet we’re rarely ‘courted’ by candidates.” Once again, Christian supremacy is clearly the main reason why. 87% of the atheist vote went to Biden in 2020 (along with 71% of the entire religiously unaffiliated vote, which includes agnostics and the spiritual-but-not-religious). Nevertheless, atheists face severe stigmatization across…

White People Dying Younger Because of…Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break

By Peter Laarman

…ate for drug legalization and doctor-assisted suicide as well. The upshot: reliable guides toward a normal life are removed, and potentially destructive behaviors that rich people either avoid or discretely manage are normalized. The most vulnerable pay the cost. I say that Reno “mansplains” because he is really, really concerned, to the point of obsession, with the breakdown of gender roles: “Having a sense of oneself as a man or a woman gives…

Evangelicals Want Immigration Reform. Why Won’t Republicans Listen?

By Sarah Posner

…t the time, a third of Republicans support a path to citizenship, but that number jumps to two thirds if the conditions leading to citizenship “are strict and rigorous.” When a comprehensive reform package was still being discussed in 2012 and 2013, evangelicals claimed there was a major obstacle to their support: the possible inclusion of the Uniting American Families Act, which would have provided for equal treatment of gay and lesbian couples i…

Latest Book on Evangelical ‘Extremism’ Reflects Pervasive Tendency to Beat Up on Judaism to Save Jesus

By Greg Carey

…o build houses for poor families become agents of rage—Donald Trump’s most reliable allies? If that’s your tribe, Tim Alberta’s recently released The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism is the book for you. Written as a travel journal-slash-pilgrimage, the book tracks how White American evangelicals have soiled their witness. In the process, they’ve stoked social division, promoted a would-be dictator, a…

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a hand-written fatwa that “God willing, sex reassignment, if advised by a reliable doctor, is permissible.” More from the BuzzFeed story: Hundreds have undergone sex reassignment surgery in Iran since Molkara’s meeting with Khomeini. Almost 1,400 people applied for permission for the process between 2006 and 2014, according to government figures published in Iranian media, and the country’s State Welfare Organization even provides some funding to…

With So Many Christians Again Supporting Trump, Pundits and Fellow Christians Refuse to Entertain the Simplest Explanation

By Robert Repino

…American Christianity. Virtually every survey shows that an unprecedented number of people are leaving the faith, and there may not be a single denomination taking the news well. Rather than acknowledge that grownups in a free and diverse society might seek a different path in life, religious leaders have warned that a loss of faith in Christianity will unravel our country, with little to back up their claim other than their own bigotry. On the o…

Good Friday and Purim: Non-Harmonic Convergences

By Naomi Seidman

Among the reliable pleasures of teaching religion at a progressive institution like the Graduate Theological Union is the regular discovery of the similarities and overlap between religions: the Easter Egg showing up on the Passover table (or is the other way around?), Ishmael on Abraham’s altar, the nothing as fountainhead of Buddhist and Jewish mysticism. Even the December dilemma is not without its opportunities to meditate on the power of lig…

Huntsman not a Factor in 2012?

By Joanna Brooks

I’m getting word from a pretty reliable source in the Mormon Republican world that Jon Huntsman, Jr., former Utah governor, Obama-appointed Ambassador to China, and rumored 2012 presidential candidate has a secret liability that would put him out of the running right quick. It’s definitely something from his past, but I’m gathering that it’s not so salacious. Employing an undocumented worker, perhaps? The fact that he dropped out of high school t…

True or False: Less Religion Means Greater Diversity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

….gov/cps/. Population sums shown are in thousands.] What this means in raw numbers is that the 30% of Millennials who are religiously unaffiliated (15.86 million) are a somewhat smaller group than the 22% of GenXers (17.95 million) who are unaffiliated. Further, in terms of percentages, twice as many 18 to 29 year olds (31%) as 50-64 year olds (11%) is unaffiliated. But, though Boomers make up a smaller number of the unaffiliated than do either Ge…

Authoritarian SCOTUS Didn’t ‘Just Happen’: As Roe Hangs By a Thread the Press Struggles with Context and Framing

By Chrissy Stroop

…tice Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a reliable liberal vote—thus ensuring that Trump was able to stack and politicize America’s high court. When you truncate that series of events into something that simply “happened,” or that happened because Trump appointed three justices (with no mention of the right-wing malfeasance that allowed that to happen), you are simply not framing your story responsibly. Meanwhile,…