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A Sliver of White Evangelicals Abandoning Trump, But That May Be Enough

By Daniel Schultz

…cause serious headaches for his campaign in places like North Carolina or Georgia. But there are bigger threats to his reelection. For one thing, you may have noticed that Trump’s 66% favorability rating among white evangelicals is quite a bit lower than the 80% who voted for him in 2016. The explanation is obvious: a fair number of white evangelicals don’t really like Trump, but they vote for him anyway. If the president’s ratings on coronavirus…

The ‘Christianization’ of Shirley Sherrod

By Rosetta E. Ross

…m farm advocate) lost her job as the USDA Director of Rural Development in Georgia after Breitbart manufactured an image of her that was out of compliance with his standard of appropriate black behavior toward white persons. The reality of Breitbart’s deception has been made painstakingly clear through full presentation of the context from which the excerpted sound bite was clipped. The sound bite came from Sherrod’s March speech during which she…

New for Democrats: Non-Personhood for the Non-Rich

By Peter Laarman

…their meager belongings and head off to stay with friends in remote North Georgia in hopes that something better might turn up. There are millions of families like the Hartzells out there—the Joads of this ruthless new economy—but there is no evidence at all that anyone in the political class is prepared to give them a seat at the budget negotiation table. In order to torture people, in order to cause them certain pain, you must first obliterate…

Praying for a Christian Nation on the Fourth

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Day weekends at church. I grew up in a Southern Baptist church in a small Georgia town that displayed both a Christian flag and an American flag. It never really bothered me as a child when we sang “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and “America the Beautiful” from the Baptist hymnal during church. The idea of God and country were engrained in me from my childhood. But, I’ve put away childish things and have come to understand that the very idea that Amer…

As Far-Right Surges in US and Germany Debate Rages Over Disqualification of Those Who Would Destroy Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ballot, doesn’t land. They argue that “voters should decide elections,” as Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was widely lauded for not caving to Trump’s threats to overturn the election in 2020, wrote in a Wall Street Journal commentary several months ago. Yes, voters decide elections, but if democracies want to persevere, it’s reasonable to stop those who wish to destroy it from being elected. Because, as you’ll recall, fascist…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…eeking to form a bill mill and national network of his own along with then-Georgia Republican State Rep. Delvis Dutton called the Legislative Appeal to Heaven Caucus. All this bill mill activity and networking of state legislators was due to the historic successes of the Christian Right and the Republican Party in winning control of the majority of state legislative seats and chambers in recent election cycles, and various factions were figuring o…

Praying to the Zombie Jesus: The Spirituality of Horror

By W. Scott Poole

…across a ruined Southern landscape. For the season premiere they’re in the Georgia countryside where they’ve found, not surprisingly, a Southern Baptist church. I’m thinking most RD readers, if they saw this most recent episode, threw some popcorn at the screen. Why? Well, apparently The Walking Dead needs to hire some historical/religious advisors because they put a gigantic bloody Jesus, hanging on a cross, in a church that’s named, simply, “Sou…

Robert George’s Bogus Comparison of Herman Cain to Martha Coakley

By Sarah Posner

…Keyes at Think Progress: On the Glenn Beck Show today, the host asked the Georgia Republican about his refusal to appoint Muslims. Cain told Beck that he would be willing to appoint a Muslim only “if they can prove to me that they’re putting the Constitution of the United States first.” Beck followed up by asking if he was calling for “some loyalty proof” for Muslims. Cain said, “Yes, to the Constitution of the United States of America.” When Bec…

Government Prayer Isn’t Inclusive—Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise

By Andrew L. Seidel

…divided along religious lines in the wake of the “Jesus”-laden prayer. The Georgia House suffered through a sermon and then a prayer, both of which condemned all non-Christians—all non-Baptists, really—to an eternity of torture and torment. Surely not the best way to work across the aisle or to foster compromise. Just like Pennsylvania, a preacher told the Virginia House of Delegates that “every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jes…

Driving While Pregnant

By Shabana Mir

…itting punishment for a reckless 37-year old woman who set out to drive on Georgia Avenue. I propose that we ban driving towards a safer world for babies. Saudi Arabia has taken the pioneering step by banning women from driving. The next courageous step is to ban driving altogether. This will eliminate all likelihood of rear-ending, lost babies, and dead pregnant women. Apart from driving, perhaps, indeed, the woman and her man ought to be fined f…