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Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…2 and five hours on April 1 to register the domain name joelostenministries.com (note the single “e”). He designed the fake website to closely resemble the original and, along with a photo of Osteen, he posted the following: Special Announcement: I am leaving the Christian faith. The post continued: As many of you may know, and may have heard in the news recently, many of my sermons have deviated from traditional Christian doctrine. I have been ac…

Prop. 8 Ruling Delayed By Standing Questions

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ifornia Supreme Court, Andrew Pugno, general counsel of the ProtectMarriage.com coalition said: “This gives the state Supreme Court an opportunity to clearly reaffirm the right of official proponents to legally defend voter-passed initiatives they successfully enact, particularly when public officials abdicate their constitutional duties by refusing to enforce and defend the law.” But Jennifer C. Pizer, National Marriage Project Director for Lambd…

Colbert v. Stewart: It’s On! 10.30.10

By Julie Ingersoll

…ort Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c March to Keep Fear Alive www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News Plans for both rallies seem rather fluid at the moment: Stewart said, “there might be special guests.” But whatever they do it will be clever; and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the thing take on a life of its own and draw a big crowd. Since the tea party sweep in this week’s primaries, pundits have pondered whether…

Pretty Girls Like Trap Church: A Movement at 2 Chainz’s Atlanta Pink House

By Anita Little

…ng of hopelessness that can pervade all these things. https://www.instagram.com/p/BV5tHoUBKk2/?taken-by=prettygirlsliketrapmusic “We can’t forget there are real-life experiences that inform trap music, and it’s daily living for a lot people. Many of us consume trap music as entertainment, but don’t think about the systemic issues that keep people trapped within trap culture,” says Wortham to RD. “You can’t talk about trap without talking about pov…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…hite evangelical vote for the GOP dipped little, if at all. https://twitter.com/robertpjones/status/1324439825907355655 Chrissy: Well, Dan, I’m thankful to have had the opportunity to publish a fair bit of media criticism over the course of this election cycle, primarily here on RD and over at The Conversationalist, but sometimes—scratch that, most of the time—it does feel like shouting into the void. I’ve been surprised to see some unusually accu…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…Rushdoony, Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, December 23, 1987. Image: Bill Moyers.com This became something of a political crisis for conservative Republican candidates for president in 2008 and 2012 who were directly involved with Dominionists, including NAR leaders. Most dramatically, leading NAR figures staged an unprecedented prayer rally of some 30,000 people in Houston to launch Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s 2012 campaign. Even the octogenarian C. Peter…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…ngth,” twinning xenophobia with motifs of American decline. https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1711156038026903649 https://twitter.com/NateAFischer/status/1711082206280536558 The demonization of protesters followed the well-worn script of pre-existing culture war crusades. “What Hamas did to Israel is being watched closely by BLM race arsonists in America,” warned TPUSA head Charlie Kirk, suggesting Black protesters might violently attack U.S. c…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…th their hard-earned tax dollars and incredibly hard work.” https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1689987536511258624 Not to be outdone, former news anchor and failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake added: I can’t listen to Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” without getting chills. It’s raw, it’s true, & it’s touching the hearts of men & women across this great nation. The praise hasn’t been limited to political provocateurs. Char…

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Red/Blue ‘National Divorce’ Looks an Awful Lot Like a Confederate Flag

By Thomas Lecaque and Joshua Call

…even more segments of the population who disagree with her. https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1628105247968067587?s=20 This is not an attempt at a peaceable solution, but an invitation to achieve a new nationalism via sedition. This is the organic consequence of allowing a Lost Cause mythology about the Civil War to not only survive but to win the battle for popular consciousness among a significant slice of White America; the idea that th…

The Far-Right Embrace of the Knights Templar isn’t Just About Faith, Tradition or History — It’s About Hate

By Thomas Lecaque

…I took an oath to protect the Christians in the Holy Land.” https://twitter.com/AllenWest/status/1566217198460456960 Templar hoodie. Boykin, a former Lieutenant General, has become a pseudo-military-order figure himself, having claimed the position of Grand Chancellor of the Knights Hospitallers, Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, back in 2010. And joining up is just one facet of the obsession with medieval military orde…