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Happy (Christian) Fourth of July from Hobby Lobby

…me may be more familiar to people this Fourth of July than in the past, of course, due to the Supreme Court’s ruling this past week. Friday’s newspaper message, like similar ones before it, lacks nuance: Emblazoned at the top is an American flag, the words, “In God We Trust” and the Bible verse, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” It features quotes of Founding Fathers, presidents, Congressional reports, and the 1636 Harvard “student gu…

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Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

…ve pledged to defy the denomination’s stance against marriage for same-sex couples, and where church courts in the U.S. are defrocking clergy who do so. Zoll notes that repeated efforts to have anti-gay language removed from the church’s Book of Discipline have failed at one General Conference after another. Making doctrinal change unlikely in the forseeable future is the global demographics of church membership: Zoll reports that at the 2016 Gene…

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New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country

…s think twice before introducing such legislation. Yet the likelihood of a court challenge has not stopped Texas lawmakers from enacting controversial legislation, including measures that virtually invite court challenges [like a 2017 bill requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains].” The report discusses some other possible explanations. One promising hypothesis: there’s a “sneak attack” element at play. Christian Americanists are playing…

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Trump Floated Dastardly Deal With Erdogan

…than having one of his books on their shelves. Clearly all of these people could not have been involved in a coup even if a few Gulen supporters were engaged in it. A coup is by nature a secretive cabal carried out by a small number of high-ranking military and political leaders. Hundreds of high school principals and newspaper columnists are unlikely to have been in the inner circles of such conspiracies. They are, however, likely to have been Er…

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A Bill Passes, Westboro Baptists Shrug

…on. Albert Snyder, father of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder, noted after the Court’s decision, “At this point, if the courts will not step in to help military families, we need all the help we can get from our elected officials.” Lawmakers responded to such complaints by crafting legislation that would make picketing so difficult that Westboro Baptists would stop.  It eventually became part of the larger omnibus veterans bill. Less than two years af…

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Because You’re Not Fooling Anyone: Why Trump Travel Ban 2.0 Still Unconstitutional

…allenged as unconstitutional. The first displays—installed in two Kentucky county courthouses—were large, gold-framed copies of the Ten Commandments, with a citation to the Book of Exodus. In response to a suit by the ACLU, the counties expanded the displays to include additional documents in smaller frames, each with a religious theme, including the “endowed by their Creator” passage from the Declaration of Independence and the national motto, “I…

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Vaccine Mandates are Constitutional; Religious Exemptions are Unnecessary and Harmful

…f vaccine exemptions, especially religious exemptions, for decades in this country.” Gaylor is right: in 2015 alone, unvaccinated people cost the country $7 billion. The only exception to this mandate should be medical—those people who are, for instance, immuno-compromised. Herd immunity protects these vulnerable people. Herd immunity for Covid-19 is far away because a lethal virus was politicized by Christian Nationalists. Professors Andrew White…

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We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

…a “plaything.” In Sections 179 and 180, Francis praises the generosity of couples who adopt children, but he refuses to include same-sex couples in that praise. For those waiting to hear what he has to say about the headline issue of divorced and remarried Catholics being barred from receiving Communion, he begins to “go there” when he condemns those who are judgmental and divisive, saying in Section 186, When those who receive it turn a blind ey…

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Rushdoony’s Philosophy of Law on Wall of Ohio Courtroom

…itution with the “Philosophies of Law in Conflict” poster he placed on his courtroom wall, which compares the “Moral Absolutes of the Ten Commandments” with the “Moral Relatives of Humanism.” But the media and even church-state separation activists missed the real violation when they reported the story. It may well have been the posting of the Ten Commandments that the Court found objectionable, but far more troubling is that the poster reflected…

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God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

…ial candidate, the founder of the Institute on the Constitution, and now a county council member in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, resigned his position with the League of the South, a self-described “Southern Nationalist organization whose ultimate goal is a free and independent Southern republic,” when it became an embarrassment to the Maryland Republican Party as Peroutka vied for the council seat last year. Moore is a hero to Peroutka and his…

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