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What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…took us into dark-paneled rooms at the heart of American wealth and political power, The Undertow examines the ordinary in a quest to try and understand why fascism has become appealing to millions of Americans and why this country is seemingly coming apart. We tag along as he learns about the violent symbolism of the all-black American flag; visits Lauren Boebert’s infamous “Shooters” restaurant (where waitstaff carry guns); speaks to people who…

Guns and Babies: What Newtown Does NOT Teach Us

By Anthea Butler

…nt (no matter that the gunman’s weapons belonged to his mother). Their logical fallacy is stunning, and reveals the absoluteness of their punitive—and puny—belief. One of my Twitter followers, Brent Sirota, said it best: “The louder and more vituperative the theism invoked at any given social or political problem, the emptier the conservative prescription.” If there was any moment where God must have been present, it would have been in a classroom…

A ‘Pro-Life’ Buttigieg Ambush, Trump’s Corrupt Counsel, and More

By Daniel Schultz

…tion. – eds 1. Let’s start with a question often asked: will white evangelicals stick with Pres. Trump in 2020? The answer, despite some high-profile dissension, remains a solid “yes“: For the time being, the real estate mogul-turned-president has little to fear. According to a recent poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), 77 percent of white evangelical Republicans approve of the job Trump is doing at the White House. A…

Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…egal exemptions on the basis of religious freedom are as open to the politically liberal as they are to conservatives. The trial concerns the actions of a group of Catholic peace activists, the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. In April 2018, they broke into the Trident nuclear submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia, where they carried out what they dubbed an act of symbolic disarmament in protest against the U.S. military’s continued possession of nuclear we…

“The Camp Is a Ceremony”: A Report From Standing Rock

By Marion Grau

…nto kindness, respect, and love. There is something almost monastic to the call that the encampment is neither a festival nor a fun camp. Alcohol and drugs and the ravages they have brought, especially to Native peoples, are banned. Rather, the camp is a ceremony, a call to bring forth the best in each of us, and to act accordingly. We are encouraged to live our entire lives as ceremony by one of the elders, in a mode that reminds me of the sacram…

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…ighborhood in Baltimore with a strong sense that community, neighborhood itself, was warmly Jewish; that freedom and justice were profoundly, hotly “Jewish and beyond”—and that Jewish religion was boring boiler-plate. Except for celebrating the Passover Seder, which brought family, community, freedom, and justice around the same dinner table, I had long abandoned the rhythms of Jewish religion. So as a grown-up I had found my community not in any…

No Shocker for This Gay Ex-Jesuit, Vatican Rejects Gay Priests (Again)

By Benjamin Brenkert

…uit I lived a celibate life for ten years among many accomplished and critically acclaimed gay priests and brothers, many who worked as, or aspired to work as, theologians, authors, high school presidents and teachers, social workers, therapists, college professors, nurses, doctors, and parish priests. I lived with these men in community, and served with them in countries like Bolivia, Brazil and the United States of America. Some of these men wer…

Trump’s Inaugural Address Gets an “F” in American Civil Religion

By Spencer Dew

…p’s inaugural address wasn’t merely a declaration of a new era of national self-interest and a rebuke of American engagement in global affairs, it was also a rejection of America’s civil religion. Eschewing the moral responsibilities associated, since Washington, with presidential invocations of the deity, Trump further ignored the American belief that law, especially the Constitution, likewise represents an authority that transcends the human. Ce…

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…conservative who spent more than a decade leading a right-wing think tank calls on his fellow people of faith to “stand down” on religious opposition to LGBT rights. But that’s exactly what Paul Mero, former executive director of the Sutherland Institute, did this month in an op-ed for the Salt Lake Tribune. It is time for those of us who cherish religious freedom to stop, yes stop, opposing gender equality… This is no trade-off, no compromise no…

Gorsuch Confirmed… But Don’t Get Too Bent Out of Shape

By Sunnivie Brydum

…omination, settling on a vague, easily rebutted claim that Gorsuch categorically sides with “the big guys” over the “the little guys” in cases where corporate interests run up against individual harms. Even before Mitch McConnell nuked the Senate on Thursday, four Democratic Senators voted with all-but-one Republican to end debate on the nominee. That fact speaks to the uncomfortable truth that’s been looming over Gorsuch’s consideration since Pre…