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‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning

By Chrissy Stroop

…o, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a six-week abortion ban that, like Texas’s infamous SB8, calls on private citizens to enforce the law by filing lawsuits not only against anyone who performs an abortion for an Oklahoman in need, but also anyone who “aids or abets” an Oklahoman in accessing abortion care. This newly passed bill, which Stitt will most likely sign, retains the cruel and bizarre “bounty hunter” enforcement mechanism pioneered i…

Could This Supreme Court Undo Marriage Equality?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…aid the quiet part out loud. The architect of Texas’s abortion ban, former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, filed a brief in the abortion ban case. If you haven’t been paying attention, it’s startling in its breadth: “This is not to say that the Court should announce the overruling of Lawrence and Obergefell if it decides to overrule Roe and Casey in this case. But neither should the Court hesitate to write an opinion that leaves those d…

Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?

By Chrissy Stroop

…gelical Baylor University, published an article titled “Tragedies Like The Texas Shooting Make A Somber Case For Homeschooling.” She argues that “to protect the most precious, innocent lives among us, parents must educate their kids at home,” adding that “families can’t trust government schools… to bring their children or teachers home safely at the end of the day.” (Note that the phrase “government schools” is a tell, as it’s commonly used by Chr…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…bal War on Terror. The obvious target would be the Evangelical Republic of Texas, which supplied the hijackers with their passports, but Texas is a member of OPEC and an Arabian ally, so instead President Bandar decides to invade the Christian States of America, a country on the Eastern Seaboard that had nothing to do with the 11/9 attacks. America is swiftly defeated, and the Arabs set up a Green Zone in Washington DC to oversee what they hope wi…

The Revival of the Pastors’ Policy Briefings

By Sarah Posner

…elical support for Rick Perry in his gubernatorial race in 2006. After the Texas Freedom Network filed an IRS complaint against a non-profit believed to behind the Briefings in 2008, organizer David Lane lashed out at the watchdog group in an interview with me: Renewal Project organizer David Lane reflected the biblical restoration movement’s hostility toward secularism, the left and the press. Noting that he normally doesn’t take press calls, Lan…

Why Tea Party (Hearts) David Barton

By Lauri Lebo

…ton kicked off his new role as emerging tea party darling in 2009 with the Texas textbook controversy. As one of the appointed experts to review Texas’ social studies curriculum, he recommended that the Board of Education remove from textbooks César Chavez (labor organizer and civil rights leader) and Thurgood Marshall (the nation’s first black US Supreme Court justice who, as a young attorney, successfully argued the public school desegregation c…

Labor Day Reading: An Innocent Man Sent “To Dust” by the State

By Diane Winston

…ed family history, his unlikely supporters and the true criminality of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, I leave the uncomfortable mix of humanity and horror that unfolds with this story to your reading. When I sat down with the magazine, my own place and time slipped away—and I was back in the odd corners of Texas where, coincidentally, I had reported during Willingham’s marriage. “Trial By Fire” rarely addresses religion, spirituality or e…

So You’ve Decided to Run for Senate Against a Pro Wrestling Mogul

By Dan Mathewson

…ample, the evening news might introduce candidate Perry as the Governor of Texas, but when I look at him, I see a campaign-trail version of WWE superstar J.B.L., with his big-talking, big-folksy, big-Texas ways. The broadcasters might introduce candidate Bachmann as a Minnesota Congresswoman, but to me, she looks like the WWE’s Vicky Guerrero, whose own rise to power teetered toward mad-hatter craziness. Candidate Romney might be the ex-Governor o…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…

Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

By Amina Wadud

…d inside the mosque one day, I came across Bab raqm tis’wa thamanin, “door number 89,” literally. The door with no name. Facing the mosque at door number one, bab maalik ’abd-al-’Aziz, this door is off to the left. Looking at the mosque floor plan, this is where the building structure of the mosque is deepest. This is “the women’s section.” I noticed as I was walking through the first floor toward door number one, the kings’ door, on my way out af…