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Want to Know What Public Education Would Look Like Under Project 2025? Just Take a Look at Oklahoma

By Andrew L. Seidel

…trol; and by giving states that control, Project 2025 means Oklahoma. Most Americans can’t comprehend education policy that actively undermines and destroys public education. But that has been a conservative goal since public schools were desegregated in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which I’ve written about here on RD, and which I detail in American Crusade. The end goal is to funnel students and public money (via vouchers or other schemes…

The Theodicy of George Carlin

By Kathryn Lofton

…otic presidencies, into social control. Consider Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason (Pantheon, 2008) which offers in every chapter the same ritual set-up for optimism only to be debunked by low educational standards, video culture, and religious fundamentalism. “Scientists assumed that the expansion of knowledge about every aspect of the natural world would produce a less credulous American public,” she writes, “that assumption was wrong….

Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…before the parliamentary year ended in March. As we reported in January, American religious conservatives like Peter LaBarbera and Brian Camenker attended a conference in Jamaica at the end of last year to rally opposition to changes in the “buggery law.” Hungary: Neo-Nazi Jobbik Party Gains in Parliament The Jobbik Party won more than 20 percent of the vote in Hugary’s April 6 parliamentary elections. The Jobbiks, which operate a paramilitary…

Perkins and MSNBC

By Sarah Posner

…y the group Faithful America launched a campaign to pressure MSNBC to stop booking Perkins as a guest on its programs, because of his history of anti-gay bigotry. The group attempted to place an ad on MSNBC that sets out their complaint, but MSNBC rejected it: Faithful America’s petition reads: “The Family Research Council is a hate group, and journalists ought to treat it as such. MSNBC must stop inviting Family Research Council spokespeople on t…

New Theory for Tucson Tragedy: Blame the Atheists

By Lauri Lebo

…lier post on some of the spins Special Guest is promoting here. Today, the booking site is promoting Ted Shoebat, who says that being an atheist leads one to commit mass murder. “It’s actually very simple,” Shoebat was quoted in Special Guest’s promotion, “When God is not in your life, evil will seek to fill the void.” And who is Shoebat? As Sarah wrote in a post in August: …(He) is the son of “ex-terrorist” Walid Shoebat, an over-exposed figure i…

The “Obamosque” Smears and the Money Fueling Them

By Sarah Posner

…“Obamosque,” is today touting a Time magazine poll showing one quarter of Americans apparently believe President Obama is a Muslim. (A Pew poll out today shows that figure at 19%). Why do that many Americans believe that? Could it be the use of terms like “Obamosque?” Or this photograph on the Special Guests website? Today Special Guests is also promoting the special guest of Scott Wheeler, a long-time operative of right-wing smear campaigns agai…

“I’d Be Stupid Not To Go Packing Now.”

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…eferring to the news about the cop beat down of Duanna Johnson, an African American transwoman, in a Memphis booking room that was captured on a surveillance video. “I’d be stupid not to go packing now.” Williams lives in Oakland, just outside of San Francisco, and he’s going to check out the San Francisco chapter of Pink Pistols. As a national organization that encourages lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender to arm themselves to prevent hate cr…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…s about Muslims. King told Gaffney on his radio program, for example, that American Muslims don’t “unite as Americans” in times of war. Zuhdi Jasser, an Arizona physician whom conservatives frequently highlight as their example of a true “moderate” Muslim, and who will reportedly be a key witness for King, says in Gingrich’s movie, “if anyone wants to find a Muslim voice, you’re going to find that it appears monolithic.” He, like Gaffney, claims t…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vists held this year’s global summit in Budapest, Hungary, last week. Many American religious conservatives participated, along with activists from around the world. Event organizers hailed Hungary’s strongman leader Viktor Orban as a pro-family “hero.” Orban addressed participants on Thursday with what the Guardian called a “typically pugnacious speech” that accused the European Union of being “dominated by a ‘relativising liberal ideology that’s…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…department. Ramadan + deportation: Bonus points on Pakistan International Airlines. Which, like fasting breath (when you don’t eat for a long time, your breath starts to kick), nobody wants to get near. See also safe distance. Namauzea: Namaz is the Persian word for ‘prayer,’ and is traditionally used by all the peoples who were introduced to Islam by Persians or Persophones, which is kind of like a talking cat. (Think Bravo’s Shahs of Sunset wit…