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White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…olence in the first place. I want the United States to be the place of freedom and hope that our leaders and major media personalities extolled on the evening of January 6! They repeated the chorus of, “This is not who we are.” But as retired NFL player Damien Woody powerfully communicated on FirstTake the morning after the insurrection when he walked viewers through the history of racial violence from Reconstruction to the vilifying of BLM, this…

Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic

By Murali Balaji

…nt to act against the creeping tide of extremism. Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) led a bipartisan group of lawmakers to introduce House Resolution 396, which would: recognize the atrocities committed against Hindus and others during the 1971 war of liberation, as well protect Bangladesh’s Hindus and other minorities from ongoing violence mandate religious freedom and human rights be at the forefront of the U.S. relationship wit…

Don’t Let Bigoted Campaigns Sour You to the Revolutionary Idea of Religious Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson

…ng of the Manhattan Declaration in 2009, “has sought to turn religious freedom into a tool of insult and repression of the religious views and civil rights of others.” Christian theologian Rebecca Todd Peters, wrote in RD last year that religious freedom belongs to everyone and that we should not cede the religious argument to conservatives: “… refusing to codify traditionalist, conservative religious beliefs into law isn’t a violation of anyone’s…

Piers Morgan, Guns, and the Bible

By Sarah Posner

…the Bible supports their claims that the citizenry should be armed. Former Rep. Ron Paul has praised GOA as “the only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington.” When Paul was running for the GOP presidential nomination, Pratt returned the favor, giving him a “Defender of the Second Amendment” award at an Iowa campaign stop. There, Pratt called gun control “a Nazi concept.” (UPDATE: More on Pratt’s views on Nazis and gun control here.) I interviewed P…

Did Pope Francis Make John Boehner Resign?

By Patricia Miller

…m as recalcitrant as ever. He made his announcement this morning “by talking about it as part of a ‘healing process,’ closing by praying the prayer of St. Francis.” “Obviously the pope had a big impact on him,” Rep. Richard Nugent told the Post. The Freedom Caucus has abandoned plans for a government shut-down in the wake of Boehner’s resignation, perhaps a miracle that can be attributed to Pope Francis….

Aurora, Batman, Crazy Congressmen

By Hussein Rashid

… article that came out right after the shooting. HuffPo’s Jennifer Bendery reported on comments made by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) in which the congressman demonstrated a clear fixation on guns, an ignorance of Batman lore, and more importantly, any understanding of religion. In a rambling statement, Gohmert made two points. One was that we need more people with guns to kill people with guns—he revealed himself here to be clearly oblivious to the d…

Debunking Shari’ah Myths

By Sarah Posner

…nity to raise a panic about the supposed infiltration of shari’ah law in the United States, and how all of this could play out in states where politicians are seeking to ban shari’ah, and in Rep. Peter King’s upcoming hearings on “radical Islam.” What’s the history of the Muslim Brotherhood? What is and what isn’t shari’ah? Watch and find out: …

MN Lawmaker: “How Many Gay People Does God Have to Make?”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ly discriminate against women (though pay disparities persist). Even young Republicans piled on against the amendment. 24-year-old Madeline Koch, who identified herself as a straight Republican, told the committee that the lives of gays and lesbians should not be “the focus of efforts to achieve political gain or debate.” Instead, she pointed out that public opinion on the matter is swinging toward equality and politicians should heed that. ”Never…

Let My Preachers Endorse: A Modest Church-State Proposal

By Michael Leo Owens

…on political campaigns and other partisan activities. For the last decade, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) has introduced bills repealing the electioneering ban. If Jones’s bills ever passed, according to the Congressional Research Service, they “would appear to permit activities such as express endorsement or opposition to a candidate for public office during a sermon; requests that contributions be made directly to the candidate’s committee or other po…

Onward Christian Trump Soldiers

By Paul Harvey

In preparation for the coming July 4th festivities, Rep. Doug Lamborn, who represents Colorado Springs and El Paso County in Colorado (full disclosure—my home) introduced a resolution to declare July 2nd as a “National Day of Personal Reflection and Repentance.” Heretofore, Lamborn has been best known for bringing military pork but little else to his district, expressing doubts about the man-made causes of climate change, making the list of the “…