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A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter

By Daniel Schultz

…ts tore me up. I have friends and family, but down the line, who came from Mexico, and his views I just think are so damaging that I wanted to actively stand up, present myself as an opposing side, and see if I could start a dialogue and see if those comments on immigrants were just a one-time deal or if they were a part of his entire platform. But like, for real. [I had] genuine curiosity as to how these Trump rallies work. Whether they are as ch…

Dehumanizing Huckabee Tweet Another Echo of Dangerous Tribalism

By Bradley Onishi

…MS-13 and conflate them with a larger group, such as migrants coming from Mexico and other parts of Central and South America. This is part of a larger degeneration of our public sphere into tribal epistemology, as David Roberts outlined at Vox in a column last month. “Information is evaluated based not on conformity to common standards of evidence or correspondence to a common understanding of the world, but on whether it supports the tribe’s va…

Utah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics

By Joanna Brooks

…rmon emphasis on the sanctity of the family. Some sources credit the large number of LDS men and women who have served missions in Latin America with creating greater empathy among Utah Mormons towards Latino immigrants. (A recent statewide poll found that 71% of Utah residents supported the guest worker permit provisions of the new law.) It is estimated that 50-75% (or more) of LDS Church members attending Spanish-speaking congregations in Utah a…

Preachers’ Daughters Episode 4: Victoria Apologizes, Olivia is Embarrassed, and Taylor Dances Around in Silly Underpants

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…o see more of Emily, her sister, recently returned from a modeling trip in Mexico. This may have been hinted at in earlier episodes, but here it’s made explicit: Emily and Olivia actually used to party together. This means that Emily is also acquainted with Frankie, the friend from Olivia’s past who has recently shown up again. He’s just a friend, but nevertheless, Olivia’s parents Mark and Cheryl want to know who’s in her life. So they invite Fra…

A Former Christian Coalition Activist Tells All

By Sarah Posner

…at sounded very exotic.” Nearly twenty years later, White found herself in Mexico, the wife of a young man she met at church soon after she enrolled at Baylor University, where the two would work as missionaries for a controversial charismatic group, since disbanded, the Maranatha Christian Church. When the couple returned to Texas twelve years later with their two children, they arrived during the heyday of the Christian Coalition takeover of the…

Unauthorized Catholic Immigrants will Renew a Christian America, Archbishop Says

By Marie Friedmann Marquardt

…No Longer: Together on a Journey of Hope,” co-written with the bishops of Mexico, and broadly referenced by Catholic advocates for immigration reform as he foundation of their action. (See a summary of that document, and a good example of the approach taken by most Catholic advocates on the issue of immigration reform—which differs significantly from what you will read below—here.) In this capacity, the archbishop is required to dive into the pol…

God’s Heart Has No Borders

By Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

…tions and racial-ethnic backgrounds working together for justice at the US-Mexico border, where so many people are dying each week. And there is quite a bit of interfaith mobilization and cooperation. There are multiple sites, and many different ways in which religion is brought to bear on these important issues of immigrant justice and inclusion. Anything you had to leave out? Yes, lots. Over the years, and with the help of USC students, I collec…

It’s the Water! And Other Lowlights from Presidential Science Debate

By Michael Schulson

…ing that “all humankind benefits from reaching into the stars.” Apparently Mexico will not be called upon to construct a stellar wall, “because space is not the sole property of America.” 2. America has enough money to go to space, but not enough to save Miami. “There is still much that needs to be investigated in the field of ‘climate change,’” the Trump campaign wrote. Then things got weirder. “Perhaps the best use of our limited financial resou…

Atheists are Americans Too, Vuvuzelas, Etc.

By Michael J. Altman

…ork on scripture memory? There’s an app for that. You can even use your iPhone to tweet the latest execution news, like the Utah Attorney General. But for others the internet is a place for anti-religious rage. Over at the Huffington Post, they have debuted a new discussion between religion and science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science continues to seek dialogue between science and religion. University of Colorado psyc…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…the United States planned to destroy national sovereignty by merging with Mexico and Canada to form a North American Union. That theory first surfaced among right-wing opponents of President George W. Bush. Along the way, right-wing media demagogues and Republican Party activists and elected officials fanned the flames. Now as the Obama administration enters its second year, these conspiracy theories have led to aggression and violence and an all…