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The Dark Side of Our Obsession With Trapped Thai Children

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…te, trapped by nature in their own country and at a safe distance from the United States. We’re obsessed and fascinated by them. They are different but still part of our shared human community. Our sense of “us” can safely expand to include them. But the “illegal” kids are migrants whose parents—Trump has described them as “rapists”—threaten U.S. national security and Americans’ personal safety and quality of life. According to Sessions, whereas t…

The British (Bible) Invasion: KJV 400-Year Anniversary Rolls On

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…World. Abolition was enacted as an economic policy in England, but in the United States it came at the tremendous, Bible-inspired cost of more than one million dead. While Bragg is deeply interested in the ethical and political impact of Protestantism and the KJV, he clearly has a special fondness for the cultural implications of these things, literary ones especially. The KJV has left its imprint on the history of English literature on both side…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…d a form of religious politics that will make biblical code the law of the United States. These activists are quite serious about bringing Christian politics into power. Bray said that it is possible, under the right conditions, for a Christian revolution to sweep across the United States and bring in its wake Constitutional changes that would allow for biblical law to be the basis of social legislation. Failing that, Bray envisaged a new federali…

The American Right Hasn’t Adopted Children’s Rights — They’ve Redefined and Weaponized Them

By R.L. Stollar

…man history. But Faust and Manning bury in the footnotes the fact that the United States is the only member of the United Nations that has not ratified the Convention, which is due to lobbying by evangelicals led by homeschool leader Michael Farris (the godfather of the parental rights movement). Evangelicals incorrectly believe the Convention is a threat to parental rights, even though it explicitly affirms parental rights, declaring family is “t…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…ral” Virginia and Halifax in “Southside” Virginia. [49] “Quick Facts,” The United States Census Bureau. [50] Jason Dunovant, “Supervisors Pass Resolution Supporting Volunteerism, Leave Out Militia,” The Franklin News-Post, February 23, 2022. [51] Dunovant, “Supervisors.” [52] Campbell Robertson, “In Rural Virginia, a Militia Tries to Recruit a New Ally: The County Government,” The York Times, October 28, 2020. [53] Halifax County Board of Supervis…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…ache. Compare that cost to the nearly one and a half trillion dollars the United States has spent since 2002 tracking down Osama bin Laden and the two or three hundred members of al Qaeda said to be fighting from the mountains of the Afghan/Pakistan border. It’s safe to say the United States military hasn’t learned much over the generations about how to fight a war against a well-entrenched band of locals who know the country, and the conflation…

The Sexual Threat to Fundamentalism

By Michelle Goldberg

…globalization of civil rights rhetoric. Last week, for example, sixty-six United Nations member states signed a declaration calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality worldwide. (The United States, predictably, was the one major Western nation that refused to sign). Such pressure from the developed world lets anti-gay leaders cloak themselves in anti-imperialist righteousness, in which gay rights become a decadent Western imposition that…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s” of children to be abused. According to a New York Times editorial, “The United Nations panel went to the heart of the matter in rejecting the church officials’ claims that they were responsible for enforcing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child only within the geographical limits of Vatican City and not globally through their power over the Roman Catholic diocesan hierarchy.” Church officials and their conservative allies ar…

There Will Be a Nation

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ans understand to mark the beginnings of US global power. In that war, the United States defeated one of the dominant earthly powers to date, taking, in the process, its first colonies, including Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. In other words, this was the first US war of intervention and charts the beginning of the nation’s colonization and rise to global power. Couple this with the late nineteenth-century theo-political belief in Manifes…

‘Pure White’ Examines the White Supremacist Origins of Evangelical Purity Culture

By Emma Cieslik

…White Protestants were sort of anointed to be the national leaders in the United States. And as far as virtue goes, the greatest amount of virtue was on the shoulders of White women through the concept of sexual purity, which was part of Victorian gender ideologies. (And of course, it was an ideal, so it had nothing to do with White women’s actual experiences.) But it presumed that White women were dispassionate, were uninterested in sex, and the…