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“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…lic schools” where children are a “captive audience.” She observed that in Arizona, for example, “They had already passed a law allowing IGWT posters to hang in the public schools. This year, they passed a law allowing the state motto, “God Enriches,” to hang on the wall alongside it. Each step might seem minor, but students will now be attending schools that send these two religious messages to students every day.” “For students who don’t believe…

In Convention Event Democrats Embrace the ‘Nones’

By Chrissy Stroop

…Jamie Raskin of Maryland, as well as State Representative Athena Salman of Arizona and State Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith of Florida, who, focusing in particular on the use of taxpayer dollars to fund fundamentalist schools that teach “alternative facts,” called his state “a case study in what can go wrong [when the Christian Right is in power].” The prominence of red state activists and politicians in the program comports both with the s…

New Poll Shows Big Love For Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in Arkansas that bans qualified gay and lesbian couples from adopting. The numbers get even more interesting when the views of those who identified themselves as Christians are counted (too few respondents identified as Muslim or Jewish to be quantified). Among mainline Christians, 42 percent support domestic partnerships or civil unions, while 40 percent support marriage. Catholics were not far behind, with 42 percent favoring separate but equal…

New Poll: Terror or Poverty Determines Your Candidate

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the next president than to end extreme poverty. Only about a tenth of the Arizona senator’s strongest backers prioritized the fight against global poverty over the fight against terror. In contrast, only 30 percent of Obama’s strongest supporters place a greater emphasis on fighting terrorism than on ending global poverty, while 45 percent of this group placed ending global poverty above efforts to stop terror. Among undecided voters, 40 percent…

Apocalyptic DADT Scenarios Simply Aren’t Happening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ying that the distraction could “endanger the lives of Marines in combat.” Arizona Sen. John McCain, and many on the religious right, predicted a mass exodus of soldiers from the military if they were forced to serve with gay and lesbian comrades. Now that training is underway to end the policy that has ejected some 14,000 gays and lesbians from the military, Amos says the predicted backlash just isn’t happening. “I haven’t had any indication yet…

5 Reasons Why the GOP Push to Defund Planned Parenthood Won’t Go Away

By Sarah Posner

…o it as an “abortion mill.” Last week on the Senate floor, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona falsely stated that abortion constituted “well over 90%” of Planned Parenthood’s services. When confronted with the correct percentage—a mere three—Kyl told CNN that “his remark was not intended to be a factual statement,” according to Think Progress. Kyl’s cavalier use of false information, and correspondingly cavalier excuse for using it, is a hallmark of the righ…

Romney Shovels Walks to No Avail

By Joanna Brooks

…well lose Michigan, the state his father governed. Polls even suggest that Arizona, which has a large LDS population and has been described as a Romney “firewall,” could be in play for Santorum, a situation not helped by the recent resignation of Romney’s state campaign co-chair the notoriously anti-immigrant Sheriff Paul Babeu, after it was revealed that he was gay and had threatened to deport an undocumented Mexican ex-boyfriend. Yet Romney forg…

Will Anti-Gay Churches Have Their Tax Exempt Status Revoked?

By Sarah Posner

…he Daily Caller that the fight over proposed “religious freedom” laws like Arizona’s SB 1062 is “really a surrogate battle. A much bigger one is coming.” He goes on (emphasis mine): The reason conservative Christians are fighting this fight today is because it’s a firewall. The real danger, of course, is that Christian pastors and preachers will eventually be coerced into performing same-sex marriages. (Note: It is entirely possible for someone to…

LDS Church, US Government Swap Positions on Polygamy

By Holly Welker

…nd publicity, or marry off little girls to old men. Instead, just like any number of secular polyamorists, many polygamists can and do pass for conventional Americans—and have argued that they deserve the right to be treated as such. Friday evening, a federal judge announced that he agreed with them. Judge Clark Waddoups of the United States District Court in Utah issued a 91-page decision in a lawsuit filed by Kody Brown, who, with his four wives…

New Report Shows Dems are Far More Religiously Diverse Than GOP — Though One (A)religious Group Remains Woefully Underrepresented

By Chrissy Stroop

…tates, while many red states resemble Wyoming, where pronghorn antelope outnumber humans. When it comes to the inclusion of secular Americans in government, however, the Democratic Party can also be blamed for undue negligence toward one of its most loyal demographics. Despite some progress in recent years, Democratic leaders evidently continue to be fearful that association with a lack of religion will cost the party votes. But so long as the par…