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James Dobson’s Family Values Were Influenced by a Eugenicist [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

This exclusive three-minute clip, featuring historian Audrey Clare Farley, is from the May 17 episode of Straight White American Jesus, a podcast hosted by Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller. RD will be collaborating with SWAJ to regularly bring you audio and transcripts on Christian nationalism, “conversion therapy,” purity culture, and more. — eds https://religiondispatches.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Audrey-Clare-Farley-RD-Clip-.ogg Bradley…

A New Book By Esteemed Sociologist Robert Wuthnow Struggles to Show ‘Why Religion is Good for American Democracy’

By Peter Laarman

…the faithful. One doesn’t expect a scholarly book to be totally up to the minute on all of the real and present dangers that U.S. democracy finds itself facing today. But it does seem odd and very troubling that Robert Wuthnow cannot seem to see the forest for the trees at a time like this. In the book’s conclusion he writes that the role of conservative Christians in bringing us to the apocalyptic hour “has puzzled most observers” (there’s that…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…seemed to have what I would call an unhealthy obsession with growing their numbers. So maybe you could speak to that? KGV: That’s a tough one, because everything we’re talking about here is community, belonging. And that’s what we all want. I mean particularly now, particularly in this crisis—it’s tough times in a lot of places, and the church has always been this place to come into for support. There’s plenty of good that can be done around that….

Liberals Need Not Choose Between Sexual Abuse Survivors and the Religious Minority Communities That Failed Them

By Afzal Upal

…Khalifa. In it, she bemoans the fact that the Khalifa has failed to hold a number of high officials accused of rape accountable for their actions. In response the Khalifa suggests that she either stay quiet or leave the Ahmadiyya Jama’at (i.e. the community) if she doesn’t trust his judgment. How should liberal politicians (such as Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Speaker Nancy Pelosi), who’ve not only publicly met the Khalifa but have v…

Turn on the News: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Faith Doesn’t Matter (But Amy Coney Barrett’s Did)

By Daniel Schultz

…have been confirmed to her seat on the US Supreme Court, barring any last-minute stalling tactics by Republicans or unanticipated defections by Democrats. Even so—and even though Jackson’s Senate hearings were far more performative than deliberative—it’s worth considering the role faith played in those hearings. It has something to tell us about how the media talks about religion and politics, and about how American society at large talks about t…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…In the hour following that broadcast, we were getting five voicemails per minute, hundreds and hundreds of emails. For us, this was how the roadmap looked: a far-right organization that’s been under investigation for racial bias and illegal political campaign activity writes a smear piece about a local church. Sinclair Broadcast Group then repeated that smear piece across dozens of local media outlets. Regional but powerful media outlets then rep…

‘It’s Time to Defend our Children Outside of the Womb’: Pray Vote Stand Connects Anti-Abortion and Anti-Trans Messages

By PRA Staff

…accines, and protects LGBTQ people “disrupts” the military by reducing its numbers in both personnel and resources. This prevents the US military from “preparing for war in times of peace,” which Boykin considers its most important responsibility. “Is there an intentional effort by the left,” wonders Perkins aloud, “to hollow out our military to make it less effective?” Boykin agrees, hitting a conspiratorial tone and alleging that “globalists wan…

After Roe: 3 Troubling Trends from the ‘Compassionate’ Anti-Abortion Crowd

By Robert Repino

…ple who passed them didn’t really mean what they were doing. (They did.) A number of others have expressed a similar view, like the panelists in a recent discussion hosted by Georgetown University who lamented the moral “compromises” that anti-abortion activists have made. Others, like Religion News Service columnist Charles C. Camosy, have—either naively or disingenuously—called on the movement to move past Trump, as though the movement could eas…

The Right’s Satanic-Grammy-Panic Isn’t About the Devil or Pfizer or Even Scantily-Clad Women — It’s All About the Transphobia

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…is why I’m grateful for Ben Shapiro who fearlessly climbed atop three telephone books to represent the lollipop guild and proclaim that the “annual trolling of traditionally moral people continued apace this year with a full-on Satanic performance from two white men, Sam Smith and Kim Petras.” You see this is not about the devil or Pfizer or my non-existent grandkids or scantily clad women (which no one on the Right really seems too upset about f…

Catholic Groups Leading Mifepristone Ban Are Part of Century-Long Tradition Who See it as Patriotic Duty to Protect the Family

By Lauren Barbato

…n first took up the issue, and again in the 1960s when, in a stunning last minute reversal, Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the church’s ban on all artificial contraceptives in his encyclical Humanae Vitae. Debates over contraceptive use drove rifts within the NFCPG, with membership dropping dramatically in the 1960s. Hospital leaders and members of the Catholic hierarchy also grew concerned over the new movement to reform abortion laws, fearing it would…