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Reactionary White Buddhists Have Joined The Fight Against Critical Race Theory

By Ann Gleig

…he term reactionary centrist from political theorist Aaron Huertas who defines it as “someone who says they are politically neutral but who usually punches left while sympathizing with the right.” Reactionary centrism, in other words, is a conservative ideological stance that sees and presents itself as transcendent of ideology. Such an approach is clearly at work among white Buddhists who claim to be apolitical while mobilizing conservative assum…

Can The Religious Left Be Effective Again? Longer Answer: Quizás

By Daniel Schultz

…PAC.) Because there are more conservative churches in the US than liberal ones, the overall trend has been away from political participation. But: Also deviating from the general downward trend in political participation among most types of churches are Catholic and predominantly Hispanic churches, whose participation rates have been increasing. For example, between 1998 and 2012, the percentage of Catholic churches that lobbied an elected officia…

Oklahoma Bill Would Violate Basic Freedoms, Rewrite the Ten Commandments

By Andrew L. Seidel

…We’re talking about state-sanctioned holy writ. This ought to enrage everyone. Because if the state can rewrite one religion’s holy book, it can rewrite yours. Oklahoma does not have this power. Nor does it have the power to impose that religious edict on a captive audience of your children. This is the worst kind of big government conservatives claim to oppose. More to the point, this is one reason we have the separation of church and state, and…

Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…t of violence, the Native American victims of Wounded Knee, and every interned Japanese American, we make America redeemable by the policies we pass between prayers. In remembrance of the dead, we turn our collective power as voters and democratic participants into sacred acts. Through political action, people of faith and conscience ritualize hope and create space for prophetic grief in spite of—in defiance against—the starkly American narrative…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…, necrophilia, scatology,” he said. “It’s a real plague, a real virus that needs to be destroyed. We need to stop this tumor so it doesn’t metastasize.” The group said it collected signatures to help the passage of the anti-gay propaganda law, and that it was confident it had majority support in Russia, even for its most extreme ideas. “We want to introduce — with the approval of the democratic referendum of course — death penalty for those who wa…

Fasting and Faithy Friends of Convenience

By Sarah Posner

…the early promoters of, and advisors to, Obama’s Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. But on this issue, Wallis seems to have lost—if he ever actually had—his influence. As E.J. Dionne (also a fan of government partnerships with faith-based groups) wondered in the Washington Post yesterday, in reacting to Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: Will President Obama welcome the responsibility of engaging the country in this big argument,…

The Abortion Debate, Texas Style

By Dhawn Martin

…ly you knew the truth” condescension. Yet there have also been, as Chair Jane Nelson of the Senate HHS Committee noted during the SB1 hearing, gestures of care and concern, color-blind gestures. Perhaps these acts were merely tactical, the “kill them with kindness” ploy. Or maybe, these moments, however rare, however fleeting, offer a glimpse of generous and yet-to-be realized coalitions that strive for the common good, whatever that might look li…

American Sin: Why Pope Francis’ Mercy is Not Our Mercy

By Kaya Oakes

…nship with people in prisons,” Francis says, “precisely because of my awareness of being a sinner.” The pope sees imprisonment as a matter of convenience for many nations who prefer to condemn people rather than offer them opportunities: “Sometimes we prefer to shut a person in prison for his whole life rather than trying to rehabilitate him and helping him find his place in society.” For all his talk of sinfulness, however, Francis’ vision of the…

The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…he same period. In other words, “nones” and evangelicals are equivalent in numbers. One explanation for this change in America’s religious complexion is that white Christians are aging: 72 percent of voters over 65 are white Christians, compared to only 26 percent of voters under 30. Pew also tells us that most of the unaffiliated are white—and that much of their growth has come from the white population. That said, lack of religious affiliation i…

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With ‘Vermin’ Remark Trump Crosses Fully into Nazi Territory

By Robert P. Jones

…longer afford to think that Trump does not matter. He is the presumed nominee of one of America’s two major political parties; no other Republican candidate is within striking distance. In virtually every national poll—and in recent battleground state polls—a two-way election between Trump and Joe Biden is a tossup.* In PRRI’s recent American Values Survey, conducted in partnership with the Brookings Institution, nearly all voters who supported T…