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Pray Vote Stand 2022 Kicks Off With Some Head-Scratchers on Predictable Topics

…, come November’s midterm elections, the whole country “will be looking at Georgia.” Georgia’s Senate hopefuls Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock were both invited to speak at Pray Vote Stand on Friday. Neither is confirmed, but we will let you know. Dr. Mohler and Allie Beth Stuckley, host of BlazeTV’s Relatable, a conservative newscast, confirms that we are in a war—a culture war—to maintain and preserve traditional families. Mohler compares to…

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Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Spouts Christian Nationalism Defending Racist Voter Suppression

…onalist motto and the Bible to justify her defense of disenfranchisement. “Georgia is a Southern state just like Mississippi, and I cannot speak for Georgia, but I can speak for Mississippi on why we would never do that on Sunday or hold an election on a Sunday,” she began, tamely enough, only the invocation of “Southern state” isn’t so much a dog whistle as a police siren. Holding up a dollar bill, Hyde-Smith continued: This is our currency, this…

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The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours

…egurgitates the catechism. Williams, a historian at the University of West Georgia, makes no mention of the heavy partisan lean in the district (Tom Price won it by 23 percentage points). He offers no analysis of the national dynamics at play in this race. He doesn’t talk about how the district is significantly whiter than Georgia at large, or the role white flight played in building suburban Atlanta and its politics. Nor does he mention the inter…

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It’s Not “Inappropriate” for Public School Teacher to Tell Class that Obama Isn’t Christian

…ng pages from a website defending their political and religious views. The Georgia NAACP has suggested that Bill Perry’s presence at the meeting was an intimidation tactic and that exerting influence in this fashion violates the standards enforced by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools—the agency that accredits the school district. This incident, along with the justifiable outrage it sparked and the attempts at damage control by super…

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Will Declining Numbers of White Evangelicals Change the Senate?

…emselves felt.” The New York Times Upshot blog ranks three of those states—Georgia, North Carolina and Arkansas—competitive, giving Democrats an 81% chance of winning the North Carolina seat, Republicans a 61% chance of winning the Georgia seat and a 77% chance of winning the Arkansas seat. Republicans have a better than 90% chance, the Upshot predicts, of winning the Kentucky and Louisiana contests. What’s more, six other Southern states—Alabama,…

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Obama Judicial Pick Wanted to Govern Based on “Good Conservative Christian Values”

…ch, for his opposition to abortion rights and a vote, while serving in the Georgia state legislature, to keep the Confederate flag on the state insignia. Now BuzzFeed’s Evan McMorris-Santoro has unearthed video of Boggs from 2004, while he was still serving as a legislator, urging the body to adopt additional measures against same-sex marriage, as a bulwark against “activist judges” who might overturn the state’s existing ban. According to a trans…

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White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

…ned a place on Hilton Head Island, and were familiar with Savannah and the Georgia lowcountry. It was not an obvious choice for this kind of nouveau-roots record, as Sun Studios was. And it was not chosen for some particular sonic quality, as with the gigantic church organ featured on Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible. Rather, Mellencamp follows the easy, just-sittin-around-playing-some-music style, favored by his producer T-Bone Burnett. The aim is for re…

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RDBook: A City Too Busy To Hate

…ist stand that launched his political career. The Pickrick is now owned by Georgia Tech, and there is some question about whether the building might be demolished soon. What do think of that? Should we have reverence toward sites like the Pickrick? Lefever: I’m not sure the building has to be physically saved, but it shouldn’t just be wiped out and forgotten all together. I am not advocating reverence for Lester Maddox. But we should certainly hav…

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Expelled: Christian Student Claims Discrimination, But Judge Says No

…school policy and the American Counseling Association code of ethics. That code, by the way, is clear about what is expected from counselors: Counselors do not condone or engage in discrimination based on age, culture, disability, ethnicity, race, religion/spirituality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status/partnership, language preference, socioeconomic status, or any basis proscribed by law. Counselors do not discriminate a…

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Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

…. So it’s more about representation and identity than it is about specific codes or laws.” Even though some political activists in Middle Eastern and North African countries promote “Islamic law” in reaction to the imposition of European-style government and legal systems on them, there is no single school of thought on what shari’ah, or divine law, is or means—and there is no single, accepted legal code. “If Islamic law were some book where you c…

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