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The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…f doing so would violate the agency’s “sincerely held religious belief.” HB 1923 and its Senate companion SB893 would create a sweeping “license to discriminate” for individuals and businesses that wish to deny service to a person due to their own “sincerely held religious belief.” HB 2779 aims to accomplish the same goal as HB 1923, providing a “broad-based ability to decline to provide services to anyone based on their sex-based dress, grooming,…

Christian Pol, Attacked for Opposing ‘In God We Trust’ in School, Talks Church and State

By Frederick Clarkson

…of course, talking about the national motto, designated by Congress in the 1950s as part of the post-war culture of anti-communism. It replaced the original motto E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one) which spoke to the spirit of unifying the diverse nation of the founding era.) Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) told CBN News that he “was moved by the president’s commitment to God.” The disingenuousness of these and allied pols has set the tone for much that ha…

State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…different from Mr. Obama’s SOTU… sort of. Just before he affirmed that the spirit of “civility,” the solution to our dangerous dissention, is the mark of American exceptionalism, he also turned the problem itself—“the noise and passions and rancor of our public debate”—into a mark of exceptionalism. The “contentious debates” are “a good thing,” because “That’s what a robust democracy demands. That’s what helps set us apart as a nation.” He reprise…

The Birth of Un-Cool: How Disgusted Liberals Became Neoconservatives

By Michelle Goldberg

…sts ever did with the Democrats. Nixon hung the social disorder of the late 1960s and 1970s around the necks of his political opponents, but the forces of anarchy and rebellion never had a real foothold in their party. (The notorious violence outside the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago was evidence of how great the divide between the party and the counterculture really was). The same is not true for the forces of social reaction. Where the N…

Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

By Joanna Brooks

…ons are banding together to share a powerful message, and we hope that other Mormons who may have been previously afraid to show their support for civil marriage equality will see us and feel emboldened to “come out of the closet”. That pioneer spirit is still in our blood, and it’s sorely needed here and now on one of the most critical civil rights issues of our time. So like pioneers, we walk. I will be walking with my wife and two kids. In chur…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…short: procreate, and make sure your offspring are being brought up in the spirit of national conservatism. The Ten Commandments—a new flag to rally around In an especially stark example of cognitive dissonance, Hazony declares that, while he himself is “not a fan of litmus tests,” there is one he isn’t just comfortable with, but passionately supports: Putting the Ten Commandments up in public institutions, including schools. You couldn’t possibly…

Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It

By John Stoehr

…n Jones County, Mississippi, declared the Free State of Jones.” By February 1864, Davis despaired: “Public meetings of treasonable character, in the name of state sovereignty, are being held.” Thus states’ rights as an ideology was contradictory and could not mobilize the white South for the long haul. What mobilized the white South was the defense of slavery. Falwell and his new breed of confederate aren’t doing that, of course, but the spirit of…

Who Are Michigan Catholic Bishops to Judge?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Roman Catholic and no few other religious leaders can continue to squander spiritual, intellectual, and material resources on matters that in no way touch the lives of the 13,185 people experiencing homelessness in Michigan today. So, while I’m certainly happy every time the United States moves forward as a nation where there is truly “justice for all,” as a more or less practicing Christian, I find relatively little satisfaction in calling out th…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…ssor Paul Butler states, “the flames that engulfed Watts in 1965, Newark in 1967, Miami in 1980, Los Angeles in 1992, Ferguson in 2015 and Minneapolis in 2020 were in response to police violence against Blacks.” These forms of unrest reveal the persistence of the racial contract as well as challenges to its legitimacy—even in the midst of a pandemic. Black feminist and abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s definition of racism as the “state-sanctione…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…lamic jurists seem to have been extremely hostile to the practice until the 1300s—a period when inquisitorial systems of justice were taking hold in Europe—and one Western historian has attributed the shift to the influence of Spanish and Sicilian canonists on their Muslim counterparts. True or not, the coincidence serves to recall an important truth: the claim to act in God’s name is no guarantee against injustice. I must admit I was somewhat di…