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Ignore the Rod: the Parental Rights Amendment Isn’t About Spanking

By Kathryn Joyce

…Michael Smith, serving on the group’s board. Rev. Michael T. Ramey, an out-of-work Southern Baptist pastor (who blames “the degrading condition of the American Church” for the inability of a “solidly biblical, conservative (and especially reformed) [pastor] to find a church to serve”) is Director of Communications and Research. And the Board includes homeschooling defender Grover Norquist, homeschooling doctor Lainna Callentine, and an Alliance D…

Americans Must Stop Thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a Court of Law

By Andrew L. Seidel

…Quran; or if the Court would have sided with a Muslim coach delivering post-game prayers to Allah at the 50-yard line. These arguments are premised on the idea that religious freedom applies equally. That we have, as the words etched into the edifice of the Court tell us, “equal justice under law.” But we don’t. We didn’t in these cases. And that’s because this Court doesn’t understand religious freedom as a universal freedom, but as a Christian p…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…renzied overdrive, ramping up Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism and war-on-terror saber-rattling while calling for repression of Palestine solidarity protests in the US. At the same time, a debate is unfolding on the Right regarding the nature and scope of U.S. support for Israel—a debate exposing deep fault lines in the MAGA coalition, and bringing ascendant varieties of far-right antisemitism closer to the mainstream. As President Biden and…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…tors that the IGWT bills and the bills in Category 1 are, “kinda like whack-a-mole for the other side. It’ll drive them crazy that they will have to divide their resources out in opposing this… they won’t know what to do with this and it’ll be great!” Also included in Category 1 were resolutions declaring January 16th as Religious Freedom Day, which this year have been introduced in Michigan, Washington and New York, and passed both houses in Kent…

A Match Made in Hell: Demons Have Become a Serious Force in US Politics — But We’ve Seen This Show Before

By Michael E. Heyes

…America’s darkest fears. By the mid-90s, it became clear that of the twelve-thousand accusations levied over nearly 15 years of the Panic, not a single one pointed to any organized cult activity. This didn’t stop the movement from continuing and sowing the seeds of what became “QAnon,” a group that believes President Trump was anointed by God to stop demonic Democrats from drinking the blood of children. Responding to this perceived crisis, QAnon…

RDPulpit: Israel, The Great Unmentionable

By Peter Laarman

…might filter back and gradually mollify the militancy of American Jewry vis-à-vis the plight of the Palestinians, the spirit of doing justice (tzedekah) being hard to contain. “[A]fter such knowledge…what forgiveness?” Christian progressives face a different challenge, which is overcoming our inhibitions about speaking, preaching and writing a bit more candidly about the huge problems posed by the uncritical support of the United States for the St…

‘We Remember a United States That Fought the Nazis’: A German Scholar of Fascism Weighs in on Christian Nationalism in the U.S.

By Andrew L. Seidel

…homegrown fascist movement, and, in a sense, how could they? We remember a United States that fought the Nazis,” she explains. Brockschmidt is careful about drawing comparisons between the US now and the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s. It’s such a severe and somber charge, “Germans are hypervigilant when it comes to fascist movements, but also protective of when the term is used,” she explains. In the end, Brockschmidt is willing to go the…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…ed to the use of an “I” on the dog tags of American Muslim soldiers. In the 1950s and 1960s, as immigration laws were liberalized and as Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam came to play a national role in the civil rights struggles of the period, the number of Muslim immigrants and converts increased. Many of these Muslims were politicized by anti-colonial movements abroad as well as civil rights struggles at home. Much of their activism took the fo…

Obama’s AIPAC Speech Hardly a Change to Believe In

By Stephen Zunes

…tus. Furthermore, due to the city’s unresolved legal status dating from the 1948-49 Israeli war on independence, the international community refuses to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with the United States and other governments maintaining their respective embassies in Tel Aviv. Despite these longstanding internationally-recognized legal principles, Obama insisted in his speech before AIPAC that “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Isra…

Anti-Choice Groups Target Anti-Choice Democrats With Health Care Lies

By Sarah Posner

…health care reform bill, is using an Ohio law to fight back against the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-choice group that has targeted Democrats like Driehaus in the midterms with false assertions that they supported federal funding of abortion. Driehaus filed a complaint against the SBA List with the Ohio Elections Commission, invoking an Ohio law that prohibits “false statements” about candidates or their voting records in political advertising….