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Gorsuch Confirmed… But Don’t Get Too Bent Out of Shape

By Sunnivie Brydum

…e. He seems to have a semi-truck-sized blind spot for claims of “religious freedom,” and his testy refusal to discuss his thoughts on any potential or past case that comes before the Supreme Court is infuriating, if not unprecedented. But in the context of modern American jurisprudence, Gorsuch is hardly an ideologue. It’s a safe bet that Justice Gorsuch will maintain the conservative 5-4 split of the Court as it existed before Justice Antonin Sca…

Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?

By Sunnivie Brydum and Evan Derkacz

…know, a discredited ideologue paid by the American Enterprise Institute to promote public policies targeting people of color, women and the poor. His work has employed a combination of eugenics and other pseudo-science that has time and time again shown to be based on false premises, inadequate research and erroneous conclusions. He is not an academic nor a “critically acclaimed” public scholar, but a well-funded phony. His research is an insult t…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…just say that Dutch Calvinism has never been especially kind to people of African descent. The once-mighty Dutch Republic grew rich from trade, with trade in black bodies forming a large part of it. The extent of slavery in New Netherland (renamed New York and New Jersey after 1664) shocked many when historians brought it to light beginning in the 1970s. And then there are those doughty Afrikaner cousins of ours, whose rigidly racist apartheid id…

Forget “Nasty,” Trump’s Got a “Disgusting” Problem

By Karen E. Park

…l implications has not gone unnoticed, with the New York Times and the New Republic (among others) having previously written about it. Disgust is both an emotional and visceral response to something that we fear will contaminate us. Rancid food, a decaying corpse, an infected wound—all these call up feelings of disgust in human beings, as do body fluids like blood, semen, saliva, and breast milk. We are disgusted when what’s inside the body comes…

Billy Graham Was More Like White America’s Surrogate Savior Than “America’s Pastor”

By Peter Laarman

…re it seemed that God’s special anointing of white American folkways was still in effect. Graham’s frequent hobnobbing with presidents reassured all those saved white people and wanna-be-saved white people that our great and godly Republic was still on the righteous path. To function as a surrogate savior, Billy Graham didn’t have to suffer or sacrifice in the Jesus manner. He merely had to remind us that it’s always still possible to be washed wh…

Meddling Bishops Accuse Clinton of Meddling

By Patricia Miller

…en happy to sway Catholics toward an increasingly polarized and polarizing Republican Party over the issues of abortion, same-sex marriage and “religious liberty.” In fact, the loudest chorus of boos for Trump last night came when he said Clinton was only “pretending not to hate Catholics” based on the WikiLeaks emails, which isn’t much of a stretch from Kurtz’s statement. And Trump’s closing lines were a paean to the priorities of the Cardinal Do…

Why the Lewd Trump Tapes Won’t Matter (As Much As You Think) in White Christian America

By Paul Harvey

…ies years after they were disproved—nope. Calling for the execution of the Central Park Five, and continuing to demand their punishment even after their DNA-based acquittal—crickets. Insane 3 a.m. tweets because he’s mad at a former Miss Universe—chuckles. You can fill in the rest of the very long list. Curious to see how the Trump demographic is responding to the latest scandal, I took this opportunity to survey my Facebook “acquaintances,” mostl…

Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…they lose their tax-exempt status. All religious leaders should be able to freely express their thoughts and feelings on religious matters. From there, candidate Trump moved through the fairly customary laundry list of Republican talking points—school choice, Hillary’s emails, the secret plan to defeat ISIS, the need for a conservative to appoint the Scalia replacement, Hillary’s responsibility for North Korea’s nukes, and so on and on. By compari…

Maybe Trump Should Pray About His Problems With Religious Voters?

By Daniel Schultz

…elming 71 percent unfavorable. As the New Republic points out, every cycle Republicans make noise about taking the Jewish vote based on superior allegiance to Israel or something. Then somebody like Michele Bachmann comes out and all but pledges to make Benjamin Netanyahu Secretary of State, and then somebody like Trump emerges like a fetid swamp dream from the primordial ooze, and the Jewish vote, such as it is, says “You know what? We’re good. M…

Why We Need a Public Black Theology for the 21st Century

By Vincent Lloyd

…regation shift is in terms of audience. With Dyson in the pages of The New Republic, Glaude in Time, and Harris-Perry once on MSNBC, now in Elle, Black public intellectuals are speaking to a predominantly white audience. Many other critics have examined the ways that Black leaders are cast as representatives of their race, translating the Black world for the white world, obviously an impossible task. This has always been the case, but the dynamics…