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Religious Leaders Accuse Conservatives of Misleading Public on Contraception

By Katie Toth

…will begin to see their new health care benefits later in the year or even January, when their employers enter into open enrollment periods, he explained. *update The Guttmacher Institute also spoke out against anti-choice lobby groups today, with a brightly-colored YouTube video. The video details the benefits of no-cost accessible contraception for American women, which it calls “essential preventive health care,” and says that the new federal…

An Immoderate Proposal: Sam Rodriguez, “Centrist” Evangelical, to Give Benediction at RNC

By Sarah Posner

…years, and committed himself to “building bridges rather than walls.” In January 2009, Rodriguez endorsed the “Come Let Us Reason Together” governing agenda put out by the centrist think tank Third Way, which aimed to find “common ground” between progressives and conservatives on “hot-button” issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. He said at the time, “I wholeheartedly endorse and approve of not only the agenda but the entire effort to reco…

Finding Noah’s Flood: A Misconception of Biblical Proportions

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…scientists William Ryan and Walter Pitman. Their book about it came out in January 2000. That fall, Ballard was the leader of a National Geographic expedition to the Black Sea expressly to test the idea. A third misconception is that a Black Sea flood could ever be “worldwide.” The idea that it could is inextricably linked to “flood geology,” the fake-science backbone of creationism. Counterintuitively for a literalist movement, the makers of the…

Giglio Withdraws from Inaugural Activities

By Sarah Posner

…ited by the President to give the benediction at the upcoming inaugural on January 21. Though the President and I do not agree on every issue, we have fashioned a friendship around common goals and ideals, most notably, ending slavery in all its forms. Due to a message of mine that has surfaced from 15-20 years ago, it is likely that my participation, and the prayer I would offer, will be dwarfed by those seeking to make their agenda the focal…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

“We don’t benefit from ignorance.” —President Obama, January 16, 2013, at a press conference on his plan for new gun control legislation When you look at a gun, do you see danger or safety? It all depends on the angle you’re looking from, risk perception experts say. The gun control debate is ultimately a clash of competing worldviews, and it’s very fraught. Each side draws on symbolic narratives—I would call them myths—with deep roots in the…

‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…e picked up by federal law enforcement in the run up to the anniversary of January 6th which prompted a national committee of the UCC to issue an alert. Some were glad for the heads up, but like any such warning, others felt it might be overwrought. The ongoing events at First United Church of Oak Park, of course, places the warning in a new light. The big smear The smear began with a report and a related video by Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a Trum…

The Gutting of ‘Roe’ isn’t About Religion, it’s a Product of White Terror

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…an murders that laid the groundwork for Texas and has its corollary in the January 6th terrorist attack on the Capitol. In the wake of the SB 8, reproductive health providers have suggested that ordinary women speak more candidly about the transformative effect of abortion. In a 2014 article entitled “Thank God For Abortion,” I wrote: At each of the two clinics where I gratefully got abortions in the 1990’s lone white men were stationed outside wi…

Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Countries’ is Just a Cruder Term for What’s Been Said in American Churches for Generations

By Kathryn Gin Lum

In January 2018, the 45th president hit a new low in a closed-door meeting: “Why do we want all these people from ‘shithole countries’ coming here?” he reportedly asked. He was referring to immigrants from African nations, Haiti, and El Salvador, and asked why the U.S. couldn’t get more immigrants from, say, Norway instead. Condemnation swiftly followed from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but the condemnation wasn’t universal. As one White…

One Hundred Years of Anti-Evolution Legislation Are More Than Enough

By Glenn Branch

…Kentucky’s House Bill 191. Introduced in the Kentucky General Assembly on January 23, 1922, the bill would have prohibited “the teaching in public schools and other public institutions of learning, Darwinism, atheism, agnosticism or evolution as it pertains to the origin of man.” Offending instructors would have faced the prospect of a fine of between $50 and $5000—between $825 and $82,500 in today’s money—and/or confinement in the county jail fo…

Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…racy. Perry and Whitehead outline this in their latest study, published in January, which demonstrates that Christian Nationalism is: “a leading predictor that Americans deny that voter suppression is a problem, believe that the US makes it ‘too easy to vote,’ believe that voter fraud is rampant, and support measures to disenfranchise individuals who could not pass a basic civics test or who committed certain crimes.” Further, they conclude: “Chri…