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The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope

By Frederick Clarkson

…ptions.” The manual lists state laws from Alabama, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and of course, Virginia. The most recent available Project Blitz manual (exposed by RD in 2021) adds Kansas and Oklahoma to the list of states that have adopted similar legislation. The title of the Project Blitz model bill has since been changed to the “Child Welfare Maximization Act,” perhaps in an effort to underscore that adoptive and foster care ch…

Space X and the Photo-Op: Trump’s Use of the Bible Was Just the Latest in a Series of Christian Nationalist Messages

By Tony Keddie

…e praised Musk—a quasi-eugenicist whose family capitalized on apartheid in South Africa—and other “risk-taking” investors as the (wealthy, white) innovators who are leading this “march of civilization.” Nineteenth-century slave owners like Josiah Nott used this same expression to argue that “the negro race” did not have the capacity for “self-government.” An anthropologist and early proponent of the theory that negroes have smaller brains than whi…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…liberalism and the civil rights movement. The Brown decision inflamed the South; the busing issue was singular and easily mitigated after the Montgomery boycott; Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t know what to try next; and President Eisenhower did nothing after the Brown decision came down, since he opposed it anyway. Niebuhr had the ear of Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, and he urged Stevenson to say nothing that outflanked Eisenhower on civil…

How the Religious (and ‘Nones’) Vote May Tip 6 Swing States

By Daniel Schultz

…elicals tend to be conservative, giving the president a strong base in the South—this much is not surprising. Less obvious is that after Mormons, white Catholics and white mainline Protestants are Trump’s strongest supporters in the religious economy. As it happens, there’s a lot of voters like this in Pennsylvania and the industrial Midwest. In short, southern white evangelicals and northern Catholics and mainliners made it possible for Trump to…

Citing ‘Matthew 25’ Isn’t a Viable Democratic Faith Outreach Strategy

By Daniel Schultz

…iar to a churchgoer. The ad opens with footage from a speech by the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor in which Buttigieg says that if he’s elected president, Americans wouldn’t have to ask themselves, “Whatever happened to, ‘I was hungry and you fed me? I was a stranger and you welcomed me?’” Matthew 25! Tikkun olam! Walk humbly with God! Jim Wallis! Jimmy Carter! It’s like a game sometimes to see how many touchstones can be shoe-horned into one a…

The Case Against Rebuilding Notre Dame

By Jay Rubenstein

…to the canons’ residence, depicts the life of the Virgin; those above the south transept, which faced the bishop’s palace, the death of Stephen. Some of the earliest historical memories from Notre Dame likewise do not inspire thoughts of unity. In the early 12th century, a scholar named Peter Abelard dreamed of becoming the “master,” or chief teacher, at Notre Dame. To do so, he installed himself at a church outside the city walls on Mont Saint-G…

Unreleased Religious Freedom Manifesto Isn’t the Culture War Compromise It Hopes to Be

By Frederick Clarkson

…ok no further than the beatings and murders of civil rights workers in the South and savage attacks on peaceful protestors against the war in Vietnam. (Many of us forget that King and Heschel also marched as leaders of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam.) This is all the more remarkable given that Charter leaders were warned about the pitfalls of appeals to civility at their own program at the Brookings Institution in September 2017. Joshua…

Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…x Falls, which together extend their ecclesial jurisdiction over 6 federal Indian reservations in South Dakota. By 2010, more than 65 Catholic priests and religious formerly employed at Indian boarding schools within those dioceses had been named in lawsuits targeting sexual abuse—a number that suggests a far higher per-capita rate of offending clergy than even in New Mexico. In New Mexico, the victims of abuse were mainly Nuevomexicano and Indige…

Dems Need More Faith, Episode LXXI: The Beer Caucus Proposal

By Daniel Schultz

…in a heartbeat! That’s not even to mention the Dixie and Shiner vote down south, Olympia in the Northwest, Grain Belt in Minnesota, the Sam Adams patriots in the Northeast! Dems are leaving an awful lot of support on the table simply because they’re not willing to chug swill like Scott Walker on a Miller bender. What’s that you say? You say a beer caucus is a terrible idea? You say talking incessantly about alcohol would turn off many non-drinker…

At Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump Support Is Part of a 150-Year Tradition

By Daniel Silliman

…ationists were “trying to upset all of the things that we love as good old Southern people and as good old Southern Baptists.” Even worse, he said, Baptists were succumbing to the pressure of civil rights activists. Criswell said these Baptists were an embarrassment to their martyred forefathers. There was some backlash to the speech but it also won Criswell some new political friends. H.L. Hunt, a wealthy Texas oilman and a committed conservative…