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Maryland Governor says Support for Marriage Equality “Very Much Informed” by his Catholicism

By Peter Montgomery

…oods, services, or benefits to an individual related to the celebration or promotion of marriage in violation of their religious beliefs.” Josh Levin, who directs the pro-equality campaign, said it is working with several hundred clergy, and said a volunteer group of equality-supporting Catholics is doing weekly phone banks. Levin mentioned last Friday’s press conference with equality-supporting African American clergy from Maryland and national f…

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

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…opponents.” Despite their high levels of religiosity, a solid majority of African Americans support safe and legal access to abortion. And African American women have the highest rate of abortion amongst all groups of American women. The reasons are not mysterious—Black women are disproportionately poor, under-employed, single and living in highly segregated communities with limited health care access which have borne the brunt of the economic de…

Choose Right, Not Racism, Gov. Romney

By Anthea Butler

…u to exercise some discretion, noting your own past, and realize that many African Americans are sick and damn tired of white people questioning the President of the United States about his birth certificate? I hope you realize that because President Obama won in 2008, he had made it easier for you to run for president in 2012. Both the Republican Party and the religious right shunned you in 2008. Many Christian power brokers are holding their nos…

No, Trump’s Evangelical Support Isn’t Cracking: The ‘Independent’ Jumps the Shark

By Chrissy Stroop

…al evangelical organisations, but also by political figures such as former Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and a number of prosperity-gospel televangelists.” Meanwhile, Geddis’s contention that Trump’s comment on the use of bleach to “cure” coronavirus “may prove problematic in November, as … [it] chips away at Trump’s image as a shrewd operator Republicans can place their trust in,” is remarkably naïve. To be sure, even among white evan…

Harry Jackson Shakes Religious Right Money Tree for “Below the Radar” Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…ircumspect, perhaps because he is asking for checks to be made to his self-promoting High Impact Leadership Coalition, whose website says it is a 501(c)(3) organization and which seems to operate as a ministry of his church. Jackson said on the call that his campaign “really is a defense of marriage strategy” designed to make sure whoever is president cannot change the definition of marriage. But later in the call he spoke admiringly about strateg…

The Forgotten History Behind Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Terrorism

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…l War, that gave American readers some of their first accurate accounts of African cultures. North Carolinian Omar ibn Said penned the first extant Arabic-language memoir of American literature in 1831, a document recently digitized by the Library of Congress. These three writers were among the tens of thousands of enslaved African-born Muslim men and women who literally helped to build the United States from 1776 to 1865, when legal slavery was f…

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…n,” and the laws and policies they helped to shape. To jump in, what’s the central takeaway of your research? The Manufacturing Backlash report looks at the 2021, 2022, and 2023 legislative cycles, and five different kinds of bills that have been introduced and sponsored almost exclusively by Republicans. These include academic gag orders that affect higher education, often known as anti-CRT or divisive concepts bills. Probably the best-known is t…

God Need Not Be Real, But the Black Hole Photo Is

By Ed Simon

…to chart an expedition in two locations—one in Brazil, another on the West African island of Principe, off the coast of Guinea—in the path of a complete solar eclipse that was to occur on May 29th, 1919. There, on the warm waters of the south Atlantic, Einstein’s theory was to face its Experimentum crucis, its possibly fatal test. Two decades later, Eddington would write in his book The Philosophy of Physical Science that “For the truth of the con…

Both the Joy and the Uproar Over the Pope’s Blessings for LGBTQ Catholics are Small Potatoes Compared to this Age-Old Church Problem

By Mary E. Hunt

…gs are shrinking before our eyes. The text encourages priests to exercise “freedom and spontaneity” whereas the press release specifies blessings to be just a few seconds, like maybe at drive-by speed! Likewise, the text refers to “Blessings of Couples in Irregular Situations and of Couples of the Same Sex,” though in his late January comments, Pope Francis insists this is really about blessing individuals, not couples. Say what? He’s walking back…