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Former AIPAC Spokesperson Rallies Conservatives to Attack CAP, Media Matters as Anti-Semitic

By Sarah Posner

…y lays bare the McCarthy-esque tactics the supposedly “pro-Israel” camp in Washington is willing to deploy. Block writes in his email to the listserv (which, with a brilliant lack of self-awareness, is called the Freedom Community): This kind of anti-Israel sentiment is so fringe it’s support by CAP is outrageous, but at least it is out in the open now — as is their goal – clearly applauded by revolting allies like the pro-HAMAS and anti-Zionist/O…

Anti-LGBT Equality NOM Seeks Legal Protection from Glaring

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ters after the owners contributed to Proposition 8: In another instance in Washington state, an opponent of marriage equality was collecting petition signatures to challenge a law granting legal protections to same-sex couples, when two ladies “glared at him and one said ‘we have feelings too.’” He did not report the incident to the police. So far, Terkel reports, “four federal judges and three state boards in seven states—California, Iowa, Maine,…

Jeffress’ Statement About Trump’s God-Given Authority is Nonsense

By Rosalind C. Hughes

In one way, Pastor Robert Jeffress is right. In an interview with the Washington Post, he elaborated on his statement that Donald Trump has complete authority from God to use any means necessary to “take out” Kim Jong-Un, even if that means war. Jeffress cited Paul’s letter to the Romans to back up his claim that God has endowed the President with the authority to “execute wrath on the wrongdoer.” He predicts that others will use the previous cha…

A Campaign About Values Voters, or Justice?

By Sarah Posner

…” Mind you Obama is not himself using the word “values;” in fact, the main Washington Post article Sargent cites focuses on Obama’s new-found aggressiveness directed at political adversaries. At one point the piece notes, “Obama has begun to frame the 2012 contest as a referendum on values,” highlighting in particular his criticism of Rick Perry’s global warming denialism, the refusal of Republicans to denounce the booing of a gay soldier at a deb…

The Ex-KKK Priest and the Subtle Terrorism of the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Patricia Miller

…r of the KKK, is his history of abortion clinic protests. According to the Washington Post: In 1992, Aitcheson was arrested on charges of trespassing on the property of the West End Women’s Medical Group clinic in Reno. … Damon Stutes, the doctor who still runs the clinic, recalled the priest as a regular protestor, who “yelled at” people coming in and “acted like a caged lion that was just holding himself back.” That a priest was involved in conf…

The Racial Politics of Atheism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…Which one? Why? One recent book I’ve read that I really admire is Harriet Washington’s exhaustively researched Medical Apartheid. Washington nails how legacies of scientific racism and white supremacist medical experimentation inform contemporary perspectives on the black body. What’s your next book? A novel based on the 1978 Jonestown massacre (from the perspective of two black women protagonists) and an anthology entitled Women of Color Beyon…

A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson’s Breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News For Trump

By Diana Butler Bass

…non group; and Johnson’s (also) pro-Trump, Russia-skeptical, establishment Washington, Tony Perkins evangelical crowd. I know it’s difficult for many Americans to find daylight between these two groups, but there are real tensions here—occasionally in policy and always in style. But the rift was out in the open this week around Ukraine. And it wasn’t pretty. When evangelicals argue politics, it isn’t just about policy. It usually comes down to acc…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Shooter Blinds Us to the Reality of White Supremacy

By Ivan Strenski

…e the First Amendment problems that were raised, for instance, in a recent Washington Post story. But researching how, and in what sense, social media are “social” would seem to be a priority for those seeking to protect the innocent against the exploitation of freedom of speech. Unlike the free speech orator holding forth on their soap box in Times Square, those networked on social media enjoy a robust social existence, despite never even “meetin…

Despite Reports, GOP Has Not ‘Turned on Trump’ For Call to Terminate the Constitution — Fascism isn’t a Dealbreaker for Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ut did you see this crazy thing on Twitter? Mike Turner is one of the tiny number of Republicans in a position of influence within the GOP at the moment who has disavowed Trump’s remarks directly—although as far as I can tell, he hasn’t said anything about whether these remarks would prevent him from supporting the former president in 2024. Like Turner, minority whip John Thune, the second most powerful Republican in the Senate, said “of course I…

2021 National Prayer Breakfast: A Kinder Gentler Christian Capitalism

By Becky Garrison

…storically lofty tone” that “highlighted the president’s effort to restore Washington’s institutions to their traditional pre-Trump form.” One can presume that “traditional pre-Trump form,” represents a discrete reference to white-gloved backdoor diplomacy practiced by The Family that promotes their fundamentalist mixture of capitalism and Christianity. Organizers and speakers at this year’s NPB remained mum regarding the role The Family played be…