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Black Pastor Who Introduced SBC Resolution Against Alt-Right Assumed It Would Be a “Slam Dunk”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…as strongly worded in its pointed condemnation of white supremacy, the alt-right, and anti-Black racism in particular. After SBC leadership refused to bring the resolution out of committee, citing “incendiary language” that the committee claimed might isolate some SBC members, outraged attendees took to social media and raised hell. Delegates from SBC-affiliated churches, known as “messengers,” were ultimately called back to the convention hall la…

Beyond ‘Thoughts and Prayers’: How the Christian Right’s Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence

By Chrissy Stroop

…what this messaging, familiar to those of us who grew up in the Christian Right, tells us about the “soul” of the Republican Party is not pretty. In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican, seemed to place most of the blame for mass shootings on violent video games. This is a position that, while reductionist and deflecting from the fact that gun control is demonstrably effective, I cannot dismiss as…

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

By Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky

…h an artist, but it’s the other way around: Trump didn’t use the religious right to win the presidency; the religious right used Trump to get what it wanted. And this itself is nothing new, despite claims to the contrary which, we think, has more to say about the commentator than the subject in question. Although it may be convenient and more than a little self-serving to view Trump as an aberration who doesn’t align with desired moral standards,…

Could This Supreme Court Undo Marriage Equality?

By Andrew L. Seidel

…lity. Lawrence struck down laws banning gay sex, effectively affirming the right to be gay. These fundamental human rights “are judicial concoctions,” according to Mitchell. The end result of this would be to subjugate women and LGBTQ people to a shrinking white Christian America. The brief also mentions “equally dubious” rights and cites Griswold v. Connecticut, which protects our right to contraception (I told you). The lawyer who successfully c…

Choose Right, Not Racism, Gov. Romney

By Anthea Butler

…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 noses to vote for you because they hate President Obama more. Many wonder if you even are a Chri…

Who’s Really Politicizing School Shootings?

By Chrissy Stroop

…ress America’s gun violence problem should be understood in the context of right-wing political violence. In Stoehr’s words: Mass death works in the rightwingers’ favor whether it comes from bullets or a virus. When an electorate is scared enough, it will stop turning to democracy to solve problems. It will turn to the party that promises to restore “law and order,” that is, rule by white power. Seen in this light, right-wing calls to stop “politi…

Prop 8 Ruling a True Test of Liberty (Religious or Otherwise)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Catholic Bishops’ new “religious liberty” effort to paint abortion and gay rights as an affront to their right to discriminate based on religious beliefs. Their new Web site even points out that “contemporary laws that ‘redefine’ marriage to include two persons of the same sex threaten to stifle the Church’s ability to teach publicly about and witness to the uniqueness of marriage as a lifelong bond between one man and one woman.” Which is ridicul…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…estinians refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist, or specifically its right to exist as a Jewish state, there’s a far more damning fact: Israel isn’t just rhetorically denying the right of a Palestinian state to exist. It has done so in the past, continues to do so, and doesn’t appear to be changing course anytime soon. Israel has been actively occupying and oppressing the Palestinian people for decades now, though not equally. As Yousef Muna…

A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter

By Daniel Schultz

…ke of evaluating what is the truth, what is justice. So if I’m reading you right, protest is performative in a deeply Christian sense. It highlights the difference between right and wrong. It is a part of the true religion of James for me. In fighting for some of the lowest, the marginalized, the immigrants [who] Trump thinks are robbing America, or the innumerable casualties [among] those already on the outskirts that the “bombing of ISIS” would…

State Director of Christian Right Legislative Group, ‘Project Blitz,’ Calls for Lynching of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Updated)

By Frederick Clarkson

…of the U.S. and even “America’s Foundation.” A short video produced by the rightwing Western Journal to which Witherington’s Facebook post was responding, claimed that Omar had called for the “complete dismantling of the American way of life.” This false characterization was taken as fact by Witherington who then claimed it was also representative of Islam and incompatible with the Constitution. Omar’s actual quote read (and is even to be heard in…