Kavanaugh, Yawn: Where’s Our Thirty-Year Plan?
When will we unite the fragments of important and useful single-issue activism under a shared understanding that we need to slay the dragon of finance capitalism joined to white supremacy?
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Presbyterians to Propose Historic Resolution for Religious Freedom and Against LGBTQ Discrimination
We believe it weakens religious freedom when it is invoked in ways that deprive people of their civil and human rights to equal protection under the law, or seek to justify exclusion and discrimination.
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Here’s What the Court Didn’t Decide in ‘Masterpiece Cakeshop’
The Court may not have explicitly rejected Phillips’s free speech claims, but the fact that seven of nine justices chose not to follow Phillips and his attorneys in their primary reasoning, even while ruling in their favor, is noteworthy.
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“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business
Religious freedom has been much in the news as the Trump administration has rolled out…
Read More“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business
Launched initially in 2015, Project Blitz brings something new and dramatic to the Christian Right as it continues to mature as a political movement—especially in light of its electoral advances in state governments over the past decade.
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Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians
Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…
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Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity
Billy Graham’s death on the same day as the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm…
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Making College Great Again: Evangelical Outsiders in the Age of Trump
Are they or aren’t they? As pundits have noticed, younger white evangelicals show signs that…
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Historian John Ragosta Discusses the Context and Inspiration for ‘Religious Freedom’ in the U.S.
Historian John Ragosta details some of the strikingly similar issues over the proper place of religion and religious expression in a secular nation compromised of mostly religious individuals.
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Religious Freedom Historian John Ragosta on “Religious Freedom”
To listen to the Christian Right, which has been busy seeking religious exemptions from laws governing…
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