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The non-profit trying to rebrand Christianity for Gen Z is also the ADF’s largest donor

Sydney Bauer — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:56:12 +0000

A US non-profit attempting to rebrand Jesus for Gen Z is also the main funder of a designated hate group opposing abortion and LGBTIQ rights, openDemocracy can reveal. The Servant Foundation has plunged millions of dollars into its ‘He Gets Us’ ads, which paint Jesus as an “influencer” who was “canceled” for standing up for […]

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The Right now demands Supreme Court nominees have a ‘Biblical worldview’

Peter Montgomery — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:14:34 +0000

You might think religious-right leaders would be more than satisfied with the Trump Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v Wade and invited the criminalization of abortion nationwide, but you would be wrong. Religious-right activists are delving deep into the religious views, church attendance, and families of conservative judges considered possible Supreme Court nominees under a future […]

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The World Bank funding freeze will harm the queer Ugandans it claims to defend

Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:14:30 +0000

Last month, the World Bank announced that it would suspend new lending to Uganda in light of the country passing its Anti-Homosexuality Act, which the bank said “fundamentally contradicts our values”. In response, president Yoweri Museveni accused the bank on X (formerly Twitter) of coercing Uganda into “abandoning our faith, culture, principles and sovereignty using money”. and claiming that the […]

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Christian fascists continue to view SCOTUS as their best bet to “occupy” the country

Kyle Mantyla — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:19:48 +0000

Earlier this month, Right Wing Watch reported that religious-right activists are seeking to take advantage of the far-right majority’s control of the Supreme Court to start enacting Christian nationalist policies all across the nation. Emboldened by recent Supreme Court decisions upholding prayer in schools, crosses erected on public lands, and flying Christian flags on public buildings, right-wing activists intend to […]

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Nation’s first Christian charter school approved in Oklahoma despite clear illegality

Charles J. Russo — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:47:41 +0000

U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can be used at private religious schools. And on June 5, 2023, Oklahoma’s five-person Statewide Virtual Charter School Board pushed this much-debated question into new territory by approving plans for a religious charter school – the first in the nation. Under the proposed charter, […]

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Let’s not mince words – the US right is racist

Chrissy Stroop — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:02:46 +0000

In my OpenDemocracy column on 19 April, I argued that “intellectual diversity” initiatives – which, in their aim to ensure conservative representation, are completely unnecessary – “represent a coded reactionary effort to reclaim power by the beneficiaries of white patriarchal domination, who may feel oppressed by authentic diversification even though they are not.” But this genteel […]

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Americans are rejecting religion as the Christian right becomes more extreme

Chrissy Stroop — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:07:19 +0000

For centuries, American evangelical Protestants have been obsessed with religious ‘revival’. Fear of ostensible societal, moral, and religious ‘decline’ is the other side of the same paranoid Christian coin. The United States, deeply influenced by early Puritan settlers and other assorted Christian fanatics, has been slow to secularise relative to European countries. In fact, the rapid increase […]

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Christian nationalist Republican youth group increasingly vulnerable to ‘fascist’ incursions

Kristen Doerer — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:03:25 +0000

Turning Point USA has a “groyper” problem. The right-wing get out the vote youth organization TPUSA, led by Charlie Kirk, has long had to fend off the followers of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who call themselves groypers, from infiltrating their ranks. But they haven’t always been successful at keeping racists and groypers at arm’s length and have at times have […]

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Just one more battlefield in America’s ‘slow civil war’

Lance Aksamit — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:39:49 +0000

Gallons of ink and an even greater amount of words have been spent on whether or not indicting former president Donald Trump will help or hinder his return to the Oval Office. It appears likely to bolster his odds of getting the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but that’s not the interesting question, nor the important […]

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The US’s anti-drag movement is state-sponsored LGBTIQ persecution

Chrissy Stroop — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:13:22 +0000

As the state-sponsored persecution of transgender Americans continues across large swathes of the United States this year, Tennessee has earned the dubious distinction of being the first state to pass a law banning drag performances in the presence of minors. How it will be enforced remains to be seen, but the law, which Republican governor Bill Lee signed along […]

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