Religious conservatives see opportunities for fresh gains after a series of victories during Trump’s first term. Rights advocates see a dangerous blurring of church and state.
Establishing a more visible role for Christianity in public schools, including more prayer led by both teachers and students.
I hate these people just so very much. They aren’t just happy with keeping their stuff in their houses of worship and their homes and inflicting it on their own children; they want everyone else to join in on their little book club, with the power of the State enforcing this.
Fuck them. This is a secular nation - not one mention of the character of Jesus in the Constitution.
Even better, a big chunk of the founders put their name to this treaty paragraph:
Treat of Tripoli, yes?
I understand what they were doing there when it comes to diplomacy and pointing out the facts about our country’s founding, but I do wonder if they knew about the “People of the Book” thing within Islam.
Yes, the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli, English version
I don’t think that much of Congress knew much of anything about Islam, though a few had in fact read a translation of the Koran
The Handmaid’s Tale perfectly describes the kind of society they want.
I do so look forward to a day when I never, ever have to give one thought in the world about what this rabid minority wants.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up, Chuck.
I fear that you may be right.
When I was still watching that show, I was perplexed that Democrats would say that’s the world Republicans want and Republicans would say that’s the world Democrats want.
I’m firmly in the former camp and cannot for the life of me figure out how a conservative could agree with the latter.
It was just Democrats expressing their (accurate in this case) analysis. And Republicans projecting, as per usual.
Ah yes, democrats are widely known for their support of christofascism. Always out there forcing their religious beliefs on society, claiming America as a birthright theocracy.
Wow, haven’t heard any cons making that claim, but I certainly believe they have.
I think it’s much the same way they know something is deemed a bad thing and don’t want to be called out for that thing, so they hilariously try to flip the script, all the while demonstrating they don’t really understand the term and why it’s problematic. See: racism and fascism. They claim Democrats are the real racists for…some inane reason (for supposedly “cancelling” some white man, for instance, or because they are seeing too many brown people on their screens, or…). Or that Democrats are the real fascists because…donnie is facing questions in court for his illegal activities, or because a xtian saw a rainbow flag somewhere, or…
I guess they heard normal Americans talking about how Handmaid’s Tale is a rabid winger’s wet dream, and just did a “no u” on it…
Oof. WaPo wants an email address to access an article a subscriber gifted access to. Here is the archived version instead https://archive.is/3jOgi
Yeah, they started doing this several days back, when the new management came in
The enshitification will continue until profits improve.
They’re gonna allow the seven fundamental tenets too, right?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Since Trump lost his reelection bid, they have claimed additional successes, with Republican-run red states enacting legislation that restricts transgender care and limits the books that can be taught in school or borrowed from the library.
But far from declaring victory, those who advocate for a more pronounced role for hard-line conservative Christian doctrine in American public life are actively planning to enact a fresh wave of changes in a second Trump term.
Biden, a practicing Catholic who regularly attends Mass, has vowed to protect religious freedom and pointed to some of Trump’s policies — especially a travel ban on people from several majority-Muslim countries — as violations of that value.
“In Trump’s America, women will live in fear of having their pregnancies monitored or facing punishment if they have an abortion; teachers are told what books they can teach in the classroom and grown adults who they can love and marry,” said Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa.
“The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors,” reads the mandate, which says promotion of “transgender ideology” is akin to pornography and should be treated as a crime.
“He didn’t make any secret [when he was president] about the fact that he believed Christianity to be probably the premier religion in America,” said Darrell Scott, an Ohio pastor and former member of Trump’s informal White House evangelical advisory group.
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