Christianists

Politico reports: Anti-abortion groups on Tuesday unveiled their “Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap,” an effort to chip away at federal and state access, including in nearly a dozen states that enshrined protections through ballot measures over the last two years. Drawing on the playbook they successfully used under Roe v. Wade to regulate clinics out of existence and outlaw particular …

The Associated Press reports: A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 was temporarily blocked Tuesday by a federal judge who said the law is “unconstitutional on its face.” U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles in Baton Rouge said the law had an “overtly religious” purpose, and rejected state officials’ claims …

The Christian Post reports: After promising to refund the donations of members who questioned the stewardship of his church’s finances, outspoken Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke has reneged on that offer, and his attorney has allegedly threatened at least one donor who asked for their money back. Locke, who leads the Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, made the offer …

The Christian Post reports: Retail chain Debenhams has removed a controversial “Gay in a Manger” Christmas sweater following backlash from Christian groups in the United Kingdom. The retailer pulled the item, produced by alternative clothing brand Grindstore, after religious leaders and advocacy groups denounced it as disrespectful and called for a boycott. The purple sweater, adorned with an LGBT rainbow, …

NOTUS reports: Democratic operatives turned Project 2025 into an election season punching bag. Now, conservative trolls are turning it into a postelection punch line. Tweets are flying around X about how, actually, now that Donald Trump has won, Republicans can admit that Project 2025 really is the agenda. And the thing is, no one is laughing harder than the actual …

The Texas Tribune reports: The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously directed its flagship university to disband an LGBTQ+ studies minor, months after conservative lawmakers and websites accused the program of promoting “liberal indoctrination” on campus. The LGBTQ Studies minor is one of 14 minors and 38 certificate programs that administrators said were “low-producing,” according to …

The Guardian reports: A new book by the chief architect of Project 2025, a hugely controversial policy plan for a second Trump term, repeatedly employs imagery of fire and burning, including calling for rightwingers to “burn away the rot” of American institutions and organizations deemed opposed to conservative aims. The news comes after a White House address on Thursday, two …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Lundberg Family Farms’ new “Ducking Good Rice” commercial insinuates unnecessary profanity. Foul language (or the implication of it) is unneeded in this or any commercial, but that is obviously what Lundberg Family Farms intended with their play on words. The advertisement praises Lundberg’s rice since the company saves and relocates duck eggs …

Spectrum News reports: The demonstrations happened at little after noon on Wednesday at a public area on Texas State’s campus. Photos posted of the demonstrators show a couple of individuals holding signs that read “women are property,” “homo sex is sin,” and “types of property: women, slaves, animals, cars, land, etc…” The individuals identified themselves as being from the Official …

The Independent reports: A Los Angeles gynecologist has surrendered his medical license for allegedly hectoring a patient about Jesus after she revealed having had an abortion 34 years prior. When Dr. Lucien Cox, 75, entered the room, he pressed the woman for further details about the abortion, and asked if she had “Jesus in her life,” the filing states. When …

NBC News reports: Lance Wallnau [photo], a celebrity evangelist who has spent decades calling on conservative Christians to occupy positions of power and influence over society, told followers that Trump’s victory had been prophesied years ago — a key step in God’s plan to usher in a new era of Christian dominion around the world. The chain of events that …

USA Today reports: Multiple efforts that supported giving parents public funds to spend on private or alternative schools fared poorly in the 2024 election. Voters rejected separate proposals in Colorado and Kentucky aiming to add language supporting school choice, an issue that has divided parents and school staffers across the nation for years, to their states’ constitutions. And voters in …

Religion News reports: The former president of an evangelical get-out-the-vote nonprofit, which seeks to motivate Christian voters to promote family values and “biblical truth” in the public square, was charged Monday (Nov. 4) with eight counts of possessing child pornography. Jason Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, was charged during a video court hearing in the District Court of …

The Huffingon Post reports: “We have so-called elected officials, people that I call politicians, that are afraid to stand up and fight for what’s right,” Robinson said to a room of supporters. “As soon as they get a little trouble, they tuck tail and run. They’ll send you a message on the phone and say, “Uh, uh, uh, I’m, I’m …

The Christian Post reports: Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts warned Americans in a Friday press call that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, is the most “anti-faith” presidential candidate in history and that her administration would lead to Christians losing their freedom to worship. Roberts described Harris as “the most anti-faith, anti-religion presidential …

“I think the Democrats do not believe in the nuclear family, and they’ve already destroyed it in the macro, and now they’re trying to destroy it in the micro. In no political situation should you want to undermine a union between a man — a husband and a wife. “And voting is really important. And you have to ask, what …

Religion News reports: As a scholar of religion, I attended the “Courage Tour,” a series of religious-political rallies, when it made a stop in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, from Sept. 27-28, 2024. From what I observed, the various speakers on the tour used conservative talking points – such as the threat of communism and LGBTQ+ “ideologies” taking over education – and gave …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Jewelry company Pandora, through its liberal advertising choices, is attempting to normalize the LGBTQ lifestyle. A recent Pandora commercial, “Radiate it. Initiate it. Accept it. Expect it. Be love.,” includes a lesbian couple hugging, singing, and embracing one another. Unfortunately, Pandora blatantly throws homosexuality in the viewer’s face with the lesbian couple’s …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: A polling company sued Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s gubernatorial campaign on Tuesday over a $114,000 bill it claims was never paid. The company, Vox Insights LLC, claims that the campaign “without excuse or justification” failed to pay for polling data it provided last month within a 30-day deadline set out in its contract. …

The Texas Tribune reports: Shortly after leaving his position as Housing and Urban Development Secretary with the Trump administration, Ben Carson began working on a supplemental curriculum for elementary school students he called Little Patriots. When the program launched publicly in 2021, he said it was meant to compensate for a lack of emphasis on “the good things of our …