nostr:npub1d80sjkppwru90qug4rq9l5qqf388v9435hqvlg7nenh8yx2uutps76u7gp Yes. Randall Balmer has published some good articles recounting this history and Paul Weyrich's admission that he worked to create a Catholic-white evangelical alliance to divert attention from the racism that was at the heart of the religious right in its inception, with abortion becoming a more "respectiable" cause for the Catholic bishops and white evangelicals to pursue. Anthea Butler is also very good on this issue in her 2021 White Evangelical Racism.
nostr:npub1lgmezr02rtw7hq70amz5y6uw0mdaxhulw3r882j8g7c5wur3750sm9npu0 Good points, indeed.
nostr:npub1ld3e8fu4qjshsycpgsjak987ksmhvuvycxlpg0rv070g6nvaclsqvas0k6 Unfortunately, Greg Abbot is himself Catholic, and many Hispanic Catholics living near the border in Texas voted to keep him in office.
"Focus on the Family was just one of the conservative out-of-state special interest groups urging Ohio voters to support Issue 1 and defeat 'out-of-state special interest groups.' Focus said Issue 1 would protect Ohioans from 'radical and sudden changes promoted and funded by liberal millionaires.'”
#Ohio #abortion #ReligiousRight #evangelicals
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As Steve Rabey notes, Ohio's ballot issue 1, which voters have just resoundingly rejected, "was promoted by the Center for Christian Virtue, a 40-year-old nonprofit lobbying group which does not publicly disclose its links to Focus on the Family but is one of the most effective members of the ministry’s network of 40 state affiliates, which ls led by Focus’ sister organization, the Family Policy Alliance."
#Ohio #abortion #ReligiousRight #evangelicals
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"As TNR [i.e., The New Republic] contributor Laleh Ispahani argued this week, Democrats should stay invested in Dobbs and democracy, especially as Republicans continue to wage war on voting rights—and dream of a national abortion ban."
#Democrats #abortion #Ohio
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"Democrats have lately endeavored to highlight the success of Bidenomics; there’s no doubt that pocketbook issues will be a critical component of the 2024 campaign. But there’s still a considerable amount of voltage flowing through the third rails of last year’s midterms."
~ Jason Linkins
#Democrats #abortion #Ohio
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"Good Lord, who among us hasn’t paid for a Clarence Thomas vacation?"
~ David Kurtz
#ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/clarence-thomas-free-vacations
"The idea for such a device [i.e., Greg Abbott's buoy barrier in the Rio Grande, now found to have circular saw blades embedded in it] is not new. The Trump administration considered such a scheme to deter crossings as well, but it ultimately decided against it.
For good reason:"
~ The Big Picture and Todd Beeton
#GregAbbott #Texas #migrants #cruelty #Republicans #ProLife
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/greg-abbott-lone-star-buoys
"The Trump administration solicited proposals for floating border barriers in 2020 but did not award a contract. One CBP official said Thursday the agency opted against installing the buoy system because it was expected to increase drownings and risks to U.S. agents conducting water rescues."
~ Nick Miroff, as cited by Big Picture and Todd Beeton
#GregAbbott #Texas #migrants #cruelty #Republicans #ProLife
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/08/texas-rio-grande-barriers-migrants/
"The idea for such a device [i.e., Greg Abbott's buoy barrier in the Rio Grande, now found to have circular saw blades embedded in it] is not new. The Trump administration considered such a scheme to deter crossings as well, but it ultimately decided against it.
For good reason:"
~ The Big Picture and Todd Beeton
#GregAbbott #Texas #migrants #cruelty #Republicans #ProLife
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/greg-abbott-lone-star-buoys
nostr:npub1ttutnqv89nk27lhcn3vapeps9fht2c7quqprjtah6vccplfqnypqxgv6yn Absolutely.The problem is not just Trump. He has unmasked millions of Americans as white supremacist authoritarians who are perfectly willing to shred democracy to install their minority rule over the rest of us.
nostr:npub1kh9ypl26r7wq442l0htndj9ulw5x736sra773yxywjzkyk4wgtaqx4974a Absolutely stinks of tyranny, of outright fascism. I would hope there will be legal challenges, but I suppose we will have to wait and see.
nostr:npub1santejagssvugn3fcgdv9u94z6w37dukpwfwucqlcqluffw7n7uqv5vglw You're right. And this is exactly why sane judicial systems have ethical norms and watchdogs to prevent that kind of bias and influence. It's a tremendous indictment of the US Supreme Court that it has nothing of the sort.
nostr:npub1p532wmn5d8e73ltq86pvrz03e2sqksduz5ywv9c9l8wlh56wcheqsmvayq Yes, it just goes on and on and on, doesn't it, with lots of pretty talk about addressing it but with continuing intransigence, secrecy, and lies from the hierarchy.
nostr:npub1vz5z96j57udk4vd0wkee8df88pwda7uy7rpnrey8ktzjgxdva8fql5yzzg Thank you. A powerful observation from Elie Wiesel, a powerful writer and thinker.
nostr:npub1fv3jpj8grlyg4ya8zqheylq40tpsjyr2m4vhclm6sj6vfusnx6aq90797u I'm sorry I took you seriously. My point is just that the problem of child sexual abuse by religious authority figures is hardly confined to any one religious group — and if we really want to address it thoroughly and effectively, it's not helpful to focus exclusively on one religious group and ignore all others.
nostr:npub160pt0jm828yqgtduyzs2y9zp30vpxkx3drjxzl98ekfhu6kq4zxqqxwp4t Perhaps so, if we're willing to dispense with anti-Catholicism, which isn't helpful here, and apply that same title to, say, the Southern Baptists, the Mormons, and many other religious communities found to have equally serious problems of abuse of minors and its cover-up. It's far from just a Catholic problem. And a lot of the anti-Catholic animus actually carries a nasty current of homophobia blaming gay priests for the problem in the Catholic church.
Jo Yurcaba reports that Louisiana is losing one of its few pediatric specialists in the area of heart transplants, Dr. Jake Kleinmahon.
He and his husband are packing up and leaving New Orleans for New York, with their children, because they do not want to live in a place that targets LGBTQ people and their families.
Bigotry comes at a very high price to states that practice and normalize it — in this case, the exodus of doctors.
#LGBTQ #Louisiana #discrimination
"The Republican Party now stands behind a man whose legal troubles currently include indictment on 40 counts for taking and hiding classified national security documents and on four counts of trying to steal an election in order to stay in power."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #crime #criminal #BigLie #insurrection
"When Biden and Trump square off in 2024, it is all but certain that Biden will bring up the fact that Trump put on the Supreme Court the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. And in Ohio and elsewhere, Biden can add that Trump is part of the party that tried to pull strongman politics in Ohio that would have taken away women’s healthcare if you lived there."
~ Daniel McGraw
#Ohio #abortion #SupremeCourt #Biden #Trump #Dobbs
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ohio-special-election-backfired-for-gop