Right-wing, white, “Christians” have a long history of using the Bible to assert their right to discriminate against others. Case in point, the Southern Baptists split off from the Baptists in 1845 over whether slaveowners could be missionaries. Southern Baptist leaders used the Bible to justify slavery, and later to justify segregation.

Louise Melling, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU writes a compelling column questioning how today’s right-wing, white, “Christians” are attempting to use the First Amendment as license to discriminate against:

The LGBTQ+ community in numerous ways.

Women’s and other’s rights to contraception and abortion.

Pregnant, unmarried female employees.

People with opioid use disorder who use medication-assisted treatment.

Jewish, Catholic, and same-sex couples who want to adopt or foster children.

Dying people who want to consider “end of life options.” 

Emboldened by the U.S. Supreme Court, today’s religious right is pressing in courts nationwide for what amounts to a sweeping right to discriminate. [...] For the past decade, the American Civil Liberties Union has tracked cases invoking a religious right to discriminate, and we’ve never been more alarmed. The sheer number of these cases has exploded. In 2012, the first ACLU report documenting them came in at seven single-spaced pages. The most recent report runs close to 30.

The scope of these claims has also mushroomed. [...] These efforts are simply incompatible with a pluralistic constitutional democracy that values both equality and religious freedom. Religious freedom, after all, doesn’t mean a right to hurt others.

[...] In a recent speech, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., quoting scripture, implored “champions of religious liberty” to “go out as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves” to challenge the “growing hostility to religion” in America. The justice, who penned the Hobby Lobby opinion, now has a solid majority hungry to give these “champions” whatever they want. [...] We have been here before. In the mid-1960s, a white supremacist who refused to serve Black people at his South Carolina barbecue restaurants argued that he was entitled to a religious exemption from the newly enacted Civil Rights Act. His lawyers told a trial court that the owner believed “as a matter of faith that racial intermixing or any contribution thereto contravenes the will of God,” and therefore enforcing the Civil Rights Act against him “constitute[d] State interference with the free practice of his religion.” The Supreme Court dismissed the argument as “patently frivolous.”

Champions of this “patently frivolous” claim are back before a remade Supreme Court. Half a century ago, the court snuffed out the flame on claims that religious freedom gave institutions the right to violate anti-discrimination laws. This time, it is lighting the match.

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The guilty verdict for the Jews has already been decided, let the trial begin.

The prosecution will deliver their evidence to the court of public opinion.

The Jews killed Jesus, says the Christian. See, it says here in our holy book, written by people looking to separate themselves from the Jews and grow closer to the Romans. Pilate washes his hands and the Jews take responsibility for killing him.

The Jews are responsible for genociding the White Race, says the White Nationalist. See here, it says so in Mein Kampf and other writings by people who hate the Jews. They plan on wiping us out and replacing White people.

The Jews are responsible for genociding the Palestinians, says the Antizionist. See here, it says so in news published by Hamas, who are innocent freedom fighters who just want to kill all of the Jews everywhere in the world, as is their right. They plan on wiping all of the Palestinians out, which is why they've killed only a tiny fraction in months of intense fighting.

The jury convenes and returns the verdict, which was already decided upon.

The Jews may not speak in their own defense, of course. Who would be interested in hearing the words of the guilty?

Click on the Source Watch link above and look at the mind numbing list of far right organizations that the Searle Freedom Trust has funded with hundreds of millions in dark money donations. This is just a fraction of the vast right-wing conspiracy that the right-wing Republicans once denied. Right-wing oligarchs have spent billions since the 1960’s to take away your vote, persecute marginalized people, let businesses operate without restrictions, and impose a white Christo-Fascist authoritarian government on us.

This is real. Look at those organizations and how they have worked to replace democracy with corporate/oligarch fascism.

Boycott oligarch companies, vote Democratic, become an activist, resist however you can before Trump can impose Project 2025 on us.

Project 25 is no joke.

Read it for yourself here:

There is not one Republican that I know that would want to live under these constraints and constrictions. This is extreme and frightening.

Hey people of tumblr I have an idea of a way to help support Gaza. This one's especially for people living in Christian areas with a lot of mainstream acceptance of israel. It's only a few days until Christmas and as for all Gazans, things are incredibly desperate for the small population of Christian Gazans. In particular here are some articles talking about fears all Christians in Gaza will be dead soon.

So how about we call up our local churches and ask what they're doing to help the people of Palestine?

The articles I've linked come from a variety of backgrounds. Some predate oct 7th. All focus on the plight of Christians in Palestine. Take your pick for what source you think will speak to your audience.

I want you to find a church that is ignoring the genocide or even praying for israel and then point out it's not just people being murdered. It's their people being murdered. Contact your local church like "Hey I'm Name, I'm not really a member of any church these days but it's Christmas and I really want to do something to help people in Palestine. I was wondering if you have something planned over Christmas? Maybe a prayer meeting or a protest or something idk 🥺" Then if you recieve any pushback switch to "oh but I'm just sooooo worried about our fellow Christians unable to celebrate Christmas".

It's a great place to ease people into caring about genocide who normally wouldn't. And if you convince a priest they might tell their whole congregation about how this christmas they have to show up for persecuted christians in jesus' birthplace. Worth a try?

i ended up having a like. 30 minute conversation with some of those "freedom convoy" people. was at the bus stop. they were wearing trump hats. i ended up roped into the conversation because i was so taken aback at seeing one in public i was just. staring at it. ive never felt more depressed about someone elses life and beliefs than when i talked to them.

god that fucking ridiculous ass post from the person who "works in family law" or some shit where they're like "people who don't want to get married are soooooo stupid. the ONLY reason anyone would EVER choose not to get married is because its too permanent for their tiny brains to handle. don't you know buying a house and having kids are permanent? you childish idiots obviously know NOTHING about the law" is so fucking chock full of straightforward right wing evangelical rhetoric that it's genuinely shocking to me to see it on Tumblr as opposed to the New York times op ed section right next to an article about how trans people are stealing precious little girls

Todd Snider, "Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males"

Farm Aid, Raleigh, NC (2014)

Conservative Christian Right wing Republican Straight, white, American males Gay-bashing, black-fearing War-fighting, tree-killing Regional leaders of sales Shirt-tuckin', frat-housin', keg-tappin', back slappin' Haters of hippies like me Tree-huggin', peace-lovin' Pot-smokin', porn-watchin' Lazy-ass hippies like me

Tree-huggin', peace-lovin' Pro-choicin', gay-weddin' Widespread Panic-diggin' hippies like me Skin color-blinded Conspiracy-minded Protestors of corporate greed Skin color-blinded Conspiracy-minded 'Til all end up locked up in jail By conservative Christian Right wing Republican Straight, white, American males

Diamonds and dogs, boys and girls Living together in two separate worlds Following leaders up mountains of shame Looking at each other to blame I know me and my burnout buddies always like to blame

Conservative Christian Right wing Republican Straight, white, American males Soul-savin', flag-wavin' Rush-lovin', land-pavin' Personal friends to the Quayles Quite diligently Workin' so hard to keep The free reins of this democracy From tree-huggin', peace-lovin' Pot-smokin', porn-watchin' Lazy-ass hippies like me

Tree-huggin', peace-lovin' Barefootin', folk-singin' Lazy-old hippies like me

This is just another version of the whitewashed history the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the KKK promoted in the early 20th century. it is frightening that we are seeing elements of this in curriculum in states like Florida.

American Birthright is just one of numerous recent right-wing efforts to overhaul public K-12 curricula to align with the dictates of current conservative ideology. [...] Christopher Martell, a social studies education professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.... said he was particularly concerned about "a clear undertone" in American Birthright suggesting "that the U.S. is a Christian nation founded on Christian values and beliefs," exemplified by passages calling for curricula to emphasize "the role of faith in sustaining and extending liberty" and describing America's founding principles as "rooted in Christian thought." [...] While "American Birthright" presents Western civilization as a rich intellectual legacy that includes the creation of science and democracy, the non-European world is largely covered as the study of "migrations, clashes, massacres [and] conquests" undertaken by "small-scale tribes, nomadic societies, and villages that preceded civilization, whose warlike nature must be understood in order to comprehend the character and the magnitude of the civilizing process."

"To me, that is like trying to embed white supremacy in the standards without saying, 'This is the white supremacy curriculum,'" said Martell. "It sends a message that Western society is civilization, and the rest of the world is not." [...] "There's a long game with what they're doing here. There was a long game to overturn Roe v. Wade, and I think they're doing that with education as well," said Martell. "Twenty or 30 years ago, I couldn't have imagined a neoconservative, Christian-influenced civics workshop for teachers being pushed by the state." Now, he said, in Florida and beyond, that's here. [emphasis added]

This is why we say punch a nazi. Because they want to murder us.

“I’m deeply concerned that the embrace of Christian nationalism by nearly two-thirds of white evangelicals and a majority of the Republican Party will spawn more theological monstrosities justifying anti-democratic schemes to achieve this end.”

can somebody please nuke spain before its ruled by literal nazis? because i don't like how things are heading out...