Tag: religious right
Trump claims he’ll cure AIDS if he’s reelected to another term
At last night’s rally in Cincinnati, President Trump claimed that if he is reelected, he will cure AIDS and childhood cancer “very shortly.”
His gullible supporters cheered after Trump told them, “The things we’re doing in our country today, there’s never been anything like it. We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America, and curing childhood cancer very shortly.”
In reality, Trump has slashed funding for HIV and AIDS research and, in some cases, stopped ongoing research on a...
The religious right has found its own anti-LGBTQ soccer player to counter Megan Rapinoe
While most of the country has been celebrating the U.S. Women Soccer team’s World Cup victory, the right-wing has been acting like a bunch of sore losers because of the number of out and outspoken lesbians on the U.S. team.
President Trump has complained bitterly about star Megan Rapinoe who said she’d refuse to step foot in the White House. Compounding her offense in the eyes of the right: Rapinoe’s having taking a knee during the national anthem as a...
The right wing outside the U.S. wants gay support. Why is the U.S. different?
No one ever accused Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being a liberal. After all, this is the man who has assiduously courted President Trump, going so far as to name a (probably imaginary) development in Israeli-occupied territory “Trump Heights.”
But there’s one big difference between the two: When it came time for Netanyahu to appoint a new Minister of Justice, he turned to Amir Ohana, a political ally with impeccably conservative credentials. Ohana is also gay.
Israel’s Minister of Justice,...
The extreme fringe of the religious right is gaining political ground
The religious right is hardly a monolith, although it’s easy (and simpler) to think of it that way. As a group, it is composed primarily of conservative evangelicals. But even within that group, there are significant and subtle differences.
Perhaps the biggest difference is around something called Dominionism. Dominionism has multiple names but a single goal: establishing a kind of Christian version of Sharia law.
“The people who belong to this movement go by different names — Reconstructionists, Theonomists, Dominionists —...
Religious right’s Day of Prayer for Trump will embolden him to do more un-Christian...
In Trump they trust.
More than 250 religious right leaders are calling on their followers to make tomorrow, June 2, a “Special Day of Prayer” dedicated to asking God to “protect, strengthen, embolden and direct” the president.
The crusade is being led by Franklin Graham, the multi-millionaire preacher and politico who used to wish aloud that the U.S. were more like Putin’s Russia. Apparently in Trump, his wish has been fulfilled.
“President Trump’s enemies continue to try everything to destroy him, his...
