These self-appointed apostles and prophets claim god wants them to take over schools, government, the courts, public policy…. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Christian nationalists dream of taking over America. This movement is actually doing it.

The New Apostolic Reformation is "the greatest threat to US democracy you've never heard of."

Vote. azmirror.com/2024/10/01/2...

200+ women faced criminal charges over pregnancy in year after Dobbs, report finds

In the year after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled the constitutional right to abortion, more than 200 pregnant women faced criminal charges.

Who needs free money when the "grace of Christ" is free? Not the PUSD school district in #Arizonaopen.substack.com/pub/seculara...

The "Grace of Christ" is free, so who needs free money?

And other dumb stuff said in PUSD

More about this all-too-common problem: secularaz.org/the-startlin...

The Startling Truth About Religious Refusals: What Your Healthcare Providers Aren’t Telling You - Secular Coalition for Arizona

The intersection of law, medicine and so-called “morality” in the U.S. healthcare system poses a serious threat to patients’ access to healthcare and information. That’s the overarching message sent b...

open.substack.com/pub/friendly... Good! Religious refusals of care cause great harm.

Colorado will now make Catholic hospitals say what services they won't provide

A new law, in effect as of today, requires all health care facilities to publicly say what procedures they won't offer for non-medical reasons

Interview with "Exvangelical" host Blake Chastain about his new book exploring why people leave evangelical churches. It's more about identity and politics than theology. But that's because evangelicalism itself is more about politics than theology. www.salon.com/2024/09/30/i...

"We can tell them why their beliefs are harmful": An exvangelical on his former faith

In "Exvangelical and Beyond," Blake Chastain offers hard truths about why people leave evangelicalism

Trump camp gives thumbs up to menstrual surveillance programs. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

Trump Camp Says State Menstrual Surveillance Programs are A-OK

One of the most toxic and politically explosive parts of the current...

We discussed AZ judicial retention elections in detail with Vic’s Picks last week! m.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbO...

Speaker Johnson is ”a horrible example of what conservative Christianity has become during the Trump era. There’s no hint of compassion. God’s only purpose is to serve as a shield to protect Johnson’s colleagues when they do something despicable.” open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

How Mike Johnson is using faith to shield his racist colleague from accountability

The Republican Speaker defended Rep. Clay Higgins' despicable, racist comments by invoking his faith

On Election Day, remember who's trying to take away your reproductive choices. secularaz.org/long-ballot/