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CHURCH & STATE | An Election Reflection: In High-Profile Races, Christian Nationalist Hopefuls Fared Poorly At The Polls

by Rob Boston • 22 December 2022

In midterm elections, the party that holds the White House normally loses seats in Congress—sometimes a lot of seats. In 1994, two years into Bill Clinton’s presidency, the Democrats lost fifty-four seats in the U.S.... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | Reversing the Roe Reversal: Be Prepared for a Long Battle for Reproductive Freedom

by Rob Boston • 14 June 2022

As I was writing these words, the Supreme Court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established a right to abortion. By the time you read this, it may have... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | Book Banners and the Growing War on the Freedom to Think

by Rob Boston • 29 March 2022

Books are in trouble in the United States. Books are being removed from public school curricula. Books are being banned. Books are being burned. The recent wave of censorship in America is accompanied by a... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | The Supreme Court Is Trashing Our Rights. What Are We Going to Do?

by Rob Boston • 13 January 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court, once seen as the last bastion of protection for our rights, is instead laying waste to them. Stacked with ultra-conservatives, the high court seems especially intent on trashing seventy-plus years of... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | To Defeat COVID, We First Must Overcome The Dangerous Lies Of Christian Nationalism

by Rob Boston • 12 October 2021

I hope you had a chance to listen to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s remarks during the recent American Humanist Association virtual conference or read them in this issue. Listening to Fauci’s words, I felt pride... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | Once They’ve Overturned Roe v. Wade, What Will Christian Nationalists Try Next?

by Rob Boston • 29 June 2021

One year from now, you might be holding the Summer 2022 issue of the Humanist and reading very bad news: Abortion is illegal in dozens of U.S. states. Unthinkable? Not at all. The US Supreme... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | The Secret Is Out: Christian Nationalists Hate Democracy

by Rob Boston • 23 March 2021

Way back in 1988, I wrote a story about Christian Reconstructionists, a hard­line faction of the religious right whose members openly espouse theocracy. The version of Christianity Reconstructionists sought to merge with the government would... Read More

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