This is not true. She filed the lawsuit before she made any wedding websites. She was not taken to court. She filed the lawsuit to get exempted from complying with a non discrimination law. But the religious right loves to have the image of the Christian proprietor being hauled into court for her beliefs. But it’s simply not true.

Read more about the lawyers representing the web designer in 303 Creative:

thenation.com/article/archiv…

I finally read this piece today and it is so misinformed on facts, law, reality, history that I am shocked that it ran, even as "opinion."

https://twitter.com/meloneer2003/status/1599425889502056449

To wit: the opening anecdote suggests that her church or her kids' Christian school might lose their tax exempt status because of their stance opposing marriage equality. 2/x

I’d been on an airplane.

I just read the piece. I have some thoughts, which I will collect. So. I know Rob, and he has been a source on a few stories I’ve written.

I understand how shocking this particular story — along with a couple of others recently, in which he describes his efforts to shape how SCOTUS justices thought about and wrote decisions. 1/x

I just read the New York Times piece raising doubts about gender-affirming care (although the article doesn't call it that). This graf shows just how unaware the writers and editors are of the political/religious movement behind the effort to deny trans people their rights: (Here's the link to the full piece: nytimes.com/2022/11/14/hea…)

I read NYT story this morning and tried (unsuccessfully) to dissect the sourcing. This is illuminating (and infuriating that NYT elides or obscures this)

Two Witnesses the DoJ Wants to See Cooperating Share One Thing. And That’s a Problem., by @nycjayjay open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/… (h/t @emptywheel )

I haven’t even had a chance to listen to this yet, but I know these two brilliant women and their work and I can guarantee you it will be worth your time.

https://twitter.com/dianabutlerbass/status/1583825927389483008

Listening now. Thank you again @dianabutlerbass and @julieingersoll. Going to live-tweet some thoughts while I listen.

First up is a sociology-religious studies throwdown. Give it a listen, @CharlesMcCrary.

Meanwhile, I'll thread pieces -- both long-form and shorter and opinion pieces -- I've done in the last six months or so: Andrew Hartzler Wasn’t Allowed To Be Gay on Campus. So He’s Suing. politi.co/39FDaLt via @politico @typeinvestigate

What Jeff is talking about here is big commitment in terms of both money but also to the craft and promotion of long-form investigative journalism.

https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/1574864465555853314

We complained in Jeff's thread about how hard it's been (especially pre-insurrection) to get support for in-depth, long-form investigative journalism about Christian nationalism/the Christian Right, etc. (see my backs and forths here w/ @JeffSharlet)

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I have a new investigative piece out today, about a Christian nationalist boot camp that trains state legislators to enact "God-fearing" laws. One of its most celebrated alumna is behind one of the harshest anti-trans laws in the country. 1/x

insider.com/christian-nati… The Arkansas SAFE (Save Adolescents from Experimentation) Act, passed in 2021, is currently under preliminary federal court injunction, a constitutional challenge to it will go to trial in October. 2/x

The title of Lindsey Graham's abortion ban -- the "Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act" -- is a messaging mishmash, even as the overall message (ban all abortions) is evident from the circumstances. On the one hand, the term "late-term abortion," as opposed to the right-wing preferred "partial birth abortion," is an attempt to mainstream it. But 15 weeks isn't "late term" in any scenario.

Hobby Lobby run amok

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1567523876451614720

You really must read this background on this case:

sports.yahoo.com/texas-prep-cas…

This is a private Christian school, and there’s a very strong argument that this is the result not of DeSantis lead, but of the ever expanding religious exemptions to LGBTQ rights (aka a license to discriminate) carved out by SCOTUS and red state legislatures.

https://twitter.com/taniel/status/1561473272277000193

Even Congress and fed govt allow such exemptions. Christian colleges and universities are allowed to expel LGBTQ students even though it is illegal under Title IX, as I reported here:

politico.com/news/magazine/…

Important segment on @WagnerTonight right now on Ron deSantis assault on public education in Florida. .@WagnerTonight now interview the true expert, @kathrynajoyce, on the political influence behind deSantis's agenda. Read her work @salon:

salon.com/2022/03/15/how…

"the F.B.I. has been arguably the most culturally conservative and traditionally white Christian institution in the entire U.S. government."

Read @vermontgmg on Trump attacking the FBI:

nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opi…

Must read from @BrianKaylor @beauunderwood on how the Christofascist roadshow with Flynn, pillow guy, Stone, and others threatened NYAG Letitia James and called for civil war

Taking Off the Armor of God publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/taking-off-t… Also, as always, stay for the context. The Reawaken America tour has invoked Ephesians 6. But these two pastors tell us what it really means:

President of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association "expressed alarm at GOP warnings to Americans that federal agents are 'coming for you.' Politicians’ rhetoric could lead to more violence...online messages have advocated killing FBI agents."
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/… "'The rank and file officers on the street and agents, they are career employees that … cherish the Constitution like the average American,' he said. 'So for them to be attacked by these individuals that believe something else... to me it’s shameful and disgusting.'"

There's something odd about this piece. It's the source(s).

https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1557394378037018624

Piece says sources are "two senior government officials" who "have direct knowledge of the FBI's deliberations."

A short thread on what's happening to the Maryland GOP. 1/x

Last week, I wrote about the extremist candidates chosen by GOP primary voters to be their nominees for governor (Dan Cox) and attorney general (Michael Peroutka). The focus of my piece was how the big stolen election lie and white Christian nationalism have coalesced in these extremist candidates. For @newrepublic: 2/x

newrepublic.com/article/167138…

More than 80 religious right leaders call on Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans to oppose the Respect for Marriage Act, claiming (not surprisingly) that it is an attack on religious freedom.

…medialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/McConnel… This has long been their claim about marriage equality-that LGBTQ equality spells suppression of religious freedom for conservative Christians. (Spoiler alert: it does not. Religious freedom for conservative Christians is being methodically expanded by the current Supreme Court).

Republican Jewish Coalition: "We strongly urge Doug Mastriano to end his association with Gab, a social network rightly seen by Jewish Americans as a cesspool of bigotry and antisemitism."

inquirer.com/politics/elect… We need to talk more about Mastriano's (and other Republicans') embrace of Gab's open anti-semitism twinned with their use of shofars at Christian nationalist events.