"In a recent New York Times/Sienna Research Institute poll, a majority of Americans polled said they disapproved of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is handling its job.
But 36 percent do still approve. Who are these people?"
~ Sarah Stankorb
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https://sarahstankorb.substack.com/p/one-antidote-to-christian-nationalist
"A recent report from PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) may be instructive. The poll was done between November 21 and December 8—before the most recent violent attacks by ICE. Then, the majority of Americans opposed political violence even in the name of their own political position. But I think the outliers were the real story: white Christians, white evangelicals, and Christian nationalists."
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"When asked, white evangelical Protestants were the only religious group with a majority who agreed with stripping U.S. citizens of their citizenship and deporting them if they were determined to be a threat to the country. ...
For too long, the Christian Right has acted as if it speaks for all Christians in America."
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"And while it has gained power and pulled the most conservative believers into religious extremism, there remain believers in a tradition that has long motivated other sorts of Christians to fight for social justice.
Hundreds of leaders from a range of faiths—Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Indigenous practitioners—" (continued in /5)
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"have poured into Minneapolis to train, preparing too bring skills of the resistance back to their communities if and when ICE is deployed back home.
Together, they represent the path to a pluralistic nation that organizes collectively across constituencies."
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"They remind us freedom and liberty are vital, whether we happen to believe those rights are ordained by God or pragmatically important because human freedom under just law creates better societies."
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