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<title><![CDATA[Anthea Butler - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/27450.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Anthea Butler]]></description><category domain="27450">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[There Will Never Be Another Pope Like Francis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pope-francis-dead-88-conclave-bergoglio-rcna187540</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jorge Mario Bergoglio becoming pope was a singular event, likely not to be repeated in our lifetimes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Views of Some Christian Nationalists Might Surprise You]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-black-latino-christian-nationalists-rcna140794</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute finds that a substantial percentage of Black and Hispanic Americans are Christian nationalists.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Moms for Liberty' Is a Right-Wing Threat to Our Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/moms-for-liberty-republican-politics-rcna92395</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a professor who has written for over 20 years about conservatives and women, it's clear to me that Moms for Liberty isn't just another flash-in-the-pan organization]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Rulings Portend Trouble for Public Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-rulings-bringing-religion-schools-portends-grim-future-n1296932</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These rulings portend trouble for our nation's public schools.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christian Right Is Obsessed With Killing Public Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/schools-are-under-attack-america-s-religious-right-n1295340</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conservative Christian right has been working hard to dismantle public schooling for years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black Women Are Familiar With What Jackson Endured]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ketanji-brown-jackson-s-mistreatment-republicans-was-allowed-democrats-n1293179</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats letting Republicans manhandle their Black woman nominee has angered their most loyal base.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voting Rights Setback Is a Time to Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/hunger-strikes-voting-rights-have-ended-pressure-biden-dems-cannot-n1288005</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Biden cannot energize Black religious voters, Democrats will suffer severe losses.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[First Amendment Is at Risk From the Second]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/kyle-rittenhouse-s-not-guilty-verdict-gives-protesters-new-threat-n1284416</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vigilantism, not protesting, is becoming the preferred form of dissent in America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bishops Are Punishing Biden for His Stance on Abortion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/america-s-catholic-bishops-are-trying-punish-biden-his-stance-n1272035?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The communion wars seem to be the hill this group of bishops wants its relevance to die on.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[While Trump Is Destroying America, Dems Call For Civility]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/democrats-will-lose-2018-if-they-don-t-shut-about-ncna891196</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The minority party has to start playing the long game, and playing it to win, or we're all going to suffer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cheap Prosperity Gospel of Trump and Osteen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/trump-osteen-harvey-church.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before it began to rain in Houston last week, the spectacularly wealthy pastor Joel Osteen could have opened up his megachurch to serve as a logistics center. He could have announced that evacuees were welcome to take shelter there when Hurricane Harvey landed. Instead he wrote tweets...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Professor Watchlist' Aims to Undermine Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/02/us-universities-professor-watchlist-free-speech</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pope Francis Is Right. Families Need More 'Joy of Love']]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/11/pope-francis-apostolic-church-modern-family-life-joy-of-love</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Pope Francis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), an apostolic exhortation on catholic family life, he does not make earth-shattering doctrinal changes with regards to divorced Catholics, same-sex married Catholics or the church'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s stance on homosexuality. The document is the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Bashed Me for Speaking Out]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/29/george-zimmerman-conservative-backlash</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Anthea Butler</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hours after the George Zimmerman verdict, I found myself at my computer, calling to mind a text I had first read in seminary. The text, Is God a White Racist, By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book...]]></description>
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