US EditionThe real winners of the 2025 Kansas legislative session? Christian nationalists.
- In 2025, the Kansas Legislature had significant wins, with every Republican legislator supporting bills despite warnings from various groups about potential harm to children and mental health.
- Christian nationalists gained significant legislative victories in Kansas, aligning with various organizations in supporting anti-abortion bills and a ban on gender-affirming care.
- Legislators promoted several anti-abortion bills, claiming they were protecting religious freedom, yet offered no examples of religious households denied foster placements.
- Physical altercations occurred as legislators publicly displayed their religious beliefs, with participation in loud prayers at the Statehouse.
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Katherine Stewart, American journalist: "Christian nationalism is both an ideology, a machine and a political movement"
Atheist billionaires, reactionary theologians, powerful evangelicals, pronatalists, plotters... For these Christian nationalists who joined the MAGA movement, a point of biblical values or love of the neighbor to be defended, recalls the American journalist who infiltrated the circles that brought Donald Trump to power.
Right-wing Christians are the real winners in Kansas
As the advocacy director for Mainstream Coalition, I had a front row seat to the harm caused to vulnerable Kansans by our elected officials this year. I sat beside deeply religious and secular Kansans as we advocated passionately for our government to respect our rights, protect our children, and care for our neighbors. I shared their grief as we lost. Repeatedly. More than 30 years ago, Kansas faith leaders created Mainstream Coalition to pro…
The real winners of the 2025 Kansas legislative session? Christian nationalists.
The Ad Astra statue stands on April 8, 2025, atop the Statehouse dome. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)As the advocacy director for Mainstream Coalition, I had a front row seat to the harm caused to vulnerable Kansans by our elected officials this year. I sat beside deeply religious and secular Kansans as we advocated passionately for our government to respect our rights, protect our children, and care for our neighbors. I shared their grief as …
The Fight for Civil Liberties Does NOT End With Legislative Session
While the 2025 Kansas Legislative Session has officially come to an end, we know that the fight to protect civil liberties in Kansas is not over. President Trump has repeatedly pledged to pursue an agenda of extreme attacks on our constitutional rights, targeting democracy, immigrants, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ equality, and anyone he perceived as a political opponent — and now his administration is carrying that agenda out. Many of us are f…
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