Thursday - November 21, 2024
*Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Wisconsin Newsletter for Tuesday November 12, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Project 2025's threat to public media must be resisted
MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 11 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation is sounding the alarm on an underreported threat to democracy posed by Project 2025: its intention to defund and muzzle public broadcasting. Pages 246-248 of Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership outline its scheme to end the status of NPR and Pacifica radio stations as "noncommercial education stations," moving them from the desirable  more

White Christian evangelicals voted for Trump, while atheists, 'Nones' rejected him
MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 11 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: A shrinking demographic of white evangelical Christians elevated Donald Trump to power even as a growing demographic of atheists and the nonreligious rejected his Christian nationalist agenda. White evangelical Christians were key to Trump's victory, just as they were in 2016, with the religiously unaffiliated overwhelmingly supporting Kamala Harris. According to exit pol  more