Sun 10/6 @ 9AM
Once upon a time, just a few months ago, the Republican Party thought that the Heritage Foundation’s radical Project 2025, created to basically act as their party platform and provide a policy roadmap for the policy-disinterested Trump should he be reelected, could fly under the radar of voters. To their alarm, aggressive coverage by Democrats has brought it to wider attention — and people hate it.
Rooted in so-called “Christian Nationalism,” or “dominionism,” it would impose a set of radical, anti-American and unconstitutional rules and restrictions on the vast majority of American who don’t agree with them on everything from stripping women of all their rights to banning talk of climate change to abolishing unions, to denying the very existence of LGBTQ+ people to gutting labor unions and overtime pay. Trump’s attempts to distance himself from it are laughable: it was written primarily by officials from his first administration who would likely serve in his second to carry it out.
This week’s forum at the Unitarian Universal Congregation of Cleveland — a denomination so devoted to religious freedom it would likely be in the immediate line of fire of Project 2025 — is devoted to “The Thread of Christian Nationalism.” An actual Christian, Cleveland’s legendary Reverend Marvin McMickle, pastor emeritus of Antioch Baptist Church, will be speaking about who these “dominionists” are, what actually believe, and what their vision for our country is if they were to take charge.
The forum is free and open to all and unlike the dominionists, Unitarian-Universalists push no religious viewpoint on anyone. The forum will also be available via Zoom.