<![CDATA[Still More to Say: Fact Checks]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/s/fact-checkshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KOMj!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F260f58fb-e1d4-4353-af34-4ea44878707a_1028x1028.pngStill More to Say: Fact Checkshttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/s/fact-checksSubstackFri, 07 Aug 2026 00:31:46 GMT<![CDATA[Fact check: Are U.S. military leaders telling troops that Iran war is tied to Second Coming?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-are-us-military-leadershttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-are-us-military-leadersMon, 09 Mar 2026 17:33:27 GMT
A fighter plane lands on the deck of an aircraft carrier
A Super Hornet aircraft lands on the flight deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford earlier this month in the Mediterranean Sea during a maneuver for Operation Epic Fury. U.S. Navy photo.

There’s no question that a minority of evangelical Christians, often on the political and/or theological fringe, are convinced that the undeclared war underway involving the Uni…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Do new rules expand federal employees’ religious rights in workplace?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-do-new-rules-expand-federalhttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-do-new-rules-expand-federalTue, 29 Jul 2025 18:44:12 GMT
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Photo by Arlington Research; licensed by Unsplash.

Read the first two paragraphs of a Fox News article from yesterday, and you’d be likely to think that the U.S. government was turning a deliberately godless work environment for its employees into a bastion of religious freedom:

FIRST ON FOX: Federal agencies are now required to protect religious expressi…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Did Biden team weaponize government against Christians?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-biden-team-weaponizehttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-biden-team-weaponizeMon, 10 Feb 2025 15:24:01 GMT
Donald Trump is part of a panel at a religious-freedom event.
President Donald Trump (second from left) speaks on religious freedom at the United Nations in 2019. U.S. State Department photo.

President Donald Trump’s much-publicized executive order last week to end “anti-Christian weaponization of government” is based on the premise that the Joe Biden administration targeted Christians for prosecution and helped cr…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Vance says Christian teaching backs ‘America First’ view. Is he correct?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-vance-says-christian-teachinghttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-vance-says-christian-teachingSun, 02 Feb 2025 04:44:13 GMT
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Screenshot of Vice President JD Vance in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity.

Vice President JD Vance found himself in a storm of both praise and criticism this week when in a Fox News interview he accused the “far left” of inverting Christian teaching in their criticism of the Donald Trump administration’s policies on immigration and foreign affairs.

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Did Gretchen Whitmer intentionally mock the Eucharist?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-gretchen-whitmer-intentionallyhttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-gretchen-whitmer-intentionallyTue, 15 Oct 2024 17:55:11 GMT
Woman looking to left at corn chip being held by someone
Liz Plank in a screenshot from an Instagram @feministabulous video. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is off-screen to the left, holding a Doritos corn chip.

Michigan Gov. Whitmer found herself in a firestorm of controversy over this past weekend after she appeared in a very brief Instagram video that detractors claimed was intended to ridicule the Eucharis…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Did imam tell Columbia students to ‘take out’ a Jewish professor?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-imam-tell-columbiahttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-imam-tell-columbiaThu, 29 Aug 2024 18:23:00 GMT
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Screenshot of video clip featuring Islamic activist Tom Facchine. The clip was posted by Shai Davidai, a professor.

Headlines and articles in various far-right and pro-Zionist online publications are claiming that an imam well-known in pro-Palestinian circles spoke at Columbia University recently and called on students to “take out” a Jewish professor th…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Did God keep bullets from killing Donald Trump?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-god-keep-bullets-fromhttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-god-keep-bullets-fromSun, 21 Jul 2024 04:41:07 GMT
Drawing of Donald Trump in front of a USA flag.
Illustration by BarBus; licensed by Pixabay.

One week after the bullets of a would-be assassin failed to even slow down Donald Trump, it has become almost an article of faith among his evangelical Christian supporters that his survival was literally a gift from God. Evangelical leaders have seen the fact that a bullet came within an inch of his head whil…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Would bill outlaw Christian teaching, as Gaetz and Greene claim?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-would-bill-outlaw-christianhttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-would-bill-outlaw-christianSun, 05 May 2024 03:55:28 GMT
Engraving from the book “The Life of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” by John Fleetwood and John W. Barber (1830) shows Roman soldiers casting lots and torturing Jesus. Image from Wikimedia Commons.

In the wake of disruptive and sometimes violent protests over Israeli military actions in Gaza, the U.S. House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed the bipart…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Was child taken from home due to Catholic parents’ beliefs about trans identity?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-was-child-taken-from-homehttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-was-child-taken-from-homeThu, 21 Mar 2024 18:01:56 GMT
Colored blocks spelling out the word transgender
Photo by Alexander Grey; licensed by Unsplash.

The Supreme Court this week, without comment, refused to take the case of Indiana parents who were fighting a decision by the Indiana Department of Child Services to remove their trans daughter from their custody.

The legal dispute has been framed by conservative media as one involving parental rights and rel…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Did an Alabama court make its controversial IVF ruling based on the Bible?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-an-alabama-court-makehttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-an-alabama-court-makeWed, 21 Feb 2024 18:02:31 GMT
IVF procedure in which an egg receives an injection of sperm
Image of IVF process courtesy DrKontogiannIVF; licensed by Unsplash.

An Alabama Supreme Court decision looks like it has opened a new front in the battle over reproductive freedom and prenatal life. In a decision involving in vitro fertilization, the court ruled Friday that a frozen embryo is a child under a state law on civil procedures, raising questio…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Did a state lawmaker say non-Christians are unfit for public office?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-a-state-lawmaker-sayhttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-a-state-lawmaker-sayWed, 31 Jan 2024 19:42:35 GMT
Screenshot of Oregon legislator
Screenshot from the ”Save the Nation” show produced by the National Association of Christian Lawmakers.

Claim: News media this week began publishing an account of a Jan. 17 interview given by Oregon state Rep. E. Werner Reschke. Many of the media used the headline provided by the Associated Press, “Oregon lawmaker suggests non-Christians are unfit for el…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Is a European politician being persecuted for tweeting from the Bible?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-is-a-european-politicianhttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-is-a-european-politicianMon, 15 Jan 2024 23:20:22 GMT
Woman holding a Bible faqces a group of TV journalists holding cameras and microphones.
Päivi Räsänen, a member of Finland’s Parlliament, faces a group of journalists. Photo courtesy ADF International.

U.S. right-wing Christian media thrive on stories about alleged persecution of Christians or anyone who promotes “family values,” and an abundance of articles about Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish Parliament, is a case in point. Articl…

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]]><![CDATA[Was Hamas predicted in the Bible?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/was-hamas-predicted-in-the-biblehttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/was-hamas-predicted-in-the-bibleThu, 19 Oct 2023 18:26:28 GMT
Massive demonstration with people waving green Hamas flags
Hamas celebrates is 25th anniversary in Gaza in 2012. Photo available under CC BY 4.0 license.

It has been common for decades within a small faction of American evangelicalism to connect current events in the Mideast to Biblical writings. Violence occurring in recent days has been no exception.

Claim: Within a few hours after the Palestinian terror organi…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Did Porsche remove a statue of Jesus from one of its ads?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-porsche-remove-a-statuehttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-porsche-remove-a-statueWed, 09 Aug 2023 17:52:24 GMT
Scene of bridge in Lisbon, Portugage, as a statue of Jesus in the background
This video grab from a revised Porsche ad shows the Santuário de Cristo Rei, a statue of Jesus overlooking Lisbon, Portugal.

A controversy involving the use (or, to be precise, non-use) of a Christian symbol in a video ad has been quickly resolved.

Claim: Social media and U.S. right-wing media, particularly those with a Christian readership, were abuzz re…

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]]><![CDATA[Fact check: Did the Supreme Court reprimand Biden for standing against religious freedom?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-the-supreme-courthttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/fact-check-did-the-supreme-courtSat, 22 Jul 2023 20:18:24 GMT
Symbols of a crescent, star and cross on a a wall.
Photo by Noah Holm; licensed by Unsplash.

Has the Supreme Court reprimanded the Biden administration for its approach to religious liberty? You’d certainly think so if all you knew came from reading the headline on an article former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote for a conservative legal advocacy group.

The blatant mischaracterization of the co…

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]]><![CDATA[Did an Arizona school board say Christians shouldn’t be teaching in its schools?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/did-an-arizona-school-board-say-christianshttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/did-an-arizona-school-board-say-christiansSun, 05 Mar 2023 03:46:09 GMT
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The Washington Elementary School District in Glendale, Ariz., has been welcoming students from Arizona Christian University to observe classes and student-teach as part of the university’s teacher training program. But that will come to an end at the close of the current school year thanks to action taken …

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]]><![CDATA[Did the United Kingdom ban an ad poster for being offensive to Christians?]]>https://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/did-the-united-kingdom-ban-an-adhttps://www.stillmoretosay.com/p/did-the-united-kingdom-ban-an-adFri, 13 Jan 2023 18:49:07 GMT
Demi Lovato performance
Demi Lovato performing in 2012. Publicity photo released under CC BY 2.0 license.

One surefire way to get free publicity for your artistic endeavors is to have your work banned somewhere, and that appeared to happen this week as headlines in both traditional and tabloid news media said that a Demi Lovato advertising poster had been banned in the United K…

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