Project Middle Ground

Topics

161 questions in 23 areas. Each one is read through the religious texts and the founding documents side by side.

Immigration & Border Security17 questionsHow the Bible, Torah, Quran, and Buddhist teachings treat the stranger, and what the Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses guarantee to every person, citizen or not.Voting Rights & Elections15 questionsWho the Constitution says may vote, who controls elections, and what religious traditions teach about equal standing in a community's decisions.Democracy & Constitutional Order11 questionsPolitical violence, pardons, emergency powers, and prosecutions of enemies, measured against the founders' design and religious teachings on rulers and law.Reproductive Rights5 questionsWhere each religious tradition actually stands on abortion, judgment, and mercy, alongside the constitutional and statutory questions still moving through the courts.Religion & Judgment4 questionsWhat the scriptures themselves say about judging others, imposing belief, and how believers are meant to treat people outside their faith.Technology & AI Ethics6 questionsAlgorithmic bias, deepfakes, surveillance, and AI governance examined through ancient teachings on truth and dignity and the Fourth Amendment.Economic Justice4 questionsWealth, debt, labor, and taxation as treated in scripture and in the founding documents' vision of the general welfare.Environment & Climate5 questionsStewardship of creation in religious teaching, and the constitutional and statutory framework for land, water, and air.Free Speech & Media10 questionsThe First Amendment's protections for speech and press, and what religious traditions teach about truth, accountability, and the dignity of dissent.Criminal Justice4 questionsThe death penalty, policing, incarceration, and torture, weighed against religious teachings on mercy and the Constitution's limits on punishment.Healthcare & Welfare6 questionsWhether care for the sick and poor is a duty, and how the founding documents' general-welfare and spending clauses bear on safety nets.LGBTQ+ Rights6 questionsHuman dignity in religious teaching, the line between civil and religious marriage, and the constitutional rights of LGBTQ+ people and parents.Education3 questionsSchool choice, teaching history, and public funding, examined through religious duties to children and the Constitution's establishment and equal-protection principles.Gun Rights & Violence4 questionsWhat the Second Amendment's text and case law actually say, and how religious teachings on self-defense and the sanctity of life apply to firearms.Separation of Church & State8 questionsThe Establishment Clause, released-time programs, classroom scripture, and what religious traditions themselves say about keeping faith and government separate.Government Transparency & Accountability7 questionsWhistleblowers, secrecy, surveillance, and self-enrichment in office, measured against religious teachings on honesty and the Constitution's emoluments and oversight provisions.Government Efficiency & Federal Spending6 questionsWorkforce cuts, privatization, and dismantling agencies, weighed against public service as a trust and Congress's power of the purse.Tariffs & International Trade5 questionsWho pays for tariffs, trade as coercion, and the constitutional question of who holds the power to tax.Executive Power & Checks and Balances11 questionsPresidents defying courts, firing independent officials, and pressuring the Fed, examined against separation of powers and religious teachings on rulers above the law.War Powers & Foreign Policy9 questionsWho decides when America goes to war, from Iran to Iraq to Afghanistan, in the Constitution's design and in the just-war traditions of the major faiths.Cultural Institutions & Public Memory9 questionsFederal control over museums, monuments, and national celebrations, and what religious and constitutional principles say about who owns public memory.Direct Democracy & Voter Will2 questionsWhat happens when legislatures override ballot measures the voters passed, in constitutional principle and religious teaching on consent and honesty.Polarizing Ideologies & Movements4 questionsChristian nationalism, America First, identity politics, and populism, held up against the actual texts each movement claims to draw from.