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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…nces against “deep state” officials and White House staff who thwarted his plans to stay in power after his 2020 defeat, has made it clear that his second term would be far more dangerous to American democracy than his first. The Public Eye, Fall 2023/Winter 2024 (Issue 108) “Democracy Under Attack—And How We Fight Back,” examines antidemocratic forces on the Right and pro-democracy efforts to counter them. Inform your resistance: Subscribe now! T…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…itiative Clonaid, Clitoraid has been mired in controversy since it began. Opponents of Clitoraid claim the project exploits the issue of female circumcision to gain financial contributions and converts and that it frames the issue in terms of sexual pleasure rather than the health and dignity of women. Some have called Clitoraid a form of neo-colonialism. In response, Raelians claim this is a case of religious discrimination, pointing to the fact…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…American flags. The stars of this Stars and Stripes, however, have been replaced with the Ten Commandments. A young woman gently strums a guitar. The dozen or so people in the room are alternately rapt, singing, and speaking in tongues; their concentration unbroken by a persistently ringing cell phone left in a purse at the back of the room. One by one, the speakers lower themselves into a chair facing Bethlehem (where Bourland also runs a house…

Hookers for Jesus: Sex and Salvation on the Strip

By Nicole Greenfield

Annie Lobért knows that sex sells. The 16 years she spent as a stripper, prostitute, and high-class escort, most recently on the Las Vegas Strip, taught her that. And although she’s been out of the game for years, has since accepted Christ and gotten married (to Oz Fox, lead guitarist for the Christian metal band Stryper), Lobért appreciates the allure of her former lifestyle. Calling herself a hooker for Jesus, she has set out to “hook, help, an…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ers who attend religious services once or twice a month, moving from 49% support for Kerry in 2004 to 60% support for Obama in 2008. More Americans think Obama is friendly to religion than McCain. 49% of Americans say Obama is friendly to religion, while 45% say McCain is friendly to religion. More than seven-in-ten (71%) say it is important for public officials to be comfortable talking about religious values. Young first-time voters are heavily…

“Japan Gave Us Pokemon, God Gave Them an Earthquake”

By Anthea Butler

The devastating 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan is an opportunity to see catastrophe theology in action. Rather than wait for Pat Robertson-style pronouncements that the earthquake is about evil, homosexuality, or Buddha, I went to Twitter and the internet to see what people are saying about God and the earthquake. The bulk of the tweets are about God helping the Japanese, and prayer for the Japanese, but a number of the tweets are weighing in abou…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…aran Africa will share their perspectives on media freedom challenges and opportunities in the region. Catholic Church: Conservative Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book Pope Francis, interviewed for a book by French sociologist Dominque Wolton, suggested that he would be OK with civil unions for same-sex couples: Pope Francis said, “Marriage between people of the same sex? “Marriage” is a historical word… Always in humanity, and not only…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…onference for a Pastoral Care with Homosexual and Transsexual People, took place in Rome today, October 3, in advance of the upcoming bishops’ synod on the family. America Magazine, a Catholic journal published by the Jesuit Order, published “Towards Global Inclusion of LGBT People Within Catholic Communities,” remarks made by James Alison at the conference. Alison recounts the biblical story of Peter visiting the house of Cornelius, a Roman Centu…

Did Jesus Help Ghanaian Women with Birth Control?

By Allie Carter

…nd that female Christian converts were three times as likely to use family planning as women who retained their traditional African faith, and had significantly smaller families. The churches certainly didn’t promote family planning. But, despite their defense of patriarchal family values, many churches were giving women a voice denied them by their own culture. Exciting, right? Especially given that, according to UNICEF, in the developing world “…

Controversial “Bishop of the Poor” Dies at 86

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…andowners in Chiapas and throughout the country, but also led to strained relations with the Vatican. He was accused of having leftist political tendencies and for being too open to the comingling of Mayan and Roman Catholic religious practices. In fact, the Bishop’s theology and the practices of his local church were under investigation by the Vatican (the results were never released) and when he reached the mandatory age of retirement at 75, no…