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Masculinity and Mass Violence: When Will We Acknowledge the Smoking Gendered Pronoun Hiding in Plain Sight?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…de Michael Page, for an attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin on August 5; and Thomas Caffall, who laid siege to a College Station, Texas neighborhood this week. Neither senseless nor random As Caffall was taking the lives of three people and wounding two others across the street from the Texas A&M campus, Notre Dame professor Naunihal Singh complained in The New Yorker about the media’s short attention span with regard to the Oak Creek…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ver.” Although encouraged by the Democratic Party’s “pledges to reduce the number of abortions, … [he] now worries [that] the party is using abortion as a wedge issue by running ads sharply contrasting Palin and Obama on abortion rights,” AP reported. “Strang said he’s waiting for the Republicans to talk more about health care and the economy—and is both intrigued and unmoved by Palin. ‘It’s a great story, but I don’t know what’s changed,’ he said…

Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives

By Jonathan Malesic

…after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, one participant, Peter Cvjetanovic, conceded that white European culture “is not perfect; there are flaws to it, of course.” He said the same about Robert E. Lee, whose statue was the demonstrators’ rallying point: “He wasn’t a perfect man, but I want to honor and respect what he stood for during his time.” Never mind that what made Lee imperfect was that he stood f…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…isma. Race and the Making of the Mormon People Max Perry Mueller UNC Press August 2017 These personal experiences with religious and racial “others”—the Mormons and Jason—primed me to fall in love with the story of Jane Manning James (a painting of James graces the book’s cover). In the early 1840s, as a young, single mother in Connecticut, James converted to Mormonism. She then led most of her family members on a cross-country trek to join with t…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed there is overwhelming resistance to repealing anti-sodomy laws. In late August, a young Jamaican gay rights activist who brought an unprecedented legal challenge to the anti-sodomy law withdrew his claim after growing fearful about possible violent reprisals. But Human Rights Watch has noted that there’s been a “groundswell of change” in the way Jamaica is responding to human rights abuses against LGBT people. In recent days, Kingston’s mayor a…

Crowdfunding Joplin Mosque Project Blows Past Its Goals

By Katie Toth

…ver $286,000 at press time. The mosque was burned to the ground on Monday, August 6. It was the middle of the month of Ramadan, an important religious holiday for Muslims. It was the second suspected arson attack to the mosque this summer. For many in Missouri, the mosque was a space for community building after last year’s tornados, the campaign says. Now, some Missouri Christians are hoping to pay that sense of community forward. Joplin churches…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…ing for a quick re-passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act in the wake of an August 1 decision by the Constitutional Court that the law was invalid because it was passed without a quorum in Parliament. ThinkProgress reported last week that there are signs that President Yoweri Museveni will try to slow the momentum. All Africa has reported that Museveni will back a new version: “According to MPs backing a new version of the bill, the law will be wat…

Iowa Republicans Grade Newt’s “Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…lict with others, including Islam, secularism, socialism, and paganism. In August, with Perry’s entrance into the race, I argued that he had not internalized the worldview construct as Bachmann had, and focused more on sharing his own salvation story. But Gingrich? Sure, he recently (after two divorces) converted to Catholicism and has been extolling American exceptionalism; he’s appeared at Pastors Policy Briefings to sell his book (and reincarn…

The Polite Islamophobia of the Intellectual

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ittle or nothing about their subject yet claim to speak with authority. In August, for example, I wrote a review of Christopher Caldwell’s neoconservative lament for Europe’s growing Muslim population, in which he warns that the “innocent, naive, unsuspecting” West will find that the new wave of Muslims has “ended a way of life, Western civilization as we know—and were once taught to love—it.” Caldwell’s work, in both its tone and message, is help…

The Book David Barton Doesn’t Want You To Read

By Michael Coulter

…aws on several disciplines in an engaging account of Western moral philosophy. What’s your next book? Throckmorton: I am completing a book on sexual orientation and identity, hopefully by mid-August, to be published by Inter-Varsity Press. Coulter: I am working on manuscript about John Locke’s conception of citizens within a liberal political order….