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Conservatives Stand Together for Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Sarah Posner

…tting the “attempt to. . . enshrine homosexual behavior as some protected class.” Potok emphasized that the SPLC’s decision to place a group on the list is not about criminality or violence, but is based on whether the groups in question “demonize other groups with falsehoods” or conspiracy theories. FRC, he added, has associated gay men with pedophilia, a known falsehood. TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro reported that the SPLC sees little difference…

My Lowest Point

By Amina Wadud

…sts no more than 10 riyal. But this is a moneymaking time for many working-class people in Makkah and Madinah, most of whom are not Saudis themselves. So shops, taxis, buses, hotel staff, and restaurant staff all have a lot at stake in the event of the hajj for their profits. I guess the choices are: find a reduced option, pay as much as you can personally, ignore the cost altogether, or walk. The 50 Riyal bus dropped us off at the opposite end of…

What Does Anti-Christian Even Mean?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…love, peace, or kindness. Those are just my top five. I could have included other events like the protest of Elizabeth Edwards’ funeral by Westboro Baptist Church, or the cynical holding of the middle class and the jobless hostage so the wealthiest one percent can keep their insanely low tax rates, but I think I’ve made my point. Feel free to add to this list in the comments….

After Westboro: The Trouble With “Tolerance”

By Cody J. Sanders

…eality. Tolerance allows our unearned privilege (whether racial privilege, class privilege, heterosexist privilege, etc.) to go unquestioned and unchallenged. So beneath the theological surface of the iceberg’s tip—Westboro and the like—we do not find less hateful and violent theological and ideological views, just more subtly expressed ones. Unfortunately, it is the power that does not look like power that is most effective in maintaining circums…

Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

By Frederick Clarkson

…This is the first time in history that private groups have combined world-class satellite image analysis with detailed reliable eyewitness reports to confirm the location of mass graves to present details of how the bodies came to be there. The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) is a pioneering consortium comprising the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the anti-genocide groups Enough and Not on Our Watch, as well as internet companies Google and Tr…

Gay Marriage Measure Dies in Maryland

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o delegates’ job security—can still convince lawmakers to continue to treat some of their fellow citizens as second class….

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…her, the book is an exercise in public philosophy. It is meant to resemble classic works of traveling theory like Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and Martineau’s Society in America. I wanted to bring the philosophy of democratic citizenship down to earth. How has your thinking evolved about your early experience with activism in the 1960s? How are conditions different now, do you think? The labor unions are obviously much weaker. The civil righ…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ics, Kansas abortion facilities were licensed as part of this more general class of ambulatory surgical centers, or ASCs. Twenty-one states, now including Kansas, impose targeted licensing requirements on abortion clinics for abortions performed during any stage of pregnancy. Critics of TRAP laws claim that such rules bear no relation to patient safety and are offered in bad faith. The intent, they say, is not to make abortion safer, but to make a…

A Short Goodbye

By Lauri Lebo

…winter watching events unfold in Wisconsin, as teachers and other working-class people stood up to the cynical corporate-led attacks on collective bargaining rights—one of the last few ways non-rich folks can still level the playing field in this country. The day that farmers rolled their John Deere tractors into Madison in solidarity with the hardworking people who educate their children, I knew I wanted to join this fight. In Pennsylvania, the…

Lesbian Nuns: Still Immodest After All These Years

By Susan Henking

…ad a salacious history is evident both in Diderot’s frequently republished classic and in the fact that portions of the Curb and Manahan collection were also subsequently published in the men’s magazine Forum. Though it served a role as a prop in a film entitled Damned if You Don’t as early as 1987, Immodest Acts is neither anti-Catholic, a work of contemporary advocacy, nor of salacious interest. Rather, Immodest Acts was (and is) a work of histo…