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Cornel West, Using His Powers for Good

By Edward J. Blum

…don Johnson to grow in their concern for people of color and for social welfare programs, the attacks upon the poor by Ronald Reagan, and the disappointments of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to turn the tide. Smiley and West wish to speak for and with the 99% who so often are left without care or help. They present a “portrait of poverty” and then discuss the various forms of poverty in the United States. A poverty of opportunity has left many wit…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ps and priests. Marriage opponents are also planning to converge on Mexico City later this month. On Sunday, pro-equality activists marched in response in Puebla and Mexico City, where they marched on the cathedral, demanding support for a secular state. Other activists have filed complaints against church officials for violating the law that regulates religious organizations. A recent poll that showed Mexicans split on marriage equality also show…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…urches. More from the Associated Press: Mulcahy’s arrest this month in the city of Samara braids together several of Russia’s most acrimonious issues: gay rights, alleged Western meddling in Russian affairs, and missionary work by religions that don’t have state approval. It attracted particular attention because the arrest was filmed by state-controlled channel NTV, whose reports often take an especially truculent, pro-Kremlin stance. Radio Free…

Unnatural Disaster: When Conservative Theology & The Free Market Meet Wildfires

By Paul Harvey

…lyptic.” The fire struck especially hard in the geographic quadrant of the city that hosts many of the best-known religious activist organizations, and has attracted a large population of religious conservatives who see in Colorado Springs a center for the religious and political values they seek to espouse. Seven of the homes lost belonged to those who worked for one of the oldest of these organizations, The Navigators—including the current direc…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tist but also as the leader of an insurrection against the misogyny of the city’s male-dominated music scene. “My name means warrior,” she said. “Part of me wants to be Harriet Tubman or Malcolm X.” Choudhury-Potter recalls a childhood in which the National Front contributed to tension between young white and brown men, an atmosphere in which she “could have easily succumbed to hatred.” But said she hopes her woman-centered art will contribute to…

The World’s Most Influential Yoga Teacher is a Homophobic Right-Wing Activist

By Andrea Jain and Michael Schulson

…ontingent of police broke up a public protest and kicked Ramdev out of the city after the ninth day of his 2011 strike. They tracked him down even after he tried to escape dressed as a woman. (Ramdev was caught when police noticed his beard, which the guru had tried to hide under a dupatta). Police efforts to break up the protest, which included killing at least one protester, attracted global attention and validated Ramdev’s claims of government…

Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin

By Leigh Eason

…and direct. Like other contemporary Quakers with means, however, if simplicity is defined to center on simplicity of possessions, this Quaker testimony fit Rustin less well than the others, and he surely knew it. He was a connoisseur of fine food and wines. He had an outstanding collection of antique furniture, and late in life he had an extraordinary collection of canes. In short, he liked the finer things of life, and he was not embarrassed abo…

#NeverTrump Evangelicals Must Face the Music

By Neil J. Young

…’s meeting last month with more than 1,000 evangelical leaders in New York City, Wehner pointed to the “problematic” embrace of Trump by evangelical luminaries like Jerry Falwell, Jr., Franklin Graham, and James Dobson who recently vouched for Trump’s born-again status before saying he couldn’t confirm for sure Trump’s conversion. More than just an embrace, Trump’s support from this motley crew of evangelical politicos helped clear the path for hi…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…scrapers, of ribbons of concrete threading our country. . . But the man or city which becomes intoxicated for the possession of these while hunger dwells unrequited, while the lives of little children are blighted for want of a chance, is the man or city in which life becomes a hollow mockery and which ultimately loses the material things he has grasped, as he has sluffed off the spiritual. It was not a complete shift—most Southern religious leade…

Richard Land Steps Down, But Not Out of the Culture Wars

By Aaron Weaver

…o plans to build an Islamic center six blocks from Ground Zero in New York City. Unlike many opponents, Land actually offered a legal argument against the proposal citing the Supreme Court’s City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) ruling. Yet, back in 1998, Land called the Boerne ruling “one of the worst decisions rendered by the Supreme Court in its long history.” When not trying to restrict the rights of Muslims, Land was defending those sa…