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As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues

By Chrissy Stroop

…n elder at Oakland Christian Church in Oakland, Illinois, and her campaign website identifies her as a Sunday school and Vacation Bible School teacher. In addition to drawing attention to how the Supreme Court’s ruling in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue requires the funding of sectarian education in any state that provides “school choice” voucher funding to parents, the 2020 State of the Secular States report highlights the serious issue of u…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…d institutionalize discrimination,” and quotes an activist saying that the number of threats against LGBT peoples is already on the rise. Nigeria: Jail the Gays Bill Pending Tris Reid-Smith reports for Gay Star News that the repressive “Jail the Gays” bill that passed the parliament in Nigeria in December has not yet been sent to President Goodluck Jonathan for his signature. If he returns the law to parliament with recommended changes, that coul…

Kosher Nukes: Israeli PM Consults with Radical Rabbi on Iran Strike

By Shalom Goldman

…tation story broke over the weekend when a reporter for an Orthodox Jewish website Kikar HaShabbat wrote that Netanyahu’s emissary, National Security Chief Yaakov Amidor, met with the 91-year-old Rabbi on Friday afternoon. The choice of Rabbi Yosef was telling. He is not one of the nation’s two chief Rabbis (though he once was, having served as the Sephardi Chief Rabbi), but he is the Jewish religious figure with the widest following, both among m…

Most U.S. Catholics Back Marriage Equality, But Knights of Columbus Pour Millions into Opposition

By Peter Montgomery

…o find evidence of the millions in anti-gay spending on the organization’s website, which highlights contributions to groups like Habitat for Humanity and the Special Olympics. Buried in the section on service is language about the fact that the family is under “heavy attack” and that the organization can help defend it, but there is no hint of the scope of anti-gay work the group is funding. If a member of the Knights doesn’t live in a state wher…

LGBT “Welcome” Ad Rejected by Sojourners, Nation’s Premier Progressive Christian Org.

By Rev. Robert Chase

…advertising strategy that included a significant ad buy on the Sojourners website and email newsletters—home to one of the largest networks of progressive Christians in the United States. So, you can imagine our dismay when Sojourners refused to run our ads. In a written statement, Sojourners said, “I’m afraid we’ll have to decline. Sojourners position is to avoid taking sides on this issue. In that care [sic], the decision to accept advertising…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…w others get close to God.” Credo sixteen extols the virtue of patriotism. Number nineteen advises humility and nobility, while twenty-two announces that no woman should fear a Knight, but, rather, should feel protected by him. Twenty-nine reiterates that every Knight should be “firmly and truthfully in the just cause of God.” Numbers thirty-four through thirty-eight prohibit drugs, kidnapping, and mandate drug testing. Forty-three requires member…

Mormons React to Prop. 8 Ruling

By Joanna Brooks

…ulling out from Walker’s ruling and publishing at the Mormons for Marriage website Findings of Fact that speak directly to some of the sentiments that animated Mormon Yes on 8 activism. Many conservative Mormons insist on viewing “same gender attraction” as a remediable condition rather than a feature of identity; Walker’s Findings of Fact 44 and 46 declare that the “weight of the evidence” shows that “sexual orientation is fundamental to a person…

Sexual Abuse is Inevitable in Christian Patriarchy; Just Take a Look at Doug Wilson’s Christ Church, and its New ‘Documentary’ ‘Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity’

By Cait West

…documenting an anti-feminist movement. In fact, the language on the film’s website clearly points to a didactic motive rather than an observation of society: “This documentary follows author Rebekah Merkle as she discusses the role of Christian women in today’s world, the pitfalls and distractions we should avoid, and how we should approach rebuilding the ruins of the West.” This framing of what, in my opinion, is indoctrination posing as document…

NPR Gives Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly a Pass

By Daniel Schultz

…question he answers. Yet you won’t find a mention of divorce on the Focus website’s Social Issues page, or in its section on Defending Traditional Values. Why is that, do you suppose? Why is same-sex marriage an immense threat to American culture, but opposite-sex divorce—the issue that Jesus himself addressed—not worth fighting on Capitol Hill? Focus on the Family is apparently willing to leave it to the states to come up with answers on the que…

D’Souza Tries to Explain Himself

By Sarah Posner

…clusive interview to Christianity Today, and has posted a statement on his website, which does not deny his relationship with his new, very much younger fiancé, but does deny that he and Denise Odie Joseph shared a room at the “Truth for a New Generation” conference in September. He asserts that Smith and Olasky have a “vendetta” against him, to which the only possible response is this, because of course D’Souza should know all about bizarre vende…