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“Ex-Gay” Therapy Revealed in Prop. 8 Trial

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…me arguments used against women (family protection)? N: Yes. The danger of using religious arguments to deny rights to a certain set of people is on full display in the trial. Anti-gay religious advocates argue that they want to “protect the family” by denying marriage equality. However, it is plain that religious opposition to homosexuality tears at the fabric of the very family the religious right says they want to preserve. Kendall, and many li…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…that talks about liberty and justice for all when white supremacists were using the same symbols to profess and promote their hatred? Still today, he says, “For me, the words ring hollow. They do not speak to my experience as a Black man in this country, with two African American sons, and Black colleagues, and Black friends—it is a lie.” All of this preceded the realization, as his faith matured, that the flag and the Pledge and the Anthem were…

Mauled by an Angel: Why Do Americans Need “God’s Secret Agents”?

By W. Scott Poole

…ings up for humanity (or select portions of it) now and again. Ironically, using angels as characters for horror films, or even reimagining them so creatively as Kevin Smith does in Dogma, may offer a way for Americans to reflect on the spiritual life in a more serious and less narcissistic fashion. Angels are typically portrayed as majestic creatures, portents and warnings, signals of the overwhelming realities of life and of death. They are not…

No Garden to Get Back to: Understanding Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder

By Ryann Croken

…by taking the pathos and reverence they feel for the fictional Pandora and using that energy to actively participate in the restoration of the celestial body that miraculously sustains our existence right here on real, live 3-D Planet Earth. In other words, if you want to heal yourself, start by healing the world. By striking at the root of the problem, not only can you alleviate your symptoms, you can reverse them, giving your life a newfound sen…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…e must become equally adamant about the safety of public conversations, refusing to tolerate character assassinations by the tongues of rhetorical snipers. Whether we are talking about immigration reform, the mass incarceration crisis, the moral and civic equality of LGBTQ persons, or national security strategies, we need an enhanced ability to air legitimate differences of opinion without the divisiveness that diminishes a sense of the common goo…

Scott Lively’s Crimes Against Humanity Aren’t Conservative Christian Outliers

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ons on LGBTI people range from the ludicrous to the abhorrent,” ultimately using LGBT people as scapegoats for every major social ill that has arisen in the past century. And sure, Lively’s book-length claims that Nazism was “an outgrowth of the German homosexual movement” seem like the standard whackadoodle rantings of a religious zealot easily dismissed as “fringe” or a “bad apple” among otherwise decent, if conservative, Christians. But Lively’…

Don’t Ignore the Role of “Christian Values” in Conservative Conspiracy

By Carmen Celestini

…ntaneously erupt during this election cycle, it’s been active for decades, using a distrust in the mainstream media, a narrow interpretation of Christian and American values, and conspiracy to mobilize. To believe that the paranoid style is a recent development or to ignore the deployment of Christian values within the framework of conspiracy theories does a disservice to those hoping to understand the history of conservatism in the United States….

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Pacific in “free association” with New Zealand. Taiwan: Marriage opponents using new recall law to target pro-equality lawmakers The Taipei Times reports that opponents of marriage equality “have benefited from changes to the civil servants’ recall act,” which now requires only a 25 percent voter turnout for a recall vote. Marriage equality opponents claim that they have gathered enough signatures to force a recall vote on Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), a…

Hillary-the-Preacher, and Why Journalists Can’t Let Go of the “Democrats Don’t Get Religion” Story

By Daniel Schultz

…consin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, you could attribute the results to any number of factors: economics, race, vote suppression, Clinton’s mistakes, or yes, Russian interference and Comey’s disastrous memo late in the game. The point isn’t that any one of these explanations is good, it’s that they’re all plausible, and need to be reckoned with. So I’m intensely dubious when reading something like this: The big swing states that Clinton lost in Nov…

Does One Have to be an Ex-Muslim to be a Good Christian?

By Hussein Rashid

…ve his fabrications its imprimatur. Who looks bad, then, the Muslims writ large that Liberty is seeking to belittle, or Christians using false stories to defame Islam?…