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Family Research Council is Attacked—Tony Perkins is Quick to Blame SPLC

By Evan Derkacz

…o tear your hair out. You want to mention that if the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate” designation is an incitement to violence it’s an awfully ineffective one (of the 1,018 hate groups active in 2011, less than one-tenth of one percent suffered violence); that, leaving aside other forms of violence and suicide, in 2011 alone, 30 people were murdered in the U.S. simply for being gay—the largest number ever reported; and you want to mention tha…

Josh Duggar and the Purity Lie

By Sarah Posner

…was not any sort of licensed counseling facility: Asked about the training center that Jim Bob said Josh was sent to, Michelle told police, according to the report, “it was not really a training center. Det. [Darrell] Hignite asked if the guy [redacted, Josh] talked to was a certified counselor. She said no. She said it was a guy they know in Little Rock that is remodeling a building. Det. Hignite asked if the guy was more of a mentor. She said “k…

Disingenuous Pleas for “Common Ground” on Religious Liberty Aren’t Likely to Find Any

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…profit Faith in Public Life. But then, in a slippery Beltway appeal to the center, Gehring quickly adds: “If conservatives need to do some soul searching about how they often set back the important cause of religious liberty, progressives also need a better approach that fosters dialogue and common ground instead of division.” Yet Gehring offers just one example of that purported divisiveness. And, in order to give this single example even a chanc…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…cross the region, there is a sense of ominous paralysis. It’s not that the center cannot hold. It’s that there is no center. My grandfather was a well-educated man, versed in the traditions of a Muslim episteme that seems impossibly far. He and his forefathers studied Arabic and Persian in addition to Urdu, learned and wrote and shared poetry, and cultivated an urbane cosmopolitanism that required no travel to the West, no cultural alienation, no…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…servatives have made “religious liberty” their rallying cry as well as the centerpiece of their legal and political opposition to marriage equality. It is also the theme of the 2015 World Congress of Families summit, which will be held in Salt Lake City, the first time the gathering has been held in the U.S. The annual summit is an international gathering of anti-gay and anti-reproductive choice activists organized by the US-based Howard Center fo…

‘Joel’s Army’ Is Already Here: The Obscure 20th Century Religious Movement That Profoundly Influences The Right’s Cosmic Battle

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…rsight” of the church once led by Jackson’s late father, prominent African American Christian Right figure, Apostle and Bishop Harry Jackson. An influential opponent of marriage equality, Jackson was a frequent speaker at Christian Right political conferences who campaigned for the reelection of Donald Trump in 2020. Hamon maintains that, since his early days with Latter Rain, the world has entered into what he calls the Third Reformation (the Bir…

Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

By Anthea Butler

…ool, and hospital. Believing that God had divinely inspired him to build a center where the cure for cancer would be discovered, Roberts took the principles embedded in Pentecostal divine healing and put them into pragmatic practice by building the City of Faith. Constantly dunning for money to build the center, it was the vision of a 900-foot-tall Jesus as a sign to Roberts that would place media scrutiny on his ministry in an uncomfortable way….

Why I Wrote the Freedom Seder And Why It’s Still Necessary 50 Years After Dr. King’s Assassination

By Arthur Waskow

…o had stood beside King in Arlington Cemetery as they mourned the war dead—American and Vietnamese. Who could write in the same essay that prayer was the joyful song the universe sang to itself, and that prayer was meaningless unless it was subversive. Who had arranged with Dr. King to celebrate his first Passover Seder in 1968 with the Heschel family. The Passover when, though King was dead—because he was dead—he lived in thousands of seders acro…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…Think Progress: …if this sort of dissenting spirit was unique among modern American Catholics, one could plausibly argue that the United States has created an environment that bifurcates Catholics in unusual ways. But it’s not: In 2014, a global survey conducted by Univision found that most of the planet’s Catholics disagree with the church on birth control, abortion rights, divorce, and priestly celibacy. But of course what really divides the lef…

A Debate Rages in India Over Conversion, Secularism, and “Spiritual Violence”

By Murali Balaji

…fort has rung alarm bells among observers, stoking fears that the right-of-center government of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (a self-described Hindu nationalist), are seeking to undermine post-independence India’s secular ideals. It has drawn so much attention, in fact, that it prompted President Obama to issue a not-so-subtle rebuke to Modi’s government for not doing more to protect religious minorities. Among India…