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Can The Religious Left Be Effective Again? Longer Answer: Quizás

By Daniel Schultz

…ease is due to the debates over immigration reform; but even factoring that in, Hispanic churches are becoming more politically active. The number of congregations might be few, but they may also be larger communities, representing a substantial number of people. In any case, the trend will only continue as Hispanics continue to grow as a part of the US population. Which brings us around at last to the joke in the headline: Can the religious left…

With Election Takeaways Like ‘Too Transgender’ or ‘the US is Shifting Right,’ Dems are Determined to Learn the Wrong Lesson

By Chrissy Stroop

…nd minimum wage increases. Yes, while some are so fed up they’ll vote for any candidate who appears (however absurdly) to be “an outsider,” many of these voters, it stands to reason, must genuinely not fully grasp that they just voted against the policies they support. So what are the right lessons to draw from this hot mess? For one, Republicans did not win a mandate to persecute transgender Americans, deport millions of immigrants, bring back pr…

The Dirty Little Secret of Every Ponzi Scheme, or: Bernie Madoff’s 150 Year Sentence

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ff and Law stories has something to do with the confusion created by large numbers. The point is, in the financial sector, numbers need to correspond to some reality. Law’s paper notes were supposed to correspond to the gold held in his bank’s reserves. When the gap between numbers and real things grew too great, his system collapsed. It became, almost unwittingly, a nationwide French Ponzi scheme. Law was encouraged by the French regent to covert…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…ften portrayed as a unified front by the mainstream media, we assume that any mingling of the two necessarily manifests itself in the image of the most conservative evangelicals. Many who are themselves religious come to believe that they cannot and should not allow their beliefs to influence their politics. Once we recognize that there are shades of evangelicalism, and that they manifest in a variety of political convictions, perhaps we will come…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Meanwhile, Religion News Service reported that a Ugandan priest, Rev. Anthony Musaala, said in a talk at a Syracuse, NY, Catholic Church that people are beaten, raped, evicted, and fired from their jobs due to being gay, and said a growing number of LGBT Ugandans are feeling for Kenya. Musaala, 58, was born in Ireland and educated in England and Uganda. He was ordained in 1994 in the Archdiocese of Kampala and began ministering to gays and lesbian…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…e Frankfurt School, a group of Marxist social theorists who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and established the Institute for Social Research in Manhattan, where they developed an influential discipline of cultural studies that subjected mainstream American politics and popular culture to critical scrutiny. In Lind’s narrative, this band of “cultural Marxists” and their students systematically embedded themselves in cultural institutions such as ac…

In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…to be helpful in reporting on Judaism, Islam, the Baha’i faith, Wicca, or any number of other groups that form the pluralistic religious mosaic in the United States today? No reporter or anchor could be expected to be an expert on the ins and outs of such groups. But as a matter of journalistic practice, I think it is reasonable to train reporters to look at more than meets the eye on religion, just as they are taught to investigate plane crashes…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…introduce submission and headship to female congregants – it seems that many evangelical churches are rigidifying their attitudes towards women as a whole. Anything you had to leave out? Because this movement is still growing, interesting events and developments have continued to happen all throughout the past year, such as the Department of Health and Human Services’ radical expansion of conscience clause regulations last fall, or some inter…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…Christians, usually evangelical or Catholic, get the most airtime. Is it any wonder, then, that many LGBT people and feminists identify religion as “the enemy”? Blanket proclamations such as “religion is the enemy” overlook the many self-identified feminists and LGBT people who are religious and who do not think they should have to choose between their sexuality and their religion. For these LGBT people and their allies, it would be simplistic, a…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…percent of the total Russian population in 2021—according to the official numbers. When read against the dwindling numbers of some of Russia’s largest ethnic minority groups, such as Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Avars, Armenians, and Ukrainians, this data suggests that many Russian citizens do not feel safe enough to disclose their ethnic identity in the current political climate defined by the Russification of the nation. See Robert Coalson, “Russ…