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Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…rump, it’s the way the world around him sees him. It’s QAnon, it’s Jericho March, it’s the ongoing White Christian nationalist obsession with him. And despite all of his bombast and rhetoric, all of his violence and self-obsession, Donald Trump doesn’t usually get all apocalyptic himself. Until last week at CPAC. Many have focused on Trump’s statement “I am your retribution,” and that angle of divine vengeance is certainly worrisome. But we should…

Want to Save Marriage? Ban Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y with the biggest threat to heterosexual marriage: divorce. A Web-designer-cum-political-activist in California is out to help “traditional marriage” advocates change all that. In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California. The effort is meant to be a satirical statement after California voters outlawed gay marriage in 2008, large…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…s, and “pro-family” politicians, what one reporter has called “a Bible Belt-to-Kremlin collaboration around its anti-choice and anti-gay agenda.” The vilification of the European Union and its human rights policies was at center stage at this year’s global WCF summit, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in May. It is no accident that the WCF met in Georgia, where this Russia vs. the West dynamic has been keenly felt in recent years. The event’s chair, Levan…

The Three Qualities Marking the Capitol Assault as Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…where the members of the House of Representatives were sequestered. The 35-year-old woman, Ashli Babbitt, had flown to Washington from her home in San Diego at the behest of Donald Trump who urged his supporters to interfere with the electoral vote tally. She had served for twelve years, including being a security guard for US Air Force bases, and had risen to the rank of Senior Airman. Her husband, who remained in San Diego, described her as an…

Gay Marriage = Mob Rule?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ry my partner isn’t intimidation. Ballot measures pushed by a bunch of well-financed, self-righteous goons who use fear tactics (those filthy queers will teach your kids about sex and marry your dog!) to induce the majority of the population to enshrine discriminatory laws, however, clearly is. Whenever we feel the need to let the majority rule and the minority suffer, we would do well to remember that Pilate wanted to pardon Jesus. It was a major…

Chocolate Jesus Week

By Daniel Schultz

…at least in England. (The American version appears to be the third week in March.) It seems only appropriate/gives us the excuse (pick one) to remind everyone of this: In light of recent hijinks, you can never have too many reminders that my tribute may be your blasphemy, your sacrament may be his ritualistic cannibalism, and so on and so forth. It’s a big world, in other words, and a delicious one too. Let those who have ears hear and those who h…

Let The Sun Shine In: Marriage Equality Comes to Broadway

By Paul Gorrell

…rance of homosexuality. Today’s production moves beyond tolerance to a full-blown celebration of same-sex love and experience. Because of this, Hair has not lost its edge. Gay Visibility As a gay man, it is natural for me to see elements of my own story in Claude’s story. Faced with decisions to embrace who he is as a flower child or to respond to the voices of authority around him, Claude clings to an escapist desire to be invisible. Lesbians and…

Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…ighbors— really hated kids, and tried to disguise it with a lot of for-your-own-good lecturing and gratuitous punishment, plus nasty aggressive humor that was supposedly “just kidding.” Meeting a benevolent adult was always a great relief to me. Cleary was benevolent, and genuinely seemed to like children. The adults in Ramona’s world are basically decent, or at least not mean. (If there is a villain in the series, it’s Mrs. Kemp, who uses Ramona…

Trump Gives Davos Press Credentials to Racist Conspiracy Outlet. Again.

By Gordon Haber

…“correspondent” Kerry Kinsey even scored an interview with nepotism poster-boy (runner-up) Donald Trump Jr. at his father’s Grand Rapids rally. Contrast this unfettered access to CNN’s troubles. Whatever the network’s failings, it does not promote homophobia and antisemitic and racist conspiracy theories. Yet in November 2018, CNN had to sue to get the White House to reinstate Jim Acosta’s press credentials, which the administration had pulled af…

Op-Ed: McCain’s VP, Sarah Palin, and ‘Feminists for Life’

By Ruth Rosen

…institutions where they worked that real equality for women required family-friendly policies, including child care. Foster also accused Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America of supporting abortion in order to stay in business. But I had to wonder about her own financial goals when I saw, in the organization’s magazine, that I could buy a “stunning new logo pin” in either sterling silver or 24-carat gold for $75. In the end, I decided th…