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Turn on the News: Some Abortion Opponents May Opt For a New Vaccine, But Behind Their Skepticism it’s Often a Different Story — of Disinformation, Conspiratorial Thinking, and White Nationalism

By Daniel Schultz

…ification of their pineal gland, or interference with their auras, or a disruption of a natural order given by God or gods. Appeals to Native American spirituality and “nature” were raised (even though actual Native American communities had one of the highest vaccination acceptance rates in the country). There were many conspiracy theories with this fantastic quality, some of which came close to medieval blood libels: that unborn babies had been a…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…employer’s support when she sought asylum as a lesbian. According to Pink News, “The charity said it could not trust her to work with children because she is a lesbian.” Tumwine says she applied for asylum without coming out to her employer On considering whether to come out, she said: “I studied each one of them and the way they used to talk about gay people was not good and that made me not trust them with my problems and not only that, being C…

FOX News. Israel. Palestine. What Could Go Wrong?

By Haroon Moghul

…he people who want anything but. (It’s also ironic considering that we, as Americans, revolted and fought a war for our independence over far lesser grievances.) If we’re so concerned about incitement, and we should be, let us be equally concerned about the conditions that make incitement possible. There are radicals in every place and every time. But they only catch fire in some places and at some times. There are worse folks around the corner. I…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…in the process. . .The battle is not over; there is not yet the definitive word. . . For me, many words will still be said about this issue. This is still a controversial and complicated issue for our contemporary culture.” The archbishop also expressed his “tremendous sadness” at the “tsunami of secularization” that has overtaken culture and continued, according to the National Catholic Reporter: “Apuron called the government’s claim it has a rig…

Election 2016: Postracial Blues, #BlackVotesMatter, Evangelicals for Trump, and “Who Are We Now?”

By The Editors

…e 2016 election has been the relationship of white evangelicals to Donald Trump. Trump has garnered hearty support from white evangelicals—they have been critical to his wins, especially in Southern Bible Belt states. And yet that development has also produced a spirited and robust counter-response from evangelical leaders who are opposed to Trump. All of this has occasioned a debate over what it means to be an evangelical. This is not a new devel…

An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

By Christopher Douglas

…you wish you had written? Which one? Why? There are lots of great books on American literature and religion—Tracy Fessenden, Amy Hungerford, and John McClure have done great work. Susan Harding has an amazing cultural anthropology of Jerry Falwell’s church and movement, and Kevin Kruse has a great history of, as he puts it in his subtitle, How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Where would we be without Frank Schaeffer’s insider, semi-a…

Occupy Judaism: A “Turning Point” in American Judaism

By Sarah Posner

…vil rights, and Arthur Waskow created a Freedom Seder, and Catholic priests and nuns were instrumental in anti-war agitation, their actions propelled by a fervent religiosity and expressed in liturgical terms.” So far word of Occupy Judaism has spread by word of mouth and by social media. Sieradski says people responded to the Kol Nidre service with statements like “this was the most meaningful Jewish experience of my life.”…

Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late

By Diana Butler Bass

…I could think about was that picture of Jerry Falwell. The flags are now Trump flags; the choir replaced with praise choruses. And how nothing—and everything—has changed since that day in 1980. Evangelicalism has been a political rally for a very long time It’s depressing when the “paper of record” doesn’t seem to know that the news they’re covering isn’t new. Indeed, as I read the account about the interweaving of worship and politics, about eva…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…man who now lives in Chicago tells her story of leaving Cechnya, situating stories of anti-gay persecution within the actions of the brutally repressive regime of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Putin ally who rules Chechnya, and the Putin regime itself. Queerfest is under way in St. Petersburg. The educational and cultural festival runs until September 24. Organizers reported a peaceful opening event on September 14, with police helping provide “an atmospher…

London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the Church of Ireland Gazette, a weekly and editorially independent church newspaper, told the News Letter the motion “ does not seek to change the Church of Ireland’s traditional teaching on marriage”, a position Canon Ellis said he supports. However, he did say: “I believe the church has to consider how it is going to relate in pastoral terms to churchgoers who are in same-sex civil marriages. I do not believe that such couples should be barred…