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Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…focused increasingly on national sovereignty, limited government, and anti-communism. Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and Transformation of American Politics Nicole Hemmer University of Pennsylvania Press August 2016 Hanighen and Morley brought on a young Chicagoan named Henry Regnery to handle their promotional work. Regnery soon got the publishing bug, and left Human Events to start his own company, Regnery Publishing. Soon he was p…

Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…That began to change as leaders of the Christian right found a salient post-Communism political target in the gay rights movement. In a time of increased opposition to gay rights by conservative Christian organizations and increased resistance to their anti-gay campaigning, Exodus ministries and their members became attractive partners to Christian right institutions. Supporting people “struggling with same sex attraction” became useful cultural e…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…to play for Duke in 2013–2014. Here at RD, we were too absorbed in the week-by-week of the long election season to cover Fredette, Te’o, and Parker—a pity, really. 4. Mormon feminists and allies organize worldwide “Pants to Church” Sunday to raise awareness and start dialogue about women’s issues in the LDS Church. With thousands of women and men (wearing purple in solidarity) participating worldwide, the event is the largest concerted feminist ef…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…mmission on Civil Rights, in his closing remarks on the commission’s recent 300-page report on “Peaceful Coexistence” between nondiscrimination principles and civil liberties. “Religious liberty was never intended to give one religion dominion over other religions, or a veto power over the civil rights and civil liberties of others. However, today, as in the past, religion is being used as both a weapon and a shield by those seeking to deny others…

Christianity and Gun Control

By Sarah Posner

…pons ban to expire in 2004, on certain types of weaponry, particularly the high-capacity magazine used by the Arizona shooter. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), whose husband was murdered in a 1993 rampage on the Long Island Railroad, plans to introduce a measure in the House, and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in the Senate. The General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church today released a statement suggesting support for such a b…

No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…particular fusion of fundamentalist Christianity and anti-government, anti-“new world order” activism earned him a spot in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Meet the ‘Patriots’” report this summer, profiling 35 anti-government “Patriots” who are leading a “resurgent movement.” Although Baldwin remains unequivocally dedicated to the religious right’s core issues — opposition to abortion and LGBT rights — he told me that he’s undergone an evolutio…

The Pope’s Dubious Holocaust Remembrance

By Evan Derkacz

…be cast aside the moment he no longer serves their forward march to the One-World-Religion. This is a letter, mind you, that came after Castrillón “wrote to each of the four bishops, addressing them as ‘my dear brother’ and saying that the pope’s arms were open wide to embrace them.” (These arms were John Paul’s.) And this is years after it was widely reported in the Canadian press that Williamson was probed and nearly charged for comments about J…

LDS Church Brings Religious Pressure to Zoning Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…how Romney’s membership in a religion with a strongly centralized chain-of-command would impact his presidential decision-making. These questions are compounded by Romney’s own course of unblinking loyalty to the interests of big institutional backers in both business and religious life, as well as by what the Wall Street Journal recently described as the exceptional “insular[ity]” of his campaign and Romney’s own refusal to accept unscripted que…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…lf needs to be protected.” The report documents human rights abuses country-by-country and regionally, including persecution and criminalization of people who are, or are perceived to be, LGBTI. The United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees has created a training package on the protection of LGBTI people in “forced displacement.” Indonesia: Religious and Political Officials Continue Anti-LGBT Campaigns Indonesia has been making a regular appear…

The Active Principle of Islam, or, Activating Islamic Principles

By Amina Wadud

…nnot be that one is meant to feel connected to the Creator with no creature-to-creature interaction in activating that connectivity.” These journal notes were written almost 20 years ago. I am struck by their simplicity and by my naïveté of believing in such a possibility. I guess I was just inspired by my own vision of “Islam.” Activating the spiritual core at the level of policy and social affairs seems more elusive today than at the time of t…