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To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…emplified—or revealed—by the Tennessee protester who famously brandished a sign reading, “Sacrifice the weak, Re-open TN.” The now former chairperson of the planning commission in Antioch, California suggested letting the virus run its course to kill the weak, elderly and homeless in order to relieve health care and Social Security costs. These perspectives are not outliers. We’re in the grasp of the politics of death over whose lives can be sacri…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…iation for Sexual Health (LebMASH). As we noted earlier this year, a judge significantly weakened Article 534, the county’s anti-sodomy law. Officials have suggested that the men arrested this month might instead by charged with public indecency. Ireland: Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Marriage Equality A new poll conducted by the Sunday Times found that more than 85 percent of people in Ireland believe it is acceptable for gay and lesbian co…

My Lent: Ashes, Addiction, and the Reality of Hell (Pace Rob Bell)

By Debra Dean Murphy

…d save those we love. The ashes are not mere symbol; they are not a public sign of our piety (exactly what Jesus warns against in Ash Wednesday’s gospel reading). Instead, the ashes are as real as it gets—a sticky, gritty, grimy smear plastered to our foreheads, precisely on the same spot that the oil of baptism was applied. For Christians, the juxtaposition is as liberating as it is instructive: we are dying, yet we live. Death may be at our door…

The “Shrinking Influence” of Social Conservatives at the United Nations

By Sarah Posner

…mission finally prevailed in its three-year effort to obtain the status, a sign “of the shrinking influence of American social conservatives at the United Nations.” Congressional conservatives Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Christopher Smith (R-NJ) — heroes of the religious right — had joined with Muslim countries in an effort to block the IGLHRC’s application. Lynch observed: In previous years, American conservatives like Smith, backed by the White Hous…

Hajj Journal:
This Cultural Hajj

By Amina Wadud

…the airport, for my own travel or to pick up family and friends. The road signs had a little airplane logo to designate the way to the airport. I never got lost going, but always got lost trying to get back home. I used to say, there needs to be a sign with a little picture of my house to direct me. I knew how to get to the mountain but I forgot to make markers for getting back! Anyway, while wandering around until I found the road with that gate…

Civil Rights and Soul: Memphis 2010

By Lauri Lebo

…. He marched along with a thousand men, including Nickelberry, all holding signs that said, “I Am A Man.” The night of his famous last speech, he had not been scheduled, but had arrived at the urging of his friend and confidant the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. “Like anybody, I would like to live a long life,” King said. “Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mounta…

Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us

By Amanda Robb

…n a stage in an auditorium. Other parents, having checked and re-checked a sign-in list of bubbly teenage scrawl for their children’s handwriting, stood sentry outside—on rocks, on fences, anywhere to get a first glimpse of the busloads coming from the school. The mother prayed. Maybe superstitiously she decided not be selfish about it. She didn’t ask God to let her daughter be alive. She prayed for strength, for succor for everyone. The tearful r…

Ex-Gay Conversion Therapy: Choosing Religion Over Sex

By Lynne Gerber

…plaints coming. * homo-intimacy in the ex-gay world is far more suspect among lesbians, for whom excessive emotional closeness is considered a sign of lesbianism even in the absence of a sexual relationship….

Death of a Self-Proclaimed God-Man: Sai Baba’s Controversial Career

By Andrea R. Jain

…argued that his ability to materialize objects was not miraculous but the sign of a skilled conjuring magician. Perhaps the most notable controversy surrounding the guru arose in 1993 when the police killed six young male devotees in Sai Baba’s bedroom and claimed that they did so in self-defense. The case remains controversial because many details of the incident are unknown. Some speculate that the men were not killed in self-defense but were m…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…our protections under federal civil rights laws. That’s why they need our signature.” While Veit claims to be merely cleaning up “misinformation” about the case, she fails to mention that the administration has already told the Little Sisters and other plaintiffs that they don’t have to sign the so-called permission slip—they can simply send a letter to HHS stating their intent to opt out. Even constitutional scholars with a conservative take on…