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Not Only is the Right Unapologetic For Violent Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric — It’s Doubling Down

By Thomas Lecaque

…the sparks that turn this burning hatred into violence, well, we’ve had a year of them. There are lots of vessels for this call for violence—pushers of stochastic terrorism, a term that usefully helps us put away the concept of the “lone wolf,” which implies that these are individuals with individual grievances not that they’re part of a broader structure. As Bryn Nelson explains, pushing a rhetoric that dehumanizes and vilifies a group, weaponiz…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…es and the country’s first LGBT magazine, Roopbaan, crashed to a halt last year, when one of its founders, 35-year-old Xulhaz Mannan, a USAID official, was hacked to death by suspected Islamist extremists. AFP noted, “Bangadesh criminalizes gay sex under a law dating back to the British colonial era that has never been repealed but is rarely enforced.” Scotland: Church of Scotland moves toward blessing same-sex couples’ weddings The Church of Scot…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…e are the ISIS-related incidents elsewhere in the world. Shortly after New Year’s Day in 2018, a suicide attack in a market in central Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 20. The Amaq News Agency of ISIS said that the movement claimed credit. They also gave ISIS credit for attacks in Nigeria and in Egypt a few days before. Earlier in the year a group of Muslim separatists said to be associated with ISIS took over a town in Mindanao, the insurgent region of…

Your Money or Your Civil Rights? Gays Vote GOP

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…deral outlays. (The last year in which federal outlays were lower than the year before was 1965, when Democrats ran both the White House and Congress.) As soon as Republicans controlled both Congress and the White House in 2001, spending really took off, with more than $100 billion added to federal outlays every year that Bush sat in the White House (considerably more than either Bill Clinton or Bush 41). Spending is what Republicans do best, and…

Ross Douthat’s Blinders on Abortion

By Sarah Posner

…pro-life, and 47% pro-choice. But as the report he cited also shows, these numbers fluctuated slightly in a two month period; in May 2011 Gallup reported that “Americans are closely divided between those calling themselves ‘pro-choice’ and those who are ‘pro-life,’ now 49% and 45%, respectively, in Gallup’s 2011 update on U.S. abortion attitudes. This is similar to a year ago, when 45% were ‘pro-choice’ and 47% ‘pro-life.’ However, it is the first…

Tea Party Patriots Pressure Public Schools to Adopt Skousen Curriculum

By Julie Ingersoll

…be called the cold war era’s David Barton, is author of The 5000 Thousand Year Leap. Given renewed popularity by Glenn Beck over the last year or so, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz characterizes it as “a treatise that assembles selective quotations and groundless assertions to claim that the US Constitution is rooted not in the Enlightenment but in the Bible.” NCCS has sought to promote their materials through public institutions before and it…

For Some of Us, the Biggest Religious Event of 2016 Was the Gilmore Girls Revival

By Isabel Fattal

…eing me watch Gilmore Girls on the TV in our common room (it was the first year that my obsession overlapped with the airing of a new season, and so I was forced to turn to the larger screen) decided to watch a few minutes of the show; “I didn’t realize that the ‘Gilmore girls’ were a mother and daughter,” she commented. A chill ran down my spine at even that benign remark; hearing something about the show spoken aloud, outside of my own head, fel…

Preachers’ Daughters Episode 4: Victoria Apologizes, Olivia is Embarrassed, and Taylor Dances Around in Silly Underpants

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hters on Lifetime. Didn’t catch it? Here’s what you missed. Last week, 16-year-old Kolby Koloff had broken off her relationship with Micah, amid her confusion over whether she was ready to date. This week’s episode begins with Kolby, immediately post-breakup, going to talk to her mother. It’s here that we start to see a more complicated and vulnerable side to Kolby’s mother, Victoria. Realizing that she may have given Kolby an overly dismal view…

The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…becoming changed, perhaps a little enlightened, by the process. Like most years, this year’s range of fiction films showed the ways cinema and religion can brighten each other’s paths, in a variety of ways that I’ll briefly note below. Meanwhile, the fiction of ranking films should be apparent: there is no singular truth in this process, and I would not expect a single other person in the world to agree completely with this list, in this order. B…

The Queen is Coming: Preparing for Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…versal way, only in the way in which I am experiencing them, and only this year. This year is special for me because after almost 40 years of the practice of Islam, by choice, I will embark on the “journey of a lifetime”: the pilgrimage to Makkah for the first time. While I will make this pilgrimage in fulfillment of the ritual requirement of Islam, I have already been warned. My Muslim female friends say I will encounter certain aspects of gender…