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Swiftboating Obama’s Health Care Reform?

By Bill Berkowitz

…alifornia Attorney General Jerry Brown to major media. “The letter, signed mostly by former staffers at IndyMac’s now-shuttered mortgage operation, asks Brown to investigate Schumer and to prosecute him under a state law making it a misdemeanor to spread false and damaging statements or rumors about a bank,” the Los Angeles Times reported. Over the past few years, CRC, ranked the fiftieth largest independent PR agency in the U.S. in 2008: created…

Conservative Republican Muslim Condemns Fox Report on Congressional Staffers as “Anti-Muslim Bigotry”

By Sarah Posner

…e profits from a cottage industry of peddling fear of Islam were exposed last month by the Tennessean’s religion reporter Bob Smietana. “Ninety-nine point nine percent of honest reporters toss it into the garbage can,” said Khan. “They know a smear when they see it.” He added, “I know the cast of characters and their highly dubious reputations and complete lack of expertise when it comes to Islam, Muslims, and national security.” “What I would ass…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…President Chad Griffin urged President Obama to take stronger action to demonstrate to Ugandan officials that there will “continuing and long term political and economic consequences to state-driven homophobia.” Paraguay: Activists Clash with Police at OAS Meeting In 2013, the Organization for American States adopted an anti-discrimination resolution that includes sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. This week, activists protest…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ort that at least 226 trans people were murdered in the past year, which almo*]}*st certainly under-reports the actual figure. In the US, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported earlier this year that, based on data collected from 13 states and Puerto Rico, almo*]}*st three-quarters of LGBTQ homicides in 2013 were transgender women, more than two-thirds trans women of color. In Wales, Liberal Democrats marked Transgender Awareness Week b…

The Internet Is Not Killing Religion, Religion is Killing Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…versity), has once again fanned the flames of this mythology by showing a “statistical association” between religious affiliation, level of college education, and internet use. This latter phenomenon Downey claims accounts for about 25% of the decline in religious affiliation. It should be noted that Downey kind of, sort of makes clear that the statistical association between internet use and affiliation “does not prove causation,” because he know…

‘Imagine Better’: Can Harry Potter Change the World?

By B. Howell Belser

…vert hegemonic power as well as to bolster it. Harry Potter is the world’s most popular series of children’s books—and one of the most contentious, coming in at number one on The American Library Association’s list of “Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009.” The film series, the seventh of which was released last weekend, is the highest-grossing series of all time, surpassing both Star Wars and the James Bond films—all 22 of them. Harry Potte…

Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…their lifestyle.” …Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, but LGBT people can face stigma and discrimination. Criminalizing sexual activity between consenting adults would be a major backward step for human rights in the country. Experts presented by the anti-LGBT group at a hearing on Tuesday testified that homosexuality was inherently immoral and went against Indonesia’s state ideology. Later this mo…

Is Army’s New “Humanist” Designation Just Semantic Hooey?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…hristian service members make up 70% of the population. Currently no Humanist or Atheist chaplains approved for military service, though MAAF reports that there are a number of Atheist and Humanist chaplain assistants. The DOD’s ruling this week may, thus, have a meaningful impact on the free expression of religious identity for the reported 3.6% of service members who are Humanists and allow more diverse access to resources for spiritual care a…

Naked Jihad

By Kate Blanchard

…ot the source of anyone’s honor,” written on her bare torso in Arabic, she most certainly meant to cause a stir. It is unlikely, however, that at 19 she intended to invite death threats, such that she would soon be feeling the need to leave her home country. Not surprisingly, a number of Western women felt moved to show their support for Amina. An international movement called Femen staged bare-breasted protests in European cities, in which the wr…

American Sin: Why Pope Francis’ Mercy is Not Our Mercy

By Kaya Oakes

…h as a field hospital where “treatment is given above all to those who are most wounded,” and many of his reoccurring anecdotes about mercy have to do with prisons and prisoners. “I have a special relationship with people in prisons,” Francis says, “precisely because of my awareness of being a sinner.” The pope sees imprisonment as a matter of convenience for many nations who prefer to condemn people rather than offer them opportunities: “Sometime…