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Heterosexual Martyrs and Gay Saints: Did AIDS Coverage Clear the Way for LGBT Equality?

By Diane Winston

…fied as AIDS, did not receive ongoing or thorough coverage. By 1982, nearly 800 AIDS cases had been diagnosed. According to one study, infants and children were increasingly infected. Although a threat to the general population was quickly dismissed, the implication was clear: anyone could be infected. The epidemic had exposed social and cultural fault lines that made coverage more than just a medical story. Its initial outbreak in the homosexual…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…arge part of the Great Plains, restored wildlife and built a system of over 800 state and county parks. They electrified an entire region of the country, bringing what had been America’s “Third World” up to 20th century standards. They created works of art, gave concerts, set up theaters throughout the country, ran nursery schools, served over 1.2 billion school lunches to needy children, gave immunizations, taught illiterate adults to read and wr…

Vatican Reverses Anti-Liberation Policies in Mexico

By Ruth Chojnacki and Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…ate, an ancient institution revived by Vatican II. In 2000, 341 of Mexico’s 800 deacons served the Diocese of San Cristobal, the largest number of deacons in any Catholic diocese in the world. Vatican suspicion of Bishop Ruiz’s liberationist pastoral strategy resulted in a failed attempt to remove him in 1993. The deacon program came under particular scrutiny after the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, with reports that Maya catechists defied th…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

While a number of conservative Christian leaders raise questions about Glenn Beck’s Mormonism, Worldview Matters’ host Brannon Howse continued his attack in a conversation with Kirk Cameron about why Cameron did not participate in Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny. Howse marveled at the “thick irony” wherein Cameron (the actor who played Buck, the converted journalist warning about the “demonic spirituality of a one world religion” in the Left Behind m…

“I’d Be Stupid Not To Go Packing Now.”

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…the cop beat down of Duanna Johnson, an African American transwoman, in a Memphis booking room that was captured on a surveillance video. “I’d be stupid not to go packing now.” Williams lives in Oakland, just outside of San Francisco, and he’s going to check out the San Francisco chapter of Pink Pistols. As a national organization that encourages lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender to arm themselves to prevent hate crimes the Pink Pistols are…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…an, as explained with liberal quotations from the Book of Proverbs and any number of recent self-help authors, then and only then will we rebuild the wealth of our nation and recover from an economic downturn that was driven by a negative and biased media in the first place. And only then, after a national revival and an awakening to self-reliance, will God work his plan to help others—not through our governing institutions, but through our religi…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…

By Jeff Sharlet

…n he moved not toward power but to the frontiers of justice, journeying to Memphis to stand in solidarity with striking sanitation workers, “garbage men,” even as he expanded the definition of civil rights to encompass the whole world. Challenged by “angry young men” to whom he preached non-violence to link freedom at home to the predations of empire overseas, he confessed, “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of th…

Eddie Long Takes Break from New Birth Pulpit

By Anthea Butler

…f the clergy class.” The group says it represents an organization based in Memphis called Commission Holding Religious Institutions in Sacred Trust, (CHRIST). Inside New Birth, Eddie Long told his congregation that “Imo take a little time off to work with my family.” You have to wonder why it took his wife’s divorce filing for him to finally make this decision. Claiming that Vanessa was his “spiritual rock,” Long said, “I love her, I love my child…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…chool that I learned the significance of “April 4”: “Shot rings out in the Memphis sky/ They took your life/ They could not take your pride.” I unknowingly had been honoring King’s life and death for all those years. Thanks to U2, King and Christ had been lodged in the musical memory of this adolescent white kid from New Jersey. It was only when writing a book on Jesus and race in America that I discovered that the rabbit hole went even deeper. U2…

Harry Jackson Shakes Religious Right Money Tree for “Below the Radar” Anti-Obama Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…attack of the enemy is the lethargy among God’s people.” One preacher from Memphis said she was ashamed that Strang and Jackson were in a position of having to beg for money from Christian leaders for his campaign. Jackson also let some frustration show, saying, “What the church is good at right now is by default letting the other guys absolutely eat our lunch… That’s what we’re doing, nothing. We’re sitting here and watching it happen and taking…