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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…uncil of Uganda (IRCU) organized a five-hour celebration of the country’s brutal new anti-gay law, which includes sentences of life imprisonment for homosexuality. President Yoweri Museveni, the guest of honor, depicted the battled against homosexuality as a “war” and denounced oral and anal sex, which he said causes people’s intestines to fall out. Leading a kick-off march was the notoriously anti-gay pastor Martin Ssempa. According to Buzzfeed’…

Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…Security Council, the U.S., NATO and even the Arab League would join in a crusade against a ruling madman? Libya dominates the news cycle these days because of our own deep-seated desire to be thrilled, especially by the illicit and unsavory. This is hardly a new idea, but I am not reviving the notion of man the sinner nor am I arguing that we are wired by our DNA to hate, cheat and battle each other. We are slaves to our eyes. It is the riveted g…

Fox News “Report” Targets Group Led by McConnell Staffer

By Sarah Posner

…e issued a call for the Department of Justice to investigate this alleged “new threat to our national security.” The ACLJ, a right-wing Christian legal group founded by Pat Robertson and run by Republican powerbroker Jay Sekulow, threatened that it is mobilizing its “National Security Legal Team,” and that supporters should “join our nationwide campaign demanding that the Department of Justice step in and not only call an immediate halt to these m…

Ten-Year-Old Hero Confronts Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Lauri Lebo

…t kid’s going to do something about it. How can any American reading such stories not feel a little proud rush of patriotism, right? A slight welling up in the chest? I don’t mean to sound condescending here, but how can anyone not find such brave principled kids absolutely adorable? Ummm, actually there is one group that seems to hate stories about little kids standing up to bigotry. And that would be the American Family Association. Remember Wi…

What Did Kyrie Say That Was So Wrong? When Black Antisemitism Meets White Jewish Privilege

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…n the Jewish community. Likewise, I hope for a post-Abrahamic turn in Black religion away from the chosen/damned binary, whether that means a return to traditional African religions, as many have done, decolonizing received traditions to create new hybrids, or even imagining new spiritual possibilities shorn of the Abrahamic tradition entirely. So how does the bar joke end? Well, that’s the joke. How many of you knew that there were that many type…

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…l must make money to support her nine-year-old child. (Slyly, A.O. Scott’s New York Times review ends with a note on its “R” rating since, “It has fake bloodshed and real nudity”: This difference is crucial.) Cassidy and Randy each work double lives, between their bodies as commodities and their bodies that have to pay the rent and support their children. Somewhere in all the meat are identities, struggling for birth. Each carries multiple names:…

As an African American Who Loves Thanksgiving, Must I Simply Ignore the Historical Suffering of the Wampanoag and Pass the Sweet Potato Pie?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ever-expanding culture wars, most prominently with the publication of the New York Times’ 1619 Project and the short-lived 1776 Report which has morphed into the arch-conservative 1776 Project. The elevation of the year 1619 into the public consciousness only offers a partial glimpse of the date’s ominous meaning within African-American religious thought. The oft-quoted quip by Malcolm X from a 1964 speech, “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. The r…

Change v. Change at NPR

By Warren Throckmorton

…ggression on parents) in order to change orientation. This is not what the New York Times article was about. In contrast to this report, the New York Times article generated no controversy or outrage. If Spiegel wanted to report on people who accept their sexuality but live in such a way to honor their religious commitments then why interview a guy who promises that gays can change? This is complicated. Wyler’s stated reason for wanting to change…

Church Attendance is (Once Again) Correlated with Authoritarianism — So Why Do We Refuse to Acknowledge It?

By Chrissy Stroop

…P. Jones explicitly called out America’s so-called “paper of record,” The New York Times, for spreading this misinformation: A version of this thesis appeared recently in a highly-circulated New York Times article, which made the bold claim that ‘Trump is connecting with a different type of evangelical voter’ beyond ‘the churchgoing, conservative activists who once dominated the G.O.P.’ Despite its zombie-like resurrections since Trump’s rise to…

In Just 10 Years ‘The Book of Mormon’ Musical Has Gone From America’s Darling to America’s Latest Problem — The Inverse of the Mormon Story

By Jake Johnson

…verted path Mormonism itself took in this country. Born in 1830 in upstate New York, Mormonism spent much of the nineteenth century retreating further and further into America’s middle spaces in the face of rejection and violence. Mormons practiced polygamy and built communities of shared resources—qualities that historian Paul Reeve has shown disqualified this almost totally white religion from the protections of whiteness. Looking but not acting…