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Dispatches from the Workplace: Postville: Ground Zero for the Intersection of Immigrant and Workers’ Rights

By Kim Bobo

…ost of them to become citizens. Second, the ICE-directed workplace raids must stop. The ICE staff was expanded dramatically under the rubric of fighting terrorism. Instead it is terrorizing communities. When Frances Perkins was made Secretary of Labor under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, the first thing she did was shut down the division, then based at the Department of Labor, that was conducting workplace raids against immigrants. The raids were…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…quality advocates called a major victory. Before the vote, anti-LGBT activist Austin Ruse had warned supporters: A major catastrophe is about to happen at UN Headquarters in Geneva. The sexual revolutionaries are about to defeat the forces of truth and goodness. It has been the long-term project of the sexual revolutionaries to undermine the teachings of the Church and to impose a new sexual orthodoxy on the whole world. The new sexual orthodoxy i…

Show Me the Way of the Hebrews: The Making of an African American Rabbi

By J. Lester Feder

…ew Testament nonsense…” Louise Elizabeth Dailey was the daughter of a Baptist minister in Annapolis, Maryland, who observed some odd customs. He salted chicken after it was slaughtered, for example, and covered mirrors during a period of mourning. When she saw these same customs observed by a Jewish family for whom she worked as a maid after moving to Philadelphia around 1940, she decided this was more than coincidence. “Coincidence,” she was fond…

A Post-Christian America? Not Quite—Though Devoutly to be Wished

By Peter Laarman

…wer, why are the Democrats so intent on cultivating them—on fighting the last war, so to speak? The first point seems pretty self-evident. You grow up Christian, then you come to some degree of intellectual and political maturity only to see Falwell, Robertson, Mohler, and various Catholic prelates make complete asses of themselves on a regular basis. Wouldn’t you duck when given a chance, on a confidential survey, to say “I’m not with them”? You…

An Extravagant Welcome For All: Believe Out Loud, a Faith-Based LGBT Campaign, Launches

By Peter Laarman

…ethodist Church, brought his group on board early. “Over 500 United Methodist justice activists who gathered recently in Colorado chanted ‘believe out loud’ in unison as we launched a new fifty-region national organizing campaign tied to this theme,” Plummer reports. Rev. Michael Adee, whose More Light Presbyterians are also working hard to advance significant policy change within their 2.5 million-member denomination, observed that “Presbyterians…

After More Mass Shootings It’s Time to Call Out White Supremacy in the Pews

By Peter Laarman

…priate now, I don’t know when it will be. American violence doesn’t emerge from thin air. It has a very specific pedigree in the failed project known as whiteness, with a strong assist from toxic masculinity. We won’t heal unless we can name what’s ailing us. It’s time we had this talk….

Life as a Game Show: Reading Slumdog Millionaire

By Paul Courtright

…d eating, interrupted conversations, and stared at the screens as the contestants struggled to answer questions. Amitabh Bachchan had far more star power in India than Regis Philbin did in America; and a crore (10,000,000 Rupees) is a lot more money relative to the Indian economy than a million dollars is in America. Bachchan was huge; the show was huge. What is it about this film, with a seemingly random set of game show trivia questions at its c…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…ly welcome this judgement by the European Court of Human Rights, which illustrates just one of the practical problems same-sex couples encounter due to institutional discrimination. Same-sex couples, just like opposite-sex couples, often like to live together and should have equal access to this right.” “The ruling shows the way forward for the EU, and beyond. Discriminatory provisions still prevent same-sex couples, often with children, to exerci…

The Abortion Debate, Texas Style

By Dhawn Martin

…en. During Monday’s official proceedings, tears and confessions, facts and statistics, blatant propaganda and earnest pleas, punctuated testimonies offered on both sides of the bill. Unofficial proceedings turned the Capitol’s open-air rotunda into a public forum. One activist pronounced pro-life the “truly Christian” stance; another expressed dismay that “‘they’ always paint ‘us’ as godless.” All the while a man walked about the rotunda bearing a…

The Fretting About Whether Democrats Are “Friendly” To Religion

By Sarah Posner

…erview with Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and chair of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, appeared in the Houston Chronicle, a Catholic wrote a scathing letter to the editor about his statements about the bishops’ role in lobbying against abortion in health care reform. “I regard the church’s stand as extremely hypocritical and insensitive to women who risk their health bearing the burden o…