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‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gender equality in the revised Constitution,” Professor Gil Won-pyong of Pusan National University, who leads the campaign, told The Korea Times. “The constitutional revision played a crucial role in igniting our anger. Christians who were lukewarm over municipal ordinance and educational guidance have become desperate owing to the revision, which is a grave issue. People are sharing information voluntarily via chat rooms, and they are actively v…

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…. Another, somewhat tangential group like Billy James Hargis of Christian Crusade and Carl McIntire of The Twentieth Century Reformation Hour wanted to win souls first, votes second. Though there was a lot of common ground between these two groups—they were committed anticommunists and anti-New Dealers—the organizational ties between them were quite thin. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Christian right was distinct from the conservative movement. That…

Meditation is Very Relaxing, Says New York Times

By Jay Michaelson

…der me less effective as a translator of it. For a skeptical, intellectual New York Times reader, Atlas is the most effective translator I can imagine: he’s not just kosher, he’s glatt kosher. And, sure enough, he acknowledges several times in “Buddhists’ Delight” (I know from experience that titles are usually not written by journalists, and I’m going to hope he didn’t come up with that one), the anxieties and fears of his presumptive audience. Y…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nguage towards gays. Wrote Laurie Goodstein and Elisabetta Povoledo in the New York Times, The church doors opened just a crack for Catholics who divorced and remarried without receiving an annulment of their first marriages, and for those living together without being married. They remained firmly shut to same-sex marriage, even as the document said gay people should be treated with respect… The next steps are now with Francis, who after three we…

How Not to Oppose the National Day of Prayer

By Andrew Aghapour

…r its elimination, the AHA wants the annual observance to be replaced by a new “National Day of Reason.” According to its official website, a National Day of Reason would, of course, “celebrate reason,” but it would also “raise public awareness about the persistent threat to religious liberty posed by government intrusion into the private sphere of worship.” We should definitely have a National Day of Reason (Vision gets a whole week! Reason at le…

Synod ‘Fight for Soul’ of Catholic Church, Flap On English Translation of Key Report; Anti-Gay Law Advances in Kyrgyzstan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…y more conciliatory tone towards those in “irregular” familial setups. The New York Times’ Elisabetta Povoledo and Laurie Goodstein similarly called it “the first signal that the institutional church may follow the direction Francis has set in the first 18 months of his papacy, away from condemnation of unconventional family situations and toward understanding, openness and mercy.” The conservative backlash was immediate and intense, if sometimes…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…100 percent.” As we’ve moved from an election dominated by fake news to a new Trump administration run on the principle of “alternative facts,” it’s worth taking some time to ponder what seems to be contemporary conservative credulity. We should certainly be reminded of the term “truthiness” that Stephen Colbert invented in October 2005 to capture some of the pronouncements of the George W. Bush administration. As he explained then, truthiness wa…

Latest Diatribe on Francis and Latin Mass in the Times Launders the History — and Troubling Elements — of the ‘Tradition’

By Matthew Gabriele

…ntly articulated by right-wing pundit Michael Brendan Dougherty in The New York Times, the dissent laments the loss of Latin as the language of celebration and the heady ritual and material artifice that was thought to have accompanied it. (It should be noted that while these changes may appear to the casual observer to focus on trivial or superficial details, the implications are quite meaningful and wide-ranging.) The piece is, by the author’s o…

On Whistleblowing, MLK, Jr., and the Politics of Resistance in the Digital Age

By Kevin Healey

…, generosity, and no vengeance, are as radical as you can get in Pharoah’s world or in Caesar’s world.” They are in fact “formulations for a counter-obedience.” Through WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning released videos purporting to show U.S. forces gunning down two Reuters journalists in Baghdad; in cooperation with Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, Snowden released PowerPoint slides showing how the NSA harnessed the data collection powers of tech comp…

But What About the Parents? New York Times Falls Into the Anti-Trans ‘Parents’ Rights’ Trap

By Chrissy Stroop

…ents something important should be able to muster up the empathy with ease. But apparently that’s too much to ask of The New York Times….