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New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…surprised to discover that Europe (which has a history of Christianity at least as long as Ukraine’s) has no time for a country that places a higher value on discrimination than European integration. The ultimate irony in all this is that Eastern Europe already has a country with organizations of homophobic thugs and politicians who use conservative Christian traditions to justify an atrocious record of violating the rights of the LGBT community….

Lindsey Graham and Al Qaeda Share the Same “Allahu Akbar”

By Nathan Lean

…in: “on the right path of religion.” While it does refer to Islamic moral code, it’s hardly a formal or well-defined set of rules and is often the source of much disagreement and debate amongst the most revered legal scholars. The Michele Bachmanns and Louis Ghomerts of the world, however, have convinced many people that Sharia is epitomized by rare instances of hand chopping, hangings, and other gory punishments. It’s doubtful that the governors…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…proportions,” Harris-Perry concluded, adding that while “Much of the urban East Coast discourse about Palin and The Tea Party women is dismissive and mocking… this perspective ignores that visceral emotions are at least as important as sober rationality in making political choices.” Visceral emotions frequently govern the debate over Israel as well. If Palin does run for president in 2012 we can be sure that unequivocal support for Israel will be…

Puritan Narcissus: The Myth of American Exceptionalism

By Nick Street

…ct, it must be said) of the rage that fuels anti-Americanism in the Middle East, but neither Obama nor either of his main competitors in the race for the presidency has demonstrated any inclination to engage in this kind of self-reflection around the issues of terrorism and radical Islam. To their credit, Obama and Hillary Clinton have shown a greater reluctance than John McCain to continue the current administration’s strategy of building foreign…

Op-Ed: God’s Will in Iraq: Sarah Palin and America’s Global Mission

By Joel Schalit

…, even if, as was almost always the case, the Americans had no interest in promoting any kind of freedoms at all. In Palin’s case, what we have is a break from this rhetoric altogether. In relation to the war in Iraq, all she did was explain what it means to her as a Christian, and why she thinks the conflict is theologically justified. That’s what is most frightening about her statement: It is not just that she is provincial, but that she doesn’t…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…live as second-class citizens. On the other hand, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, who number some 200,000, cannot vote; their neighborhoods have been annexed to Israel, even though international law and the international community recognize that East Jerusalem would belong to a Palestinian state, assuming it were to have existed. We need even more hands to write this story out: The West Bank is cut open and torn apart by settlements, many…

The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion

By Jacob J. Erickson

…rica’s colonial and neocolonial periods, with Western hunters traveling to East Africa in particular to collect their trophies, tales of epic spiritual and natural struggle, and human conquest. A distinctively American form of Big Game hunting can be traced as well. Famously, Teddy Roosevelt headed to East Africa in the name of science (and Western Masculinity, I would add) to bag the Big Five for himself. The term morphed into use for the tourist…

The Mystic in the Rye: JD Salinger’s Religious Fiction

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…produced by an old vaudeville family from Manhattan’s Upper East Side (the East 70s, to be exact… the museum district). Bessie (née Gallagher, though this family, if ever there were one, was a matriarchy) and Les Glass were both performers, but they landed their greatest role and expressed their deepest creativity in the children they produced. There were seven in all, but first among them was the eldest son, Seymour (that’s right, See-More-Glass,…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…wn imperial interests for geopolitical control and dominance in the Middle East. In this relationship, Israel functions as what Noam Chomsky once called “a military offshoot of the United States.” Progressives support Palestinian rights, and an end to U.S. military aid, as part of a broader commitment to anti-racist and anti-oppressive politics everywhere, including the U.S. (which, like Israel, has its own ongoing settler-colonial legacy). On his…

Israel Will be a 2016 Evangelical Litmus Test

By Sarah Posner

…oes he or she have proven wisdom and experience in dealing with the Middle East issues, or is the candidate too new to the foreign policy arena? In light of yesterday’s terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, Nance, in a statement, calls Israel a “cornerstone” for the 2016 presidential nomination, adding, “continued violence in Israel and constant turmoil in the Middle East makes a clear and comprehensive foreign policy agenda a must for any po…