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Will Ralph Reed’s New Venture Wed Religious Right to Tea Partiers?

By Sarah Posner

…e Christian Coalition.” Yet Reed continues to elicit effusive praise from fellow evangelicals. The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody claims FFC “is indeed poised to be a major player in the 2010 and 2012 elections.” About Reed’s association with Abramoff, Scheffler told RD, “if you look at the whole explanation it was a nonissue, it was the press that made something out of nothing that was there.” He added that Iowa activists were “exci…

Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…el.” Boy, that just says it. The envy part has to do with people who can feel joy, feel peace, and feel uplifted. I would have welcomed, oddly, those kinds of emotions. But you can still feel good emotions if it comes organically out of your childhood as it did for me. Larry David once did a whole bit about synagogue where he says: Oh God you’re great, you’re fantastic, you’re the highest, you’re the most supreme. That’s how it sounds sometimes, a…

Televangelist Watchdog May Be Forced to Close Its Doors

By Sarah Posner

…ds. Trinity, a Christian group, has committed itself to fighting fraud in televangelism because of its “stain on the cause of Christ.” Its investigations and indefatigable research have led to some of the most notorious exposés of televangelism fraud, including major investigations of Robert Tilton, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, and the behemoth Trinity Broadcasting Network, among others. The Dallas-based group, which marks its 40th anniversary th…

Police Violence is Baked in: Academy Training Encourages Racial Profiling and Emphasizes the Use of Violence

By Samantha J. Simon

…defensive tactics, and shooting guns. I spent long days learning about the code of criminal procedure, traffic code, and arrest procedures. I also had a first-row seat to the cadets’ physical, ideological, and emotional transformations as, over a period of six to eight months, they became police officers. What I saw in that year directly conflicted with the “bad apple” arguments that existed then and that would continue to offer a popular explanat…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…d coalition. Some came from the political right and far-right: there were well-heeled Catholics from posh parts of Paris, poorer ones from the provinces and some Muslims. Some supporters even spoke the language of the anti-capitalist left, arguing that gay adoptions and surrogacy might lead to a heartless market in embryos. To some extent, the movement simply capitalised on the general unpopularity of François Hollande, then the Socialist presiden…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…n face and no little beanie on his head and eat pork every other Tuesday? Well, if you ask me, I would tell you, no.” Which of course suggests that Yerushalmi is the legalistic purist, but, uh… oh, never mind. While he claims that strict adherence to Jewish law is required to be a “good” Jew, Yerushalmi misapprehends shari’ah as a set of requirements and, more ominously, punishments. As Haroon Moghul wrote here just after Oklahoma voters passed a…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…red by him. Antonious is head of an NGO named United for Life, which is widely believed to be funded by American Evangelicals in contravention of Ethiopian laws restricting foreign finance on policy advocacy activities. Lebanon: Court Rules Against Anti-Gay Law The Daily Star of Lebanon reported this week on a legal ruling it said “rubbishes anti-gay law” in the country. The latest edition of The Legal Agenda, a quarterly magazine published by the…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…bout their own sexuality. It’s especially fraught, perhaps, when one is a celibate religious leader, and simply wants to get on with the business of building the Kingdom of God, and doesn’t want to become the topic of conversation. But unless gay priests decide that it’s time for their Stonewall moment, Church leaders–some of them closeted, sometimes self-loathing, homosexually-oriented men themselves–will continue to utter the slander that affect…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…images in art, across the internet, and elsewhere), and there has been as well a self-conscious repudiation of “white Jesus.” And yet Jesus often remains, as we argue in the text, “white without words,” meaning the legacy of the image and all it represents and symbolizes about racialized and class divides remains with us still. Ed Blum: At times, the uses of racial Christ imagery is quite intention. Madison Grant (the spokesman for “Nordic white…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l Vauxhall Tavern, a “legendary gay venue” from developers. Turkey: Pride celebrations cancelled under threat from Islamists Organizers of Istanbul’s pride parade, scheduled for Sunday, June 26, called it off after local officials banned it in the face of threats from Islamist hard-liners. When a German Member of the European Parliament joined a group of activists attempting to read a statement to reports on Sunday, police detained her and others….