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Don’t Write Obit for Liberal Zionism Just Yet: A Conversation With Israeli MK Merav Michaeli

…over victimization.” In an hour-long interview conducted while she was in Washington last month for the Saban Forum—an annual, mostly off-the-record confab of politicians and policymakers—Michaeli was insistent that the will exists to make peace with the Palestinians. The result might not be a two-state solution, she maintained, but “anything Israelis and Palestinians can agree on is a good agreement.” Our conversation took place just days before…

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Obama’s Religion Problem, Marriage Equality, and a Bush Executive Order

Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff asks in a column today why President Obama won’t just come right out and endorse marriage equality, arguing that there is no electoral downside: There’s no point in waiting for a re-election victory to announce support for marriage equality. The people who would vote against Obama for his views on marriage rights aren’t going to support him anyway. A slight majority of the country now supports marriage equality,…

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Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

…gal loopholes and problems, according to a report from Estonian Public Broadcasting. Puerto Rico: Court Allows Woman to Adopt Partner’s Child A Puerto Rican court ruled in favor of a woman who had been trying to adopt her partner’s child, which the Washington Blade reports was the first ruling in the U.S. commonwealth in favor of adoption by a same-sex couple. Czech Republic: Court Recognizes Gay Adoption A court in Prostějov recognized the adopti…

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Komen, Planned Parenthood, and Conspiracy Theories

…ness and prevention with a diocesan-wide ‘Run’ or ‘Walk for Prevention.’ A number of cancer-related educational and advocacy organizations donate money to Planned Parenthood, or otherwise support abortion or immoral embryonic stem cell research. So it’s best to support organizations that do not.” As with Republican efforts to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood’s family planning services, the right’s crusade against the Komen Foundati…

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Hate Crimes Update—Killing “Liberal Vermin” in Tennessee

…a Political Protest.” Here he returns to a sweeping attack on Democrats in Washington, including “liberal Supreme Court Justices” and “Osama Hussein Obama”—a “radical leftist” who “looks like Curious George.” Finally, “This was a Symbolic Killing.” Adkisson states that “I wanted to kill every Democrat in the Senate” and other such places, as well as “everyone in the Mainstream Media”—but since “I couldn’t get to the generals and high ranking offic…

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The Irony of Moral Panic over Surplus Men

…icked about what to do with these surplus women, as the New York Times and Washington Post warned of a generation of spinsters. Male authorities, predictably, said the problem was too much education for women. “Girls are being prepared daily, by ‘superior education’ to engage, not in childbearing and housework, but in clerkships, telegraphy, newspaper-writing, school-teaching etc.,” complained Nathan Allen in the Journal of Psychological Medicine….

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DREAMing of Faith

…than the rather obvious statements of well-known religious leaders? A new Washington Post poll finds that 70% of white evangelicals support open service by gays and lesbians in the military (although this poll shows a wide differential from a Pew poll which found only 43% of white evangelicals support open service). Still, though, there are plenty of religious people and religious leaders who support repealing DADT. You could make just as strong…

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Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

…d Johnson as the “historian of human dignity.” Another recent piece in the Washington Post by Justin Dyer—executive director of the conservative Civitas Institute at the University of Texas—emphasized that the American nation’s founders believed that “concepts of fundamental human dignity and moral equality are rooted, ultimately, in the book of Genesis.” We might contrast the vaguely narcotic, soporific impact of these recent mentions of human di…

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Did Billy Graham Really Tell Romney He’d ‘Help’?

…ras were allowed in to take the evening’s iconic photo. Following that, as Washington Post blogger Ed O’Keefe puts it: Graham, Franklin Graham and Romney then prayed and as the meeting ended, campaign aides said that Graham told Romney: “I’ll do all I can to help you. And you can quote me on that.” Got that? Romney’s campaign aides are the source of the quote. Yahoo News’ Holly Bailey attributes the quote to Romney’s senior adviser Mark DeMoss, wh…

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Bishops Double Down on Issues of Pelvis Over Poverty

…ted to address “an audience that included many bishops” at a conference in Washington that spring. He told them with typical bluntness that they should stop talking so much about the many policy issues they have taken up in the name of social justice. They should concentrate their authority on “the moral social” issues like abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage, where, he argued, the natural law and Gospel principles were cl…

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