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Democrats Have Seized the Narrative Frame From the GOP, But Can They Find a Better Story to Tell About an Inclusive, Pluralist US?

By Chrissy Stroop

…free, pluralist United States. I’m sure that taking back patriotism with “country over party” rhetoric will benefit them strategically—but what does it say about the broader vision that it was accompanied by chants of “USA! USA!” and a “tough on crime” stance embodied by a sheriff who once worked with right-wing wackos on their (at best) morally dubious anti-trafficking missions? Once again, Democrats cede moral ground by uncritically adopting GO…

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…rning of Yiga’s attack. “I know he is in trouble… Peter needs to leave the country.” Visibly upset and anxious to return Kiyimba said, “I need to get home… I am responsible for his spiritual well-being.” As a human rights advocate and pastor to LGBT people Kiyimba could be sentenced, under the provisions of the proposed bill, to prison for seven years for “aiding and abetting homosexuality,” or up to three years for each count of “failure to discl…

Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…izenship and basic rights. Neighboring Bangladesh, a predominantly Islamic country, also denies citizenship to Rohingyas presently living within its own borders. It is not surprising that the United Nations views the Rohingyas as “one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.” Burma, or Myanmar, is still in a delicate transition to democracy after fifty years of military dictatorship. The current 2008 constitution reserves one quarter of the seat…

It’s the Theology, Stupid: Why the Shocking SBC Report is Anything But Surprising

By Chrissy Stroop and Jessica Johnson

…oldiers, lobbyists, and politicians work to impose theocracy on the entire country, and I’m exactly the kind of “demonic” Other they’re currently fixated on. Their violent apocalyptic fantasies have already translated into violent action, as on January 6, and I think we’re only going to see more political violence going ahead. During the Satanic Panic of the 1980s too, of course, LGBTQ people were scapegoated. It’s nothing new, but this moment, in…

How Iowa Became a Stronghold of the Religious Right

By Randall Balmer

…ype propagated by those from the coasts who disdain the Midwest as flyover country, Iowa is not flat. Anyone who has ridden RAGBRAI (the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) knows that the topography of Iowa is definitely not flat. (I’ve done the ride twice, in 1988 and 1992, and I hope to persuade my sons to accompany me the next time around in the not-too-distant future.) I don’t get back to Iowa as often as I’d like, but I have fam…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…needed to engage in civil disobedience and seriously consider leaving the country,” adding, “I knew what I needed to write.” Given what was expected of them on the exam, and the tenor of the class, there is “not a lot of shock among the students about the current developments,” said one of the students, referring to the revelation that Miller is in hiding in Nicaragua. “Everybody semi-suspected that Liberty Counsel had something to do with her di…

On The Kerry Apartheid Comment and the Cycle of Chutzpah

By Sarah Posner

…chutzpah to claim that by silencing our voices you are protecting our own country from us. (emphasis mine). So you see the cycle of chutzpah here. It’s as if Breaking The Silence is talking about some abstraction, and its goals are to “disparage the IDF.” If you don’t believe there is an occupation, you can’t believe Breaking The Silence is doing anything but undermining the military that ensures Israel’s security. If you don’t believe Breaking T…

Dumping Satan: It’s Time to Let Go

By Emily Manuel

…ing of peace is a religious mandate. Unfortunately, especially within this country, we have such a vile reaction to Islam that I fear that those who believe that any conversation with Muslims, or anyone who has a different opinion of us, is compromising with evil and therefore even treasonous—well, that seems to be the dominant discourse in the politics of this country. And here I think it goes back to how we have come to understand Satan. If inst…

The Religious Right Has Come Out of the Closet

By Patricia Miller

…ervatives of being closet theocrats, seeking to impose Christianity on the country and refusing to accept, let alone embrace, American diversity. That was a generalization, but it turned out to be more true than not. She quotes Robert Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute as noting: One of the most astounding shifts in modern politics has been the utter transformation of white evangelical Protestants from being confident self-described ‘…

The Enigmatic Role of Anti-Semitism in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

By Katherine Kelaidis

…e Jews of Ukraine. Which brings us to the most realistic and imminent threat for Ukraine’s Jewish community. There is a real danger that Russia will covertly perpetuate anti-semitic violence, blame that violence on Ukrainian nationalists, and then use it as pretext to commit further violence in the country. After all, even as late as last night, Putin was suggesting that his objective in the Ukraine is to “de-Nazify” the country. Eastern Europe’s…