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Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…that Warren is appearing everywhere at about the same time; from Africa to Washington, DC, from Europe to New York City, from YouTube to iTunes. Over the years, he has spoken at the United Nations, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the African Union, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, TIME’s Global Health Summit, and numerous congresses around the world. In late-May, according to a press release posted on Ch…

Country of Georgia Considers Constitutional Marriage Ban; Hindu Nationalist Leader Surprises India With Call to Decriminalize Homosexuality; No End to Anti-LGBT Propaganda Campaign in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…bitter criticism from religious conservatives. He spoke this week with the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers about a recent petition demanding that the Obama administration remove him: More than 30,000 people have signed the petition since a group of Dominican evangelicals posted it to the White House’s website last week. A group of Catholic bishops in the Dominican Republic on Monday urged the country’s government to formally complain to the U.S….

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…nationalist ideology—an ideology that has killed hundreds in the US in the last years alone, and millions in the last century worldwide. At the very least, the responsible journalistic recourse is to contextualize, to make both the individual and the reader aware of the fact that they’re using white nationalist and white supremacist rhetoric, and then to follow up. If they use it after having been alerted to its meaning and origin, they need to be…

Will Dems Find Moxie to Resist Immoral GOP Tax Plan?

By Peter Laarman

…es to die, despite multiple studies showing no evidence that the investor class will ever use tax benefits to build factories in Ohio or West Virginia. Trump’s plan calls for a “territorial” system whereby multinational corporations based here will pay basically no tax on the repatriated earnings from foreign operations. The last time such corporations were given a tax holiday on accumulated overseas profits, they used the money to pay themselves…

“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case

By Patricia Miller

…d providers somehow “complicit” in the mandate a massive overreach. In the Washington Post, Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia argues that finding for the Little Sisters and their co-plaintiffs would “endanger religious liberty” because it would give religious objectors carte blanche to determine “what is a substantial burden on their exercise of religion; the courts must take their word for it.” Veit then goes on to make the rather biz…

Blank Sabbath: Sens. Sponsor Bill to Curb Wage Theft

By Peter Laarman

…to curb wage theft. The Senate legislation would specifically bar the misclassification of millions of workers as “independent contractors” rather than employees in an attempt to avoid paying payroll taxes. But IWJ also seeks to expose the shocking extent of other forms of wage theft: failing to pay the minimum wage, failing to pay required overtime, forcing workers to work “off the clock,” and sometimes just not paying at all. The group has prod…

How Orthodox Christianity Became the Spiritual Home of White Nationalism

By Katherine Kelaidis

…, the editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, told the Washington Post‘s Joe Heim that Heimbach should “be taken as seriously as David Duke.” The same article that declared Matthew Heimbach a rising star of the far-right also mentioned in passing that his racial views had “led to his excommunication from his Orthodox Christian church.” It was mercifully excluded that Heimbach’s excommunication came only weeks after his formal r…

Hannity Incites Threats to DC Church where Obamas Attended Easter Services

By Sarah Posner

This post has been updated. The Washington Post is reporting that Shiloh Baptist Church, where the Obamas attended Easter services, and which was founded in the 1860s by former slaves, has received over 100 threats after Sean Hannity played a clip of its pastor, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith, discussing racism in America: “We received a fax that had the image of a monkey with a target across is face,” Smith said. “My secretary has received telep…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…questionable maverick cred by tapping an apocalyptic fossil-fuel-besotted Alaskan for the GOP veep spot. Californians fearing their second-grade sons might be recruited as flower girls for leather-daddy nuptials broadcast their fretting over the airwaves unembarrassed by the illogic behind the idea that boys who like girls will start liking boys if boys who like boys are allowed to file jointly. And can’t you just hear the shredders a-whirring at…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…tion, referring to it as “an agreement with hell.” Or consider Stephen Douglas’s denial, in his debates with Lincoln, that American founding documents had any promise whatsoever: the authors of the Declaration of Independence, he claimed, were speaking only of whites, of “British subjects on this continent being equal to British subjects born and residing in Great Britain.” For Douglas, as for Garrison, as, it seems, for Wright, the nation’s racia…