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New Report: Prop. 8 Was Parent-Approved

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ng strong alliances especially in communities that supported Prop. 8, like African-Americans. The report also suggests embracing honesty. Our opposition depicts us in a highly unflattering way in every election. We give them the power to define us when only they talk about us. We therefore have to talk about ourselves or we functionally forfeit the election. Honesty is therefore not only the idealistic option; it is also our only realistic option….

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…military. It’s incredible how in the last three months it’s like suddenly Republicans have suddenly discovered the deficit, but the deficit was kept off the books by George Bush for the wars. I heard a guy the other day say on NPR, “We will stay in Afghanistan until we can’t afford it anymore. We will never find a reason to leave, we will never arrive at a victory, but we will finally have to quit.” I think the judgment that we can’t afford it—we…

Talking Prop. 8: Of Rites and Rights

By Peter Laarman

…h requires states to have a government run by the people, specifically, “a republican form of government.” And despite enemies of man-woman marriage trying to morph the Constitution’s references to “liberty” and “equal protection” into a declaration of homosexual “marriages,” these words in the post-Civil War 14th Amendment are about giving former black slaves the same legal rights as white freemen—it’s not at all about marriage or even about coup…

Glenn Beck Has a Plan

By Julie Ingersoll

….” This is Beck’s slanted version (drawn from “Christian American History” promoter David Barton) of the history of race in America in which the Democratic party has, all along, supported racism, while the Republicans have been the party of racial equality. During the “Founders Friday” session of his television show devoted to his revisionist version of African American History, and many times since, he shared that, apparently by accident (or divi…

The Christian Reconstructionism Dodge

By Sarah Posner

…Parker, a religious right celebrity touted by the John Birch Society, the Republican candidate for the congressional seat in California’s 37th district, and an exemplar of the religious right’s efforts to reach African-American voters, is an expressed admirer of Rushdoony. When she approvingly cited his theology to the crowd assembled at the Values Voters Summit a few years ago, no one blinked an eye. That’s because Christian Reconstructionism is…

Park51 And The Roots of Islamophobia

By Sarah Posner

…al religion, and therefore doesn’t enjoy the same freedoms Christians do (“freedoms” like denying equal rights to LGBT people). As I wrote in a post “The Utter Ordinariness of Demeaning Islam,” religious right figures from Palin to Franklin Graham to lesser-known figures like O’Neal Dozier, calling Islam “wicked,” “evil,” or a “false religion” is de rigueur. For the religious right, the fact of the Park51 center’s location is of little relevance —…

Former RNC Chair Comes Out

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hreat from his stand, he will nonetheless face an uphill climb, especially if he continues to support anti-gay candidates under the “my political identity is not defined by one issue” cop-out used by all gay Republicans I know. Sadly, though, his fiercest opposition will most likely be other closeted gay Republicans—and closeted Christian conservatives—still cowering in fear and self-loathing. …

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…oldier is wants to leave the military as a conscientious objector. A South African pastor’s “Jesus had HIV” sermon has angered many Christians in the country. Michael Enright , a 21-year-old film student, has been arrested for slashing a cab driver’s throat after discovering the driver was a Muslim. A woman working as a hostess at a Disney restaurant in California is filing a discrimination complaint after being sent home for refusing to remove he…

Beck Plus God Does Not Equal X

By Anthea Butler

…or intellectual capability that can even compare. Malcolm was about a pan-African consciousness and, after becoming a Muslim, global consciousness. Beck’s nastiness comes from rapacious self-aggrandizement. Comparing X to Beck is just plain ignorant. A shrewd snake-oil evangelist who knows how to pull at the heartstrings of his constituency has hijacked the narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. That constituency, floundering because the old lea…

Mormons, Jews Reach Accord Over Proxy Baptism

By Joanna Brooks

…e that has also benefitted causes as diverse as breast cancer research and African-American history. But it has not stopped some overzealous LDS people from submitting for proxy baptism the names of individuals they cannot claim as relatives—including Holocaust victims. An act that might have seemed to LDS people deep in the heart of the Book-of-Mormon-belt a gesture of respect for Jews was, of course, an outrage to Jewish people who believe that…