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In Latest Round of LGBTQ Discrimination Cases Before SCOTUS, Religion Is ‘The Elephant in the Room’

By Patrick Hornbeck

“I think this whole category is the elephant in the room.” That’s what Justice Stephen Breyer said, referring to religion and religious exemptions from laws that ban discrimination against LGBTQ people, during arguments Tuesday at the Supreme Court. Breyer’s exchange with Solicitor General Noel Francisco came as battle between religious exemptions and LGBT rights returned to the Court in the form of three cases involving employees fired for being…

Meet the Christian Reconstructionists Behind the Latest Birther Theory

By Sarah Posner

…08). Farah is the editor of WND, the website that has played a key role in promoting birtherism. Lofton said he expected Titus’ theory to figure in Corsi’s forthcoming book, which is already being promoted on WND. (Lofton was critical of WND for focusing too much on the birth certificate rather than on this, in his view, more critical question.) Both Lofton and Titus are admirers of R.J. Rushdoony, the intellectual godfather of Christian Reconstru…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…ose “supplemental materials” aren’t just intelligent design books—like the latest version of Pandas and People. LSEA says that “a teacher shall teach the material presented in the standard textbook supplied by the school system and thereafter may use supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner, as permitted by the city, parish, or oth…

Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…’s The Human Condition. Arendt was a political theorist who came of age in Germany during the 1920s. Trained as a philosopher (she was a student of Martin Heidegger and also his lover), Arendt, who was Jewish, was forced to leave Germany in the early 1930s, as Hitler rose to power. World War II was an important influence on Hannah Arendt, and is reflected in her writings, which focus on topics like totalitarianism and violence. In The Human Condit…

Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger

By R.L. Stollar

…n order of the world—like LGBTQ, and especially trans people.” During Nazi Germany, for example, it was common to link queer people to child sexual abuse to argue for their eradication. Adolf Hitler himself worried about how “a homosexual will generally seduce a whole host of boys, so that homosexuality really is as infectious and dangerous as the plague.” We don’t have to go as far, or as far back, as Nazi Germany, however, as this was a rhetoric…

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…C says the president of an Azerbaijani LGBT rights group, who now lives in Germany, “told CBC nes gay people in the oil-rich, mainly Muslim country have been subjected to occasional harassment in the past, but a systematic effort to detain people in unprecedented.” Lawyer Samed Rahimli told the New York Times that police had “targeted homosexuals in general, not prostitutes as they have claimed.” Many of those arrested were sentenced to up to 30 d…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…boys and paired them with adult homosexual soldiers. Brownshirt leaders in Germany recruited boys from the local high schools for sex. Roehm himself once briefly fled Germany for South America over a scandal involving a young male prostitute. This bodes ill for the young men who will be our future draftees. The scenario I see unfolding if we allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military is an initial period of turmoil in which members of the s…

Christian Nationalism Hurts the Children It Claims to Protect — As Author Lillian Smith Understood 80 Years Ago

By Matthew Teutsch and Emma Williams

…e threat it poses to democracy by linking it directly with fascism in Nazi Germany. Smith’s work grapples with conflicts of race and systemic inequality that are intertwined in American society. During Jim Crow, Smith examined the influence of Christian nationalism on the issues of her time, and her work continues to speak to us today. Current attempts by right-wing politicians to blur the lines of separation between church and state are a continu…

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…caust to “score political points,” when Carson suggested that Jews in Nazi Germany could have prevented the Holocaust had they been armed with guns. While abuse of Nazi and Holocaust analogies is not limited to one political party, these two most recent and most widely reviled instances were uttered by Republicans running for president who claim that their Christian faith deeply informs their politics and values. Now the Syrian refugee crisis is c…

Presidential Pep Talks and the Religion of Fear: How did an Uncontroversial Speech Become a National Controversy?

By Eric Reitan

…kids into pawns in the pursuit of his socialist agenda! This is like Nazi Germany all over again! How exactly did the promise of a welcome-back-to-school pep talk become the occasion for such fear and anger? What made it possible? Back in the early 1990s, when the first President Bush gave a similar speech to schoolchildren, there were some partisan grumblings from Democratic politicos (albeit far milder—no mention of Nazi Germany). But these gru…