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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

…people, more obedient voters, from the third world. But, they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually. Let’s just say it: That’s true.” “Third World” is code for non-white voters—because Carlson only has a problem with non-white immigration. “Every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter,” Carlson claims. He also said on his show: “Everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it, ‘Ooh, the whi…

Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r this year of a rainbow mummer mask, of a kind familiar to Bulgarians because it is based on a “kukeri” mask, used to chase away evil spirits in a number of annual customs and rituals. This irked two of Bulgaria’s largest folklore groups, Gotse Delchev and the Bulgare ensemble, who wrote an open letter objecting to the use of traditional Bulgarian folk symbols in the Sofia Pride event. Eighteen embassies and a few representatives of international…

Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

By Mary E. Hunt

…s where following the money is the soundest approach. Mansions and beach houses are not free, so obviously Catholic money is keeping his successor in the style to which Wesolowski became accustomed. Multiply that by the number of countries where the Vatican has diplomatic relations. I doubt these diplomatic men cook their own meals or wash their own cassocks, no matter how frugal Pope Francis may be. So somebody pays a lot of money to keep this ge…

Rewriting the History of Catholic Schools in America

By Marian Ronan

…missionaries to the present day. Hughes, we learn, is a hero of religious freedom because, as bishop of New York, he saved most of the city’s 12,000 Catholic children from a life on the streets by forcing the state legislature to stop the mandatory reading of the Protestant King James Bible in the “common schools.” By doing this, according to God in America, Hughes helped make religious freedom a founding principle of American national identity….

Kanye West’s Critique of Prosperity Preaching

By Josef Sorett

…on the Internet. Fiasco shares his decision to put the song on the Web for free in verse: “I’m not trying to profit off the prophet so this one’s for free.” He does this, ironically, even as his lyrics laud one of the most prominent black prosperity preachers, Creflo Dollar. Apparently, the two share a commitment to, as Lupe puts it, “no sex before you’re married,” if not a business ethic. And then there’s the fact that Kanye recorded three differ…

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

…ely benign megalomania. He is a tragic hero. In AZ, the state where the American alphabet begins and ends, there is battle for the hearts and minds of a flamboyantly religious population which continues to enact laws based on racial hatred. The humanist “Prayer of the Farm Workers” places the sentiments behind the Arizona law in sharp relief: Show me the suffering of the most miserable; So I will know my people’s plight. Free me to pray for others…

Don’t Blame Black Voters: The Obama Non-Effect

By Jonathan L. Walton

…d read about Luther Vandross’ marriage to a woman; yet how many African-American houses did Luther’s unmistakable voice turn into a home? Luther is far from alone. Has Prince’s transgender persona hurt his standing among African Americans? Do the gospel melodies of James Cleveland carry any less credibility on Sunday morning? Have not black Christians often looked beyond the, err, “covert indulgences” of prominent clergy and gender ambiguities of…

Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music

By Alana Massey

…rgely spared the generational ruptures that cast Christian-raised white Americans into the “None” category. Because rap never divested from its origins in the prophetic witness of the black church, it’s not surprising that rap and hip hop have been the home base for some of the most explicitly Christian content in music for some time. As is often the case, Kanye West was leaps and bounds ahead of his time when he released “Jesus Walks” on 2004’s T…

Obama Reverses Bush Stem Cell Restrictions, Time to Step Up

By Frances Kissling

…ir no-position position is shared by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Why sadly? Because the next year will be marked by vigorous debate regarding the circumstances under which federal funds will be granted. You can bet your bottom dollar that those religious groups totally opposed to embryonic stem research will be advocating for restrictive guidelines and mobilizing their members to…

Greed, Socialism and the Free Market

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ould serve all of these ends, but that’s just the point of the current debate and the current crisis. We are trying to marry our concern for social justice, and compassion, against the alleged theoretical needs of a market with clear rules and free procedures. In such moments, we are forced to choose between these competing values; we cannot maintain them all. “Compassionate conservatism,” a misnomer coined by Doug Wead and co-opted by President B…