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Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…the rhetorical middleman to justify their disdain for religious, racial, sexual, and gender minorities. One explanation for the apparent shift in priorities isn’t one replacing the other, but a new political climate in which the vitriol once funneled through reproductive rights discourse has burst the canals and is now running free on its own. Abortion, in conclusion, remains significant to white evangelicals, period. Since the late 1970s it has b…

At CPAC the President Got the One Thing He Needed

By Bradley Onishi

…ds. It didn’t matter, I told myself, if hundreds or even thousands died in Afghanistan, or if tax cuts would hurt the most vulnerable, or if stem cell research could save lives. There was always the trump card: How could I vote for someone who would allow millions of ‘unborn babies’ to die? Abortion is the central political issue for many contemporary evangelicals. It is the reason many white conservative Christians will tell you they voted for Tr…

Jesus Is My Savior… and I Oppose the Bladensburg Cross Memorial

By Judd Lienhard

…e Bladensburg crossat the heart of the ongoing Supreme Court battle is an example of exactly that, and it doesn’t represent my service, nor the service of the many people I worked alongside. Most of the enemy fighters I encountered throughout my service were avowed Muslims. I am an avowed Christian. I know that Jesus is my lord savior. However, I was there neither on behalf of my God nor to battle against theirs. Far from being there to impose our…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…individuals around the world have identified with the ISIS brand and its extremist ideology doesn’t mean that there’s an organizational connection between the old ISIS infrastructure and these various individuals and entities. When I interviewed Muslim resistance leaders in Mindanao, they told me that the local Filipino activists who were using the ISIS brand were doing so to make themselves look more formidable. There’s a fear that ISIS operativ…

Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…es and amputated feet and broken backs and broken necks and bullets lodged between vertebrae; bodies with migraines and double vision and lost hearing and missing eyes. The essays share a similar arc: the subjects enlist, serve multiple tours in Iraq or Afghanistan, are horrifically injured, struggle in the aftermath of war, and then find meaning and purpose. Spouses, golf, mountain bikes, children, and God all play roles helping Bush’s wounded wa…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…l help bring change to other countries in the Caribbean. Consensual same-sex sexual relations remain criminalized in Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago. Donnya Piggott, director of Barbados Gays and Lesbians Against Discrimination, told the Blade last month that sodomy laws will tumble “like dominoes in the Caribbean” because of the Belize ruling….

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…oup seeks to undo the gender-neutral Marriage Act and keep legal marriage exclusively between a man and woman in Finland. The movement’s main justification is children’s right to both a mother and father. They also argue that procreation is dependent on both sexes and that “men and women complement each other”. From the Helsinki Times: Hanna Sarkkinen (Left Alliance) reminded that everyone should be treated equally under the law and pointed out th…

The Theology of Westboro: The “World’s Meanest Church” Is More Than Picket Signs

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…ecause what you say could potentially shape how they understand their own experiences or change what happens next in their story. To that end, I was careful about how I wrote about children in the church since I don’t want to make it harder for them to leave in the future. I also wanted the people of Topeka and Kansas to read the book and see their own experiences treated with respect, even when I sometimes was critical of their response to WBC. I…

Why Zubik is Especially Important for Women of Color

By Elizabeth Platt and Kira Shepherd

…en, and many cannot afford to pay for quality contraception. The IUD, for example, is considered the most effective contraception available on the market today, but because it costs between $500 to $1000 only 6% of black women have used IUDs compared with 78% who have used birth control pills. Providing women of color with access to no-cost contraceptive coverage is an important first step in ameliorating the overall health disparities between wom…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…t after him: the Sam Harris Shuffle. First, postulate a highly artificial example or thought experiment, like a supposedly hypothetical description of a suicide bomber that is carefully constructed to evoke a specific religious group. Second, affirm the intuitions and stereotypes that inevitably come to the reader’s mind. (It isn’t that you’ve primed the pump, it’s that they are onto something!) Third, inoculate against nuance. Promise that there…