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Double Helix: Cancer Decoded, Buyer Beware

By Arri Eisen

…case). While this is a monumental step in the ‘War on Cancer’ President Nixon declared in 1971—a war, by the way, most expected to win easily within a decade—there is great potential for such information to be misinterpreted and over-interpreted by both scientists and the public, resulting in unrealistic expectations. Our ability to grasp the meaning of this breakthrough lies in our understanding of cutting-edge work on the interaction between ge…

‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6

By Catherine Wessinger

…is being supported and disseminated by powerful media representatives on Fox News and One American News Network (OANN), along with a not insignificant number of elected members of Congress. A great deal of the concern on the part of white people is over their potential loss of status in America. This concern is being expressed in current Trumpist Republican efforts to curb access to voting by people of color and the social panic being fomented abo…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…discriminatory practices” that prohibit marriage equality” in the country. New Zealand: Government apologizes to men convicted under old sodomy law The national government formally apologized to about 1000 men who were convicted for violating a legal ban on homosexual activity between 1961 and 1986. Legislation has also been introduced to expunge the convictions. Puerto Rico: Governor creates LGBT advisory board Gov. Ricardo Rossello announced the…

Olympics Opening Ceremony as Satanic Ritual

By Joseph Laycock

…cy. As a professional conspiracy theorist, Icke is unquestionably such an expert. Witch-finders and inquisitors typically work to explain mundane misfortunes such as disease, crop failures, and other disasters; it’s less clear why conspiracy theorists would find Satan behind mainstream cultural events. Perhaps the appeal of a conspiracy theory involving a neutral target like the Olympic Games is simply the pleasure of the reveal. Believers receive…

Whether We Call White Nationalism ‘Christian’ Is All About Who Gets to Define Christianity

By Ivan Strenski

…to read the whole thing. No surprise, Tarrant celebrates Pope Urban II’s exhortation to begin the First Crusade with an extensive quotation of Urban’s plea for holy war, a short passage from which I include here. “Let the fire of our repentance raise up the Holy War and the love of our brethren lead us into combat. Let our lives be stronger than death to fight against the enemies of the Christian people.” Tarrant concludes his citation of Urban w…

Jesus Comes Out for Christmas

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to highlight the humanity of Jesus. “The fact is we don’t know what his sexual orientation was.” Cardy is also trying to make the point that perhaps some modern-day Christians might not follow Jesus if they knew he had been gay. “Would it make a difference if he was gay? Would that change the picture for you? Would it mean what we revere about him changes?” Gay theologian Bob Shore-Gross told the Houston Chronicle that the billboard, while offens…

My Womb for His Purposes: The Perils of Unassisted Childbirth in the Quiverfull Movement

By Kathryn Joyce

…s, which has a large readership in all three countries Campbell has lived: New Zealand, Australia, and now the United States. While Campbell has not been a particularly zealous proponent of unassisted childbirth, she has in the past helped promote an extreme version of the practice taught by Carol Balizet, head of the obscure, Tampa, Florida-based Home in Zion Ministries, that is condemned even by fellow unassisted childbirthers. Balizet, a former…

WWJD Or The First Amendment?

By Sarah Posner

…is a problem — or even what kind of problem it might be. In contrast, the New Zealand military has plans to remove the engravings and is reconsidering its contract with Trijicon, because “the lettering on the gunsights is fundamentally wrong, could be easily misconstrued and could raise religious tensions.” Fundamentally wrong is hardly the sort of language you’d hear coming out of the U.S. military, which for years has acquiesced to proselytizat…

More Mixed Signals from Pope Francis; Church of England Wrestles with Rifts; Faith Groups Lobby Pro & Con on Irish Referendum; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e in the state of Tabasco was registered this week. Marriage continues to expand in Mexico, with couples in several states requesting and/or receiving “amaparos” from the federal courts. An amparo is essentially a couple-by-couple order to local elected officials to follow federal court rulings in favor of marriage equality. A measure to repeal a state constitutional marriage ban in Baja California was introduced in the state Congress, generating…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…overnment.” (They underestimated Marty, however, who stood up to them on Fox News—and the smear campaign stopped.) Category 2 comprises proclamations that “focus on our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage.” Category 3 limits access to reproductive health care and health care for LGBTQ people by allowing religious or conscience exemptions from the law. (These bills don’t directly deal with abortion access, ceding that area to Americans United for Li…