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What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…items within their borders (as is already the case federally with lottery tickets). A Republican-controlled Congress could then impose a nationwide ban on the mailing of abortion pills or certain contraceptives. (Republican-controlled state legislatures have already demonstrated a willingness to enact questionable legislation for nothing more than its intimidation factor.) Which brings us back to Anthony Comstock. In 1878, the Supreme Court uphel…

Burning Down the Temple: Religion and Irony in Black Rock City

By Sarah M. Pike

…een working feverishly to finish their projects but had put off purchasing tickets were left out in the cold. It was a different scene in 1997 when I first came to Burning Man and only waited briefly at the entrance as a “Greeter” cast a cursory glance at my car. But the Greeters’ enthusiastic reception remained the same. These Greeters, a dusty naked couple, asked me to get out of my car and embraced me, shouting “Welcome Home!” I had crossed the…

Dancing in the Streets, and Ending Women’s Segregation in Israel

By Ruth Tsuria

…ng fundamentally liberal—and maybe some of us already have. Segregation in Israel is just one example of a worldwide phenomenon where religious rights, claims and symbols stand in opposition to secular mainstream culture. The unasked question is this: in a world in which conflicting cultures coexist are all cultures and traditions equal? Or, to rephrase Orwell: are all cultures equal, but some cultures more equal than others? In Israel, it seems t…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nly gay and lesbian students in the Conservative Jewish movement. However, Israel’s Masorti Movement changed its own stance two years ago allowing for Israeli-trained lesbian and gay rabbis to join the Conservative movement in the country and committed itself to supporting and embracing gay and lesbians at every level. According to Gay Asia News, Rabbi Goldstein’s partner serves as Israel’s ambassador to the Ivory Coast. Latin America and Caribbea…

Explaining Christian Zionism to Israelis

By Sarah Posner

…wars, by opening crisis pregnancy centers or bringing anti-gay rhetoric to Israel. The Israeli right wing, said Schlesinger, “is promoting the idea that Christian Zionists love Israel, so it’s free. We take their money and we don’t convert.” But the Molad report is “showing that they are trying to influence Israeli society and import their agenda.” While the prospect of evangelicals influencing Israeli law or policy on LGBT issues or abortion seem…

‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…d Blacks, Hispanics, and Native American Indians, are the true children of Israel. We are the Israelites according to the Bible. The children of Israel, he’s gonna punish us for our iniquities, for our disobedience, because we chose to follow other gods that aren’t his son, so the Lord, thy God, chasten thee. So, just like you chasten your own son, he’s gonna chastise you because he loves you. So that’s why we get chastised, that’s why we’re in th…

Why President Obama Should Not Visit the Western Wall

By Melissa Weininger

…to the news that the president would not go to the Wall. But Americans and Israelis concerned with civil rights in Israel should be applauding the news, because there are many good reasons why President Obama should not visit the Western Wall. The New York Times quoted Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren as saying, “Everything on the Seder table—from the lamb shank to the parsley to the egg—is rife with symbolism. So, too, with every item…

Hurricane Sandy Spawns Right-Wing Theodicy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…out or negotiated away… period,” Koenig said. “That’s the land God gave to Israel.” Evangelical pastor John McTernan doubles down on the Israel talk and tosses in some blame for the gays, too: It is like the hurricane is a huge bucket of vomit in America’s face during the election. What a sign from the holy God of Israel that American politics is an abomination to Him. A pro-homosexual Mormon along with a pro-abortion/homosexual, Muslim Brotherhoo…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…hernin North Atlantic Books, 2009 What if all the Palestinians and all the Israelis who were tired of war decided to move together to some other place? What if, inspired by Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam [Oasis of Peace], a call went out across the land to people who wanted to start over again? An enterprise of this kind is possible on a small scale, as we have seen. What if the small scale became a bit larger and moved across borders to a land that i…

Conservative Media Firm Pushes Claim That Gaza Withdrawal Caused BP Disaster

By Sarah Posner

…ceiving from the Obama administration has been, in a word, shocking. . . . Israel has never had a more anti-Israeli president in the White House.” And, McTernan concludes, this has and could cause further catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. McTernan runs a ministry, Defend and Proclaim the Faith and, according to the site’s biography, is a “pro-life leader” in central Pennsylvania, where he lives. He’s also the founder of International Cops for Christ…