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Global LGBT Recap: Mandela and Equality; Elton John Defies Russian Ban; Fake-Healing of AIDS

By Peter Montgomery

…le is an integral part of U.S. foreign policy. And in New York City on Tuesday, December 10, International Human Rights Day, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power met with an international group of LGBT rights activists at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. The gathering was described as a “roundtable strategy session on ways U.S.foreign policy can align more powerfully with LGBT communities globally to ensure LGBT rights are properly re…

Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform

By Ira Chernus

…and use those sophisticated guns. In the rush from origins to the present day, let’s not skip over the Civil War, when the most sophisticated guns of the day freed the slave. At least that’s the popular version of our history, the traditional complement to Emerson’s popular version of the Revolution. Just Show Up and Shoot So the gun is at the center of the story of America as it’s so commonly told: a people always loving freedom, always under a…

Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ure, structure and ideology of the leadership, although it may take some research to do so. For those who are interested, there are some good places to look. Although the NAR is best understood as a non-denominational and relational movement, C. Peter Wagner created a series of networks which nevertheless serve as a loose organizational structure. These in turn serve as models for how to do it. In 1991, Global Harvest Ministries (GHM) was founded…

The Battle for the Bible Against Christian Nationalism Seeks to Continue Historic Campaign

By Frederick Clarkson

…ernathy after King’s assassination. Freedom from Christian nationalism The day’s first panel featured two of the leading authors in the study of the religious and political Right. It’s unusual, perhaps historic, that campaign like this one has so publicly centered an understanding of the Christian Right as part of its efforts. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove of the Poor People’s Campaign and author of Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for th…

‘New Evangelical’-Progressive Alliance? Not So Fast

By Sarah Posner

…ding medical, financial, and emotional support during pregnancy along with day care and job training post-partum,” that wouldn’t alter their fundamental opposition to legal abortion. (That, like viewing homosexuality as a sin, is portrayed as the only “biblical” position.) What’s more, if the “new” evangelicals are for small government, would they only support such expensive programs if they were aimed at enticing women to carry pregnancies to ter…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…o (and 1-9, too), spread to Europe. This is why, in the Arab world, Arabic numbers are called ‘Indian numbers,’ and why, in the West, ‘Indian numbers’ are called ‘Arabic numbers.’ In India they’re just known as numbers. No matter what they’re called, I think we can all agree they make life a lot easier. 2. Coffee Muslims invented coffee, and coffee is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies. At best it goes cold. In fact, one of the reasons coff…

Advice from a Disaster Pastor: Open Your Wallet, Not Your Closet

By Carlos Wilton

…cross the street from our church. In no time at all, every one of their Sunday School rooms was filled, floor to ceiling. One room contained nothing but diapers. It was a marvelous display of generosity, but it took them months to distribute it all. In the meantime, they had to relocate their Sunday School classes. A week or so after the storm, the high-school gym across the street from our house became the locus of clothing distribution. Voluntee…

Government Prayer Isn’t Inclusive—Let’s Not Pretend Otherwise

By Andrew L. Seidel

…meant to intimidate the state’s first female Muslim legislator on the very day she was sworn in. The House quickly divided along religious lines in the wake of the “Jesus”-laden prayer. The Georgia House suffered through a sermon and then a prayer, both of which condemned all non-Christians—all non-Baptists, really—to an eternity of torture and torment. Surely not the best way to work across the aisle or to foster compromise. Just like Pennsylvani…

California Inmates Protest the Abuse of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

By Sarah Sentilles

…olor further calls into question the use of this abusive practice.” As the numbers have grown, so have the numbers of critics, Wired reports, citing a series of “scathing reports and documentaries” released in 2012 by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. That same year, the US Senate held its first-ever hearings on…

The Pope’s Dubious Holocaust Remembrance

By Evan Derkacz

…w killed by the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies!” And he put the number of Jews killed at “200,000 to 300,000.” Straight from the Holocaust denier’s handbook. You’d think the pope would’ve been humiliated by these statements since the interview aired on the very day that he lifted the excommunication of Williamson and three other SSPX bishops. The pope and his supporters of course claim that he had no idea that Williamson held these vie…