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Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…munity House. Amnesty has campaigned against Chechen authorities since the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta earlier this year published reports that Chechen authorities had detained, tortured and even killed gay men. In Grozny, authorities responded by claiming that gay men do not exists in the Republic, even as they defended killing them in the name of “honor.” Investigative reporter with Novaya Gazeta, Elena Kostuchenko, was one of the participan…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…th blogger Bruce Wilson, founded Talk2Action, an interactive blog covering breaking news and analysis about the Religious Right and related movements and issues. Raised in New England, Clarkson attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges where he majored in English. While in prep school during the Vietnam War, he encountered “a yellow covered book with big black letters on the shelf in study hall.“ The book was Gandhi’s Autobiography. “My eyes were…

Blinken and ‘Blinkered’: Two Oath-of-Office Stories Embody a Divided America

By Andrew L. Seidel

…eme positions and overwrought vanity—she is constantly filming herself—led CNN’s Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski to rediscover her conspiracy-driven videos and social media posts, helping fuel calls for her expulsion from Congress. The second image in my diptych of division was a video of her leading a group through congressional office buildings ranting about how Reps. Tlaib and Omar are “not really official” because they did not swear in with a ha…

International Religious Freedom Battles Heat Up

By Sarah Posner

…oned). Among the 11 Republicans who voted to confirm Saperstein were Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul. “I cannot avoid the suspicion,” Silk writes, “that the principle motivating the three GOP senators with 2016 presidential aspirations was: Thou shalt not alienate well-heeled Jewish donors by voting against a Jewish nominee.” Saperstein, known for his skill in navigating partisan divides, will face a long-simmering conflict between the State…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…LGBT people in the region are held accountable and that the governments of Russia, Belarus, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan protect their LGBT citizens.” Belarus has helped lead opposition to the inclusion of LGBT-friendly language in UN agreements. The Independent reported firsthand accounts of men arrested and detained in Azerbaijain. Four human rights groups jointly published a report documenting the successful defense of the mandate of th…

The Problem We All Live With: Bearing Witness, But Never Finding Justice

By Emilie M. Townes

…s become a halting democracy rather than a vibrant one. We are living in a world and a nation in which we have to say over and over again that #blacklivesmatter as we view the videos of Alton B. Sterling’s death at the hands of two Baton Rouge police officers or Philando Castile’s death at the hand of one police officer in Falcon Heights. It is a shame that Black folk and our allies have been saying this since this country became a republic and un…

The Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru

By Michael Schulson

…created, in which mutuality begins to happen. Business is the force in the world that is fulfilling every major value of the great spiritual traditions: intimacy, trust, a shared vision, cooperation, collaboration, friendship, and ultimately love. That’s Gafni in 2012, in an interview with Mackey and Sisodia for Conscious Capitalism. Conscious businesses, according to Mackey and Sisodia, are “suffused with higher purpose” and “leavened with authen…

The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth

By Carlos Wilton

…l mission and blow up the bad guy in a kamikaze attack. Viral social-media videos thrust the Baton Rouge and St. Paul images into the consciousness of millions. In quick succession, the raw, unedited smartphone videos gave America something Hollywood has never shown us: a man’s actual death by gunshot. It wasn’t epic. It wasn’t honorable. It was simply horrifying. Far more shocking than even the exploding fake-blood packets of a Quentin Tarantino…

The Year in Reproductive Justice: 2015 Summary

By Harry F. Knox

…tal liberties, which was once a shield to protect us against government intrusion, into a sword aimed at harming others. It would be easy to think that 2015 was a year of faith versus reproductive justice, but that is simply not true. While conservative Christians might believe they have a monopoly on religion in America, justice-seeking people of faith, including many Christians, spent 2015 struggling for reproductive justice. In July, I joined d…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…titled, “Atrocities,” by saying: Last week Americans could no longer doubt stories of Nazi cruelty. For the first time there was irrefutable evidence as the advancing Allied armies captured camps. With the armies in Germany were four Life photographers whose pictures are presented on these pages. The things they show are horrible. They are printed for the reason stated seven years ago when, in publishing early pictures of war’s death and destructi…