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Suicide Bombers and the Prozac God: A Review of Dying for Heaven

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…mic difference, however, becomes clear in Chapter 7’s warning signs (read: policy prescriptions). Titled “Spiritual Love and the Seeds of Annihilation,” Chapter 7’s warning signs follow the explanation, in the preceding chapter, of why God’s love operates like Glucklich’s Prozac effect. It reverses all current policy, and the academic/think tank logic on which it is based: Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza and elsewhere, while dangerous, are…

Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?

By SJ Crasnow

…Hegemony, Paul Kivel explains that “late 19th and 20th century immigration policy focused on turning away those who were abnormal or of ‘inferior stock’ including those with physical and mental disabilities as well as homosexuals.” Race and religion were coded into this exclusion, with non-white and non-Christian persons likewise considered undesirable. In a 2017 opinion piece for The Hill, historian Rebecca Erbelding explains that the “laws of 19…

Score One For The Homosexual Agenda

By Sarah Posner

…nd while the Martinez case is limited to an interpretation of the Hastings policy, it will be precedent for other similar cases even if the anti-discrimination policy isn’t identical. The religious right is concerned, no doubt; the ADF is already citing Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent, warning that the decision “arms public educational institutions with a handy weapon for suppressing the speech of unpopular groups.” That interpretation of what ADF…

Opposition To DADT Repeal And The High Rate Of Evangelical Chaplains

By Sarah Posner

…or the military. One bit there jumped out at me: the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy actually encouraged more evangelical chaplains in the military. Now evangelical chaplains are claiming repeal of the policy would inhibit them from doing what the signed up to do, apparently: feel free to evangelize that homosexuality is a sin. The 2005 Times piece made note of Gordon James Klingenschmitt, who was court-martialed in 2007, and is now a frequent religi…

Lesbians Can Dance: Mississippi School Settles Over Cancelled Prom

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…which sued on behalf of McMillen, “school officials agreed to implement a policy banning discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the first policy to do so at a public school in the state of Mississippi.” McMillen was happy with the decision: ”I’m so glad this is all over. I won’t ever get my prom back, but it’s worth it if it changes things at my school,” said McMillen, who was harassed so badly by stu…

The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…with journalists from outlets like American Greatness and The Epoch Times; policy analysts from think tanks like the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation; and representatives from organizing outfits like American Moment and Young Republicans chapters. Conservative leaders of Protestant seminaries, Catholic theologians, and Orthodox Jewish rabbis affirm an interfaith reactionary alliance long in the making—one that Hazony, in his plenary…

The Latest on Zubik v. Burwell: Religious Orgs Propose a Compromise That They Themselves Would Oppose

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…e clear, that is not to say that petitioners endorse such an approach as a policy matter.” It notes that many of the nonprofits believe contraception to be “immoral,” and therefore “may disagree as a policy matter with government programs, such as Title X, that make contraceptives or abortifacients more widely available to their own employees or anyone else.” Moreover, the brief states that “petitioners certainly have the right, protected by the F…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…s Bradley called The Imperial Cruise. It’s about Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy. He has photographs in that book of US soldiers waterboarding Filipinos in 1905. Dan: And they were jailed for it.* Walter: They were jailed for it? Dan: At least some of them were. Because that was illegal. Well, it’s still illegal, but… Walter: But we’ve been at it a while. Dan: Right. But Cavanaugh—among others, I think it’s Darius Rejali—documents how those techn…

But What About the Parents? New York Times Falls Into the Anti-Trans ‘Parents’ Rights’ Trap

By Chrissy Stroop

…as, of course, one of the rallying cries of Margaret Thatcher’s Section 28 policy in the UK, which from 1988-2003 barred local government actors—including teachers and school administrators—from “promoting homosexuality” or teaching “the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.” This policy is now widely recognized as having done immense harm to gay minors, and we risk doing the same to trans minors—and indeed any and all…

‘It’s Time to Defend our Children Outside of the Womb’: Pray Vote Stand Connects Anti-Abortion and Anti-Trans Messages

By PRA Staff

…a Youssef, head of Help The Persecuted, to discuss the state of US foreign policy. Every panelist agrees that the US is weak and the rest of the world knows it. Boykin cites US withdrawal from Afghanistan as the worst failure in US history which, as Chang confirms, encouraged Russia to invade Ukraine and has made China bolder in its threats to invade Taiwan. Youssef cheers the efforts of missionaries to convert Afghani civilians to Christianity in…