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It’s Not Just Evangelicals Who Should Worry About World Vision

By Sarah Posner

…him. After Obama pledged on the campaign trail in 2008 to reverse the Bush policy, evangelicals were up in arms; one claimed the candidate, to quell the outcry, promised evangelical leaders on the eve of the election that he would leave the discriminatory policy in place. Obama later appointed Stearns to the first Advisory Council to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. In a 2011 letter to Obama, Stearns joined a gr…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…en instead of outright banning it for everybody, panelist Clare Morrell, a policy analyst at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (which is a member of the Project 2025 advisory board) urged restraint in the communication of such ideas, even if that might be the ultimate policy goal; the answer to the question, says Morrell, is “political feasibility.” It would make more sense to start focusing on kids, and then move from there, step by step. In hi…

Anti-Gay Activists’ Biggest Fear in Fight Over Boy Scouts…

By Ross Murray

…ssibly for the Methodist and Catholic churches), the proposed new scouting policy closely matches the policy of the church, allowing gay participants, but barring gay leadership. Stand with Scouts Sunday showcases some of the leading activists of the anti-gay industry. Tony Perkins, the President of the Family Research Council, is one of the leading speakers for the webcast. This is the same man who has called gay people “pawns of the enemy,” and…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…particularly inclined to export the abortion wars to Israel. But Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest, who is Christian, ventured into a suggestion that perhaps the Israelis were getting their own religious laws wrong: Dr. Charmaine Yoest, the CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), decided to use Jewish law as a defense, saying “In a meaningful passage, the Talmud teaches that ‘Whosoever preserves a single soul…, [it is] as though he had p…

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

By Frederick Clarkson

…r Institute is a business/libertarian think tank affiliated with the State Policy Network, which parallels the Christian Right Family Policy Alliance, the joint state political arm of Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. Cat 5 Playbook There are five categories in the latest manual. Category 1 comprises bills and resolutions about God and country; notably posting In God We Trust displays in public schools. These bills were intended…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mestic policy norms back toward faith and family values.” Speaking of U.S. policy, a New York Times commentary by Ernesto Lodoño on May 26 reviewed U.S. policy promoting the idea promulgated by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that “gay rights are human rights.” When President Bill Clinton signed an executive order in 1995 barring the government from denying security clearances solely on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation, the Fam…

RD10Q: What is Black Religion?

By William D. Hart

…powers that be. Finally, an Afro-Eccentric perspective provides a line of flight from the totalitarian blackness that often characterizes Afrocentric perspectives. Anything you had to leave out? A reader of the book in manuscript form suggested that I shorten the text by removing a substantial amount of material that dealt with scholarly/theoretical deviations from the Standard Narrative of Black Religion. I plan to publish that material separate…

Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…c regime, and chased a dictator out of power (what a satisfyingly pathetic flight that is to trace). Nobody expected Tunisia—“modern,” “secular,” and among the most “Westernized” of Arab nations—to throw off its nauseating government; in 2008’s Press Freedom Index, Tunisia ranked 164th out of 178 countries. Culturally, Tunisia appeared to have gone in all the right directions, so why had it politically failed? And why didn’t we expect it? It’s bec…

Doonesbury Cartoons Cause Controversy, But for Wrong Reasons

By Sarah Posner

…d well. As Joffe points out, soon after the transvaginal-as-rape meme took flight, “Will abortion clinic staff who perform the ultrasound be seen as ‘rapists,’ as the provider I mentioned earlier worried? This is a possibility not lost on the anti-abortion website LifeNews, which recently ran the headline, ‘If Ultrasound is Rape, Arrest Planned Parenthood Staffers.’” Trudeau doesn’t get this. He told the Washington Post, of the Texas ultrasound la…

Stem Cell Chronicles: Why Politics and Science Most Certainly Should Not Be Separated

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rbing ways. And it carried a cost; the Bush administration created a great flight of scientists to the private sector, to foreign countries, and it decimated the morale at some of the premier scientific institutions funded by the US government, the Centers for Disease Control most notably. But the President is wrong to suggest that politics can simply be extracted from scientific enquiry. This simple statement is actually part of much larger misun…