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Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger

By R.L. Stollar

…n order of the world—like LGBTQ, and especially trans people.” During Nazi Germany, for example, it was common to link queer people to child sexual abuse to argue for their eradication. Adolf Hitler himself worried about how “a homosexual will generally seduce a whole host of boys, so that homosexuality really is as infectious and dangerous as the plague.” We don’t have to go as far, or as far back, as Nazi Germany, however, as this was a rhetoric…

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…C says the president of an Azerbaijani LGBT rights group, who now lives in Germany, “told CBC nes gay people in the oil-rich, mainly Muslim country have been subjected to occasional harassment in the past, but a systematic effort to detain people in unprecedented.” Lawyer Samed Rahimli told the New York Times that police had “targeted homosexuals in general, not prostitutes as they have claimed.” Many of those arrested were sentenced to up to 30 d…

Refugee Crisis in the Age of Trump: Getting Holocaust Analogies Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…caust to “score political points,” when Carson suggested that Jews in Nazi Germany could have prevented the Holocaust had they been armed with guns. While abuse of Nazi and Holocaust analogies is not limited to one political party, these two most recent and most widely reviled instances were uttered by Republicans running for president who claim that their Christian faith deeply informs their politics and values. Now the Syrian refugee crisis is c…

As Transition Looms, Jewish Studies is Mired in Controversy

By Shaul Magid

…s known as Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism) in 19th century Germany had “the concern for the continuation of Judaism” as one of its mandates. Actually, not necessarily. While the intentions of Wissenschaft des Judentums is a matter of ongoing scholarly debate in the work of scholars such as Ismar Schorsch, Michael Meyer, Amos Bitzan, Susannah Heschel, and others, it’s arguably the case that the raison d’etre of this early movement w…

Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

…istory” of a Nazi-gay link, claiming “the masculine homosexual movement in Germany created the Brown Shirts, and the Brown Shirts in turn created the Nazi Party.” In a column earlier this year opposing the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Fischer recycled that 2008 column, adding, “Even today in America, it is chic in some homosexual circles for individuals to wear replicas of Nazi Germany uniforms, complete with iron crosses, storm trooper outfits…

Does ISIS Vindicate Pope Benedict’s Islam Remarks, as George Weigel Believes?

By Scott C. Alexander

…knows relatively little. With all due respect to Pope Benedict, he made a number of errors in his references to Islam at Regensburg. Not only did the pope mistakenly identify the chronological context for a key Qur’anic verse adduced as evidence for his argument (Q 2:256), but he also failed to see the irony in his most neuralgic move: the citing of a very negative statement about the Prophet Muhammad which the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeol…

Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…Heidegger and also his lover), Arendt, who was Jewish, was forced to leave Germany in the early 1930s, as Hitler rose to power. World War II was an important influence on Hannah Arendt, and is reflected in her writings, which focus on topics like totalitarianism and violence. In The Human Condition, which is arguably her greatest work, Arendt examines human existence and argues that involvement in politics, which is achieved through public speech…

American Evangelist Who Sparked Anti-Gay Panic Sued By Ugandan Gay Rights Group

By Sarah Posner

…istory” of a Nazi-gay link, claiming “the masculine homosexual movement in Germany created the Brown Shirts, and the Brown Shirts in turn created the Nazi Party.” In a column earlier this year opposing the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Fischer recycled that 2008 column, adding, “Even today in America, it is chic in some homosexual circles for individuals to wear replicas of Nazi Germany uniforms, complete with iron crosses, storm trooper outfits…

Qur’an-Burning Pastor Says It’s Time “To Hold Islam Accountable”

By Sarah Posner

…ceful religion. Prior to founding Dove, they pastored a church in Cologne, Germany. According to local news accounts during coverage of Dove’s 2009 anti-Muslim activities, former congregants, including Jones’ own daughter, claimed Jones and his wife left Germany after being confronted about improprieties in the church structure, including diverting church resources for profit, demanding that church members work for the church without pay, and thre…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…istory” of a Nazi-gay link, claiming “the masculine homosexual movement in Germany created the Brown Shirts, and the Brown Shirts in turn created the Nazi Party.” In a column earlier this year opposing the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Fischer recycled that 2008 column, adding, “Even today in America, it is chic in some homosexual circles for individuals to wear replicas of Nazi Germany uniforms, complete with iron crosses, storm trooper outfits…