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US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ife, was an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Mirror reports that Tom Booker, chair of the LGBTQ* group within the right-wing United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), quit, saying he could no longer defend the party. Meanwhile, UKIP leader Nigel Farage was welcomed at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, D.C. South Africa: Owners of gay ‘cure’ camp guilty in murder of teenager Gay Star News reports that Ale…

Of Gods and Men Resurrects Martyrdom

By Nathan Schneider

…orsens and inaction still reigns, they’re learning how to implement an ambitious environmental sustainability plan. It will make them better caretakers of the land that they’ve committed themselves to live—and die—on. Maybe it’s best to save the word “martyr” for other, more violent witnessing happening now in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world. But after seeing Of Gods and Men here, I’m not sure that it doesn’t apply, and in the best…

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

…Scheidler, a topic he humbly admitted was “a tremendous mystery,” he was fairly certain that he has some idea of the will of any god that was a god of justice. When asked how humans can influence abortion advocates through prayer, Scheidler says, “God already wants what’s best for these women and that is to be out of the abortion business. In some ways God allows us to participate in God’s divine action. He allows us to be part of the process of…

Will Trump’s Weakness Threaten White Evangelical Support?

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

…ho resort to violence to achieve order. As I note in my recently-published book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, favorite evangelical heroes included Teddy Roosevelt, Generals Patton and MacArthur, Mel Gibson’s William Wallace, and the actor John Wayne, men who meted out justice and pursued righteousness, confident that the ends would justify the means. Evangelicals embraced secular heroes bec…

Maybe Trump Should Pray About His Problems With Religious Voters?

By Daniel Schultz

…appening. America’s Problem Child isn’t winning Jews, he’s doing his level best to piss off every Hispanic in the Sunshine State, and there just aren’t enough working-class whites to save him. He’s in real trouble. Actually, saying Trump’s in real trouble is wildly understating the case, but the RD editors expect a minimal dignity, so I really can’t put things as bluntly as I should. Here’s why (item two): Trump is stinking up the joint with Catho…

Jonestown at 40: The Real Conspiracy Is More Disturbing Than the Theories

By Rebecca Moore

…ion Against Discrimination) published a four-part series that presents its best evidence for asserting that those deaths were mass murder rather than collective suicide, as initially reported in the news media. While Scientology may have a stake in how this story is told, the series actually raises two important questions. First, how in fact did the residents of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project—better known as Jonestown—die? While some jour…

The Right Wing Bible and the Politics of Impotence

By Christopher B. Hays

…mmunity and ethics in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy is, among other things, a book about national formation through covenant with God—not only a one-time covenant, but a covenant that is to be remembered and renewed so that it can continue to shape the people. The idea of remembrance is central to the book’s message, and there is an educational aspect to that: The one who shares in the covenant is supposed to make known the ways and ordinances of God…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…peddle this claim. He — and others, including the authors of the laughable book Muslim Mafia, which claimed that the Council on American Islamic Relations planted interns to spy on Capitol Hill — point to a document used in the terrorism financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation as the genesis of their theories that the goal of “radical Islamists” is a global theocracy and that the Muslim Brotherhood lurks in every corner of America. This docume…

Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”

By Becky Garrison

…I’m only banking on this life. I don’t believe in the invisible bloke upstairs. I heard you came out as an atheist during your Stripped tour. I was an agnostic for a long time just in case He came down—the End of Days, here it is, Rapture time! And I would have said, “Well I was never not on your team.” I would have just argued my way into heaven. But I thought, let’s put the chips on the table. Let’s just jump to light-speed and get over that…

Vigil Planned in Wake of Suicide by 17-Year-Old
Gay Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…o love, forgive, and avoid judging others. Like the family of Lehi in the Book of Mormon, we are each in our own wilderness, wandering and hoping to find the best path back to God. We must all learn to love, support, and accept our brothers and sisters as they travel through their wildernesses.” The vigil also comes at a moment when individual Mormons across the country are engaging in an increasingly robust discussion about how a faith that the…