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The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…e a video of the performance, despite a Secret Service prohibition on cell phones, because Makana’s guitar is tuned with a smartphone app. Or, reporters are interested in how Obama, his guests, and security detail responded—or didn’t, as it turned out. But this misses the heart of the story, as Makana’s set at the APEC dinner was less dissenting performance than performative utterance—the songs he played, the protest t-shirt hidden beneath the com…

Eclipseville, USA: The Birthplace of ‘Little Green Men’ Proudly Hosts The Point of Greatest Eclipse

By Matthew Bowman

…owly drifting toward them. The small figure approaching in the light had a round head, large wideset yellow eyes, and arms that reached almost to the ground. It was about three and a half feet tall, and it gave off a cold, silvery luminescent glow. Its taloned hands reached toward the men as it glided toward the house. Billy Ray and Lucky recoiled, seized rifles, and fired. The creature, they said, “did a flip” backward and retreated into the dark…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ies in the 19th century. “For the U.K. and other Western countries to turn round and try and impose the reverse is not appropriate, has moral questions around it, and is likely to get a whole range of countries to backlash against it,” he said in an interview. Earlier this month Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat called for Commonwealth countries to repeal colonial-era sodomy laws. Ivory Coast: Sentencing over ‘public indecency’ raises fears Ivory…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tnam veteran in a wheelchair (I later learned his amputations came after a round of neglected diabetes, not enemy bombs). On that first day he asked me if I had ever heard of a religious movement known as “Christian Identity.” I scanned my Wikipedia-like mental database and realized that, yes, I did know that particular sect. “It’s a white supremacist group, if I remember correctly,” I said cautiously. “Well,” he said with a slight smile, “we like…

Mitt, the Marriotts, and Porn

By Joanna Brooks

…rted that the move is actually an effort to protect Romney against another round of flak from socially conservative and evangelical voters in Iowa, where the Marriott-porn issue flared up for a brief moment in July 2007. (Back then, Romney even came in for criticism from the LDS Church-owned Deseret News, in an editorial with the unfortunate title “The nasty taint of porn.”) I don’t buy it. Anyone who understands the traction of evangelical anti…

Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

By Shalom Goldman

…host and former Arkansas governor made his ninth trip to Israel. The first trip (or pilgrimage, rather) was in 1973 when, as a young Baptist minister, he was caught up in the emerging Christian Right’s enthusiasm for Israel. Thirty-six years later, the flirtation between the Christian Right and the Israeli Right has blossomed into a long-term relationship. Evangelical Christian Zionists now call for unconditional support of the Israeli Right and i…

All You Had to Do Was Express Regret: Pope Benedict XVI’s Rocky Visit to Yad Vashem

By Adam Gregerman

…the perpetrators (the words “Nazi” and “German” are absent) and about the number of victims (“millions of Jews”). He was criticized for omitting any reference to his own past as a German who lived through the war and was briefly (and involuntarily) a member of the Hitler Youth. Most seriously, he made no mention of Christian responsibility for Jewish suffering. In the back of many people’s minds, and contributing to the negative response, were hi…

“We Found My Father, Except for His Hand”

By Haroon Moghul

…people who needed to be talked to—by then many would’ve been on the return trip to Sarajevo. More than that, in the face of the thousands making the return trip before nightfall, we may have been forced to spend the night. Bosnia has no real highways, infrastructure another victim of its troubled politics. A Serbian protest was planned for the next day, in part over the arrest and extradition of Ratko Mladic. My hosts insisted it wouldn’t be safe…

Lying about Santa: The Irrelevance of Proof to the Holiday Spirit

By Nathan Schneider

…that Santa himself had delivered it. My family had never been on a camping trip before, and the very idea of finding a tent in the house was so foreign, and truthfully so welcome, that it could only come from a source that was Wholly Other. Irrespective of anything that might be regarded as proof, at least until my father announced plans for an upcoming camping trip, that novelty and unforeseen possibility had no other name for me than Santa. “Sor…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ecause I do not believe that tolerance can be divided. There is no middle ground between tolerance and intolerance. It is quite often the case that those who reject or are wary of homosexuals feel the same way to some extent about immigrants, those who practice other religions and perhaps women as well. And those who are comfortable with homosexuals tend to be comfortable with other groups. Phobias seem to be contagious, as is tolerance. Therefore…