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Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

…phs of police taking in men for questioning, and local media reported that mobile phones and HIV/AIDS medication were confiscated from the premises. That the FPI prompted such a raid is no surprise; that the authorities followed the Islamist group’s tip to round-up an innocuous gathering that violated none of Indonesia’s laws is also disappointingly familiar… Ultra-nationalistic fervor opens space for attacks on minorities as a way of gaining popu…

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Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’

…flagellum might begin to evolve in conditions that gave advantages to more mobile organisms. But Behe argued that such an experiment “would not be fruitful.” And as with other supposed examples of irreducible complexity (e.g., the immune system or the blood-clotting cascade), scientific research showing they were in fact reducible has not led him to revise his ideas. Is Behe lying? Again, the question of intentionality involved in that question is…

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Why All the Silly Devil Talk Should be Taken Seriously

…and Rockefellers.) It could certainly be said that many of these upwardly mobile rap stars pose a direct threat to the color of wealth in our society. Furthermore, one in seven Americans is currently living in poverty. When people are poor, they want to know how the other half (or upper one percent as the case may be) stays so rich. Hip hop artists known for their bling are a popular target. If poorer people begin to believe that the rich are onl…

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Is the Metaverse the Hero We Need to Rescue Us From Suffering and Enchant the World?

…cast shade upon them, heaping insult upon the injury of reduced subscriber numbers as mobile gaming became all the rage. All the money was micro transactions. But now the metaverse is back with us. The old incarnations linger as the new iterations arrive and take center stage. Once we started imagining the possibility of virtual worlds, our relentless pursuit was predictable. The world we live in is rich and wonderful, but far from perfect. We’ve…

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At Moms for Liberty Summit, ‘Mama Bears’ Declare Spiritual War on the ‘Radical Left’

…s. “Our children belong to the Lord, not the government,” declared Patriot Mobile spokeswoman Leigh Wambsganss. “This is not a political war, it is a spiritual war!” The religious character of the summit was overwhelming—so many prayers, invocations, and explicit (as well as implicit) references to a spiritual war. Earlier, DeSantis had declared, in reference to a popular Bible verse amongst those who see themselves as soldiers in a spiritual war,…

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Mubarak Will Not Run for Re-Election (Updated)

…r tweeted, referring to his residence in Austria: “Shall we just call your mobile when we have finished the revolution for you.” So with the crowds shouting Go away! Go away! Revolution until death! into the night, and the Obama Administration until now cautiously taking its lead from unfolding events having told Mubarak that “the transition must begin now,” the next step remains a big unknown. What is known is that RD will continue to feature ana…

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The “G-Word”: Genocide’s Slippery Nature

…h machetes; it was teachers, ministers and clerks who constituted the Nazi mobile killing units who machine-gunned hundreds of thousands of Polish and Russian Jews. And, as the prisoners in Abu Ghraib discovered, the torturer can even be the girl next door. To confront genocide, we need to get outside of our racial comfort zones. It’s no coincidence that the only genocide in recent times that we tried to stop involved the white Europeans of the Ba…

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Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

…s about the more narrow scope of active Facebook affiliations, despite the number of “friends” a person’s profile page might boast. With regard to churches, Beck reads the data as suggesting that Facebook and other social media are replacing what he believes is the “main draw of the traditional church: social connection and affiliation.” It’s an engaging argument. Beck is certainly right that church is no longer a central gathering place for the m…

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When Conservatives Turn Revolutionary

…radically different geopolitical situation. Global terrorism in an age of mobile rocket launchers and jet airplanes is a global problem, and requires a coordinated global response. It is incredible, at the remove of only a few short years, to recall how we enjoyed the world’s sympathy after the 9/11 attacks, and how quickly that sympathy evaporated. Napoleon experienced a similar, and equally rapid, fall from popular favor. The Bush team squander…

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Presidential Pep Talks and the Religion of Fear: How did an Uncontroversial Speech Become a National Controversy?

…d. And in response to the controversy and the barrage of outraged parental phone calls, many school systems decided it was safest not to air the speech at all. Others required that alternative activities be arranged for children whose parents refused to permit their kids to be subjected to an encouraging presidential pep talk. The evening after the talk, the local news station I was watching aired a report on the event, complete with footage of a…

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