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The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is Inspired by a Biblical Account of Divine Massacre: Welcome to the Jericho March

By Thomas Lecaque

…vine massacre. Walls come crumbling down They know what they’re doing. One participant on TikTok recounts the biblical story before backpedaling and claiming that this is “not about crumbling walls or infrastructure,” but about “softening hearts.” Previous Jericho Marches were not as benign. A year ago, in Edmonton, a planned Jericho March against pandemic restrictions was condemned by the conservative premier and questioned by anti-hate groups fo…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mob attack on an anti-homophobia rally in 2013. Germany: Marriage equality passes parliament; Merkel allowed conscience vote but voted no Chancellor Angela Merkel, a longtime opponent of legal marriage for same-sex couples, decided to allow a parliamentary vote and the German parliament passed a marriage equality law. While polls show that an overwhelming majority of Germans support marriage equality, Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union “has alway…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…enefits. Our solons just flew out of town for a weeklong holiday vacation. Republicans, joined by Democratic deficit hawks, insist that any extension be “deficit neutral” and come out of unspent stimulus money. But it’s worse than that: the price Senate Republicans want to extract for helping the jobless includes extending an array of special tax breaks for business while slashing spending at a range of federal agencies. Let it be noted that Congr…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…ction. The Kids They Dance The third way to engage the Grateful Dead is to participate. Both Hunter and John Perry Barlow, the primary lyricists for the band, implicate the Dead and their fans in the enveloping event known as a live show. This strategy has grown out of a phenomenon; that is, the appearance of an organic movement which seemed to take on a life of its own. I suppose all bands with a following do implicate their followers. And perhap…

The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency

By Bill Berkowitz

…o attend “‘see you at the pole’ meetings where students pray together, or [participate in] any student Bible studies even before or after school”; public schools are no longer allowed to rent meeting space for small churches; Christian organizations on campuses “have shrunk to mere skeleton organizations, and in many states they have ceased to exist”; the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance is no longer led by public school teachers, and the phra…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…f God in order to prosper and avoid chaos and destruction,” according to a pamphlet prepared by the EFZ and supported by the ALCJ. Backed by the ACLJ, Mpofu has been traveling Zimbabwe to rally religious support for the EFZ’s constitutional proposals. “We’ve had a lot of support from ACLJ in America because for me to be able to go around the country to visit the ten provinces we’ve received some help financially and also we’ve received some help f…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…top thinking about us in bed! Remind me again, who’s the perv here? If the number of partners one has, the amount of time one spends in clubs, and what kind of sexual abuse one has suffered in their lifetime makes a person gay, then I suppose I ought to turn in my lesbian card. I can count the number of sexual partners I have had in 49 years on two hands and have some fingers left over. Not because there weren’t offers, but because, as a general r…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…d the annual Miracle of Mormon Pageant in Manti, Utah, or the Hill Cumorah Pageant in Palmyra, New York. On a more professional level, the LDS Church’s film division (originally operated out of BYU) has produced hundreds of schmaltzy movies over the years. There is a distinctive heavy-handed theatricality about contemporary Mormon productions, a sensibility not too far from Rogers & Hammerstein. In many ways, including cuisine, Utah is a time caps…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…ust about a million. There were of course retaliatory Chechen attacks, but paling in comparison. The Russian and Soviet expansion into the Caucasus eliminated whole peoples. There are, for example, no Ubykh speakers anymore. Most Circassians live in Turkey, Syria, Jordan, or anywhere but Cherkessia, which is their homeland. In a history of the past two centuries, one cannot worry much about the Muslim failure to ‘catch up to’ or copycat Western sc…

Galileo’s Issue Was Satire as Much as Science

By Arri Eisen

…the museum. Now, the new version of the place has added a few extra of his parts—more fingers, a vertebra—that were apparently snipped off for safekeeping by one of the folks who, demanding that his hero deserved a better burial place, moved his body to a more fitting resting place a century later, to share eternity with Michelangelo and Machiavelli. Galileo was reburied in a ceremony similar to that used for saints; this and the whole reliquary-r…