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The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

…pecific ethnic identity. They often claimed that they were this percentage Irish or that percentage Lithuanian, but these differences seemed perfunctory. They were just white Americans, to me and to themselves. Their subcultures were formed by class, music, sports, and other local criteria, and rarely by either faith or ethnicity. Here’s a secret, white people: For us brown people, you were long part of a magical, all-powerful civilization, and we…

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Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting

…s image, like the YouTube video, be retired before it causes more scandal. Irish women’s ordination activist Solime Humbert identified the problem: Like many other male Surrealist artists, Man Ray tended to objectify women and define them as subordinates…there is a recurrent sadistic streak in his artwork, as well as in his relationships with women, characterized by domination and aggression. We can debate the fine points later, but I think the de…

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Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

…awaiting trial, for a rainbow-themed paint job that the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Vice charged was promoting “emblems of homosexuality.” Taiwan: Marchers hope for marriage equality in near future Reuters reported that on July 11, “[t]housands of gay rights supporters marched through Taipei…months ahead of elections that are likely to usher in a pro-gay party and could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marria…

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Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

…ions linked this emergent scriptural framework to a movement politics that promoted nonviolent direct-action tactics in service of integrationist aims. This approach proved remarkably successful aiding in the development of a unifying movement culture as well as forging important coalitional ties. Acknowledging this important but often obscured labor is essential not only to an accurate understanding of past struggles but to the success of futures…

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Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

…ctivists and same-sex couples. Ms Healy Eames defended her comments to the Irish Examiner, saying: “My tweet was very much to say ‘Happy Mother’s Day. Gosh I’d never like to see this happening here’. Let’s hope we can celebrate it after same sex marriage is passed here. Obviously that’s if it’s passed. Healy Eames acknowledged she was wrong to say some states had banned Mother’s Day, saying she meant “some US schools.” Australia: Marriage equality…

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Contraception: 1; Notre Dame: 0

…ree contraception under its health plan. Apparently requiring the Fighting Irish to provide birth control doesn’t have the same resonance as asking cute elderly nuns in habits to do so.   That’s good news for employees and students who get their insurance through the university, less good news for the Catholic bishops, as the Notre Dame suit was one of the most high-profile against the contraception mandate in ObamaCare.  Most importantly, in his…

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Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…: Marriage equality ‘a matter of time’ as young Protestants’ support grows Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who is gay, said while visiting Belfast in Northern Ireland for a pride for a pride celebration that it is “only a matter of time” before marriage equality reaches Northern Ireland, where to date the DUP party has used a controversial parliamentary mechanism to block it. Reuters noted that his visit “comes a day after the British governmen…

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Dear Hollywood, It’s Time to Start Making Films about Real Black Catholic Nuns

…be black and looking on what you grew up with as uncouth. You could do the Irish jig, but anything African was taboo.” Such abuse and the prolonged intractability of white supremacy in female religious life eventually drove scores of black sisters out their communities in the late 1960s and 1970s, decimating their already marginal national population. While some black sisters left on their own accord or defected in explicit protest to racial discr…

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For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel’s Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising

…holic France. Across the western sea there remained a threat from Jacobite Irish Catholics, who had rallied behind the deposed James II. William made short work of this threat at 1690’s Battle of the Boyne: a victory that is still celebrated, as provocatively as possible, by Ulster’s Orange Order every July 12. All this history bears directly on the creation of Messiah, because the work was first performed in Dublin under the sponsorship of the Lo…

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A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture

…ng “Leatherstocking” books, the Daniel Boone legend, Andrew Jackson’s self-promotion as the supreme defender of civilization against savagery, Theodore Roosevelt’s “Rough Rider” mystique, and the popular celebration (which continues to this day) of “Wild West” gunslingers like Jesse James, almost all of whom got their start as white power terrorists during and after the Civil War; Dunbar-Ortiz reminds us that there was nothing noble about any of t…

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