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Irish Vote Reflects Diminished Moral Authority of Catholic Church

By Peter Montgomery

…all of Irish democracy one of its greatest days. It has given our battered republic a new sense of engagement, a new confidence, an expanded sense of possibility. On Monday (Memorial Day in the US) Justice Minister Francis Fitzgerald said she would push for quick passage of enacting legislation to allow couples to begin marrying in Augus, saying, “My intention is to seek Government approval for the Marriage Bill 2015 in June with the aim of introd…

Even Calling the Debate a ‘Shitshow’ Normalizes the Threat to Democracy

By John Stoehr

…: a measure of fairness to the candidates, and the disapproval demanded by news consumers who are putting more and more pressure on elite reporters to speak truth to power. Reporters are trapped in an abusive relationship proportional to their unwillingness to confront their abuser. It was neither. Moreover, it was harmful to the republic. By characterizing the debate as a “shitshow” in which Donald Trump and Joe Biden were equally bad and equally…

As Irish Flee the Church, a Push For Reform

By Diane Winston

…a postcolonial, faith-based society. (After the establishment of the Irish Republic in 1922, the Church provided cultural cohesion for the new state.) Statistics are one way to tell the story: In 1984, 87% of Irish Catholics went to weekly Mass. In 2011, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said 18% of Dublin Church members attend services. Images are another option: gaggles of green-bedecked youngsters and young adults line the St. Paddy’s Day parade route…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…e movement—we are the conservative movement,” they attacked “establishment Republicans.” Mike Lee criticized “the top Democrat and Republican in each chamber” for having gotten too powerful and echoed the narrative Suella Braverman presented on the previous day: that the Tories lost their recent election because they “met progressives half-way”—an observation completely untethered from reality. “We’ve gotta stop assuming that you win elections and…

To Pray or to Prey: Racism, Religion and Violence in Charleston

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ed, for some, sacred terrain beyond the contaminating imprint of the white republic; whether in a storefront, freestanding building, or the surreptitious brush arbors of many yesterdays. However, in the racial imagination of America nothing operates outside of the deleterious insistence of whiteness—no place is a safe zone. As the history of lynching—the obscured legacy and culture of racist vigilantism—has taught us, black people live without san…

Meet the Christian Reconstructionists Behind the Latest Birther Theory

By Sarah Posner

…08). Farah is the editor of WND, the website that has played a key role in promoting birtherism. Lofton said he expected Titus’ theory to figure in Corsi’s forthcoming book, which is already being promoted on WND. (Lofton was critical of WND for focusing too much on the birth certificate rather than on this, in his view, more critical question.) Both Lofton and Titus are admirers of R.J. Rushdoony, the intellectual godfather of Christian Reconstru…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…back, promising a welcoming space to celebrate and honor LGBT athletes and promote human rights internationally. World Congress of Families: More on summit in Republic of Georgia Eurasianet publishes a story about May’s World Congress of Families summit in Tbilisi, Georgia. The article by Nino Gogua, Nikoloz Bezhanishvil, and Giorgi Lomsadze notes that the event’s anti-LGBT messages were in sync with the anti-Western theme of the conference. The W…

Jewish Past/Israeli Future: A Review of The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shalom Goldman

…rimination against its own citizens. It will remain difficult to imagine a new Jewish history while the prism of Zionism continues to fragment everything into an ethnocentric spectrum. In one of the books many zingers, Sand concretizes these somewhat abstract ideas. Critical of the “Law of Return,” which puts Jews from any country on the fast-track to Israeli citizenship, he condemns a system of law that favors ethnicity over citizenship: In fact…

Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…the mainstream. This year, Donald Trump made it the venue for his apocalyptic bid—not for the New Heaven, but for the New Earth, christened by the blood of his enemies. Less a New Jerusalem than a New Elohim City. His speech was more than just factually inaccurate, it was quite literally apocalyptic….

The Brutality of the American Eden

By Paul Harvey

…by the 1830s, replacing Thomas Jefferson’s dream of a secular rationalist Republic with something more akin to a Methodist millennium. A more critical examination might have also told the story, from the underside of that millennium, that while American ideas of freedom promised universalist visions they delivered a Republic that was, in practice, racially exclusivist and white supremacist. That was a tragedy, but it wasn’t an accident. The chose…