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Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos, German Conservatives Follow GOP Playbook and Charge Ahead

By Annika Brockschmidt

…re are cockroaches in rolls at the bakery these days (can’t wait until Fox News picks that myth up), and railed against a law that would make it easier and less dehumanizing for trans people to legally change the registration of the sex assigned to them at birth. In short, Aiwanger went through the right-wing charts of this summer and simply ignored the accusations. In the audience, people held up signs expressing their support, with one man weari…

Perry Taps Anti-Gay Crusader and “Prayer Lady” for Florida Team

By Sarah Posner

…cipants will watch video of speakers including Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and the religious right historian David Barton. Both Gingrich and Barton were frequent speakers at Restoration and Renewal Project Pastors’ Policy Briefings. Olsen is, according to the Miami Herald, “one of the most plugged-in evangelicals you’ve never heard of in Florida:” She’s the founder and president of the Florida Prayer Network and she and husband Tenn…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r those who engage in homosexuality, those who support it, and media that “promotes” or mentions it. A social media campaign using the hashtag #WeNeedToTalk to promote the World Youth Forum being held in Egypt November 4-10 was hijacked by activists to draw attention to the country’s crackdown on LGBT people and on civil society in general: The conference’s organizers had hoped the hashtag would encourage interaction among the participants ahead o…

Why Being “Faith Friendly” Isn’t Worth It For Democrats

By Daniel Schultz

…eration comes from former Obama White House staffer Michael Wear. He has a new book on Democrats’ supposed religion problem making the rounds. (He’s featured in the Atlantic and World Magazine, among other places.) I haven’t read the book, so I’ll try not to prejudge. I just hope he has more compelling evidence than what I’ve heard in previous versions. I’m looking for two things in specific. First, a convincing reason to think religion outweighs…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…since “America is one nation under God.” While Miranda suspected that all news media was biased, portraying believers as ignorant and out of touch, I recognized a persecution complex I used to share. When I explained that I saw my old way of thinking as “the box that my brain was trapped inside,” Miranda instead saw conservative news sources and bible-based thinking as “a hedge of protection” safeguarding the minds of believers against secular li…

So Much for “Judeo-Christian” Values

By Sarah Posner

…ng to be our first Jewish speaker.” Political analyst David Wasserman, the New York Times reports, “said another, more local factor has to be acknowledged,” that Cantor “was culturally out of step with a redrawn district that was more rural, more gun-oriented, and more conservative.” “Part of this plays into his religion,” Wasserman told the Times. “You can’t ignore the elephant in the room.” There are a few ways to interpret his statement: one is…

Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists

By Sunnivie Brydum

…enix, Arizona. All told, five people were removed and had their conference registrations revoked, allegedly without formal explanation. All of those removed are affiliated with Faith in America (FIA), a progressive nonprofit dedicated to “[moving] the needle forward on LGBTQ equality in the pews and in our legislation.” Brandan Robertson, a 24-year-old bisexual cisgender man, and former SBC youth leader, told RD that he and a colleague had noticed…

Obama Territory

By Nathan Schneider

…said, “this is more important than being pretty.” His talk began with sad news about a neighbor who fell from a fire escape after being tazered by the police, unarmed. “A man is dead who should not be dead.” After that, the news was all good. Vann had been a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. “I thank God I had the opportunity to go,” he said. “We never thought in our lifetime that we’d have a black man as president.” The r…

Meet Arizona’s Even More Anti-Immigrant Bill

By Lauri Lebo

…h E-verify or face the revocation of their business licenses; Establishes new eligibility requirements for public benefits that violate federal law and enhances penalties (from a class 2 to a class 1 misdemeanor) for agency employees who fail to report “discovered” violations of federal immigration law; Limits the types of documents a person can show to prove their identity; Requires the state police training agency, AZ POST, to summarily revoke…

What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

…ts from Christopher F. Rufo, a conservative activist and architect of this new front in the culture wars: “We have successfully frozen their brand—‘critical race theory’—into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions,” he wrote on Twitter. “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’ We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the en…