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“I Worship Jesus, Not Mother Earth”: American Christian Exceptionalism and the Paris Withdrawal

By Jacob J. Erickson

…tury Jesus who knew Hebrew nature poetry in his bones. Rep. Tim Walberg, a Republican Representative from Michigan told supporters, reflectively that, “Well, as a Christian, I believe that there is a creator in God who is much bigger than us. And I’m confident that, if there’s a real problem, he can take care of it.” Rep. Walberg seems to conveniently forget that in that story human sin also wrecks created life in ways that demands human repentanc…

“Project Blitz” Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business

By Frederick Clarkson

…elations are properly reserved to such marriage.” Preserving Religious Freedom Act (a/k/a/ Religious Freedom Restoration Act or “State RFRA”): “This act is intended to ensure that this State applies at least the same level of religious liberty protections applied at the federal level in order to ensure that State and local governmental entities will not restrict a person’s free exercise rights more than the federal government.” The model bill is s…

Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

By Amina Wadud

…d inside the mosque one day, I came across Bab raqm tis’wa thamanin, “door number 89,” literally. The door with no name. Facing the mosque at door number one, bab maalik ’abd-al-’Aziz, this door is off to the left. Looking at the mosque floor plan, this is where the building structure of the mosque is deepest. This is “the women’s section.” I noticed as I was walking through the first floor toward door number one, the kings’ door, on my way out af…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…: Conservatives challenge political party support for marriage equality La Republica reported this week, “The conservative wing of the Citizen Action Party (PAC) demanded that its candidate, Carlos Alvarado, remove from the government program its support for equal marriage and gender ideology.” (Translation by Google.) The paper reports that more than 150 people have signed a demand that members of the party be free to vote their conscience based…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…st on Feministing, one of the most influential feminist blogs on the web, Lori Adelman argued for a more precise label: “More apt than the whitewashed ‘human rights activist’ label he’s been given in the news is ‘reproductive rights activist’ and perhaps even ‘feminist.’” “The world is watching whether the U.S. government will stand for freedom and human rights that it purports to stand for,” wrote Jin Zhao. …

Whose House? Their House: Just Who Was Held Accountable for the 1/6 Insurrection is Telling

By Susannah Crockford

…Donald Trump, among others. Other stories proliferated in the aftermath. A Republican member of Congress, Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde, called it a “normal tourist visit.” Clyde also helped barricade a door against rioters trying to break into the House Chamber. Crowds broke into the building at eight different locations. They occupied the Senate Chamber and the Rotunda. They invaded congressional offices and stole equipment. Capitol police were forc…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…m the NAACP. Aside from making good on the Republican holy grail quest to “repeal and replace Obamacare,” Price could revive an outdated tactic to oppose LGBT equality, as Salon explains. Just three years ago, on a phone call with faith leaders supporting the Tea Party movement, Price agreed that there are “consequences of activity that has been seen as outside the norm,” suggesting that increased health care costs for LGBT people are a result of…

How To Talk To “Nones” and Influence People: Rob Bell’s Transrational Experience

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…m about all those group-builders; did he get that a lot? The “spiritual entrepreneurs,” he said, are indeed “pretty typical,” for this tour. So many people at the Experience, in fact, had announced that they came from out of town with their own spiritual entrepreneurship project, that someone asked us all to raise our hands if we were actually from Durham, so that she could see if there were enough people to start to build a group with. All of thi…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ued: DeBenardo continues by acknowledging Kaigama’s claim that these press reports were a gross misrepresentation – that “he only meant to support the law’s opposition to marriage for same-gender couples”. This is disingenuous. His insistence that he was originally misquoted is just about credible – but why then, did he not correct the media misrepresentation at the time? Did he ever publish the full text of the letter, to put the record straight?…

Cloverfield: Sin & Redemption, with Monsters

By Gabriel Mckee

…onds, people have lined up in front of it to take pictures with their cell phones. They’re distanced from what’s happening around them, oblivious to what it really means. Many reviewers have made the obvious connection to 9/11, and it’s certainly true that the monster’s initial rampage eerily evokes that day’s images. But there’s a deeper level to it. At one point, the characters are caught in the middle of a firefight between the monster and a Na…