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These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ia of anti-LGBT bills introduced in state legislatures around the country. Oklahoma introduced a whopping 27 anti-LGBT bills at the beginning of the 2015-2016 session. By March, activists on the ground had defeated all of those bills, as had organizers in several other states where bills attempted to codify into state law a faith-based “right to discriminate,” and, in Kansas and Texas, grant a $2,000 reward for cisgender students who “caught” a tr…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…“follow Taiwan’s lead on same-sex marriage and live up to its Asia’s World City tag.” He notes that anti-gay religious activists, while not large in number, are relatively vocal: Choi Chi-sum, general secretary of the conservative Christian group, the Society For Truth And Light, for example, has been given an increasingly prominent stage to present his views following Taiwan’s legislative change. His opinions on same-sex marriage, sexual minority…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…s thing. I’m working my fat ass out on this thing. It’s good work. Cleaner city, prettier city. If nobody’s gotten on a bike in this city, it’s a great feeling, I recommend it.” The bicycle advocacy organization Transportation Alternatives is eager to keep the respective convictions of both hipsters and Hasidim from turning into a confrontation that could harm the chances of bike lane initiatives elsewhere. TA executive director Paul Steely White…

Hijab and The City

By Joanna Brooks

…or weeks, I’ve been stewing over how to express my disdain for Sex and the City 2. I mean, it’s obvious: this is a terrible movie. But as a feminist of faith, I have to say I’ve cringed a special cringe every time someone mistakes SATC 2’s brand of consumption and Islamexploitation for feminism. Which. It. Is. Not. But now, rather than dwell on the ugliness that is SATC 2, I think I’ve found a proper antidote in a beautiful New York Times article …

Did TV “News” Spark Anti-Islam Vandalism?

By Lauri Lebo

…raining camp in some rural white community. The reporter barges into a church service with a camera and then intersperses the piece with video of the Oklahoma City bombing. Unfortunately, that’s what we’re dealing with here….

Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…under constant surveillance by federal authorities in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. However, after 25 years of conservative talk radio, internet message boards, Fox News, the emergence of social media, hyper-partisan politics, and a Reconstruction-style whitelash against the first Black president, a considerable portion of white Americans who’ve shifted further right on cultural and economic issues were primed for not just a candidat…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…American Christian terrorism—culminating in the catastrophic attack on the Oklahoma City Federal Builiding—has now returned. Christian terrorism has returned to America with a vengeance. And it is not just Roeder. Last week, when members of the Hutaree militia in Michigan and Ohio recently were arrested with plans to kill a random policeman and then plant Improvised Explosive Devices in the area where the funeral would be held to kill hundreds mor…

Beyond Retribution: Bin Laden’s Death in its Cosmic Context

By Eric Reitan

…nk inflicting even more suffering will do the trick. A few years after the Oklahoma City bombing, I was wondering—while others gleefully anticipated Timothy McVeigh’s execution—what punishment I would impose if it were up to me. The problem, of course, was that McVeigh was gripped by ideological delusions; self-righteous narratives that cast him in the role of the persecuted hero fighting a war against tyranny. These delusions made it possible for…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…the book is that the religious left needs to reestablish a significant capacity for “organizing“ in the broad, social, political and electoral sense. It has been a key to successes in the past but seems to have been abandoned in favor of think tanks and public relations strategies. As Marshall Ganz, formerly one of the top organizers with Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers Union writes in the opening essay: To find the courage, commitment, and hop…

Why Dylann Roof Acted on His Racism

By Joseph Laycock

…inspired by The Turner Diaries, including Timothy McVeigh’s attack on the Oklahoma City Building in 1995. Turner and his allies blow up the FBI headquarters using a fertilizer bomb packed into a truck—the same method used by McVeigh. Not surprisingly, McVeigh was an avid fan of The Turner Diaries, mailing it to friends and selling copies at gun shows. Pierce did not applaud McVeigh’s actions but rather denounced his attempt to immanentize the esc…