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Ping-Pong Politics After Underwear Bomber

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…all the howls this generated from the right a couple of months ago. By renaming these men “criminals,” rather than as “terrorists,” the whole structure to be arrayed against them had shifted. No more indefinite imprisonment without charge. Gone were the military tribunals, to be replaced by civil courts. Now these former Guantanamo detainees were to have rights, legal counsel, the opportunity to make a defense, and to get a public hearing. The adm…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…d to decide the race of citizenship seekers. In making that judgment for immigrants from the Middle East, Islam often came into play. “Religion has always served as a proxy for racial identity,” said Khaled Beydoun, a law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy who studies constructions of Arab and Muslim identity. “Individuals who were Muslim, up until 1944—a specific case—were rigidly deemed to be non-white and thus couldn’t become citizens…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…or popping noises. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old man from a prominent Nigerian family, was attempting to ignite an explosive device sewn into his underwear. He succeeded only in igniting himself—after his arrest, he had to be treated for second-degree burns on his hands and crotch. Instead of martyrdom, Abdulmutallab received four consecutive life sentences plus 50 years. He also earned the less-than-terrifying nickname of “underwear b…

Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) Paved the Way for Trump

By Paul Harvey

…gnificant number of Republicans are considering abandoning their party’s nominee. This is a grave mistake, Schlafly says—because a Donald Trump “radical redirection” could actually set America back on the path of Reagan’s conservative revolution. In The Conservative Case for Trump, Schlafly and her coauthors Ed Martin and Brett M. Decker set aside the circus of the campaign and zero in on ten defining points of the Trump agenda to convince Republi…

Tim LaHaye’s World: We’re Living In It

By Jason C. Bivins

…disaffected post-working class isolationism combined with Reagan-era economics. Those characterizations might be partly true but they fail to capture some of the more lasting features of this America, an America whose several discreditings and multiform rage has left all watching scrambling to find an account of things that would make sense of institutional racism, gunplay, Islamophobia, Bernie Bros, email scandals, and whatever is coming next. B…

How Thanksgiving Became All Dinner, No Worship

By Bruce David Forbes

…shopping season. In the midst of it all, the Thanksgiving dinner and the family homecoming theme remained. So, today, some Americans bemoan the loss of religious influence and want to use Thanksgiving as an occasion to call the nation back to its Puritan roots. Others argue that the day is about family reunions, gratitude, and bringing the nation together in understanding and tolerance, whatever their religion or lack thereof. This argument is par…

Controversial Mary Statue Weeps Because ‘We’re Killing This World’

By Joseph Laycock

…inued for the remainder of the century, buoyed by expectations about the coming millennium. Dedicated lay organizations have formed around the most prominent sightings and hundreds of websites are devoted to interpreting Marian prophecies. Generally, the Church is dubious of such claims. Only a handful of apparitions have met the Church’s standards for approval and even this has been conditional. Major sightings in places like Lourdes and Fatima h…

Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ish. In November of 1975, the Women’s Ordination Conference took place in Detroit, Michigan; the eponymous organization arose from that spirited event. WOC sponsored another meeting in 1978 in Baltimore where women were very specific about the kind of renewed priestly ministry they would accept: one without clericalism, without mandatory celibacy, without hierarchy, but with the inclusion of all and a focus on social justice. WOC became the go-to…

Our Dance Clubs, Our Churches

By Peter Laarman

…age in New York City, Todd’s Sway Lounge (yes, that was its name) on Seven Mile in Detroit. These places represented the ultimate in safety: everyone was having a good time and there was no judgment, no hate, everyone just bumping and pumping to the sound of Sylvester on refrigerator-sized speakers. I mean no disrespect to anyone else’s idea of “church” to say that the gay dance club was a kind of church for me and for thousands, millions, like me…

Lowes Bowed to Pressure from Man with THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS

By Sarah Posner

…0,000) to try to confuse big institutions that his THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS might stop buying their two-by-fours. Lowes looks even more ridiculous for backing down under Caton’s pressure given how his track record is actually pretty pathetic. Last year, Caton’s minions flooded the University of South Florida with emails protesting the teaching of queer theory. USF, as it should have, ignored them. In 2008, Caton recorded a robocall against a Democr…