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Republican Jewish Coalition Calls Obama Out for “Donors” Mention

By Evan Derkacz

…Iran policy is due to ‘donors’? No one would say opposition to his Russia policy is due to ‘donors,’ or his Cuba policy is due to ‘donors,’ or his general foreign policy is due to ‘donors.’ So why did President Obama single out those who seek tougher sanctions on Iran and say their viewpoints are based on ‘donors’? It’s important to note, for context, that Menendez himself drafted the bill (along with Republican Mark Kirk) that Obama was speaking…

Trump Administration Is Not-So-Subtly Christianizing Foreign Policy and Aid

By Murali Balaji

…that the United States was embracing pluralism as a pillar of its foreign policy. Instead, it’s probably more appropriate to think of this latest rollout as an extension of the administration’s narrative—driven in large part by Vice President Mike Pence—that religious freedom is for (and religious persecution is only committed against) Christians. While agencies like the State Department and USAID have largely held bipartisan support, conservativ…

The Revival of the Pastors’ Policy Briefings

By Sarah Posner

…ports today that GOP presidential hopefuls will be addressing the Pastors’ Policy Briefing, a Des Moines gathering later in March: An invitation, stamped with the return address of a West Des Moines UPS Store mailbox, went out this week to Iowa’s faithful. Those who received the invitation will have an opportunity to hear from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Minnesota…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…ons experienced by persons infected by HIV. My first action was to write a petition in 1983 calling for United Methodists to overcome this bias and to become involved in caring concern and advocacy of public funding for research and care. Also early in the 1980s I was asked to speak at a conference on “the church and AIDS.” Realizing I needed help, I contacted the local pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church in Denver and he introduced me to…

Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…stan and expand it to include its six neighboring countries along with the United States, Russia, and NATO. It is important for the United States to respect such initiatives and work with them to encourage progress along regional lines. The key to this five-point framework for US policy in the South Asia region is to demilitarize the US presence while utilizing its influence for regional cooperation and viable self-determination. The politics of t…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…pported at all costs, even as it acts in blatant contradiction to American policy and interests? Is this “normal” or obsessive? This is not only terrible for the United States, but arguably also terrible for Israel, a country trapped in a seemingly intractable situation with the Palestinians, partially of its own making, with growing dissent in its settler society and its Arab citizenry. In some way this raises the larger question as to how much A…

Clinton vs. Sanders isn’t About Policy, it’s About Power

By Marcia Pally

…Democrats vote for Hillary because she’s got the clout to implement party policy—even if that clout comes with big-money, big-lobby dealings and dubious donations and ethics? Said another way: if you vote for a “purer” Sanders, who has less muscle and less likelihood of getting policies passed, have you done the right and ethical thing for the body politic? The problem of effective power and ineffective purity goes back to the Greeks and to the c…

Judge Halts “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Discharges

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…to their moral understanding of the biblical principles.” Defenders of the policy, like Ed Whelan, president of Ethics and Public Policy Center, have little faith in the DOJ saying that even if the ruling is appealed, the defense will be weak: “(The DOJ) refused to put forward any serious defense, because its political agenda trumped its obligation to defend the law,” Whelan said. “This is part of the Obama administration’s ongoing sabotage of the…

What Ben Carson’s Pyramid Theory Might Say About His Foreign Policy

By David Krueger

…for a Middle East more greatly influenced by Christianity and U.S. foreign policy. There are many examples of the use of dubious archaeological evidence to advance narratives of racial, religious, and national superiority, and all too frequently, they have been marshaled in an effort to justify policies of conquest. In a speech in 1811, New York Governor DeWitt Clinton argued that the complex burial mounds found throughout North America were built…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…hetorical, even if a handful of state officials have said they believe the policy to be illegal and will refuse to comply. On Tuesday, the news dropped that Texas officials had opened “child abuse” investigations into parents who support their children in accessing age-appropriate gender-affirming medical care. They started with a state CPS employee, referred to as “Jane Doe,” who has a 16-year-old transgender daughter (“Mary Doe”) and says she fe…