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Huckabee Launches Videos to Teach Kids About American Exceptionalism

By Lauri Lebo

…s created a series of cartoon history lessons for America’s children. In a news release announcing his new company Learn Our History, Huckabee says, “America’s youth aren’t excited about our past because they’re being taught history in a way that minimizes what has made America a beacon of hope around the world for over 200 years. Instead, history lessons today often focus on America’s faults. It’s impossible to overestimate the importance of givi…

Videos and Billboards and Yiddish, Oh, My!

By Sarah Posner

…on. The campaign is called “My Buyer’s Remorse,” and the RJC is collecting videos from Jews who voted for Obama in 2008 and are voting for Romney this time. A recent poll by the American Jewish Committee showed Obama’s support among Florida’s Jewish voters running at 69% to Romney’s 25%, with a margin of error of 6%. Obama won 76% of the Florida Jewish vote in 2008. My favorite part of the campaign, though, is this Florida billboard which reads, “…

Two people on a podium with a board that reads "Project 2025 kills democracy"

Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…rs to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Miller told the New York Times, adding, “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”[66] The far-right’s far-reaching revolution As Project 2025 envisions Trump or another MAGA-minded president maximizing presidential power and dominating the executive branch with an iron fist, its agenda converges with the long-term right-wing goal of diminishing and dismantling the fede…

Ex-Mormons Shouldn’t Proselytize Mormons… Really?

By Holly Welker

…anything about socializing or community or relationships or art. In other words, “mutual respect,” in the view of this piece from FairMormon, is mutual in that both post-Mormons and Latter-day Saints are expected to respect Mormon beliefs, Mormon codes of behavior, and Mormon missionary work as righteous, benevolent, beneficial and admirable. Simultaneously, everyone should share the mutual and tacit understanding that post-Mormon beliefs, post-M…

Breaking Up with God: I Didn’t Lose My Faith, I Left It

By Sarah Sentilles

…man from Federal Express rang the doorbell to his tiny studio apartment in New York City. He was carrying a huge bag stuffed with envelopes. “Wow,” the founder said. “Are all those mine?” “No,” the delivery person said. He pointed to three giant Fed Ex trucks lined up on the street behind him, their hazard lights blinking. “All those are yours.” I really love that story. I think it reveals how human beings are waiting to make the world a better pl…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…or before we ever tolerate gay people working here.” In other parts of the world, World Vision employs thousands of non-Christians. Earlier this month, World Vision’s national director in Uganda, Gilbert Kamanga, said the organization “opposes any law that fails to meet human rights standards and results in stigmatization or discrimination of any group or class of people.” “Sexual orientation of those we serve or those with whom we collaborate wit…

Condoms and Common Sense

By Frances Kissling

…Family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, who told the program: The AIDS virus is roughly 450 times smaller than the spermatozoan. The spermatozoan can easily pass through the ‘net’ that is formed by the condom. These margins of uncertainty… should represent an obligation on the part of the health ministries and all these campaigns to act in the same way as they do with regard to cigarettes, which they state to be a danger. The World Health Organi…

The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y James I was by far the most popular Bible in the British colonies in the New World (and when the War of Independence broke out, English Bibles became a very difficult commodity to obtain). King James’ version remained the Bible of choice, by and large, until the late 19th century, when the English Revised Version (ERV), the “first significant revision of the English Bible since 1611,” was published by Oxford University Press in 1881. This announ…

Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. Activists said other countries were considering doing the same. From the New York Times: Gay men in Chechnya, a deeply homophobic republic, have long been at risk of so-called honor killings by family members and of abuse by the local authorities. But this year, the pro-Kremlin government in Chechnya began targeting gay men more aggressively after a Moscow-based gay rights organization sought permits for gay pride parades in the area. Canada: Re…

Talking Justice on Twitter: “We Are Breaking Down Barriers”

By Arafat Kabir

…cate with each other in ways that are transformative, and symbolic of this new world of social media. They are all Jewish and I am Muslim, and we are breaking down barriers. Our backgrounds and religions are relegated to the background as we share ideas, hopes, worries, and more. These friendships forged online are not tainted by stereotypes and prejudice, but are stronger because we respect one another’s differences. Maybe people who reach out on…