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Lies, Intimidation, and the Insurance Industry: The Republicans Have Lost Their Minds

By Frank Schaeffer

…he Wall Street Journal exposed FreedomWorks for building “amateur-looking” websites to promote far right interests of Armey. FreedomWorks represents a top-down, corporate-friendly approach that’s been the norm for conservative organizations for years. How do I know this is the norm? Because I used to have strategy meetings with the late Jack Kemp and Dick Army and the rest of the Republican gang about using their business ties to help finance the…

Dark Sisters Opera Aims to Humanize Sister Wives

By Joanna Brooks

…you can do on fundamentalist LDS communities—a couple of hundred books and websites, and even local histories. So I started by reading. Then, I flew to Page, Arizona, and scooted over to Colorado City. That visit was really important. I grew up down a dirt road from the birthplace of Joseph Smith in Sharon, Vermont. What I’ve loved about LDS history is how site-specific it is: it treats America the way some people treat Israel. There is this proce…

Eddie Long Case Should Mark the End of Black Church Homophobia

By Anthea Butler

…ies of black church leaders in sexual scandals, including Jeremiah Wright, websites that track sexual abuse, and blogs concerning “policing” black church sexuality suggest that the don’t ask don’t tell policy about sexuality in any form in the black church is alive and well. The Homophobia and sexophobia of black church leaders can be found in their literature, preaching, and revivalism. Intrepid preachers and evangelists use sexuality in titles o…

Don’t Blame Religion for Boston Bombings

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…was a product of America. According to the AFP, a statement posted on the websites of Chechen rebels noted that: The command of the Vilayat Dagestan mujahedeen… declares that the Caucasus fighters are not waging any military activities against the United States of America… We are only fighting Russia, which is not only responsible for the occupation of the Caucasus, but also for monstrous crimes against Muslims. Still, for Tamarlan the notion of…

Conservative Christians v. Avatar

By C. Joshua Villines

…he movie’s worldview is the subject of countless critiques on conservative websites, and a discussion of its theology even made the New York Times opinion page. Many of these articles attack the religion of the indigenous people of the alien planet Pandora for its pantheism and planet-worship. Other articles challenge the anti-imperialist themes of the movie and their implied critique of current U.S. foreign policy. All of this manufactured outrag…

Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform

By Andrew Aghapour

…importance of citizen speech? I was skeptical until this weekend, when two websites made very different public offerings. One, facing the past, will transcribe your tweets onto clay tablets. The other is the Guggenheim’s first online exhibition—a marketplace for betting on humanity’s future. From Tweets to Tablets Dumb Cuneiform, which launched on November 6th, offers something simple: “You send us your most ephemeral and worthless communications,…

Skepticism Over O’Donnell’s Dabbling in Witchcraft

By John W. Morehead

…and a satanic altar, allegedly with blood on it. This statement includes a number of elements that reflect evangelical stereotypes and misrepresentations, including an equation of Witchcraft with Satanism, and a misunderstanding of Satanism as a spirituality of ritual sacrifice. Again, these misunderstandings are also found in popular evangelical folklore as well as some of the more extreme literature and websites on the topic indicating that she…

More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orts BuzzFeed, “Grindr, Hornet, and a total of more than 80 other apps and websites with LGBT content face a ban in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, following a closed-door interagency summit held Wednesday at the country’s Ministry of Communications.” He reports, “The panel included representatives from the Ministry of Human Development, the National Police, and the Ministry of Religious Affairs, which was represented by a mem…

Sacred&Profane: The Sacred Pelvis

By Gary Laderman

…case: a popular god. What more is there to say about Elvis? Books, films, websites, documentaries, photographs, insignias, stamps, music, museums, shrines, articles, say it all: Elvis is a cultural institution, a good earner for the Elvis corporation for sure, but also a comforting point of reference amid the onslaught of information in everyday life; iconically familiar, with multiple meanings and emotional resonances that are still magnetic and…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nvestigate claims that clerics had posted nude photos of themselves on gay websites, sexually harassed the faithful and stole church funds. Two years later the pope replaced the leader of the diocese, Bishop Mario Oliveri. Germany: Some Merkel allies to push for marriage equality A January poll by the federal anti-discrimination agency found that 83 percent of Germans support marriage equality, but opposition by conservative Christian Democrats an…