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Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

…f global pandemics, terrorism, and the breakdown of governments and infrastructure. World War Z does not attempt to humanize the monsters, nor does it register concern for the masses of victims. It’s a familar idea: people unlike us as repositories of potential danger. This resonates with the now-classic opener of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978). When cops raid a tenement building, one cop begins to shoot residents indiscriminately while s…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…likeminded sites as Conservative Grapevine, Catholic News Service, LifeSiteNews, LifeNews, Stop the ACLU, OneNewsNow and many more. The main donor to BornAliveTruth, a 527—an organization allowed to raise money from individuals in unlimited amounts—is Raymond Ruddy, who is described by Kuhnhein as “a prominent anti-abortion philanthropist in Massachusetts who supported Mitt Romney for president in the GOP primary.” ++++++++++ Focus on the Family d…

Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column

By Daniel Schultz

…e’s a need to look directly at the quality, intent, and effect of religion stories, particularly in the national media. More precisely, there’s a need to look at these stories on their own terms, rather than the more common RD analysis or commentary. We won’t leave politics completely out of the analysis, but there will be no litmus tests for ideological conformity. There’s a wrinkle to this in that while I’m a longtime analyst and have only occas…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…brown, poor, immigrant, transgender, and queer people. I am not, in other words, only frustrated by the lack of national news coverage or public awareness of the floods in Louisiana. I am frustrated by the lack of coverage and awareness of how the floods in Louisiana do now and will continue to disproportionately affect poor people, immigrants, people of color, people affected by de facto segregation, homeless people, and queer people. I am frust…

Challenge to ‘un-Africanness’ of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…escribed effeminate men who are considered to be wives to men. While the Yoruba word might be more about behaviour than identity, this Hausa term is more about identity. You have to look and act like a yan daudu to be called one. It is not an identity you can just carry. These words are neutral; they are not infused with hate or disgust… In Boy-Wives and Female Husbands, a book examining homosexuality and feminism in Africa, the researchers found…

Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…avel Ban is Targeting LGBT People.” Also writing in The Advocate, OutRight International’s Jessica Stern wrote, “Trump’s MuslimB an Could Be a Death Sentence for Many LGBTs.” The governments of Libya, Syria, and Somalia punish homosexuality with prison, even up to 10 years. Sudan, Iran, and Yemen officially punish homosexuality with death. OutRight has documented more than 39 people killed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria for alleged homosexuality from 2…

Does Helen Thomas Work for Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…“go back to Germany,” whatever she meant by it, is simply beyond the pale. Words matter, and as a seasoned journalist who parses other people’s words for a living, Thomas should know better. But more substantively, Thomas knows that Israel is a legitimate nation-state created by the United Nations, the only international body we have. Her comment was not about “the occupation,” it was about the legitimacy of Israel’s existence. And that legitimacy…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…man who now lives in Chicago tells her story of leaving Cechnya, situating stories of anti-gay persecution within the actions of the brutally repressive regime of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Putin ally who rules Chechnya, and the Putin regime itself. Queerfest is under way in St. Petersburg. The educational and cultural festival runs until September 24. Organizers reported a peaceful opening event on September 14, with police helping provide “an atmospher…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…n ordinary life seems chaotic and unpredictable. As Kearney says: From the word go, stories were invented to fill the gaping hole within us, to assuage our fear and dread, to try to give answers to the great unanswerable questions of existence: Who are we? Where do we come from? Are we animal, human, or divine? Strangers, gods or monsters?… In seeking to provide responses to such unfathomable conundrums—both physical and metaphysical—the great tal…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…t, two wars, a series of devastating natural disasters, a crumbling infrastructure, and rumors that a Britney Spears’ comeback is in the offing isn’t enough to put Todd Strandberg’s Rapture Index over the top, the election of Barack Obama should put the icing on the cake. According to Newsweek, Strandberg’s Web site, RaptureReady.com, which “track[s] current events and link[s] them to biblical prophecy in hopes of maintaining his status as ‘the eB…