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Conservative Propagandists Claim Silver (Or Gold) Lining To BP Disaster

By Lauri Lebo

Orange Beach, Ala. —If you aren’t one of the few scattered tourists here, you’re someone who’s working your butt off. Each morning large crews gather on the beaches in plastic booties, scraping up oil from the sand hour after hour in the brutal sun, shoveling it into plastic bags. Fishermen and construction crews continue to lay boom and build temporary rock reefs in a desperate attempt to keep the oil from seeping into Perdido Bay. At night, the…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…Luhr, Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach, traces the rise of politicized, evangelical youth culture over the past forty years. Investigating the complex relationships between popular culture, suburban piety, and youth alienation, she shows how Christian youth culture has been commodified and sold to secular audiences. Drawing parallels between topics as divergent as homeowner rights and school prayer, Luhr e…

For Better or Worse: The Rise of the Professional Wedding Celebrant

By Carlos Wilton

…her mop and bucket and performs ceremonies—mostly weddings—full-time. Her beach weddings are much in demand in this oceanfront community. She does many more weddings than I do, for locals and tourists alike. Some celebrants—like Mr. Kushner, presumably—become credentialed to perform a one-off ceremony for a friend or relative. Those who seek to make a living at it are more likely to get some training, such as the $2,400 “gold standard” webinar se…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ng media, challenging the laws through legal cases. Nancy Nicol writes: “A number of themes can be identified throughout this body of work that speak to profound discrimination and violence: random violence in public places; police harassment, extortion, custodial rape; ‘corrective rape’ against lesbians ‘to make them straight’; exclusion and violence perpetuated by friends, family and community; Church fueled hate; state fueled hate; employment d…

Murdering Sleep: Madoff and MacBeth

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ch had been her primary residence since 1984. She left with a single straw beach bag, as a small crowd cheered. She has had to beg to secure $2 million of her own money, and that only by agreeing to give up any claim to all other monies, as the Madoff estate is liquidated in order to pay back some of her husband’s victims. Two stories jump out at you. The first took place at Cabo San Lucas on Bernard Madoff’s 70th birthday (on April 29, 2008). Rut…

Clergy Shouldn’t Be Able to Steal Funds for Grindr or Dolls

By Andrew L. Seidel

…al—allegedly stole $100,000 to spend on “Grindr men,” globetrotting, and a beach house. McLoone’s crime appears to be an isolated incident, but it’s indicative of a larger problem, one that could be easily fixed. Churches are incredibly susceptible to theft from within because, unlike every other non-profit and charity, the law does not require financial transparency for churches. They’re financial black holes. Experts estimate that worldwide, chu…

U.S. Bishops’ Silence on Guns and Gays

By Patricia Miller

The U.S. Catholic bishops met in Huntington Beach, California this week, just days after the Orlando massacre. And despite the fact that the church’s most powerful prelates were all gathered together at a time when the nation is desperate for pastoral leadership to counter the vitriol spewing from Donald Trump and his ilk, this was the official, and only, USCCB statement on the massacre released by conference president Archbishop Joseph Kurtz: Wa…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…stian nationalist movement. Read now or download the trilogy for a heckuva beach read. – eds Christian nationalism will greet schoolchildren returning to classrooms in 16 states this fall. New laws in Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, Florida, and South Dakota encourage or require public schools to display the divisive national motto: In God We Trust. Piecemeal reporting on the laws gives the impression that state legislators around the country are s…

Pamela Geller in Brooklyn: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Futility of Arguing with a Bigot

By Haroon Moghul

…encourage hate speech. 6:58 The man in front of me asks, ‘Do you have an iPhone charger?’ ‘For a 5,’ I ask, though so presumptively it does not merit a question mark. ‘Yeah.’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Awesome.’ He’s a nice fellow, though he believes Palestinians would have a different view of Israel if only they ‘visited’ (not seeming to understand that they cannot, and many would not be visiting so much as returning to places they were expelled from). They could…

The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…stian nationalist movement. Read now or download the trilogy for a heckuva beach read. – eds How did “In God We Trust” get stamped on the currency of a country with a godless Constitution? How did a secular nation get a religious national motto? The story is not one of national unity, but of exploitation. It does not begin, as so many claim, with the American founding, but rather four score and seven years later, in 1863. Lincoln’s Emancipation Pr…