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The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…e house for spousal abuse. In short, he appears to have had less in common with Islamic terrorists than with American mass killers like Elliot Rodgers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, Craig Hicks, Jared Lee Loughner, and Omar Mateen (also an accused wife-abuser). These men seem more bitter than ideological. Attributing a political intelligence to their actions seems far-fetched. Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s crimes can’t be termed “Islamist” terror, at least…

On Guns and Religious Liberty, Ben Carson “Not an Authentic Adventist”

By Sarah Posner

…n when he ran for president in 2012, Carson—with a few exceptions, such as withdrawing from speaking at a Southern Baptist Convention conference after pastors raised both political and theological concerns—seems to have immunized himself from that sort of scrutiny. Although Carson has downplayed his Adventism during his presidential run, depicting himself more generically as a Christian, his commitment to Adventism is well documented. In his book…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e in Belgrade. If the parade is cancelled again for security reasons, this will be met with harsh criticism as the same situation has taken place year after year, a Tanjug source said. Russia: Cultural Festival Disrupted; Anti-Gay Activists Don’t Know How to Quit Putin We reported last week that the “QueerFest” cultural festival was getting under way in St. Petersburg. Radio Free Europe reported last Friday that anti-gay activists, “led by a city…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…alone and no one knows precisely how much power each of these individuals will wield over our nation’s policies during the next four years. They will impose Obamunism upon our nation.”— TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty; and, “Obama’s ‘Hope’ Portrait To Hang In National Portrait Gallery”—a profile of Shepard Fairey and his “Soviet-style” art work which “were seen everywhere during the election campaign on posters, campaign stickers, and bann…

Perry v. Romney Showdown Tonight

By Joanna Brooks

…primary will hang seems to be this: can a candidate win the GOP nomination without a winning a majority of evangelical Christian conservatives? What can Romney do to overcome his disadvantage among religious conservatives as a perceived social moderate and a Mormon? Some data suggests that Perry is polling behind Romney among women voters in general, although there doesn’t seem to be a solid body of public data yet on how the candidates match up a…

Katy Perry’s Evangelical Hangover

By David Mihalyfy

…like George Eliot and Vincent van Gogh, but also in someone like James Baldwin, whose thought and influence are still very much alive. Although best remembered for his novels and incisive cultural criticism, Baldwin spent several years as a teenage preacher in the historic Black wing of evangelicalism. Eventually deconverted by everything from Dostoevsky to the hypocrisy of other ministers, he would end up balancing distance from any church with a…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…nt [akin to the Lincoln Memorial], subject to similar protection.” I’m likewise baffled by the citizen quoted in a Time magazine article from 1970, quoted in turn by Gardella, who said, “I see the flag as I see God: a supreme being,” and the perhaps even odder statement, from the same source, by evangelist Billy Graham, that the Stars and Stripes is “our Queen.” But what all those quotes seem to be struggling to articulate is the power the flag ha…

Marco Rubio’s “Constitutional Scholar”

By Julie Ingersoll

…nts, the authority on God’s role in American history. New polls show Rubio winning 2-1 in a three way race with current Governor Charlie Crist and the Democratic candidate, Kendrick Meeks. One might have expected Rubio to seek the support of the Beck and Barton crowd in a primary contest, but it’s a puzzle as to why he would do that now. And this wasn’t even a fundraiser. Rubio is often cited as the classic tea party candidate who doesn’t emphasiz…

Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t 2016 — found overwhelming support for the original Supreme Court ruling, with 47% saying they “strongly agree” with the decision and an additional 35% saying they “somewhat agree.” Support for individual provisions of the ruling ranged as high as 80%, and 64% said they also support reserving seats in the legislature for transgender people the same way there are seats specifically allocated for women. (This idea was not included in the court orde…

Republican Presidential Candidate Courts Televangelists. So What Else Is New? (Updated with video)

By Sarah Posner

…lf more about entertainment than it is about religion, and it’s certainly more about red meat (a form of entertainment) than about policy. Even if Trump doesn’t end up the nominee—and even if that can be attributed, at least in part, to his waving a Bible around but demonstrating no fluency with it—the Republican Party will remain addicted to the “info-tainment complex at the heart of political evangelicalism.” In other words, Trump’s candidacy ma…