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A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…n’t be more uncompromising than I was. I picketed abortion clinics and put signs in my own kids’ hands. I sent letters to the editor in which I railed against anti-Christian bigotry in newspapers and magazines. I even wrote to Oprah and told her to get on board with Christianity and to stop preaching her new age bullshit. Well, I put it a bit nicer than that, and she kindly wrote back thanking me for my constructive criticism before signing her na…

Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

By Joanna Brooks

…nt by former LDS bishop Kevin Kloosterman, marched as “Mormon Allies” with signs reading “God is Love,” “Love thy Neighbor,” and “All are Alike Unto God.” Marcher Mayra Diaz, who carried a sign that declared her support for marriage equality, expressed amazement at the “thank yous” the Mormon Allies received from the crowd. “I was so moved by them thanking us,” Diaz said, “when we had made such mistakes and rejections. They taught us a great lesso…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…now change their legal gender in Norway as easily as filling a tax return. Iraq: Social media used to entrap gay men The Washington Blade interviewed Iraqi activist Ayaz Hassan, who says anti-gay militants are using social networks to identify gay men and kill them. Afghanistan: Activist charges security officials with waging extermination campaign Activist Nemat Sadat writes at Huffington Post that sources tell him Afghan security officials are e…

AP: “Bush: Soldiers Live Out Gospel”

By Ira Chernus

…“friends” for whom over 4,000 U.S. warriors have laid down their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan? Let’s stick to the text, I’d say (in good academic fashion). The first clue it gives us is that they have died “for the cause of freedom.” So presumably the “friends” for whom they died are people whose freedom they were gaining, or protecting? In the former case, obviously we are supposed to think of Iraqis and Afghans. In the latter case, of course,…

Must James Foley and Steven Sotloff Be Martyrs to Not Have Died in Vain?

By Alana Massey

…e word “martyr” in the title still imbues their deaths with an ideological significance and intentionality that has the potential to elevate the message of ISIS by posturing over and against it. The propaganda of ISIS is heavy with references to martyrdom. For their opponents to use such language is, arguably, to capitulate to their terms. The reality is that the brutality of ISIS is so devoid of theological rigor it renders martyrdom at their han…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…feeling after the invasion of Afghanistan, and again after the invasion of Iraq and rapid toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime) stressed war’s redeeming qualities for recapturing a national elan threatened by twins of industrialization and immigration, and the bitter social conflicts that arose from them. Those who decried this round of foreign adventurism, most notably Mark Twain, lambasted the hypocrisy of depending on the violence of war as a fo…

Pox Americana: Franzen’s Tragic Vision

By Peter Laarman

…e part-time job finding rusted and useless Polish truck parts to ship into Iraq. Joey’s employer is a soulless, politically-connected outfit clearly modeled after KBR/Halliburton; Joey also falls momentarily under the spell of his UVA roommate’s armchair warrior father, a Martin Peretz-Richard Perle amalgam of swaggering self-importance. Walter explodes into cathartic rage against Haven’s treachery when he learns the unbearable truth of Patty’s lo…

The “Religious Freedom” President is Gutting the Rest of the 1st Amendment

By Sunnivie Brydum

…finitely. It would also temporarily block entry visas from seven countries—Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya—for 30 days as part of a broader security review of visa-admission programs, after which permanent visa bans could be enacted for those countries and others.” Take this transparent attempt to privilege Judeo-Christian faith traditions in immigration policy and combine it with the so-called First Amendment Defense Act, whic…

The Irony of Trumpism: A Turning Point for Muslims in American Politics

By David Krueger

…han, the father of U. S. Army captain Humayun S. M. Khan who was killed in Iraq in 2004. Khan opened his remarks by introducing himself and his wife as “patriotic American Muslims” with “undivided loyalty” to the United States. “If it were up to Donald Trump” said Khan, his son “would never have even been able to be in America.” “Donald Trump…smears the character of Muslims…disrespects other minorities…He vows to build walls and ban us from this c…

WWJD Or The First Amendment?

By Sarah Posner

…’s obviously an argument to be made that Christianity shouldn’t be used to promote war, and shouldn’t be used to seemingly promote religious war between Christians and Muslims. But constitutionally speaking, the issue isn’t “abusing” faith but having it play a role at all. That’s a problem in the military that runs much deeper than Trijicon’s inscriptions. UPDATE (1/22/10): Trijicon has agreed to voluntarily remove the scripture engravings from th…