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The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ent receive far too little attention). Lekus notes that recent progress in promoting LGBT human rights in Cuba “reflect a marked shift from the early history of sexuality & gender in revolutionary Cuba,” citing state persecution, including labor camps and expulsion. It remains to be seen which historical precedents will inform Cuba’s overall democratic transition and the inclusion (or lack thereof) of LGBT Cubans in that expansion of democratic ci…

Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

By Cody Musselman

…inders of what’s at stake may be necessary as (ex)CrossFitters forge a new republic of fitness. In Reforging the White Republic, Edward Blum recounts the history of Northern white Protestants abandoning their racial justice commitments to ally with white southerners after the Civil War. This example of white abolitionists opting for white comfort and unity over the trials of continued abolitionist work attests to the tenacity of white cultural pow…

Buddha-Mind, American Style

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…childlike spirit of egoless abandon and wonder that perhaps, just perhaps, promotes the soulful elasticity necessary to survive in this world for well over a century. The talk turned—again, predictably enough—to the current economic downturn. Mr. Breuning was asked how this compared to the Great Depression. There is no comparison, he opined. No one today can imagine the situation then. His face turned uncharacteristically serious as he described t…

Senate Obstructionist Endangering Africans

By Sarah Posner

…extending unemployment benefits to tens of thousands of Americans, another Republican is holding up a different bill that could save lives in Africa. At UN Dispatch, Mark Goldberg reports on Tom Coburn’s block of a bill that would disarm the Lord’s Resistance Army, which has waged a brutal campaign of terror, rape, brutality, and mutilation in Northern Uganda and elsewhere in Africa, including in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. The LRA…

Palin’s Persecution Complex Culminates with “Blood Libel” Accusation

By Anthea Butler

…e potential for an attack on Sarah Palin as an event that would “bring the republic down,” Beck plays into the martyrdom fantasy he promotes daily. It is this type of bombastic hyperbole that has the nation in mourning. By turning the tragedy inside out, making it about themselves, and not about Palin’s “don’t retreat, reload” refrain, and the crosshairs map smack dab over Congresswoman Gifford’s district, Beck and Palin are taking advantage of th…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…ies where they teach each other how to live and what to believe. They also promote their belief that the United States is a White Christian republic rather than a multiracial democracy. And in a number of cases they turn their conviction that White Christians have superior civil and political rights—over those they deem “Fourteenth Amendment” citizens (everybody else)—into fraudulent schemes with fake money. In other instances, they establish “Chr…

How Trump’s Assertion of “Power to Pardon” Tramples the American Sacred

By Spencer Dew

…citizens engaged in and exercised sovereignty as a collective, but also a republic under a sovereignty of law. This meant—and means, as the current administration must be reminded—separation of powers. In America, “sovereignty” was understood as multiple, layered, a matter of negotiation. Look at the star-shaped constellation on our nation’s Great Seal, signifying both America’s place in the firmament of international sovereigns and the distincti…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ssion.’ By fascism and nazism, staatenlos.info is referring to the Federal Republic of Germany. According to them, Germany is a ‘fascist colony,’ that needs to be de-nazified by Russia on the basis of national socialist laws, in order to answer the ‘German question’ and to re-establish a ‘German homeland.’ The ‘German question’ means the territorial unity of Germans in the form of a state and is a central topic in the sovereign citizens’ milieu, e…

How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…, Engels follows it forward through Rome, Christianity, the early American republic, and into the contemporary self-help literature. To date, Engels argues, gratitude has served neoliberalism by conditioning people to think of their social relations in the transactional terms of lending and debt. A practicing yogi, he turns finally to Eastern religion and philosophy to prescribe a healthier alternative. RD’s Eric C. Miller spoke with Engels about…

Robert Bellah’s Powerful Legacy: A Mixed Blessing for Religious Studies?

By Ivan Strenski

…nsifies the image of Bellah’s pastoral concern for the moral health of the republic, threatened as it is by impoverishing individualism. In addition, indeed, this is the Bellah who gradually emerges in his later work—an evangelist of republican virtue. Bellah’s evangelical civic spirit leads him to ponder reforms for the familiar institution of the university. In Bellah’s hands, the university becomes a place not only where knowledge for its own s…