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Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…to advance American strategic objectives: gathering cultural intelligence, promoting religious tolerance, and patching up relations with local citizens whose lives have been damaged or destroyed by American military actions. In Afghanistan, the US required Navy Chaplains to give Koran lessons to citizens in an effort to cultivate particular understandings of Islam. A program called Voices of Religious Tolerance had US Marines taking Afghan elders…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, and could face a life sentence in an Egyptian prison if found guilty of “promoting sexual deviancy” and other charges tied to her alleged crime: waving a rainbow flag at a concert. The 28-year-old denies waving the flag but is one of 57 people arrested so far in Egypt’s widest anti-gay crackdown yet, a swift zero-tolerance response to a rare show of public support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in the conservative Musli…

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ng Evangelism has offices in Virginia Beach, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia and its 2007 revenue amounted to $42,658,159. The Scottsdale, Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, whose President, CEO and General Counsel is Alan Sears, had 2007 revenue of $31,674,124. The Rev. Donald Wildmon’s Tupelo, Mississippi-based American Family Association had $22,547,087 in revenue in 2007.v Founded by Dobson and run by Tony Perkins, the Washington, D.C….

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…taken down. It cost him re-election—just like it did the then-Governor of Georgia, Roy Barnes, who had also decided to abandon the Confederate flag in 2001. Beasley was present when Haley signed the bill that ordered the flag to be taken down in 2015. Haley was hailed as one of a new Republican generation of leaders from the South—leaders who came without the racist baggage of the past. This wishful thinking would be short lived. Four years later…

Boos, Jews, and Progressive Religion at DNC

By Daniel Schultz

…art. Rev. Cynthia Hale, pastor of Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia got booed, loudly, for mentioning Hillary Clinton’s name in the opening prayer. I wonder, first of all, who does this? Who heckles a prayer? I also wonder if the boo-birds had any idea who Hale is: the pioneering pastor of a 5100-member church in the strategically important Atlanta suburbs, a woman routinely included on lists of top black leaders, who’s mentored cou…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…es—is not a real thing, then why are states like Wisconsin and Florida and Georgia and Texas so determined to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Black people to cast a vote? Why have ten states, in fact, restricted voting in recent years? Why are Republicans in Missouri doing away with a voter-approved independent and nonpartisan way of apportioning representation? Why do 53% of white men still side with Trump, according to the latest Pew R…

Hannibal Returns: Is TV’s Favorite Serial Killer the Devil Himself?

By Nicholas Laccetti

…and this version is nothing more than a person suit, a human veil. Perhaps Georgia—the heartbreaking murderer-of-the-week in episode 10—who cannot see faces, ironically witnessed the blankness of Lecter’s true face most clearly, even more so than Will’s vision of Lecter as a horned shadow in the final episode. His aestheticism and his sensuous curiosity know no moral boundaries, like Dorian Gray, but he doesn’t need a portrait in the attic: his fa…

Gay and Christian and About to Lose Their Jobs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

Shorter University, a Southern Baptist-affiliated school in Rome, Georgia, is causing a bit of a stir with its new requirement for faculty and staff to sign a “personal lifestyle statement.” The statement asks employees to affirm that they won’t sell or possess illegal drugs or drink alcohol within six hours of school functions. That all sounds innocuous enough, but, as the GA Voice reports, one vow stands out: “I reject as acceptable all sexual…

Female Deacons: Pope Francis Walks It Back, Women Clergy Weigh In

By Kaya Oakes

…uccession with Rome, are also excommunicated when ordained. In the case of Georgia Walker, the first Roman Catholic Woman Priest ordained in Kansas City, she was informed of her excommunication by certified letter in 2015 because of her participation in what the diocese referred to as a “simulated ordination.” In spite of the advocacy of groups like the Women’s Ordination Conference, little progress has been made on the issue. It’s understandable,…

Is Abortion No Longer Significant for Evangelicals — or Has it Just Become Like Water?

By Bradley Onishi

…example, when Raphael Warnock challenged Kelly Loeffler in 2020 for one of Georgia’s Senate seats, the incumbent held a rally where her political ally Doug Collins said, “There’s no such thing as a pro-choice pastor.” White evangelicals make up one-third of the GOP. The GOP is notoriously probing when it comes to gauging their bases’ priorities and desires. If abortion isn’t much of a motivation anymore, why has this been a record-breaking year fo…