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‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…administration has criticized anti-gay laws in Africa and elsewhere. “The Republic of Kenya is a republic that worships God. We have no room for gays and those others,” Ruto told a Nairobi church congregation in the national Swahili language, according to an online video posted by Kenyan broadcaster KTN. Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Kerry was not familiar with Ruto’s remarks but said it was the U.S. position that “all people are creat…

The Holocaust and 9/11 Museums: A Tale of Two Controversial Films

By Todd Fine

…ntroversy became a topic for polemic in national magazines such as The New Republic, the museum declined to consider any changes. In April 1998, a spokesperson argued that the film, produced and written by Sandra Wentworth Bradley, had been “reviewed by the 17-member museum’s church-relations committee, which consists of theologians and historians both Protestant and Catholic.” Eventually though, permanent exhibition curator Steven Luckert emailed…

The End (of Religion) is Near, Scientists Say

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…religious affiliation in nine countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. Turns out, every case of self-reported religious affiliation is trending downward: 40% self-identify as religiously non-affiliated in the Netherlands, as do 60% in the Czech Republic. The mathematicians seem far more surprised by these numbers than most religionists would be. The first and most obvious re…

The Blasphemy of ISIS: A 7-Point Pro-Guide to Islam(ism)

By Haroon Moghul

…ersation. Far from it. As a postscript, Iran and Pakistan are both Islamic Republics. The latter is a parliamentary democracy, whereas the former is, well, a constitutional… theocracy, for lack of a better term. So what then is an Islamic Republic? 4. Islamic law Not Shariah. Confusion of the two is rampant and unfortunate. Islamic law is an interpretation of Shariah; while various interpretations may be authoritative, and may find widespread acce…

How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…leader of Tibetan Buddhism to the Grand Dastoor of the Persian Zoroastrian Republic, as well as representatives from the World Council of Churches. There are even rumors that “anti”-Pope Pius XV of the American Catholic Church may arrive later this week from Rio de Janeiro, fueling speculation of a rapprochement after decades of schism. The U.S. Ecumenical Church has remained cautious, issuing platitudes about how the discovery magnifies our under…

In the Church of Lincoln

By Michael A. Elliott

…he conclusions I had to reach after reading Sean Wilentz’s 25,000-word New Republic cover story on Lincoln and Lincoln scholarship. If you can get a national magazine to publish something of that length, you deserve a more careful reading than a one-sentence summary. But here’s the short version: Lincoln was a politician, and English professors are wretched historians. Wilentz’s argument is that the contemporary version of Lincoln that most Americ…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…dent, Leonard Leo, as well as rumors of membership in Opus Dei. Was Barr’s promotion of the theory of the Unitary Executive just his transposition of his high papalism from the religious into the political sphere? I didn’t think much of such a wild possibility of high papalism invading secular history until I read what purported to be just an intelligent and readable history of Christianity—Tom Holland’s best-selling Dominion: How the Christian Re…

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet

By Edward J. Blum

…uch more dissatisfied with the title of my first book, Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. I had wanted to name it When God Wept: Race, Religion, and the Reforging of the White Republic, 1865-1898. The theme of a God who cried over racial discrimination, violence, and injustice ran throughout the book, and Du Bois concluded his magisterial Black Reconstruction with the vision of God weeping over the e…

Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

By Stephanie Gaskill

…e officer could not have been entirely innocent, the thinking ran. As Free Republic commenter “9th Life” put it, “Boy scouts don’t run away from the cops.” Media outlets across the political spectrum soon highlighted the fact that Walter Scott owed approximately $18,000 in child support payments. The blameless victim of police brutality became a prevailing stereotype of African-American fathers: the deadbeat dad. While no one suggested that unpaid…

Inspired by the Anti-Abortion Movement and QAnon, Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a Blatant Call for Violence

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…This moved swiftly into the revision of Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code in 1935, which “would amount to a death sentence for gay men,” according to historian Andrea Carlo. The banning of books on the LGBTQIA+ experience and the closing of libraries; the legislation and platforms against transgender healthcare and LGBTQIA+ rights; these all draw from that playbook. All of these components–physical assaults, book banning, and legislation–are…