Defense Bill Contains Stealth Attack on LGBT Rights
…ay just be the opening salvo in an endless battle to use the appropriations process or whatever legislative vehicle is available to carve-out protections for faith-based organizations….
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Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?
…t was titillating to young eyes to take in all those naked bodies doing God-knows-what to each other. It made you tingle in places that you didn’t yet know the words for—but you knew enough religion to know that the sensation was the devil’s pitchfork poking you from the bowels of hell. Certainly not every Christian kid got the memo that the body and sex were irredeemable. But for most of us, and those who still need convincing, there has been a p…
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The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I
…tank analysts, journalists, academics, and students—mingle by the resort’s open-air pool and palm trees, cigars and drinks in hand, sharing their own distaste for liberal democracy, and their plans to turn that distaste into action. One day into the third annual National Conservatism conference, and after a long afternoon of impassioned speeches about the culture war, R. is fired up—and maybe slightly drunk. “I reject equality,” R. tells me as I s…
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Did Catholic Church Abuses Amount to “Organized Crime”?
…one hand, the Vatican is happy to promote its new anti-abuse expert with a high-profile interview with Crux. But on the other, on the ground where it counts, it still flexes its muscle to block a full reckoning with the past—even if financial settlements are an imperfect means of justice. And in case there’s any doubt that a reckoning is still needed, some 250 additional victims have come forward in Altoona-Johnstown just since the release of the…
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The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism
…halls of the Capitol hoping to find, and possibly kill, the nation’s third-highest-ranking Democrat. But this attack on the life of the Speaker of the House—that landed her husband in the hospital severely injured—was not the act of a “lone wolf,” no matter how many GOP politicians are trying to paint it that way. It happened in the context of a Republican Party that has, along with the broader American Right, peddled a plethora of conspiracy the…
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Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union
…friends on the American right when in May it denounced the passage of anti-equality legislation by several U.S. states, arguing that the laws violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The statement said that “cultural, traditional or religious values cannot be invoked to justify any form of discrimination, including discrimination against LGBTI persons.” So it was no surprise to see right-wing politicians, including Donal…
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Trump the Totem: Like Other Fascist Leaders, Trump has Turned from Man to Symbol — And That’s the Danger
…orms of Religious Life vividly captures the internal dynamics of the circus-like Trump events that have become the mainstay of the MAGA movement. Now the totem is the flag of the clan…. [The participant] does not know that the coming together of a number of men associated in the same life results in disengaging new energies, which transform each of them. All that he knows is that he is raised above himself and that he sees a different life from th…
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White Conservative Christian America Not Going Down Without a Fight
…ian America” in his piece for The Atlantic, which effectively previews his new book The End of White Christian America. Jones argues: These racial and ethnic changes are dramatic, but they only partially account for the sense of dislocation many whites feel. In order to understand the magnitude of the shift, it’s important to also assess white Christian America’s waning cultural influence. It’s impossible to grasp the depth of many white Americans…
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From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict
…dge of 20th century organized crime in the US, tweeting: This was a machine-gun mob-style hit job on Trump. It was nakedly political—and will make his victory more likely, not less. Hungarian prime minister and authoritarian Viktor Orbán was quick to rush to Trump’s defense as well, a sentiment also expressed by the Kremlin, whose spokesperson Dmitry Peskov gets the “pot calling the kettle black” award: If we speak about Trump, the fact that there…
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The World’s Most Influential Yoga Teacher is a Homophobic Right-Wing Activist
…rned him protection under the central government. Since 2014, a large round-the-clock team of Central Reserve Police Force personnel have protected Ramdev. And in 2015, Central Industrial Security Force commandos began providing security to Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth campus in Haridwar. The newest kind of old There’s a kind of a paradox in Ramdev’s work—one that may sound familiar to many observers of the American right-wing. On the one hand, Ram…
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