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‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data [Part II]

By Chrissy Stroop

…in countries that are more secular, and that’s really interesting. In the United States we’re on Sundance and Fusion, and via Prime, for Sundance. But I think there’s a nervousness on the part of broadcasters in America—not about taking on politics or Donald Trump, but about taking on the CNP. The fear of taking on the CNP is that you have these national religious broadcast networks, and if I were a big broadcast network in the United States, yea…

Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…since 1782, E Pluribus Unum, which still appears on the Great Seal of the United States, much better reflects the founding aspirations of unity amidst diversity. But that’s no longer the goal of the national motto, which of course is why the prominent display and invocation of In God We Trust is central to the Christian Right’s program. The second Prime Focus, “Resolution Establishing Public Policy Favoring Intimate Sexual Relations Only Between…

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

…upportive of our efforts to close the SOA. The day before returning to the United States, I was invited by Vatican Radio to do a 15-minute live interview about the SOA and U.S. foreign policy. With two minutes left and moved by the spirit, I recognized an opportunity to express my solidarity with women in the Church, so I said, “We have been discussing the injustice of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. As a Catholic priest, I want to say that…

Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration

By Sarah Posner

…munity on immigration reform. Mary Giovagnoli, Director of the Immigration Policy Center, who at one time worked for the late Senator Ted Kennedy, recalled him urging colleagues to speak to the lobbyists for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops when they visited the Hill. Kelley added, “where the bishops engage on a very personal level, it makes a huge difference.” Those powerful groups—the NAE, the NHCLC, and the USCCB—all oppose the…

Barack Obama: High Priest-in-Chief?

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…he pages of the Qur’an and command Osama bin Laden to wage war against the United States. No, the United States has worked for generations to control the Middle East, supporting the Shah, backing the Mujahideen, arming Saddam Hussein against Iran, and stationing thousands of soldiers in Saudi Arabia. This, as Obama well knows, is the primary (though certainly not the only) reason Al Qaeda has targeted the United States. The religious diatribes of…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…revisited and burnished his tarnished legacy with attention to his foreign policy accomplishments? And what about Colson? How does his ministry to prisoners contrast with or outweigh his sometimes combative and pugnacious public persona? Colson has been an unapologetic supporter of President Bush’s War in Iraq, going so far as signing on to a 2002 statement declaring the impending war to be a “just” war. Not long ago, Colson accused several highly…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ns that the parents of Shivy, an 18-year-old transgender man living in the United States tricked him into visiting India on a holiday, took his passport and green card, and tried to forcibly marry him to a man. He says he fears for the safety of transgender activists who sheltered him after he ran away from his home; he said men posing as police officers showed up at the activists’ home. He has asked the Delhi High Court to help him get his passpo…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…next Pope won’t come from Asia, Africa, or South America. A Pope from the United States seems unlikely, as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has myopically acted as a virtual rung of the Republican Party. Whatever the American bishops have in common with the wider church, GOP policies on economics or militarism are foreign to church teaching whether the pope is Francis or Benedict XVI. As a result, despite theological conservatism…

‘Spooky Action’ of Quantum Physics Offers an Alternative Frame for War in the Middle East and the 2024 Election

By Peter Schwartz

…ion in the Unholy Land and the political and religious situation in the Disunited States of America. Other correlations of this sort exist throughout the world. They are a product of the Great Dis-Ordering of global relationships since the end of the Cold War, which have reproduced and spread as we’ve transitioned from a stable world order governed largely by the United States to a multi-polar world governed by… no one. Hyperlocal affinities Let’s…

Ahmadinejad Aside, Anti-Racism Conference Was Deeply Flawed

By Austin Dacey

…t comes to freedom of expression, the Obama era may see a narrowing of the policy gap between Europe and the United States; not because the Americans have finally come around to the European position, but because the Europeans are beginning to realize that the Americans may just have gotten speech right. Together can they wrest the levers of the UN human rights machinery back from this coalition of authoritarian regimes? We had all better hope so,…