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Giuliani’s ‘Truth Isn’t Truth’ Is the Perfect Slogan for Trump’s Nostalgia Politics

By Bradley Onishi

…at. I say imaginary here not to get into a debate about whether or not the USA was or has ever been great, but to say that Trump’s version of America’s greatness is imaginary. At campaign rallies he often riled the crowd through a series of sentences that began, “In the good old days…” It’s imaginary in a holistic sense because the times he references weren’t great for people of color, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, religious minorities, bi-racial…

Why Grownups Have Caught Halloween Fever (And Why it’s Unlikely to End Anytime Soon)

By Daniel Wise

…g it to Christmas and Hanukkah. But why are we surprised that, as a recent USA Today headline put it, “Halloween’s been hijacked by adults,” or that more than half of all costumes sold by a popular online retailer are for grownups? Is this adult Halloween craze about expressing ourselves and finding joy, as the article suggests? Perhaps, but that seems more like a description than an explanation. Sociologist Linus Owens argues that the increase in…

Wall St., Main St., Religion, and the Bailout

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ntiques.” This all makes for a mightily confusing story about Main Street, USA. On the down side, there were four boarded up storefronts, and three others in the process of winding down or going out of business. On the up side, this community was well-heeled enough to support three beauty salons and (maybe) four eateries. There seemed to be thriving Mexican-American and African-American communities, and enough young people to support several store…

Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…concerted effort to initiate ministry in Catholic parishes throughout the USA.” It’s a clear sign of changing times when Exodus is approaching the gay celibacy position of Catholic group Courage while Comiskey is gearing up to spread the gospel of change to Catholic parishes around the country. And it indicates that Comiskey may be positioning himself and his organization to be a new pole around which ex-gay practices and anti-gay politics can al…

No Religious Left “Split” On Anti-LGBT Religious Exemption

By Sarah Posner

…xemption in the order. Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of Dignity USA, a pro-LGBT rights Catholic group, told me that letter garnered “quick, rapid support” within a day or two of being drafted. “Everyone was on exactly the same page,” she said. That letter was followed by a letter from civil liberties and diverse pro-LGBT religious groups, initially collecting 69 signatures, and later 98. “I don’t know any people on the left who were for…

Forty Years Ago, the Worst Mass Murder of LGBT People in the U.S.

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Church in America welcoming them, not to mention the Presbyterian Church, USA, or the Episcopal Church (as a bishop, no less!)? The United Methodist Church is lagging behind, but members continue to fight to move the church into the 21st century. Certainly, a tale like that would have made LGBT bargoers at the time spill their beer with laughter. And yet … here we are. Church doors are opening, pulpits are welcoming and LGBT people are returning…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…household than was an African American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American president.” She has also stated, incorrectly, that the founders “worked tirelessly” to end slavery. Peroutka and the IOTC, for their part, express affection for the Confederacy. In bestowing the “Courage of Daniel Award” on Moore on June 3, Peroutka, who frequently ribs people for being from the “wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line,” cheerfully n…

Can’t “Truss” a White Conservative’s Pledge

By Anthea Butler

…household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President. LBJ’s 1965 War on Poverty was triggered in part by the famous “Moynihan Report” finding that the black out-of-wedlock birthrate had hit 26%; today, the white rate exceeds that, the overall rate is 41%, and over 70% of African-American babies are born to single parent. Um, Hell-to-the-yeah slavery had a disastrous impact on African-Ame…

Updated: Gay Activist Beheaded in Uganda…
Is it a Hoax?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ument about avoiding splits and schism in the church continues in the face of the horrendous legislation proposed in Uganda and the murder of LGBT people in the UK and the USA as well as Uganda and other African countries, the more insistent becomes the call for change in the church, NOW….

Hip-Hop Religion and Spiritual Sampling in a “Post-Racial” Age

By Josef Sorett

…ith With blurbs from Cornel West and Sifu Shi Yan Ming, the founder of the USA Shaolin Temple (who also provides the book’s foreword), The Tao of Wu aims to position RZA, in West’s words, as a “towering artist and deep thinker who has much to teach us.” Given the history and dominant discourse of young black men (especially those who rap) as anything but reasoning or reasonable, this book is evidence to the contrary. But this does not appear to be…