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The Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Ted Cruz Endorsement Edition

By Sarah Posner

…g several conservative candidates in the primaries,” which leads to a “moderate” Republican nominee who loses. “Those in the mushy middle like Bob Dole, John McCain or Mitt Romney lose,” Strang writes. This is exactly the dynamic that is giving the Republican establishment (to the extent it still exists) heartburn. In fact, Bob Dole himself has something to say about Strang’s favored candidate. Reacting to a possible Cruz nomination, the 92 year-o…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…00 Arab refugees to turn out for the city’s 13th annual pride march, exhilarated at the chance to celebrate with tens of thousands of people. They carried signs like “Stop the persecution of gays in the Arab world” and “Your life isn’t worth more than mine.” So it felt like a deep betrayal when local officials banned the march at the last minute and police turned tear gas, plastic bullets, and water cannons on participants. (Turkish LGBT activists…

Your Money or Your Civil Rights? Gays Vote GOP

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in Lexington, Kentucky told Signorile that he voted a straight Republican ticket to “send a message” to the Democrats for not doing enough to advance LGBT rights. “I want to see the Democrats take a big beating like the Republicans did,” Jim said. “so maybe in the future they’ll wake up and start doing what they promised.” “But do you think that Rand Paul is going to do something for gay rights and that Republicans are?” asked Signorile about the…

Sarah Palin Calls Biblical Patriarchs “Neanderthals”

By Julie Ingersoll

…rro, who was the first female vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket, for all she did for “those of us who came after her.” One has to wonder what Ferraro was thinking as Palin carried on, placing Ferraro smack in the middle of Palin’s own reading of feminist history dating to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Palin noted some things that had not changed in the years between Ferraro’s campaign and her own: the “neanderthals…

The Problem of Evil in Free Market Theology

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…made—and lost—this way. Which leads Buchan to his second point: money generates more money, even on Sunday. This is a subtler point, one that he develops specifically in relation to the invention of paper money—money, that is to say, with absolutely nothing to back it up. What paper money did, in Buchan’s view, was to sever once and for all the relationship between money and “real value.” Now, money has strictly symbolic value. It is less like an…

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Acceptance of Marriage Equality: Here’s What to Expect

By Sunnivie Brydum

…t Trump should “dissolve” the Department of Education policy that was celebrated by LGBT advocates nationwide when it was announced by the Education Department and Department of Justice in a one-two punch that also saw the DOJ file a federal civil rights lawsuit against North Carolina for its transphobic “bathroom bill” known as House Bill 2. Rejecting the overwhelming consensus of social science and best practices advocated by experts who actuall…

As Catholic Bishops Punish Dissent, Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Life and Legacy Show the Way Forward

By Lauren Barbato

…the statement was not unequivocal in its stance on abortion, it was deliberate in its challenge of the teaching authority of the American bishops. Ruether later explained in “Catholics and Abortion: Authority vs. Dissent,” published in The Christian Century in 1985, that this truly was a “defense of Catholic legislators’ right of public dissent on abortion.” Catholic theologians and CFFC associates previously discussed making public statements, b…

Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?

By Nathan Schneider

…icies are not inevitable good sense, Talen insists, but intrusions of corporate power. People’s willingness to accept the status quo is a failure of imagination that he hopes to remedy. For more than a decade, the Reverend Billy act has commandeered religious tropes to subvert the penetration of corporations into daily life. The ubiquity of consumer culture represents a cataclysmic “Shopocalypse.” Mickey Mouse is the Antichrist. Such language has…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…gh it may make her a lot of money as she’s saying what too many of us desperately want to hear). But rather than move us forward, it just entrenches us more deeply in a mentality that, with all the power we have, with all the successes we have achieved, we are still the victims. It prevents us from making distinctions, and distinctions are the very bedrock of thinking. We stand at yet another crossroads. Not of physical or even existential surviva…

Latest Supporters of Messianic Jews: Duck Dynasty

By Sarah Posner

…cal guests who’ll provide their own special brand of toe tapping fun. Celebrate the simple. Laugh with us. Smile with us. Tap your toes with us. And as Phil says, get “HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY.” Ticket prices range from $100 for an individual seat to $10,000 for a “Commander” table. Last year, Robertson’s homophobic remarks to GQ magazine, along with his assertion that blacks were “happy” before the civil rights era, caused a temporary suspension of Du…