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Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…flights attendants for Air France sought the ability to opt out of working flights on a new route to Tehran; female flight attendants were previously given that option after some objected to the requirement that they wear a head scarf when deplaning in Iran. Malaysia: Top Cop Says LGBT People Cannot Be Police A top law enforcement official said that LGBT people are not permitted to join the police force because “the LGBT culture is not accepted in…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…’s “supreme being” and another’s “Queen,” even. As Marc Leepson’s Flag: An American Biography tells the story, the American flag, while approved in 1777 largely for the protection of American ships at sea, was not widely displayed by civilians until the Civil War. Once the flag was lowered over Fort Sumter, flags rose over houses and wagons and even hats. The next major watershed in civilian relations to flags was 9/11. Gardella writes that “Accor…

The “Obamosque” Smears and the Money Fueling Them

By Sarah Posner

…“Obamosque,” is today touting a Time magazine poll showing one quarter of Americans apparently believe President Obama is a Muslim. (A Pew poll out today shows that figure at 19%). Why do that many Americans believe that? Could it be the use of terms like “Obamosque?” Or this photograph on the Special Guests website? Today Special Guests is also promoting the special guest of Scott Wheeler, a long-time operative of right-wing smear campaigns agai…

“I’d Be Stupid Not To Go Packing Now.”

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…eferring to the news about the cop beat down of Duanna Johnson, an African American transwoman, in a Memphis booking room that was captured on a surveillance video. “I’d be stupid not to go packing now.” Williams lives in Oakland, just outside of San Francisco, and he’s going to check out the San Francisco chapter of Pink Pistols. As a national organization that encourages lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender to arm themselves to prevent hate cr…

The Theodicy of George Carlin

By Kathryn Lofton

…Catholic insults his whole life. “I used to be Irish Catholic and now I’m American. You know, you grow.” The tug between sin and salvation producing obvious entendre: “They were always pushing for pain and you were always pulling for pleasure.” Later books and HBO specials toyed with the faux sacrilege of a celebrity Jesus. “So, not all of the New Testament is true,” encouraged a reporter to Carlin’s Christ. “Nah,” he replied, “Some of that gospe…

New Theory for Tucson Tragedy: Blame the Atheists

By Lauri Lebo

…k forward to seeing the Christian media blaming the atheists in tomorrow’s news cycle. Details of Loughner’s religious beliefs are sketchy, but that isn’t going to keep them from defending the argument that he is an atheist by pointing to a supposed shrine that was found in his backyard, which consisted of a skull, as well as the fact that two of Loughner’s favorite books listed in his YouTube account are Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto. (A…

Perkins and MSNBC

By Sarah Posner

…of the horse race in the presidential campaign). That’s the setup of cable news: we need both sides, here they are, time for a commercial. Or, we need someone with inside knowledge of what conservative powerbrokers think about the presidential campaign. That structure is the problem — not having Perkins on television. He should be questioned about his beliefs, past statements, and, for example, willingness to stand by as his own pastor tells fello…

Palin’s Israel Trip

By Sarah Posner

…r her Israel trip, as it has done for other presidential hopefuls, instead booking it through a Christian tour agency. He thinks, perhaps, that Palin is miffed that he and other RJC board members have been critical of her, but that she’s unwise to rebuff them because they could be so helpful to her. But this is characteristically Palin behavior — with or without the criticism. She is, for example, the only GOP aspirant who has never spoken at the…

Want to Know What Public Education Would Look Like Under Project 2025? Just Take a Look at Oklahoma

By Andrew L. Seidel

…trol; and by giving states that control, Project 2025 means Oklahoma. Most Americans can’t comprehend education policy that actively undermines and destroys public education. But that has been a conservative goal since public schools were desegregated in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which I’ve written about here on RD, and which I detail in American Crusade. The end goal is to funnel students and public money (via vouchers or other schemes…

Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity

By Shaul Magid

…reements about matters concerning Israel. We can point to the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism; the non-statist American Zionists, such as rabbis Abba Hillel Silver and Stephen Wise (who only agreed to join Ben-Gurion’s statist project after the Biltmore Conference in May, 1942); and the anti-occupation group Breira that emerged after the Yom Kippur War in 1973; among many others. The new heresy The identification of Zionism with Jewishne…