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Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

…can Party’s path is historian Heather Cox Richardson’s argument in How the South Won the Civil War, that while the South technically lost the Civil War they’ve actually long won the PR-war fought in the aftermath, in memory culture—from the prevalence of the “Lost Cause” myth to the image of the cowboy holding a torch for rugged Western individualism and “States’ Rights” used by Goldwater and Reagan, to the image of the South as a peaceful society…

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Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

…bout race found their iconic moment at the 1997 DC rally. When white evangelist John Dawson knelt in prayer to ask forgiveness from his African American brothers for his own sin of racism, men of color gathered around him to affirm his repentance and accept his apology. PK rallies always seemed to draw mostly white men, but there was (and remains) a very real and significant African American presence in leadership positions. PK’s current President…

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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

…for social justice. He joined his father’s movement for racial justice in South Africa and spent over a decade in South African prisons. As Arun Gandhi noted in Kasturba: A Life, a biography of his grandmother, “my father was the only one of the four Gandhi sons to adopt voluntary poverty and devote his life to nonviolence…” Arun left South Africa in 1956 and moved to India, where he spent the next thirty years working as a journalist, activist,…

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Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

…aceGloria reportedly attracted more than 100,000 users in its first month. South Korea: Gay couple sues government for marriage recognition In South Korea, where we reported last week that anti-gay Christians had failed to block Seoul’s Pride parade, movie director Kim Jho Gwang-Soo went to court to force the government to recognize a wedding ceremony he and his partner held in 2013. European Parliament: LGBT issues made focus of ‘European Neighbo…

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Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

…gislation Creates Equality With Exceptions The National Assembly passed domestic partner legislation providing formal legal recognition for LGBT couples; the law does not extend equality to marriage, adoptions, and in-vitro fertilization. South Korea: Government Agrees to Honor U.S. Service Members’ Same-Sex Weddings South Korea’s government has agreed to allow married same-sex couples in the U.S. military to have the same legal protection and leg…

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Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

…ile noting there is much more work to be done to safeguard LGBTI people in South Africa and the rest of the continent. …South Africa must be applauded for its leadership on this issue at the global level. Now it must work to bring the rest of the continent along….As the economic powerhouse on the continent, South Africa’s foreign policy challenge over the long term in Africa is to avoid separating LGBTI rights from human rights and economic advanc…

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Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

…artheid) Word,” Polakow-Suransky devotes the book’s epilogue to the Israel-South Africa comparison. He acknowledges that the Israel-South Africa “apartheid analogy is an imperfect one… Unlike white South Africa and other colonial regimes, Zionists never banned miscegenation or kept the people they had conquered as servants in their homes.” But he concludes with a dire warning: “the apartheid analogy may be inexact today, but it won’t be forever. T…

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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

…they fear it might harm their own work within ASEAN and its institutions. South Korea: Christian Surgeon Overcomes Religious Resistance to Sex Reassignment Surgery Hyung-Jim Kim’s Associated Press profile of Dr. Kim Seok-Kwun, a devout Protestant, begins with a description of sex reassignment surgery he performed for a Buddhist monk who has been living as a man for many years.  The story recounts Dr. Kim’s own journey to overcome his own religiou…

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The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

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Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…country passed legislation protecting LGBT people under hate crimes laws. South Korea: Constitutional Court Nominee Says Country Not Ready For Marriage Equality Lee You-jung, a nominee to the Constitutional Court, said during a confirmation hearing, “As for the controversial same-sex marriage, it is a matter that requires a long time to be legalized even in Western society and should be based on a long-term social consensus.” She added, “I am not…

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