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What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…’s like Elvis and Chuck Berry, right? Elvis rips off Chuck Berry. We know that. That’s settled. But Elvis is also pretty good, right? So this pastor, Hank, he’s pretty good at it. He can do it. He can preach. Which is why he has a very diverse congregation. And he makes it sexual. With a background in researching German fascism, the encounter you describe at the Lord of Hosts Church in Omaha, Nebraska, was to me one of the most bone chilling ones…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…rground base underneath the town where alien experiments were undertaken, that free energy was possible if only the dark cabal hadn’t kept it from us to continue profiting from our labor, and that the banking system and wage labor were designed to keep us enslaved. Spirituality, they told me, was the route to freedom from these third dimensional machinations. The dark cabal wants to block spiritual evolution because it threatens their control. Wha…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…constitutional reform to see the possibility. In my opinion, the marriage that should be valid is the one that inspired Christian morality and has been validated by the Constitution, “said lawyer Ernesto Cedeño. Northern Ireland: Party leader declares ‘Peter will not marry Paul’ The right-wing Democratic Unionist Party, which has consistently blocked marriage equality legislation from moving forward, has insisted that a continued ban on same-sex c…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lawmakers are seeking to make homosexuality a crime in an amended criminal code that might be considered by parliament next year. AP quotes a human rights lawyer calling the 5-4 decision “a big verdict.” The judges in their ruling said it’s not the Constitutional Court’s role to criminalize private behavior or to usurp parliament by imposing laws on it. The court’s decision is final. Judge Saldi Irsa said the petitioners were in effect asking the…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…r, pointed at the beanie on George’s head and barked, “Why don’t you take that hat off. You look like a fucking terrorist.” The white partygoers grew silent and waited for George to react, which he eventually did, diffusing the conversation with politeness. Though he lowered the heat a few notches, the man continued to call him a terrorist so many times that George realized something that hadn’t occurred to him, “He was concerned that I might have…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…r, pointed at the beanie on George’s head and barked, “Why don’t you take that hat off. You look like a fucking terrorist.” The white partygoers grew silent and waited for George to react, which he eventually did, diffusing the conversation with politeness. Though he lowered the heat a few notches, the man continued to call him a terrorist so many times that George realized something that hadn’t occurred to him, “He was concerned that I might have…

Who Killed Mars Hill Church? There’s One Suspect Evangelicals Simply Aren’t Prepared to Interrogate

By Cavan Concannon

…former pastor, attempts to reckon with what happened to this megachurch: What made it grow? What made it fall apart? What contributed to its culture of abuse? The show doesn’t merely recount the story of Mars Hill’s problems, it sees in Mars Hill a cautionary tale for other white evangelical churches. This reckoning then is also a diagnosis of problems that the show’s writers see in evangelicalism writ large. My aim is not to evaluate what Cosper…

The Three Qualities Marking the Capitol Assault as Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…violent, but justified by the nobility of its cause. It may seem strange that what appear to be ordinary and sensible people can be drawn into a situation where they commit the most hideous of violent acts. But this is precisely what the image of war enables. Warfare provides an alternative worldview to normal public order in which almost anything is permitted in order to conquer those perceived to be enemies. In warfare, enemies are things with…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…established media institutions was under the spotlight, the letter argued that freedom of speech was under threat. This threat came from the authoritarian impulses of Donald Trump, the letter duly noted, but its real focus was on the “censoriousness” of anti-racists and anti-fascists, who had dared demand that racism and anti-trans hate no longer be considered valid terrains of public debate. “It is now all too common to hear calls for swift and s…

Men Without Guns: A Tribute to Larry McMurtry

By Amy Laura Hall

…t out of mere survival, and their fathers, each one, raised their boy by a code that included being respectful of animals and that, on threat of brutal torture and death, precluded homosexuality. Proulx’s story ends with a reality that McMurtry and Ossana thread through the screenplay: “There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.” J…