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Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…police.” Ireland: Gay son of immigrant father set to become fiscally conservative prime minister Leo Varadkar is set to become Ireland’s youngest and first openly gay prime minister, but his fiscal policies may shift the country to the right: Varadkar might seem to be an unexpected pick for leader of Ireland — a country that’s still finding its secular European footing after years of church influence over the state. But Varadkar’s policies signal…

Spiritual Unplugging, Or What to Do When There is Wifi at the Ashram

By Matt Hamilton

…since leaving the Jesuits. But had I been a good son? A kind brother? An available boyfriend? It was the sort of self-evaluation that usually ends with me flagellating myself and shooting off a text or email (mostly) driven by guilt. But sending another perfunctory, apologetic note wouldn’t suffice now, if ever. I was tired of that detour. As I walked back to my room—a small bungalow—the only thing I could do was think of my mom, sautéeing vegeta…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…ss/2025-presidential-transition-project-forms-advisory-board-leading-conservative-partners. [14] Peter Montgomery, “Supreme Court in Hand, Far Right Wing Prepares to ‘Take the Reins of Government,” Right Wing Watch, June 27, 2022, https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/supreme-court-in-hand-far-right-wing-prepares-to-take-the-reins-of-government/. [15] “Advisory Board,” Project 2025, https://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board/. [16] Katherine D…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…good move. When I got to the lobby another something told me to dig out my phone and check it for messages. Sure enough, I had one from an unfamiliar number. A woman’s voice said Bedi was still sleeping, exhausted from the previous day’s overseas flight, and needed to reschedule our interview for that afternoon. I called the number back, convinced the opportunity was lost. “I’m here at the hotel now, but I’m booked solid this afternoon—” “Hold on,…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…y from Victorian sentimentalism. Such angels are on sale at reduced price; cheap wares for cheap faith. It would be an error, however, to fully dismiss pop culture angels. Despite the fact that representations of angels in film and television, comics and music, paperback novels and posters, are filtered through market concerns, such pop culture can still speak to human meaning—and because of that they merit our attention. Besides, the bulk of art…

Gimme That Old Spice Religion

By Frederick Clarkson

…sion Forum, which produces and markets books and other materials for conservative Christian homeschoolers. But to describe Vision Forum as ‘conservative’ does not tell the half of it. Phillips is a follower of Christian Reconstructionism, a movement whose seminal figure is Calvinist theologian R.J. Rushdoony, who died in 2001. Rushdoony’s voluminous, and explicitly theocratic work, (such as the Institutes of Biblical Law) was a pivotal influence i…

Science, Syphilis, and the Evolution of Ethics

By Arri Eisen

…l never know for sure. When he was interviewed in the early 1990’s for a NOVA special on the Alabama experiments and was confronted with the irony of their being carried out also during the Nuremburg trials, Cutler responded, “Yes, but they’re Nazis.” Admittedly, those were different times. Similar experiments were carried out on ‘volunteer’ prisoners throughout the early 1900’s. And scientists genuinely wondered whether different races respond di…

Supreme Court Conservatives Allow Execution of Muslim Prisoner Despite Religious Freedom Violation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…said that Ray took too long to raise this religious freedom issue and let Alabama execute him. Alabama did. Ray’s imam was not in the room, nor was the Christian chaplain, a last-minute concession. Let’s leave aside the question of whether government chaplains are constitutional (James Madison didn’t think so: “The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles.”) And…

Raw Power Is Just What The Religious Left Needs

By Daniel Schultz

…f cynicism, ruthlessness, and domination. It can be exactly what we saw in Alabama, which is to say, using the leverage available to effect change. Widely-distributed power, even if thin, can work wonders. It’s important to note that the power on display Tuesday night was deeply rooted in personal contact. That’s how the ground game works. Democrats truly committed to taking back the nation should be prepared to do some door-knocking next year. A…

Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…und by the same level of ethical scrutiny that ultimately prompted his removal from Alabama’s Supreme Court—twice. While there is a clear hierarchy and code of judicial ethics for state and federal judges, no such restrictions are placed on Senators. It’s exceedingly rare (though not unheard of) for a Senator to be removed from office by colleagues for some kind of ethical or procedural breach. This reality only adds to the motivation for Moore to…