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If Not for AIPAC: What Ilhan Omar Should Have Said

By Haroon Moghul

…nning to have, to think outside the box. What should a progressive foreign policy look like? When we say we should ally with countries that share our values, what values, exactly, are we talking about? Whom do those values apply to? How can we make up for years of support for policies and actions that discriminated against and harmed Palestinians without abandoning our ties to Israel? What are the reasons for our support for these policies? How wi…

Opposition To DADT Repeal And The High Rate Of Evangelical Chaplains

By Sarah Posner

…or the military. One bit there jumped out at me: the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy actually encouraged more evangelical chaplains in the military. Now evangelical chaplains are claiming repeal of the policy would inhibit them from doing what the signed up to do, apparently: feel free to evangelize that homosexuality is a sin. The 2005 Times piece made note of Gordon James Klingenschmitt, who was court-martialed in 2007, and is now a frequent religi…

Will Anti-Gay Churches Have Their Tax Exempt Status Revoked?

By Sarah Posner

…exemption supports marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Federal policy should also establish that no deduction for an otherwise qualifying charitable contribution will be denied or revoked on the ground that the contribution was made to or for the benefit of a group that supports marriage as one man and one woman. Revocation of churches’ tax-exempt status most likely not going to happen, but the claim that the IRS will crack down on ant…

Two Wars and No Peace in Sight: The Role of Faith-Based Pacifism

By Richard Ricketts

…and Central America shows how nonviolence can be an effective strategy and policy in a violent world. In so doing, she cracks open the imaginative paralysis that has kept nonviolence outside our repertoire of realistic policy options. —The Eds. RD: What got you into peace studies? SN: It started when I was a freshman in college and I took a course called “Christian Perspectives on Peace and War.” I went in not necessarily knowing what my position…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…angs, but the state security forces. “The police constitute the primary perpetrator of violations of the rights of the LGBT community,” the Coalition Against Impunity, an alliance of 29 Honduran NGOs, warned last year, citing alleged “police policy of frequent threats, arbitrary arrests, harassment, sexual abuse, discrimination, torture and cruel or degrading treatment”. As a result many vulnerable activists are reluctant to ask for protection, fo…

The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…egin Monday morning’s plenary, “was a watershed year in the history of the United States [and] in the history of the democratic world…a change in [the] political paradigm, in the basic framework that guides public life in the United States, and in Britain, and across Europe.” What caused this world-historical civilizational shift? Well, Hazony explains, the New York Times fired a few employees for platforming racist op-eds in the midst of the Geor…

Lesbians Can Dance: Mississippi School Settles Over Cancelled Prom

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…County School District believes that Constance McMillen’s rights under the United States Constitution were not violated by any act, omission, policy, custom or practice of the district,” she said in a statement. McMillen, a child of the Bible Belt, credited her faith with helping her to get through the ordeal: ”God has helped me, and I’ve been praying a lot,” McMillen said. “Regardless of what you believe, I’m a Christian. Sexual orientation doesn…

Long Before Lying to Congress, Barr’s Views on Church and State Should Have Disqualified Him

By Becky Garrison

…wrong with asking a nominee if he’ll be able to refrain from basing state policy on his personal religious beliefs and/or if he will be able to represent all strands of believers and non-believers equally and respect pluralism as the Constitution commands. In fact, that type of questioning is necessary if a nominee has a past record of statements indicating that he believes that government should elevate one faith over others or anchor public pol…

Suicide Bombers and the Prozac God: A Review of Dying for Heaven

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…mic difference, however, becomes clear in Chapter 7’s warning signs (read: policy prescriptions). Titled “Spiritual Love and the Seeds of Annihilation,” Chapter 7’s warning signs follow the explanation, in the preceding chapter, of why God’s love operates like Glucklich’s Prozac effect. It reverses all current policy, and the academic/think tank logic on which it is based: Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza and elsewhere, while dangerous, are…

Can White Jews Still Be White if They’re Reviled By White Supremacists?

By SJ Crasnow

…ial in shaping normative ideologies of belonging in the U.S. and political policy. In Living in the Shadow of the Cross: Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony, Paul Kivel explains that “late 19th and 20th century immigration policy focused on turning away those who were abnormal or of ‘inferior stock’ including those with physical and mental disabilities as well as homosexuals.” Race and religion were coded into…