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80 Million Anglicans Can’t Be Wrong—Or Can They?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…in favor of one-dimensional public policy decrees. Women, younger voters, African Americans, Asians under age 40, and Hispanics turned their back on the white-(elite)-male-as-normative aspirational vision of America peddled by Romney, veep candidate Paul Ryan, and their Fox News mouthpieces. Likewise, the social issues that had been so reliably divisive for Republicans in previous elections (abortion and gay rights)—aided by the scandal of faile…

Catholic Sex Teaching is No Laughing Matter

By Marian Ronan

…opulation of the entire continent, or 185 million people. It would, of course, be unfair to blame increasing anti-gay violence in Africa entirely, or even primarily, on the Roman Catholic Church, given the pivotal roles played in this crisis by some African Anglican leaders and right-wing American evangelical groups. But does anybody doubt that the Vatican’s characterization of gay sex as pathological, depraved, and intrinsically disordered encou…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…on activists: Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and director of African-American outreach at Priests for Life; Students for Life of America; Edwin Black of The Feature Group; The Alliance Defense Fund; and Steven Mosher of Population Research Institute. Mosher is of special note as he was a vocal advocate and perhaps the inspiration for the 2008 PRENDA. As Hvistendahl writes: In 2008 [Mosher] posited to supporters that sex-selective abo…

Using the “A” Word: Israel and Apartheid

By Shalom Goldman

…blems caused by the prolonged occupation, they too began to refer to South African apartheid, for the most part in a predictive manner. That it is to say: Israel may not yet be practicing apartheid—but it is approaching it. In 2007, then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called for negotiations that would lead to a two-state solution. He warned his countrymen that in the future Israel would “face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, an…

The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…is not a descendant of chattel slavery in the US and isn’t a generational African American. An interesting question would be to discuss what scares the US so much about a candidate who is a generational African American. And yes, there’s a valid critique of how her own upbringing and privilege shaped her life and career. Perhaps there’s a watering down and “Whitening” of herself that, at times, has erased her connection to Blackness. Did she aspi…

True Detective’s Occult Conspiracy

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s level of cultural sensitivity by his casting choices, but I couldn’t help noticing that the pastor was played by Clarke Peters, best known for his role as Big Chief Albert Lambreaux on Treme (perhaps the most respected avatar of Louisiana’s African-American cultural heritage ever depicted on TV). If that choice is any indication, the lines between “occult,” “Christian,” “African-American,” “Cajun,” “voodoo,” “Santeria…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…essons for today, but the bigotry and violence toward Native Americans and African Americans at home does not. Never mind that Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime studied America’s treatment of Native Americans and African Americans in their search for models for subjugating and exterminating European Jews. Never mind that the Declaration of Independence’s “universal principles” include a description of Native Americans as “merciless Indian Savages, whose…

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…n told AP that he is troubled by the wave of anti-gay legislation in other African countries:“There’s absolutely no doubt that the end of this is going to be a recognition that homosexuality is as African as it is human anywhere in the world,” Cameron said. “Whether that’s going to take another 20 years or 30 years or in my grieving moments, 40 years even, I don’t know.” Kuwait: Anti-Gay MP Calls for ‘Zero Tolerance’ But Willing to Seek ‘Cure’ And…

#WhiteChurchQuiet: Anything but Outrage Is Complicity

By Andre E. Johnson

…m the Black Church. At its best, the Black Church has been the home of the African American Prophetic tradition, birthed from slavery and shaped in Jim and Jane Crow America. Through struggle and sacrifice, this tradition has expressed black people’s call for unity and cooperation, as well as the community’s anger and frustrations. It has been both hopeful and pessimistic. It has celebrated the beauty and myth of American exceptionalism and its sp…

We’ve Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism; But What About Its Source Text?

By Dianne M. Stewart

…rks about the United States’ racist, nativist and imperialist acts against African, Asian and Indigenous peoples domestically and internationally. The optics were bad, but America’s perception was based on short cherry-picked video clips from two of Wright’s sermons. Both Democratic and Republican opponents seized upon a felicitous opportunity to characterize Barack Obama as un-American and unpresidential, since he followed a pastor whose vision c…