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Turning Point Efforts to Export Drag Queen Attacks and ‘Take Back Universities’ Marred by Fringe Associations and Farcical Missteps

By Matthew Boedy

…ers push their children through a narrowed street. The group is largely outnumbered by a counter-protest calling them fascists from the sidewalk. Police in bright yellow jackets mill about to keep the peace. This could have taken place in Texas or New York City, but the scene described took place on March 25 in South London, England. The organizer, Turning Point UK—an offshoot of TPUSA—was engaging in a third protest of a local drag show. The same…

Forget “Nasty,” Trump’s Got a “Disgusting” Problem

By Karen E. Park

…ng Janet Jackson, whose song “Nasty” shot up the charts on music streaming services in the wake of the debate). Yet despite these attempts to own the term on social media, the word “nasty” bothered many women, who rightly saw it as an attack on themselves. Trump wasn’t saying that something Hillary did or said was nasty, he said she was nasty. If she is nasty, so are we all. “Nasty” may be heating up recent Twitter feeds but its corollary “disgust…

Will Ralph Reed’s New Venture Wed Religious Right to Tea Partiers?

By Sarah Posner

…stributed voter guides, promised his for-profit Century Strategies’ “voter contact subsidiary and grassroots team will be involved in a number of races in 2010.” Reed’s FFC is essentially a retread of the Christian Coalition which, under Reed’s leadership, was investigated by Congress, the Federal Election Commission, and ultimately (after Reed’s departure) had its tax-exempt status denied over its engagement in electoral politicking. But Reed, wh…

Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families

By Chrissy Stroop

…refusers represent a minority of white evangelicals, they have sufficient numbers and visibility to cause serious problems. The New York Times recently quoted an evangelical pastor who claims he’s aware of colleagues who’ve been forced out of their pulpits because of their support for public health measures, and prominent evangelical magazine Christianity Today similarly reports that many evangelical pastors are scared of taking a public stand on…

“The Gift of Gay”: Father Matthew Kelty, Confessor to Thomas Merton, Dies at 96

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nship. There was a twinkle in his eye when he said that. Forbidden further contact with his lover, Merton was granted permission to leave the Abbey for a trip to the Far East in the spring of 1968. His main purpose was to give a lecture in Bangkok on comparative monasticism and mysticism, but there was much more to the trip than that, as his published journals now reveal. He scoped out a variety of possible new hermitages along the way, had multip…

Sacred&Profane: ARIS Survey Gets ‘Religion’, Misses Boat

By Gary Laderman

…disappearing—the religious ones, anyway; evangelicals are increasing their numbers as the mainline churches continue to shrink; and new religious communities like Wicca continue to grow in popularity. The usual pundits and pontificators have made their proclamations right out of the gate: USA Today portrays the “piety gap” (separating those who believe in a personal god from those who do not) as especially relevant in the ongoing culture wars; CNN…

Allah Made Me Funny: Borscht Belt Goes Halal

By Hussein Rashid

…, and found his impromptu stylings tear-inducingly funny. I do not keep in contact with him.), and Preacher Moss (can a brother get your real name?). Each individual set is followed by a documentary segment that shows the individuals as people. The humor in the movie is predictable. Each set can be divided into halves, with the first half focusing on ethnic/racial identity and the second half talking more generically about being Muslim. The ethnic…

The New Manson Family or Teens at “Play”?

By Joseph Laycock

…drums of Satanic Panic instead of asking harder questions about why these murders happened. Assuming these teenage murderers were not following prescribed rituals for human sacrifice or in contact with networks of criminal Satanists, why would they tell such stories? Why did the Houston case have the disturbing feature of an inverted cross?…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…Moghul: Officially, this book began, in very, very different form, when a contact at a major university press asked me to write a textbook about Islam in America. I could not believe my good fortune. I’d taken summer classes at Yale, and still got turned down when it came to college. Fail. But here I was, a Yale reject, about to have Yale publish my book! The irony was delicious. Maybe too tasty. Yale rejected the final product, contending it was…

Why I Miss Scalia: SCOTUS Punts on Religious Freedom

By Patricia Miller

…oy to learn which plans aren’t offering contraceptive coverage and whom to contact to let them know their insurer will cover contraception anyway. It seems to envision some form of the “compromise” it suggested in its equally bizarre request for additional briefs after the initial hearing. Under this compromise, the plaintiffs would contract for a plan that didn’t provide contraceptive coverage in the first place, which suggests that the Little Si…