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Focus on the Family’s New Face?

By Sarah Posner

…ints. Fleece had cited the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad as an example of FOFA’s new approach. At a panel this morning on the pro-life movement’s place in the conservative movement, FOFA’s Carrie Earll elaborated on how the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad represents the future of how FOFA will do anti-abortion advocacy. This year is FOFA’s first appearance at CPAC, and organizers were clearly trying to attach opposition to abortion as a “liberty” issue to fit w…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…930s, for example, most of these fundamentalists were very critical of the New Deal. For Americans who were actively looking for signs of the coming Antichrist in the context of the 1930s, in the context of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, Roosevelt had all the markings of someone setting the stage for the end times. He was concolidating power. Government was growing. I found a letter from one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s operatives. He had gone out to…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ant reviews a rhetorical battle being waged by a couple of bishops against new education guidelines on gender identity in the province of Alberta. The new guidelines say school boards have until March 31 to come up with policies that support, among other things, students’ right to self-identify their gender and be addressed using their preferred pronouns. The Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association released a statement this week reaffirming…

Ron Paul’s New Place in the GOP

By Julie Ingersoll

…overbial “voice in the wilderness,” Ron Paul’s world is about to change. A new Rasmussen poll finds that 74% of Americans strongly favor a plan to audit the Federal Reserve, something Paul has advocated for years. He plans to push such a plan as the new chair of the House Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee that oversees the Fed and its monetary policy. Reportedly Republican leaders had planned to put someone else in that position but appointed…

Attacks on Science: Predictions for the New Year

By Lauri Lebo

…eceiving substantial tax incentives from the state. Also, get ready in the new year for Congress’ new Republican majority’s touted plans to conduct witch hunts against climate change scientists. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the incoming chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, vowed he will hold hearings on the “Politicization of Science,” to fuel attacks on the reality of climate change. To paraphrase Bette Davis’ great line in…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…ucted story spaces are stretched across numerous kinds of media, with each new element contributing something new to the story world. To nurture devotion in such a world is to encourage consumers to buy every element of delivery of that world’s story. So, for example, fully invested fans of Star Wars would want to own every toy, see every film, read every related book, and become familiar with all the emerging media affiliated with it, such as vid…

There are Nonproductive Ways of Listening to Each Other: Deborah Jian Lee on the New Era

By The Editors

…at is one of the biggest transformations that has occurred for you in this new era? A common refrain I keep hearing in this new era is that we need to listen to each other, that we need to hear out “the other side.” As someone who straddles multiple cultures and worlds, it’s something I’ve done for a long while, and I’ve learned, especially in times like these, that there are both productive and non-productive ways of doing this. A few months afte…

Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity

By Shaul Magid

…ued, regardless of why they support BDS, the fanatics and fools are simply promoting a new anti-Semitism. Once Jews were singled out and held to a different standard than other peoples. Today, the Jewish State is singled out and held to a difference standard than other countries. [Emphasis added.] This is an interesting claim. The unjustified singling out of Jews which has been emblematic of anti-Semitism historically is now transferred to an enti…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ty for charges that include offering sexual services to other men. France: New Gender ID Law, New Anti-Marriage-Equality Protests The Associated Press reports that tens of thousands of people protested in Paris on Sunday against a law allowing same-sex couples to get married and against use of assisted reproduction and surrogate mothers to help same-sex couples have babies. The French National Assembly adopted a law that included new gender identi…

“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…most of the members that I spoke with on Saturday, many of whom are young newcomers to the city. Krewe du Jieux offers a chance to join in on the fun, blending Jewish and New Orleanian cultural traditions: a klezmer-inflected brass band that occasionally bursts into a jazzy rendition of Hava Nagila. There are, of course, lots of ways to participate in carnival. Many krewes have open membership and no waiting lists. But the distinctively culturall…