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Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…y to return the favor, providing for their American allies examples of the policies too extreme to be implemented in the United States.” The bill’s author, Member of Parliament David Bahati and the Ethics Minister, James Buturo are affiliated with The Family. Then there’s Rick Warren. The Saddleback megachurch pastor has enjoyed close ties in Uganda, a “Purpose Driven Nation,” where The Purpose Driven Life is reported to be almost as popular as th…

‘Politicized Religion’ Doesn’t Explain Evangelical Support of Donald Trump

By Daniel Miller

…nd harder to see the difference between the teachings of the Bible and the policies of their beloved candidates.” On this account, evangelicals have gained political power and influence by sacrificing the birthright of their religious identity. Or as Prothero sums up: “evangelicals just aren’t that evangelical anymore.” Prothero’s assessment is noteworthy for its intuitive appeal. The idea of “politicized religion” is everywhere in both journalist…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n money and Russian Money are given for the same cause, which is anti-LGBT policies,” says Sandu. “That’s just insane.” India: Author urged Hindus to explore pre-colonial history on LGBT relationships Raj Rao, author of “Criminal Love? Queer Theory, Culture, and Politics in India,” writes that he is not optimistic that the Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding the right to privacy would bring about an end to Section 377, the colonial-era anti-so…

DeSantis’ Religious Exemption Will Kill—And it Violates the 1st Amendment

By Andrew L. Seidel

…rt-term ban is simply on the unsafe activity, regardless of purpose. These policies are guided by clear science: The more people that gather, the more viruses spread. Viruses do not respect boundaries or holy ground, they simply travel from person to person. Second, these exemptions unconstitutionally favor churches. The Supreme Court has also held that the First Amendment “requires the state to be neutral in its relations with groups of religious…

Painting Elephants

By Bruce Prescott

…a decade, Carter has been working, without success, to re-unite Baptists. Policies during his administration played a role in divisions within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC); in fact, the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC began in 1979 during his U.S. Presidency, a move that was very closely linked to the rise of the Religious Right in American politics. Randall Balmer, in his book Thy Kingdom Come, recounts the precipitating event that t…

Atheists Gone Wild

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nd of religion that he represents, and the not merely hawkish but reckless policies he cloaks in the Bible (and that I recently condemned in a column here) that should make a left-leaning Obama supporter, and Obama himself, blush. The man who argues that we should “take out” the Iranian president should not be involved in the swearing in of our own. We have much to do and no time to waste. We must choose our battles, and the ground on which we cho…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…arms about the country adopting one of the world’s most expansive abortion policies? The Daily Beast’s Jonathan Krohn set out to find out (“You would expect conservative groups to go ballistic when it comes to taxpayer funding of abortions,” reads his lede) and got a number of vague answers which suggested that US anti-choicers don’t feel particularly inclined to export the abortion wars to Israel. But Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest,…

Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)

By Frederick Clarkson

…to overcome. “As president,” Baker concludes, “Bush promulgated tough new policies that withheld U.S. funds not only to programs and countries that permitted abortions, but even to those that advocated contraception as opposed to abstinence. Moreover, his appointments to the Supreme Court put the panel on the verge of reversing Roe v. Wade. Like his insistence on long prison sentences for first time drug offenders and his support for military act…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…de have faced or are facing discipline for criticizing Church practices or policies or voicing support for same-sex marriage or women’s ordination on-line, on Facebook, on Twitter. Even in anonymous chat rooms. That the LDS Church supports what must be a substantial enterprise monitoring the on-line communications of its members—this is not a surprise to progressive Mormons who have populated those Facbook groups and web forums. And we have been w…

Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network

By Haroon Moghul

…conversations that represent people’s interests and concerns, not partisan policies supersized by imbalances of wealth. Say, $40 million worth, which is what’s been channeled to the “misinformation experts”– five self-anointed specialists who travel the country, speak to state legislatures, address incestuous conferences and self-congratulatory networks, and through their media appearances, access and acolytes, generate a snowball effect. They h…