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Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews

By Ben Lorber

On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrorism, immigration, surveillance, intelligence gathering and other apparatuses to “disrupt and degrade” Palestinian rights organizations and a range of progressive funding infrastructure. Spearheaded by Heritage’s National Task Force to Combat Antisemit…

Church’s Lawyers Have SNAP in Their Sights

By Kathryn Joyce

In October, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), the oldest, largest, and most visible peer counseling group for victims of clergy sex abuse in any denomination, received a subpoena from a Kansas City, Missouri, priest being prosecuted for sexually abusing an older male victim SNAP has never met. The subpoena demanded a sweeping range of documents and correspondence concerning thousands of the estimated 100,000-plus people SNA…

Harold Camping, Prophet of Apocalypse, Dies at 92

By Daniel Silliman

…ns would be raptured on May 21, 2011, and the tribulation would last until October of that year, when the world would be obliterated and all non-believers annihilated. “God has given sooo much information in the Bible about this,” Camping said, “and so many proofs, and so many signs, that we know it is absolutely going to happen without any question at all.” At the time he was 89. This, his last prediction, was supported by a five million dollar a…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…ishops have expressed intention to boycott a summit of Anglican leaders in October due to Archbishop Justin Welby’s liberal approach regarding gay marriage.” Sources say that four or five traditionalist archbishops from Africa and Asia are expected not to attend the Canterbury summit among leaders of the 70 million-strong Anglican Communion to be chaired by Welby. The snub is seen as a blow to his efforts to prevent a schism in global Anglicanism….

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…for robust U.S. military backing. Republican Senator Tom Cotton stated on October 7, the day of Hamas’s attack, that “Israel will need reinforcements in this war,” and called on President Biden to “send everything that shoots on everything that flies.” “This is not just an attack on Israel,” stated Nikki Haley, 2024 presidential hopeful and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. “This is an attack on America because they hate us just as mu…

The Far-Right Embrace of the Knights Templar isn’t Just About Faith, Tradition or History — It’s About Hate

By Thomas Lecaque

…ller in Rhodes—the Templar never found a new purpose. Five years later, on October 13, 1307, the Templars in France were arrested, followed a month later by the papal bull Pastoralis praeeminentiae, which called for the arrest of all Templar knights and the seizure of their property. And five years after that, at the Council of Vienne, Pope Clement V issued Vox in excelso (voice from on high), the bull that formally dissolved the Poor Fellow-Soldi…

What’s Ahead in the World of Mormonism for 2011

By Joanna Brooks

…g with Elder Boyd K. Packer to trying to “stage manage a grizzly bear.” In October 2010, after Elder Packer delivered a highly controversial and bruising talk on LGBT issues at the Church’s global General Conference, grizzly bears indeed may have been stage managed. Packer’s talk was revised for publication and (in response to pressure from members and LGBT human rights groups) the Church subsequently issued a statement condemning anti-gay bullyin…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…orks throughout the region, told the Blade earlier this month during a telephone interview from Buenos Aires there have been “setbacks in regards to human rights” in Argentina and other countries in “which the LGBT community has gained very strong visibility and (trans-friendly) laws.” Romero added the Roman Catholic Church, gangs, conservative lawmakers and governments and other groups continue to influence people’s transphobic attitudes that she…

In OK, a “Christian” And a “Muslim” Decapitation Challenge “Religious” Violence Narrative

By Joseph Laycock

…Michael Tate Reed II rammed his car into the Ten Commandments monument on October 24, shattering it, the Satanic Temple released a statement condemning the destruction. Headlines initially described Reed as a Satanist, but he has now been identified as someone who suffers from severe mental illness. He’d actually declared his intention to go to Bible college in a recent Facebook post. The October 30 decapitation also occurred one month after Alto…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…1898. Like most dioceses, San Francisco has seen a precipitous drop in the number of seminarians in formation, and there are currently only 93 students enrolled. The Sulpicians were informed in October of last year “that we are no longer invited to provide Sulpician administrative leadership to St Patrick’s,” and the rector, Fr. James McKearney, was forced to resign, in a decision that “just came out of the blue for reasons that are still not clea…