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Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts in Australian society. Opposition was concentrated in suburbs with high numbers of working-class immigrants on the suburban fringes, including locations popular with Islamic communities. Brazil: Conservative Christian activists protest gender theorist Judith Butler At Inside Higher Ed, philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler describes to Scott Jaschik her experience earlier this month in Brazil, where “she faced an ugly protest at which s…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…of six million, while Plan B was to kill only acutely guilty SS soldiers, numbering in the thousands. As Kovner met with Yishuv leaders it was clear that while there may have been sympathy with Plan A, only Plan B would receive the support of even the angriest of Palestine’s Jewish community. Plan B’s support came from leadership of the Haganah, the fighting force that would eventually lead the 1948 war. The Yishuv, itself working to unify Palest…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ld have to reveal themselves in a circumstance in which that might carry a price in terms of their life and their career. “They feel that what’s come out here is a betrayal in the specific sense. “All sorts of ideas are in this report about what they would have wanted, which I don’t think are accurate.” Hungary: Mayor seeks to import white Christians, ban Muslims and LGBT people BBC reports on the village of Asotthalom, two hours from Budapest, wh…

Muslim Stowaways
on the European
Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…but rather with who wields that force and against whom. It is true that a number of Muslims hold uncomfortable political views, even on matters of violence. It is also true, however, that most human beings generally speaking do the same. Many Muslims saw the 1990s sanctions on Iraq as horrific; in the United States, our leadership didn’t have too much of a problem with them—even defending them as painfully necessary. When asked her reaction to ha…

Hate Crimes Bill—At What Cost?

By David Gillespie

…ussion. Whether such legislation, good as it may be in intent, reduces the number of crimes of violence committed against persons motivated simply by—to paraphrase the President from the signing ceremony—the color of their skin or who they love or the faith they profess and practice, is a matter still yet to be determined. According to some law enforcement bodies, it does not; no more than the death penalty deters people from killing people. So we…

Will the US Naval Academy Grant The Satanic Temple Equal Rites?

By Becky Garrison

…their families “doxxed” by Neo-Nazis, or otherwise demonstrating a willingness to take tremendous risks for their beliefs. “TST leaders have experienced these things and accept them as the price of speaking out for their beliefs.” It remains to be seen whether this will ultimately be another opportunity for TST leaders to take another risk….

Alas, Hell Has Thawed

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tion will continue to decline. Our children and grandchildren will pay the price. Again, as a Christian this puzzles me. I have felt much hostility from other Christians, but I have felt very little hostility because of my Christianity. Usually, the hostility is directed at my sexual orientation—and then I’m told that I can’t possibly be Christian because of it. Well, not their kind of Christian anyway. But apparently if Obama is elected, it’s the…

I Don’t Think ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Means What You Think it Means: A Counterargument

By Daniel Schultz

…from the margins are always tenuous and subject to destruction. It is the price of stepping to those in power. Whenever we talk about mass murder in the U.S.—which is often—eventually the conversation comes around to the perceived dichotomy between “thoughts and prayers” and action. This time is like any other. Timothy Egan recently wrote in the Atlantic that: Since 1995, there have been more than 4,000 instances of someone rising in Congress to…

The Revelation of Kurt Andersen: With ‘Evil Geniuses’ a Media Mandarin Discovers Plutocracy

By Peter Laarman

…ting a whole new underclass of temp and on-demand workers; they made share price the all-important criterion for business success and legitimated stock buybacks in ways that greatly enhanced CEO pay and encouraged insider trading; they made a mockery of antitrust law; they contrived shady new financial instruments (CDOs, etc.) that enriched Wall Street manipulators while bankrupting millions of borrowers; they shipped two-thirds of our manufacturi…

Obama’s Pastor and the Politics of Patriotic Treason

By Jonathan L. Walton

…of living out Luke 4:18. Dr. Wright may be scorned by those who have made peace with the unjust status quo and have a vested interest in inequality. But, unfortunately, this is the price one pays for committing patriotic treason. May others be so courageous. Photo by JP Ryan at Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons….