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RDPulpit: No Time for Lukewarm Economic Reform

By Peter Laarman

…overnment really works to cosset the powerful while keeping the weak at perpetual disadvantage. And just as in the Apocalypse that was vouchsafed to St. John, the continuing unjust oppression of God’s poor people in these United States raises a fateful question for all witnesses who lay claim to be representing “God’s politics”: will they take a clear stand for the oppressed, or will they duck the hard stuff for the sake of their personal comfort…

The Sad Incoherence of Jeb’s Abortion Position

By Patricia Miller

…” issues that don’t fall in the pontiff’s wheelhouse: I don’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinal or my pope. I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting in the political realm. He also said that he doesn’t “go to Mass for economic policy or things in politics.” At the same time, Bush has cited his faith as the reason for his strong pro-life position, an issue that is most…

Tony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…iled suit against the USCIRF, claiming that they hired her as a South Asia policy analyst but quickly reneged on the offer on the grounds of her Muslim faith. Ghori-Ahmad’s suit quoted Nina Shea, a founding USCIRF commissioner, as saying in an email that hiring Ghori-Ahmad to analyze religious freedom in Pakistan would be the equivalent of “hiring an IRA activist to research the UK twenty years ago.” Ghori-Ahmad claimed that her treatment by the U…

Barack’s “My Plan for Iraq” a Missed Opportunity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…discussion from the perspective of recognizing and respecting the importance of the historical split between Sunni and Shi’ite forms of Islam might go a long way to clarifying the why’s and wherefore’s of yet another fault-line in the Tigris Valley and US foreign policy alike. Senator Obama has repeatedly been asked to speak to religion and religious questions in a way that his rival has never been. The current mess in Iraq provides him with an o…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a campaign that “exterminates homosexuals one-by-one in a ‘kill and dump’ policy meant to eliminate an entire generation of LGBT people—all for the sake of protecting national security and preserving the tribal order and Islamic status quo.” United Kingdom: Asylum seeker faces deportation after officials say he hasn’t proven he’s gay Valerie Ediage from Cameroon is the latest asylum seeker who, reports the BBC, “faces deportation “because he has…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…d to which other nations should aspire, and a weapon in the U.S.-Soviet competition for global influence. Today, the same weaponization of family values that was once used by the United States to sustain Christian anti-Communist attitudes underlies Putin’s war on the “woke” West.[15] The question is not how this happened. We know how. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S. evangelicals flooded Russia just as the country was rebuilding its ec…

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

By Peter Laarman

…a very different face in the Global South. This raises an interesting tax policy question, inasmuch as tax-favored nonprofits engage in activities that directly contravene the stated U.S. foreign policy goal of supporting LGBT rights. It also exposes the fallacy of the widespread assumption that militant homophobia in Africa, Asia, and Latin America merely expresses the “traditional values” of those cultures. In fact, much of the new anti-gay ugl…

Focusing on the Tebow Family

By Sarah Posner

…ow reversed that policy, the denomination doesn’t have $2.5 million for a Super Bowl ad because it’s devoting its financial efforts to Haiti relief. (Focus on the Family reportedly had a few generous donors who are bankrolling the Tebow ad.) Guess objects to the network’s “arbitrary” policy because it perpetuates a “common misunderstanding in this country that all religious people hold a monolithic view on certain issues, such as reproductive choi…

What’s So Scary About the Inclusion of ‘God’ in the Russian Constitution?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…stern Europe, through the lens of Russia’s increasingly aggressive foreign policy and its desire to not only cause chaos in Western democracies, but to undermine the fundamental trust in liberalism and pluralism that underlie their success. It’s in this light that the seemingly innocuous request of a bishop that “God” be included in the preamble of his nation’s constitution takes on a significantly more sinister tone. And it should, for any honest…

Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…Russia’s intervention in Syria astonished many parochial American foreign policy commentators. (Yes, I’m aware of the irony.) Many of us are of the opinion that we can act in violation of international law, because the rules that bind other, lesser peoples are merely “guidelines” for us. (The Jack Sparrow School of International Parley.) But, of course, what happens when people use our very same arguments against our interests? Iraqi Govt doesn&#…