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Gingrich Downplays Adelson Money, Stokes Fear of “Second Holocaust” at Florida Church

By Sarah Posner

…igious right leaders seem to see this moment, even if Gingrich or Santorum can’t catch Romney, to build a Christian get-out-the-vote drive for the general election and beyond. Don Wildmon, the American Family Association founder, bankroller of Rick Perry’s The Response rally, and now-endorser of Gingrich, introduced the list of registrants at The Response to United in Purpose, writing at the time that “research has shown that it takes only 5 milli…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ality, and the Sydney Morning Herald reports that they have launched a new campaign, which came “in stark defiance of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s advice to ‘stick to their knitting’.” The initiative invites customers to order one of 250,000 specially-commissioned rings bearing the phrase “until we all belong” – which will also appear on Qantas boarding passes and other paraphernalia. The ring is incomplete, representing the “gap” in equali…

Snake-Handlers, False Messiahs, and a Few Great Souls: 14 Who Died in 2014

By Daniel Silliman

…2001 to 2006. Douglas McArthur McCain At 33 years old, Douglas McArthur McCain became the first American killed while fighting for the jihadist group ISIS. McCain was raised in mainstream American culture, a fan of Michael Jordan, “The Simpsons”and Pizza Hut. He reverted to Islam, as he described it, in 2004. “I must say In sha Allah,”he wrote, using an Arabic phrase meaning “God willing,”“I will never look back.”He began publicly identifying wit…

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Can Rage Fuel the Struggle for Justice? A Roundtable

By Religion Dispatches

…at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Alex is the author of six books, African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation’s Struggle for Racial Justice (New York: Palgrave, 2015), Struggle on their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), Antiracism: An Introduction (NYU Press, 2019), Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Columbi…

Manslaughter Conviction of Brittney Poolaw Represents Pattern of White Christian Policing of Black and Brown Women’s Bodies

By Chrissy Stroop

…ay, El Salvador has a significant population of mostly charismatic evangelicals that can be counted on to support reactionary politics. The country also has one of the world’s most draconian abortion bans, passed in 1997, and an extremely troubling record of arresting and convicting women who miscarry. If white evangelicals and their traditionalist Catholic allies get their way, the United States will eventually have a similar ban in place—or at l…

America’s Racist God Meets Miss Celie: Darren Wilson Not Indicted

By Anthea Butler

…sacrifice at the hands of the agents of the god of white supremacy in America cannot be healed. We who look upon this madness however, must begin to comprehend the full scope of the underlying issue at hand: America has never simply been land of the free and home of the brave. It is also the home of many who are craven and weak, who cheat the justice system established by their predecessors in order to maintain their power. Blood is the atonement…

Is Supreme Court Jurisprudence Making State Religious Freedom Bills More Dangerous?

By Sarah Posner

…Mississippi statutes which prohibit discrimination in the provision of medical care, lending, and housing, based on “the patient’s race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, religion, creed or sexual orientation.” The legal scholars point out that in light of federal court decisions striking down same-sex marriage bans, “the timing and context of SB 2681 reinforces the perception that it is designed to strengthen the ability of commercial acto…

NYPD Secretly Branded Mosques “Terrorism Enterprises”

By Rob Shryock

…of Muslims who attend a mosque believe that Islam is compatible with America’s political system, as opposed to 77% of those who do not attend. Which makes sense given that most of America’s domestically-produced Islam-inspired terrorists were either never members of a mosque community or left their communities prior to launching any attack, which includes Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Malik Hasan and would-be Portland-Christmas-Tree…

Exodus “Ex-Gay” Ministry Closes Up Shop

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…in his opening remarks at the ex-gay ministry’s 38th annual convention in Irvine, Calif., Wednesday night. To the ears of most gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, that sounds like nails on a chalkboard. Church has in fact been the very last place for LGBT people to seek help—a claim validated by the Pew Research Center who recently found that nearly half of LGBT people claim no religion at all. Not a surprise considering that many L…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the ruling Cambodia’s People Party. Forty civil society organizations have called on Cambodia to legalize marriage for same-sex couples after a court ruling in Taiwan in favor of marriage equality. More from Khmer Times: “Taiwan becomes a trailblazer in respect of LGBT rights in Asia, building momentum for marriage equality across the continent. We take this historic opportunity to call upon the Cambodian government to show its commitment to LGBT…