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The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…anizations have made an active effort not merely to recruit members of the military, but also to have their members join the military and obtain combat training and experience. We know from FBI reports that they’ve had at least some success in doing this. Then there are paranoid, black-helicopter types from the Patriot movement who are recruiting from the military. For instance, there’s a group calling itself the “Oath Keepers” comprised of vetera…

“Saints Are Only Human”: Leaving the Church, But Heeding this Pope’s Lessons

By Elizabeth Colmant Estes

…slogans about immigration reform. On line I heard that parishes with large numbers of undocumented immigrants had received many tickets. No outside food or water, statues, gifts or selfie sticks were permitted. Despite 10,000 folding chairs, most of us would have no choice but to stand. Once in my appointed place behind the last row of seats, I found myself in a community of fellow pilgrims, lottery winners from local parishes, nearby colleges, an…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…akarta’s Christian governor, imprisoned on blasphemy charges. South Korea: Military sentences against gay captain An Army captain faces dishonorable discharge after a military court sentenced him to a suspended prison term for having sex with a fellow male soldier. From Kim Tong-Hyung’s Associated Press report: In conservative South Korea, gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people are harshly stigmatized and struggle to be politically visibl…

We Went Through Amoris Laetitia Section by Section So You Wouldn’t Have To

By Anthony Adams

…ualism is bad. Also, he notes but offers no explanation for the decreasing number of marriages in many countries. I am glad to see that in Section 34 he understands this basic fact of contemporary western culture: The ideal of marriage, marked by a commitment to exclusivity and stability, is swept aside whenever it proves inconvenient or tiresome. The fear of loneliness and the desire for stability and fidelity exist side by side with a growing fe…

Christine O’Donnell in 1995: Women In Military Colleges Damage National Security

By Sarah Posner

…y lowering standards, she added, “we have reduced the effectiveness of our military.” She continued, “You will cripple the defense of our country if you lower the standards at all.” O’Donnell further claimed that women have a special role in society, just not in military combat, citing the special role of mothers. “When you remove the role of the mother, the family is left to crumble,” she said, blaming even declining SAT scores on this alleged ph…

Clueless in Gaza

By Shalom Goldman

…riticism, not territorial expansion, was the key to Israel’s political and military survival: “Of course we are not wholly responsible for the worsening of our political-military situation,” he wrote, But self-criticism is essential if we are to overcome a tendency to self-righteousness, a tendency which results from Jewish approaches to history, from our historical experience, and from the ‘ethos’ of self-righteousness as promoted by Prime Minist…

Oppose Afghanistan But Not a Pacifist? Tough.

By Gabriella Lettini

…a war criminal. He volunteered to go to Afghanistan or to resign from the military. Instead he was prosecuted in military court, where he was not allowed to use his moral and legal assessment of Iraq as a defense. National Guard troops were ordered into a war they never expected to fight. Sherburne Baker, son of Celeste Zappala, joined the Pennsylvania National Guard to serve people in his community and protect people he loved. On April 24, 2004,…

Betraying a Sacred Trust: From Penn State to Dover Air Force Base

By Gary Laderman

…ill, sacrifice, and obedience to authority, and sacred commitments: the US military. The military dead have long been understood to be sacred remains, with the blood and sacrifices associated with military combat essential to rejuvenating and redeeming the national body politic. The deification of soldiers and key leaders and the sanctification of land dedicated to the war dead give expression to the sacred, religious meanings emanating from the m…

FRC Rehashes Religious Opposition to DADT… in Real Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e members. I wonder how many gays and lesbians of faith are serving in the military who may feel that they can’t speak freely to a military chaplain about their faith for fear of getting a lecture on their “immorality.” What about their right to speak freely about religion and what it means to them? The military is a microcosm of the larger society in many ways, and how they deal with any repeal of DADT will be instructive to watch. In the general…

Tony Perkins: Atheists Can’t Be Chaplains

By Chris Stedman

…e clever, but allow me to clarify: we do in fact exist, Tony, and we’re here if you’d like to talk. Hopefully that will soon be the case for members of the military, too. For more information on Humanist chaplains in the military, click here….