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Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling

By Sunnivie Brydum

…cal world-view. And that’s what we should expect to see when Moore goes to Washington, Clarkson argues. It’s also worth noting that, as a Senator, Moore will not be bound by the same level of ethical scrutiny that ultimately prompted his removal from Alabama’s Supreme Court—twice. While there is a clear hierarchy and code of judicial ethics for state and federal judges, no such restrictions are placed on Senators. It’s exceedingly rare (though not…

Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

By Peter Laarman

…artisan) that in its own cosseted way mirrors the Wall Street culture that Washington now rails against (at least temporarily—until the heat dies down). The great and the good in Washington may not use the Queen’s memorable words, but like the late Queen of Mean—Leona Helmsley—they believe that only the little people pay taxes. They wrap themselves in the self-importance and self-love that come with being part of the permanent governing class. The…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…out of their way, as do the Democrats, to meet with Israel’s surrogates in Washington regularly (each candidate spoke at a zealously pro-Israel AIPAC meeting and of the five groups Palin met with on a recent trip to Washington, one was AIPAC) and to reflexively support billions of dollars in aid for Israel’s military infrastructure, some of which inadvertently ends up supporting the construction of settlements America opposes. We justifiably criti…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g of Families. A copy of the letter is posted at GLAAD’s website. From the Washington Blade: GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis and Dignity USA Executive Director Marianne Duddy-Burke signed the letter to the pontiff the Human Rights Campaign, the Latino GLBT History Project and other organizations endorsed. Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry in Mt. Rainier, Md., is among those who also back the request. “Many LGBT people an…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…g’ Toward Marriage Equality? Beginning next month, Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service will broadcast “Living with the Enemy,” a reality show featuring a right-wing anti-gay Anglican minister sharing a home with a married gay couple for ten days. The couple was married in New Zealand.Meanwhile, the Advocate reports: According to Australian Marriage Equality, the organization leading the fight for equal marriage rights Down Under, polls show 7…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…back former Promise Keepers executive and current PK board member Raleigh Washington to serve as president.” A few years after its founding, the Denver, Colorado-based Promise Keepers experienced an extraordinary growth spurt, drawing tens of thousands of men to rallies in football stadiums and sports arenas across the country. As attendance at its rallies grew—278,000 in 1994, 738,000 in 1995 and more than a million in 1996—so did its revenues….

Challenge to ‘un-Africanness’ of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…LGBT Catholics in the US and in Cuba, which he will visit before flying to Washington, D.C. An AFP report on the trip’s reparations says Francis “has taken advantage of a summer lull at the Vatican to fine-tune his hotly awaited speeches, sources at the Holy See say.” For his three-day visit to Cuba, beginning on September 19, Francis can expect a warm reception from the Castro regime following recognition of the key role he played in Havana’s rec…

Rubio’s Failure Reveals Dearth of Moderates in GOP

By Patricia Miller

…y of a man who came to Washington as a member of the Tea Party: Send me to Washington so I can dismantle Washington, then punish me when I actually try to do something. Of course, as his final humiliation at the hands of Florida voters shows, it’s hard to build a relationship with your constituents when you run on the pretense of going to Washington and not doing anything for them. Of course, Ted Cruz is an even a bigger advocate of tearing the go…

Methodists Move Toward LGBT Inclusion

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…such as the District. The measure was not expected to pass by its sponsor, Washington’s Foundry United Methodist. The pastor there, Rev. Dean Synder, said the resolution was presented “as an occasion to have a conversation. This is very exciting, very moving.” The resolution must pass muster at the denomination’s General Conference next April in Tampa. Back in 2008, the General Conference rejected an attempt to remove a line from the Book of Disci…

Mass Conversion: Changing Churches to Stop the Church From Changing

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s joined his congregation and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC in announcing that St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Bladensburg, Maryland had decided to take up Pope Benedict XVI on his 2009 invitation to disconsolate Anglican and Episcopal churches to join the Roman Catholic church en masse, the official spin was that the move was motivated by a desire for greater Christian unity—a wish, as Lewis put it, to “enter into full communion…