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Response: Is the Centrist Orthodoxy True?

By Frederick Clarkson

…s and former neoconservative intellectual Damon Linker, writing in The New Republic). It is just too easy to cast this story as a predictable disagreement between experienced “priestly” political pragmatists and “prophetic” but impractical progressive purists. That is the story that the RIC leaders like to tell over and over and over again. But there is a considerable body of data and published critiques that belie the orthodox narrative. When Ber…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tations which, though very evil, antihuman as well as anti-Allah, is being promoted as a human right by some powers.” Fatou Camara, who briefly served as Jammeh’s communications director and hosted a Gambian television program before she was charged with sedition and fled to the United States, noted that the current wave of arrests took place just before Jammeh made a state visit to the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. While there, he signed a coopera…

Claiming That ‘We Birthed a Nation From Nothing’ CNN’s Rick Santorum Gives a Master Class in Christian Nationalism: An Open Letter to CNN

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ationalist mob that swarmed the Capitol on January 6th. One of the primary promoters of the Big Lie and organizers of the rallies and marches leading up to the event was a group founded by Trump supporters who believed their god instructed them to form a group to march on our halls of power. They called the group the Jericho March, after the biblical battle of Jericho in which the biblical God commands the sack and slaughter of every living being…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…e Party to be aligning themselves with and promoting “an organization that promotes hatred, homophobia and misogyny born of religious fundamentalism and masquerading as religious freedom.” The UK’s general election will be held on June 9. Poland: Warsaw Pride parade draws crowd in spite of opposition from church, gov’t, nationalists A crowd estimated by organizers at 50,000 people and by police at 13,000 marched in Warsaw’s 17th annual Equality Pa…

Prop 8 and the War on Xmas?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s are and how the new administration will take away our religious rights. I suppose it could come to pass if the courts don’t reassert their authority as the third branch of our republic. And conservative Christians—when the voting tide eventually turns against them—will have no one to blame but themselves….

Does NIH Head Francis Collins Believe in Intelligent Design?

By Eric Reitan

…acrifice even towards strangers despite the fact that it doesn’t appear to promote the reproductive fitness of those who do it. While evolutionary theory can readily explain how organisms could at times display biologically maladaptive behavior, it’s much harder to account for a universally innate biological propensity towards it. This, Bloom thinks, is where Collins feels the need to resort to theism: in the face of a universal altruistic propens…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…g on doing serious things there. Just this past week, in the former Soviet republic of Moldova, activists used Twitter to organize actions like seizing the office of the president and the parliament. A few months ago, when Israel was conducting its military campaign in Gaza, the Israeli consulate in New York hosted a Twitter press conference about it all, which included such profound reflections as “y Hamas launch missiles not peace?” It seemed li…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

With its heavily-promoted #ResistMarch, the West Hollywood gay establishment is trying to signal that the usual L.A. Pride routine of holding a big drunken street festival might be in slightly poor taste under current circumstances. And thus, darlings, we will pull on our sturdy shoes and march again this year, albeit only snaking our bodies through an affluent corridor between Hollywood & Highland (site of the Oscars) and good old West Hollywood…

Civil Religion v. Uncivil Religion; With Deadly Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…most thoroughly by Robert Bellah, who says “from the earliest years of the republic is a collection of beliefs, symbols, and rituals with respect to sacred things and institutionalized in a collectivity.” As Bellah and others have argued, civil religion has never been quite the same as generalized Christianity in America, even though Christianity has dominated the nation from the get-go, and even though the civil faith has carefully maintained a r…

Why Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” May Be the Wrong Adaptation for Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…l resentment among the white evangelicals who make up the crucial block of Republican voters. The white Christian South was long obsessed by racial purity, both during slavery and then segregation; it’s one reason anti-miscegenation laws flourished and were understood to have explicit Biblical support. Given this theological heritage, it’s difficult to imagine Gilead’s leaders suddenly accepting mixed-race heirs produced by black handmaids, even i…