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Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…that this book is the most important work ever written on American foreign policy. One probably has to be a Niebuhrian realist to admire it that much. Certainly, Irony belongs in the canon of foreign policy realism. Niebuhr shrewdly deflated some of his nation’s pretentions, contending that America’s innocent self-image inoculated Americans from recognizing their nation’s imperialism. This innocence was functional for America’s imperial role, he s…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tion. That is a very costly affair. So think we may have to live with it.” United Kingdom: Politicians, religious activists spar on gay ‘cures,’ marriage equality A BBC News documentary reported on “Transformation Potential,” described by Pink News as “a religious ‘gay cure’ therapy conference” which took place in London in April. Journalist Benjamin Zand was kicked out of the conference after filming portions of it. Prime Minister David Cameron p…

Obama Missing Islam Opportunity with Religious Freedom Ambassador

By Anthea Butler

…. Cook comes in the face of Sen. Jim De Mint’s secret hold on Cook’s nomination, which Sarah Posner wrote about here for RD. I wrote on Cook previously, citing her lack of international policy experience. Now more than ever, this post needs someone who has a handle on Islam, foreign policy, and other religious traditions. The people’s uprising in Egypt is a prime example why this ambassadorship needs someone who is more knowledgeable about religio…

Unreasonable Doubt: Vincent Bugliosi Defends Agnosticism

By Eric Reitan

…yond a reasonable doubt.” We might, as a society, have adopted a different policy. Not only might we have adopted a policy of presuming guilt, but we might very well have given juries a third option in their deliberations. We might have allowed a verdict of “we don’t know.” After all, it’s simply not true that we have to treat people as guilty or as innocent. While someone is on trial, we treat them differently from everyone else (we don’t put jus…

With New York Joining DC in Defiance Methodist Church Faces Showdown on LGBT Ordination

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…cticing homosexuals” do not exist. Though many were already defying church policy, the biblical obedience campaign struck a chord at a time in our nation’s history when public policy and law were rapidly changing to ensure equal rights for LGBTQ people. Clergy and laypersons across the denomination took up Bishop Talbert’s exhortation and did so with the support of Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN). As the only out queer lesbian ordained as an…

Jeffress is Both Right and Wrong on Religion & Politics

By Peter Montgomery

…them on women’s access to abortion, legal equality for LGBT people, or tax policy. Jeffress thinks it’s fine to interrogate candidates’ religious beliefs. “The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician’s values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.” Indeed there may be times when it is legitimate to ask whether a candidate’s religious positions would have a direct impact on policy. Rel…

ENDA Times: LGBT Groups, Echoing the Civil Rights Era, Approach Churches

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tice. Civil rights movement showed the power of the pulpit to shape public policy. Want to empower religious leaders to be a voice for change,” she said. Getting an inclusive ENDA will be an uphill battle, even with a newly-minted Democratic majority in Congress and a fully supportive president in the Oval Office. While the recent Harris survey commissioned by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) shows that 51 percent of those p…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ion, “said lawyer Ernesto Cedeño. Northern Ireland: Party leader declares ‘Peter will not marry Paul’ The right-wing Democratic Unionist Party, which has consistently blocked marriage equality legislation from moving forward, has insisted that a continued ban on same-sex couples marrying is a condition of its participation in a governing coalition. The second-largest party, Sinn Fein, has been insisting on marriage equality, but the DUP’s Jim Well…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t he had married his partner in London on New Year’s Eve. Ukraine: Foreign Policy profiles ‘dashed hopes’ of LGBT community Writing for Foreign Policy, Dimiter Kenarov explores the hostility facing Ukraine’s LGBT community. The article starts with the torching of a theater that had been showing a queer-themed movie as part of a film festival, and the arrest of suspects who confessed that their goal had been to express their “contempt” for LGBT peo…

The Marxist Roots of American Exceptionalism

By Michael J. Altman

…s own. Lurking in the background of this unilateralist approach to foreign policy was the older meaning of American exceptionalism, though of course spun positively and shorn of its Marxism: America could have an exceptionalist foreign policy because it was different from other nations. And not only different, but superior. Although in the strictly Marxist usage “exceptionalism” only referred to a way in which the U.S. was different from, rather t…