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Postcards From the Edge: Crackpot Anti-Gay Crusader Goes Global

By Bill Berkowitz

…al family.” Watchmen on the Walls maintained that it did not “support violence and did not condone violence.” However, it stated that it would “not apologize for the fight against homosexuality because it is an inappropriate and harmful unnatural phenomenon, in both moral and physical, and psychological relationships.” The organization claimed that while “some hate homosexuals,” their group is not among them. “We see homosexuals similar to alcohol…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…the terrorist clique supposedly so hateful of Western freedoms. Where finance is concerned, most muftis—Islamic religious scholars—agree that God prohibits charging any amount of interest on loans. Trading debt and risky speculation are off-limits too, as is investment in immoral enterprises like gambling, prostitution, and war profiteering. Transactions should be highly transparent and risk, as well as return, should be shared by all parties. Yo…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…non-judgmental pastoral care, assisting people in developing their consciences, encouraging diverse pastoral responses based on local culture, and calling church leaders to be more self-critical. All these things, if applied to LGBT people and issues, could produce enormous positive change in the church. Instead of listening to more progressive voices at the synods who called for greater understanding and dialogue with the LGBT community, the pop…

First it Was an Insurrection Flag, Now Supreme Court Justice Alito is Caught Flying Another Far-Right Flag — An ‘Emblem for an Extensive Spiritual Warfare Campaign’

By Annika Brockschmidt

…s—even after a violent mob stormed the Capitol, threatening to hang Mike Pence, murder Nancy Pelosi, and hunt down whatever member of Congress they could find. In response to the reporting, Alito did the noble thing, blaming flag-gate part I on his wife, Martha-Ann Alito. She had, according to Justice Alito, been in a “dispute” with a neighbor and had flown the flag to signal her feelings about this neighborly squabble. This is about as believable…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…goans need to stop trying. (As consolation prize, you can have the world’s number 2 pizza.) Of course, we don’t know if Cooper can do it. Cooper doesn’t think she can. But her boss believes the deskbound analyst has the potential to become a kickass field agent. Women empowering women. (Also, apparently, no other U.S. operative has the necessary skills to pull this off. Literally, there are three other CIA agents, all male and all compromised, and…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…t all of those words and issues serve as symbols of moral certainty in an uncertain world, and you come up with an equally simple conclusion: McCain’s “No Surrender” mantra does the symbolic job just as well. It may be hard for a lot of liberals to wrap their minds around the emotional power of symbolic thinking. They still assume politics is about voting for the candidate who shares your analysis of policy issues. Hence their confident urging to…

When Auschwitz Becomes a Poké Stop

By Karen E. Park

…owever inappropriately, what is there to be witnessed. But if I change the place itself into a game I have done something else entirely. This is not “escapism” as we think of it because Pokémon Go doesn’t actually encourage escape, it facilitates transformation. Even “irreverence” does not describe this new way of being in the world—because we can’t be irreverent in the presence of something that is no longer real….

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…egation and gerrymandering are irreducibly a matter of race. It’s not a coincidence that the strongest and most firmly gerrymandered Republican seats are also overwhelmingly white. Add to that courts in North Carolina and Texas finding that those states’ voting laws disproportionately affect African-Americans and other minorities, and the stark racial divides between the two major parties. I’m about as pessimistic as Martin Longman on Democrats’ a…

An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

…On Fridays, many of us wouldn’t even go to work at all or for very long. Once we’d prayed Friday prayers, we could spill out into the streets and encounter more reminders to invoke blessings upon the Prophet. Life was not sliced off into religion and not-religion so very clearly and abruptly. We didn’t have to change in the phone booth, as it were, into the non-religious as we transitioned abruptly from ritual to rat race. It was not so very prob…

The Only Religion Question Reporters and Debate Moderators Should Ask Presidential Candidates (Kim Davis Edition)

By Sarah Posner

…o a question that cuts to the chase, without clouding an argument about authority with paeans to religious liberty. Here’s the question: do you believe there are any circumstances under which God’s law should supersede civil law, whether legislative or judicial? If so, what are those circumstances?…