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‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…bo praised the Obama administration’s “very beneficial” diplomatic efforts promoting LGBT human rights and slammed American evangelicals who continue to promote anti-gay attitudes and policies. The U.S. last summer cut aid to Uganda and imposed a travel ban against officials in the African country who are responsible for anti-LGBT and other human rights abuses. The Center for Constitutional Rights in 2012 filed a federal lawsuit against Scott Live…

The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…choices themselves, they had to be free to think for themselves, especially about religion. For Jefferson and his supporters, religious freedom for all was central to our democracy….

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…r fulminating that the “Liberal Establishment” was the “greatest threat to freedom, New Testament Christianity, and constitutional government,” which “works feverishly to enslave us all,” Hargis revealed his plan to open a “Christian Crusade Anti-Communist Youth University to train people to fight communism,” located at the foot of Pikes Peak—the current location of Summit. Noebel, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in his native Wisconsin in the…

What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

…ransacked the Capitol. He fired “an arrow across their bow” (his words) to Republican leaders: “Any Republican that has not spoken in defense of the January 6th people to me is dead. They’re dead.” The right-wing political commentator and activist Dinesh D’Souza, also in conversation with Ralph Reed, echoed the sentiment. “The people who are getting shafted right now are the January 6 protesters,” he said. “We won’t defend our guys even when they’…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…rance, even to the point of fallacy. At one point Langdon is rescued by an African-American man who is a thirty-third degree Mason of the Scottish Rite and a lodge brother of Peter Solomon, which is highly unlikely. American Freemasonry, including the Scottish Rite, has always been unofficially segregated. In the 1780s, Prince Hall, a black Bostonian, was initiated by some Irish soldiers. The white lodges in Boston refused to accept him, so he for…

Another Far Right Theocrat Shows up on the Trump Team

By Julie Ingersoll

…ian Right’s legal outfits. Founded in 1990 by Pat Robertson, ACLJ played a central role in promoting a narrative of persecution and minority status for conservative Christians. The name ACLJ was a deliberate play on the conservative bogyman, the formidable ACLU. In 1996, then Executive Director of ACLJ Keith Fournier wrote in apocalyptic language about “Religious Cleansing in America.” Hans Hacker, in a 2005 book on the rise of these Christian law…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…what needs to be done. Similarly, he is so fiercely antigay, and supports African political and religious leaders who advocate criminalization of homosexuality, that it is difficult to imagine that the HIV/AIDS work for which he receives such plaudits can ever be successful as gay people are driven underground due to an atmosphere of persecution and fear—and out of reach of programs that might help. As for how he fits in the wider constellation o…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…tual world, but as someone who teaches about race, and slavery, you can be free even if others don’t think you are, or are worthy of being free. The bigger question that goes alongside of this is: can you become divine if you’re not real? Hmmn. That brings up all sorts of issues, especially if, as it seems presently, the writers are making this new religion suspiciously like Catholicism. I hope that the writers won’t go in the easy direction of co…

Romney’s Christian Nation Conundrum

By Sarah Posner

…ndeed the Republican Party’s official position is that the balance between promoting free exercise of religion and prohibiting religious tests for office “has been distorted by judicial rulings which attempt to drive faith out of the public arena.” What would be an appropriate public expression of faith in the public square? In the Republican Party platform, public display of the Ten Commandments and student-led prayer in public schools, because i…

God TV: Televangelism 2.0

By Sarah Posner

…when she was a teenage rock rebel in Durban, South Africa. (Rory is South African; Wendy was born in the U.K. but also raised in South Africa.) First introduced to Christianity at a Billy Graham Crusade, Wendy claims to have come face to face with Jesus while performing with her rock band at a Durban night club. “A few days after her Damascus Road conversion,” reads her biography on the web site for her book, Journal of the Unknown Prophet, “Wend…