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Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…cement, Biden condemned it. Over the course of the week, the disagreement escalated. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a 45-minute phone call to Netanyahu. Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, after being summoned to the State Department for a dressing down, reportedly called the dispute a 35-year nadir of the US-Israel relationship. Subsequently, in an attempt to tamp down concerns, Oren took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to deny tha…

Mel Gibson’s ‘To-Do’ List

By Becky Garrison

…Polish tinfoil hat so can wear it to Restoring Honor Rally 7. Find E.T. 8. Phone home Sarah Palin 1. Conference call with Smokey the Bear to map out guerrilla grizzly action plan 2. Primp for photo shoot with Today’s Christian Woman 3. Order camouflage Bible 4. Call Pat Robertson for spiritual guidance 5. Put hubbie on short leash 6. See if can find any prayer warriors willing to go all biblical on Levi 7. Send Rush a belated wedding gift Mel Gibs…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…Yiannopolous works, is a privately held company, so it does not have to disclose much financial information. But his provocative claims probably haven’t been bad for its bottom line. The joy of provocation does not explain white supremacy. But, while the alt-right didn’t invent white supremacy, this particular cocktail of troll-ish pleasure, countercultural ethos, threat, and old-school racism does seem to be having a moment. And it is posing fre…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…articipated in this year’s Diversity March in Montevideo. The theme was “Discriminar también es violencia, que no te gane la indiferencia” (Discrimination is also violence: indifference won’t win.) Montevideo celebrates September as Diversity Month. Haiti: Police force cancellation of film festival after arson threats Police in Port-au-Prince ordered organizers of what was to be Haiti’s first LGBT film festival to cancel the event after death and…

Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties

By Chrissy Stroop

…n not only to keeping their children out of public schools (opting for homeschooling or Christian schools that teach their preferred “alternative facts” instead), but also to undermining public education to make it easier to indoctrinate children in right-wing extremist ideology. Naturally, that ideology includes opposition to LGBTQ rights, and the 2020 State of Theology Survey approvingly observes a decline in the percentage of evangelical respon…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…R circles. Parker’s close personal involvement to the NAR received further scrutiny when a 2023 prayer phone call, which included the Alabama Chief Justice, resurfaced, as reported by Odette Yousef at NPR. This appearance is especially revealing of Parker’s legal and theological philosophy—which are one and the same—as he openly stated his intention to influence Alabama judges to follow his interpretation of Christianity: When the judges are resto…

The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion

By Andreea Nica

…feel comfortable talking about my beliefs with family and friends. Since discussing matters of faith had been a focal point of these relationships (i.e., praying for each other, encouraging each other with scriptures, etc.), my silence created feelings of distance among family members where strong connections used to exist. My mother expressed disappointment that she could no longer pray with me and longingly recalled the days when I would share s…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…put a lot of work into it.” Perhaps more telling is the episode’s opening scenes, in which the new regeneration’s first appearance is prefaced by a short scene of a child praying. When the Tardis crash-lands in her garden moments later, it suggests the Doctor is… what? An angel? A messiah? Some clues to that puzzle become clear in the second episode (“The Beast Below”). The Doctor and Amy—the first episode’s praying girl, now an adult—materialize…

If You Were Faced With Him

By Amina Wadud

…picked up quickly and loaded the dishwasher, I said yes. Then I checked my phone. Like many people, I keep it on silent unless I’m expecting a call, so I missed a called from my youngest daughter. Instead she left a text message. It read: “your hajj packgat came” (sic) I burst out crying. So much so that my other daughter came forward and said, “What’s wrong?!” I couldn’t speak. I just showed her the text message and cried and hugged her. To her c…

Finding the “Good Girl Role Model”

By Kathryn Joyce

…ce between their heroine of the faith, and a girl seeking an abortion to “escape” unwanted motherhood. (Such a pressure this becomes that Agata felt the need to tell the media that she does intend to be a mother when she grows up, but now wishes to finish school.) Or conversely, whether advocates for the young Agata, pressing for her eligibility for abortion on one of the few grounds allowed in Poland, sought to remind the public of her status as…