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Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

By Annika Brockschmidt

…s” a “dangerous” frame of reference. Earlier this year, a CSU delegation visited Ron DeSantis in Florida, and gave the Governor rave reviews. Andreas Scheuer, former secretary of transportation, praised DeSantis’ attack on the rights of LGBTQ (but especially trans) people: “There are current issues, for example regarding the so-called gender-switching law of [the German government], which I see very critically. DeSantis also addresses this clearly…

Muslim Mickey Mouse Tweet as Egyptian Wedge Issue

By Joseph Hammond

…edible liberal party in Egypt’s upcoming general elections. At Wednesday’s official launch of the party, the FEP came out swinging at the Muslim Brotherhood’s new FJP, accusing its rival of “political fraud.” On Friday, fresh protests across Egypt showed that many Egyptians continue to seek expedited prosecutions of former members of the Mubarak regime. In Alexandria, the FEP took a visible role in providing tents wired with internet access to med…

Combat Soldiers & Clergywomen: Problematic Equality

By Mary E. Hunt

…nted more such priests, female or male. Once the priest pedophilia and episcopal cover-ups became clear, the hierarchical model was thoroughly discredited. There were 45,000 male priests in 2002. By 2020, there will be about 30,000, only half of whom will be under 70 years of age. In 2002, 15% of Catholic parishes were without a priest; by 2020 that percentage will increase to 25%. Women and some married men who are ordained as deacons are already…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…ay penal code. Yet, although EHT might explain the infiltration of law and official politics in colonized Muslim societies, it doesn’t explain precisely how colonial homophobia transformed the everyday cultures of ordinary Muslims. Consider the late nineteenth-century reformist Indian Muslim scholar, Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi. This religious luminary was hardly a member of the Anglicized elite, led a Sufi order which appealed to the spiritual leanin…

New Poll Shows Evangelicals Vote Democrat Too

By Robert P. Jones

As I noted in last week’s Dispatches from Inside the Beltway, the official exit polls sponsored by the media have been skewed toward the Republican party in terms of religion. The exit polls have asked more questions about religion to Republicans in six states so far, and nowhere have they asked Democrats if they were “born again or evangelical.” It is time for the media to jettison this outdated script about religion and fix this bias in the exi…

No Zombie Jesus: The Vatican and Roger Haight

By Jason VonWachenfeldt

…d their proclivities, it does not look promising. When you look at the episcopacy and the pool they have to draw from, it appears catastrophic. I think Haight would acknowledge such a dialectic between what particular powerful, regressive officials aim to accomplish and the unstoppable force of the laity who primarily constitute that which we term ‘the Church.’ Why does Haight remain Catholic? It is rumored that when that question was asked of fem…

BSA Gay Okay?—Delay.

By Joanna Brooks

…ch. Since Proposition 8 in 2008, the LDS Church has largely dropped out of official political involvement in boots-on-the-ground anti-LGBT equality initiatives and the aggressive anti-gay rhetoric those campaigns have engendered within Mormon communities. (It did, however, file an amicus brief against gay marriage in the Supreme Court last week.) The Church has acknowledged that gay people are a part of the Mormon community and sought to foster an…

Accused of Anti-Semitism, Trump Aide Makes Ancestry Appeal

By Michael Schulson

…sors. On Thursday, McClatchyDC reported that Daniel Meyer, an intelligence official, has filed a formal complaint alleging that Schmitz made anti-Semitic remarks and targeted Jewish employees during his tenure as the Inspector General of the Department of Defense. Meyer’s complaint, which apparently draws on testimony from at least one other senior Pentagon official, describes Schmitz boasting that he had fired “the Jews” and lecturing a colleague…

This World Refugee Day, Rising White Nationalism Meets the Largest Refugee Population in History — Which is No Coincidence

By Sara Kamali

…22, when he suggested that Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, was an unexpected site of war, because it was “civilized,’’ unlike “Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades.” Though D’Agata provided a formulaic apology soon thereafter, if not for the failure to recognize that the lack of “civility” in Iraq and Afghanistan could be attributed to US-led war, then because his choice of words revealed the mindset of many, from celebriti…

Is Rick Warren Gay?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…y surrounding Warren’s invitation to pray at Obama’s inauguration, the web site at his Saddleback Church has been scrubbed of previous mentions that gay and lesbian people who are unwilling to “repent” of the “lifestyle” of homosexuality would not be able to join the church. (Here is a cached version of the scrubbed page.) A new page, however, repeats the same offensive anti-gay theology, comparing the sexual orientation of gays and lesbians to al…