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Death in the Desert: Riding With the Samaritans

By Lauri Lebo

…gees fleeing civil conflict in response to restrictive federal immigration policies that made obtaining asylum difficult for Central Americans. More than 500 churches eventually declared themselves official “sanctuaries” and provided food and shelter to refugees in defiance of federal law. Various denominations included Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, United Church of Christ, Catholics, Presbyterians, Unitarian Universalists, Jews, Mennonites, an…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…nses. Then I learned she had made me the beneficiary on two life insurance policies. Sometimes when you have limited financial means you may dream of inheriting some money—but let me tell you, it is an awful, awful thing to inherit money from the death of some one you love. There is no amount of money that alleviates the pain of losing my sister. So, I immediately gave away more than 35% of it to my other siblings, and to her partner. I paid back…

The Messiah is Not Coming

By Peter Laarman

…serviam issued by the big insurers that are simply not going to write new policies for kids who might be sick, etc. And this is but a minor skirmish within a well-financed global war to undermine health equity and social equity at every turn. The Left seems quite powerless to engage this money-saturated political arena, and that is partly because the old model of civic leadership no longer applies. The paradigm that still governs much of the Left…

Playing Hooky: Will Boycott of Catholic Church Spur Reform?

By Nathan Schneider

…re an important tool that people use against businesses and the government policies that support them. If one plays the role of a consumer, then of course one’s most powerful recourse is not to consume. But using that same logic against the mass is to misunderstand what should make the Church distinctive in the first place, as a community, an institution, and—if I may say so—the bride of Christ on Earth. According to Catholic teaching, mass isn’t…

The Tea Party Religion

By Sarah Posner

…that category. And to want the whole government and economy run according to Jim DeMint’s “Judeo Christian” belief system — as opposed to those beliefs just driving anti-gay or anti-abortion policies — is a much grander dream for conservatives, and one that the religious right brings to the tea party, along with its bigger share of the voter pool….

Religious Right “Compassion” and Other Lies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ended up not changing the gay or lesbian person – but their institutional policies of bullying gays and lesbians into submission. In actually “suffering with” gays and lesbians institutions like the United Church of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and other denominations, have come to realize that the spirit of the law in their Holy book is one of love and acceptance of everyone instead of the bullying, compassionless, soul-ki…

“Ex-Gay” is Anti-Gay, Disguised as Compassion

By Tanya Erzen

…nline Christian churches and other religious organizations lack consistent policies and programs for dealing with LGBT youth. Meanwhile, Exodus and Focus on the Family have explicitly aimed their resources and materials toward youth as the next wave of ex-gay ministry for the past decade. Instead of “It Gets Better,” the idea is to use flashy media to tell questioning and confused youth that their same-sex feelings are not an identity but a condit…

Tea Partiers Fall Back on Religion to Deny Reality of Climate Change

By Lauri Lebo

…paign to raise doubts about the science of global warming and to undermine policies devised to address it. The article makes clear the oil industry’s financial influence on the Tea Party movement, noting support from groups like Americans for Prosperity, which was founded and largely financed by oil industry interests. However, the most fascinating aspect of the article is how, when asked to explain their denialism of climate change, Tea Partiers…

Wojnarowicz’s Ant-Covered Jesus: Blasphemy or Religious Art?

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…d contributed an essay that attacked several public figures for supporting policies he believed helped the spread of AIDS. The controversy at this time, along with other right-wing criticisms (Senator Jesse Helms led the way) against the artists Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, and Robert Mapplethorpe, brought Wojnarowicz into national media attention beyond the art world. The following year, Wojnarowicz went on the offensive, and filed a $5 million…

Shucking Off The ’50s. And the ’40s. And the…

By Daniel Schultz

…ges it faces — and unable to develop the much-needed reforms, new economic policies, and broad infrastructure investments required for a new round of sustained prosperity. Does this mean that either the Republicans have to lose the social conservatives or Dems lose the unions in order for there to be a sustainable end to political gridlock? It’s worth a thought, says Digby. I’m not so sure. Florida has an interesting thesis that what he calls “str…