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White House Position
on Exemption from Contraception Coverage
“Not a Done Deal”?

By Sarah Posner

…tenor of such meetings as “listening and not giving a sense of where the administration was leaning.” The Washington Post reports this morning that Democratic Senators, on a phone call yesterday with White House senior advisor David Plouffe, argued against adopting the Bishops’ position. My source says it’s “not a done deal” yet, but expected action from the White House within a week. UPDATE: Another womens’ rights advocate tells me that she has…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…idden beneath the complaint dinner musician’s suit, and the secretive cell phone video coming together not merely to support the Occupy Movement or to represent the concerns of the protesters, but to effect an occupation where he had the opportunity to do it most powerfully, and, in doing so, to make real the nonviolent, non-combative, even respectful, ethos of a movement that continues to vex so many in the media and in positions of political lea…

Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert

By Andrew Aghapour

…w are you going to announce it over social media if you don’t have a smart phone? And smartphones: they are helpful, but they are also limited. I’m working with some of my guides to develop what’s called a WisePhone, and it’s smarter than a smartphone. What are some of the features of the WisePhone? You won’t lose it anymore because it won’t be influenced by gravity, so it won’t fall down the cracks of your couch. It will also be able to tweet or…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…ckefellers, the Council on Foreign Relations, feminists, the Trilateral Commission, the Bohemian Grove society, gay people, the Skull and Bones club at Yale, and the Bilderberger banking conference. And this is the short list. Sound familiar? It should; and not just because this frame and storyline is now on the nightly news and ubiquitous on the Internet and conservative talk radio. The elite scapegoats for right-wing populists today are liberals…

Confessions of a Hater

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…as Martin Luther King Jr. did, to “win the double victory” and make our enemies into our allies one day. So as I hear about Phelps (via this page, among others) I find that I wish to renounce my hater status. Instead, if I had the chance to be in the presence of Fred Phelps, I would treat him just as I did this student, with candor and respect—for his humanity, if nothing else. “I don’t feel any animosity from you,” my student once remarked during…

UNESCO on Religion, Culture and SOGI in Asia; Orthodox Family Sues to Stop Cremation of Israeli Trans Woman; Struggles of Iraqi Queer Activists; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sbians undergo ‘cooperation marriages,’ as reported in China. Oppressive family dynamics to remain gendernormative push some transgender youth to the streets to avoid violence, shame and anguish, as documented in Myanmar. In the region, and globally, personal religious beliefs and affiliation are typically seen as powerful predictors of attitudes about sex, sexuality and gender diversity. However, cross-national differences in cultural orientation…

Suicide Leads to Calls for Improved Treatment of LGBT Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…is not becoming of a Mormon.” May this weekend’s Conference bring some kind of strength to all those who love and care about Bryan—including his family, LGBT Mormons, and the families of LGBT Mormons around the world….

Can You Make a Comedy About UFO Cult Mass Suicide?

By Joseph Laycock

…fined as a vagrant. So members always carried five dollars and money for a phone call. Benjamin Zeller, author of Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion, has also noted that Heaven’s Gate members engaged in a lot of self-deprecating humor because they were aware that mainstream society perceived them as crazy. This research led Jones to conclude that a comedy about Heaven’s Gate might not be as inappropriate as it sounds. “I could never make a come…

Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”

By Peter Laarman

…vement. I think characterizing #SayHerName as a “spiritual formation” also minimizes the intersectional coalition-building that has gone into making black women’s lives and bodies visible within the broader sphere of traditional mainstream civil rights discourse and public policy. PL: Throughout the book and especially toward the end, Kaya expresses relatively little anxiety about the death of “religion” as we have known it. She holds open the pos…

Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”

By Kelly J. Baker

…stigator becomes the key to global salvation. The disruption of this white middle class family’s life appears alongside global collapse, and I am unsure which the film wants us to care about more. Zekes are clearly a dangerous threat, and the film plays on existing fears of global pandemics, terrorism, and the breakdown of governments and infrastructure. World War Z does not attempt to humanize the monsters, nor does it register concern for the ma…