Search for "USA 1800-299-7264 Emirates Airlines Phone Number , Reservations "

It’s Bring Back the Holy Bible and Christian Prayer in Schools Month

By Sarah Posner

…brainchild of one Pastor Steven Andrew, president of Christian Ministries USA, who is, according to Charisma, “working to make it a year-round reality.” God help us. Andrew calls the separation of church and state a “lie,” which is clear evidence that he should certainly not be giving advice on what children learn in public schools. Other monthly “celebrations” Andrew has declared include Affirm the USA’s Covenant with God (July) and God in US Hi…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…king, suspicious and/or harassing calls, suspicious encounters and packages, theft, vandalism, trespass, IT hacking, bomb threats, death threats, residential picketing, and more. “We can’t get distracted by fear tactics and intimidation,” McCafferty said. “It’s a daily way of life for us and we can’t make a media frenzy every time we’re attacked. We have an important job to do and that means ensuring people have affordable health care.” “The anti-…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ia: First pride march since violence disrupted event a decade ago On July 8, about 1800 people took part in the first gay pride march in the capital city of Tallinn in a decade. In 2007, AFP reports, the march “descended into chaos” when “participants were attacked with stones and beaten by opponents.” Czech Republic: ‘We are fair’ campaign hopes to spark debate on marriage equality Earlier this month, activists in the Coalition for Marriage (KZM)…

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

By Lisa Miller

…in different levels, but every person in each level is focused on one thing, God, and is thus perfectly content with her hierarchical place. Even if the ancients understood that they would see their relatives in heaven, they had no idea of hanging out with them, or doing any of the things that Susie Salmon does in the novel The Lovely Bones. There was no idea of chatting, eating ice cream, playing sports. There is a movement among conservative bel…

Finding the Missing Airliner with Coconuts

By Joseph Laycock

…bined Islamic elements with shamanic practices. On Thursday Ibrahim Mat Zin, also known as Rajah Bomoh Sedunia Nujum, delivered a press conference (in which he demonstrated a squint that bore an uncanny resemblance to Pat Robertson.) He initially stated that he had been invited to perform his ritual by one of Malaysia’s “top leaders,” but then retracted this claim. In the immediate aftermath of the plane’s disappearance, he organized a prayer sess…

The Traitor Chaplain Who Gave Government Prayer to America — A 4th of July Corrective

By Andrew L. Seidel

…trol the court. They do the same thing for all the right-wing fetishes—guns, abortion, and the privileging of Christianity. The end result of which is obvious. We’ll be dragged back to a time when conservative White Christian men ruled. When they ruled over women. When they ruled with violence. The history itself is never fully told. But even if it were, this “history and tradition” legal argument makes little sense. The Constitutional Convention…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…ers perspective on the most pressing matters of politics, culture, religion, law, and philosophy from a conservative and (mostly) Catholic perspective. The publication is intellectually very serious—proof that ideas and cosmologies matter in politics. Alongside the Federalist Society, it’s difficult to imagine a more important repository of the intellectual source code of religious and cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of…

What Makes a Human Bomb Tick?

By Gordon Haber

…2010, Stack crashed his single-engine plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, killing himself and an IRS manager; “There isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken [with me],” Stack wrote in the suicide note that he published on his website. Lankford also forges intriguing connections between different types of murder-suicide. In an illuminating passage, Lankford compares two mass shootings in 2009: that of Nidal Ha…

‘We’re all in this together’: The Perils of Kumbaya Rhetoric

By Peter Laarman

…ortrait of how that contempt penetrated his affluent home town of Greenwich, CT, over the past four decades. This was always Republican territory, with investment bankers and white-shoe lawyers thick on the ground along the Gold Coast. The difference is that wealthy patricians of the Prescott Bush era actually cared about their neighbors; the old-time bankers invested in—and the CEOs ran—productive enterprises that created real jobs. In contrast,…

Ross Douthat: Trump Is Women’s Fault for Not Having More Babies

By Patricia Miller

…ntury. The average woman went from bearing about seven or eight children in 1800, to between three and four by 1900, in tandem with the industrial revolution. And among the native-born white population that Douthat is so concerned about, average family size was even smaller. A two-child family was already the norm for many middle and upper-middle class Protestant women, leading men like Theodore Roosevelt to decry “race suicide” and the “base and…