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Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…r, pointed at the beanie on George’s head and barked, “Why don’t you take that hat off. You look like a fucking terrorist.” The white partygoers grew silent and waited for George to react, which he eventually did, diffusing the conversation with politeness. Though he lowered the heat a few notches, the man continued to call him a terrorist so many times that George realized something that hadn’t occurred to him, “He was concerned that I might have…

The Three Qualities Marking the Capitol Assault as Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…violent, but justified by the nobility of its cause. It may seem strange that what appear to be ordinary and sensible people can be drawn into a situation where they commit the most hideous of violent acts. But this is precisely what the image of war enables. Warfare provides an alternative worldview to normal public order in which almost anything is permitted in order to conquer those perceived to be enemies. In warfare, enemies are things with…

Men Without Guns: A Tribute to Larry McMurtry

By Amy Laura Hall

…t out of mere survival, and their fathers, each one, raised their boy by a code that included being respectful of animals and that, on threat of brutal torture and death, precluded homosexuality. Proulx’s story ends with a reality that McMurtry and Ossana thread through the screenplay: “There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.” J…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…nance of social and community values in pictures.” For the next 38 years, that code shaped Hollywood’s output. The Production Code insisted that movies were primarily “to be regarded as entertainment” that would “improve the race.” As such, movies should avoid explicit images that would be upsetting or play to “the lower and base element.” Those images included graphic violence, “excessive passion,” “white-slavery,” “scenes of actual child birth,”…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ganizations Co-ordination Act since 2012 but had been rejected on grounds that Kenya’s penal code criminalized gay and lesbian associations. This time, things were different, with the court ruling that refusing to register the organization was an infringement of the constitutional rights of association for LGBT people. The judges said registration was not about the moral and religious views of Kenyans, since the constitution does not set a limit o…

Scope Bacon, Twttr Hoaxes & Joel Osteen’s Big Reveal

By Deborah Whitehead

…ch, complete with Facebook ad campaign and promotional website including a promo video that went viral, that a number of customers were disappointed and angry to find out that it was a fake. Part of the confusion seems to have been that the launch occurred on March 28, not the customary April 1. But just as important was consumer demand. Enough people were convinced by the slick product rollout that they actually wanted to try it. “That’s not funn…

ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

By Joanna Brooks

…ended a recruiting party where alcohol was served. Sikahema also challenged Smith to interview current and former athletes of color who had a positive experience with BYU and the Honor Code: “If Darron Smith wasn’t so hell bent on exposing BYU, the Church and the honor code office as racists, he’d find out that for every Thomas Stancil, Tico Pringle and Ray Hudson, there’s a Brandon Davies, Reno Mahe and Brian McDonald, the latter of which recover…

We Would Be Wise to Pay Attention to Trump’s Apocalyptic QAnon Posting Spree

By Thomas Lecaque

…bines Christian nationalist imagery with the Big Lie (see the 45-47 on the hat, implying that Trump was not only the 45th President but also the 46th instead of Biden and will be the 47th as well) and the QAnon slogans WWG1WGA and Q+ on the side. “Hold the Line, Justice is Coming,” with the call for “ReTruth if you want Justice to Be Served.” Against whom? Well, the re-Truth before that was a call to try the J6 Select Committee for sedition and lo…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lawmakers are seeking to make homosexuality a crime in an amended criminal code that might be considered by parliament next year. AP quotes a human rights lawyer calling the 5-4 decision “a big verdict.” The judges in their ruling said it’s not the Constitutional Court’s role to criminalize private behavior or to usurp parliament by imposing laws on it. The court’s decision is final. Judge Saldi Irsa said the petitioners were in effect asking the…

Like the Bible? You’ll Love a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ T-shirt — How AI Marketing Shapes Identity

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…ake decisions about which ads to show to specific users. When he insisted that he’d searched for nothing that would lean rightwing, he bemoaned that “the internet” must think that evangelicalism in America is synonymous with this type of political message. Ads have become a modern day mirror, he said, curated by our demographics. Can we look into this computational mirror to say “beware” or “behold,” assuming that the algorithm knows us better tha…