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He Changed Bush’s Heart, Yet Destroyed the Faith of a Nation!

By Jonathan L. Walton

…d of belief has proven to America that the language of “faith” is an empty signifier if not measured against tangible results? Well, this latest poll reveals that not only have Americans discovered that the “Emperor Wears No Clothes.” In the very decade that conservative evangelicals believed themselves to have claimed the culture wars with a “believer” in the White House, a crumbling economy and a quagmire in Iraq has also shown that “President G…

Sex Buys the Pulitzer Prize

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…: namely, retired generals who were put to use by the Pentagon to sell its Iraq policy before and during the war. The decline of print media has been much in the news of late. Many newspapers are closing their doors, unable to compete with the new electronic media and the rapid pace of electronic news. Those newspapers that can survive, mostly through consolidation, are also cutting back. And one of the lowest returns is in investigative journalis…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…awaiting trial, for a rainbow-themed paint job that the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Vice charged was promoting “emblems of homosexuality.” Taiwan: Marchers hope for marriage equality in near future Reuters reported that on July 11, “[t]housands of gay rights supporters marched through Taipei…months ahead of elections that are likely to usher in a pro-gay party and could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marria…

Come Let Us Reason Together: A Response to Critics of Evangelical/Progressive Initiative

By Robert P. Jones

…dent of Public Religion Research, served as principal religion adviser and signatory to Third Way’s “Come Let Us Reason Together” initiative and is the author of Progressive & Religious: How Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond the Culture Wars and Transforming American Public Life. In addition to Rachel Laser of Third Way, other lead signatories of the Come Let Us Reason Together Governing Agenda include Rev. Joel Hun…

The Internets Own Your Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…but I like to play in technology. So when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body responsible for generic top level domains (gTLD) like .com, .org., and .net, asked for proposals for new gTLD, I watched with some fascination. One of the earliest discussions was around allowing “.xxx” to indicate pornography-related sites. However, I am interested in a new round of names that may potentially define who is in and…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…vative candidates argued that we needed a substantial military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan to safeguard the freedoms of both Americans and the wider world. In 2010 and beyond, conservative candidates have employed a different notion of freedom, one that has absolutely nothing to do with serving the government (or military) or the public to preserve someone else’s freedoms. All of these are essentially conservative arguments; they are all in t…

Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…background. Among current European Union member states, only Greece has a significant indigenous population of Muslims, residing primarily in Thrace. Therefore, categories of “immigrant” and “Muslim” overlap in Western Europe; unlike in the United States where immigration debates center on economic and social concerns such as wages, assimilation, and language. This conflation between Islam and immigration explains why several proposals for immigr…

Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ve any mention of them from the final report generated at CSW 61. Instead, promote initiatives that support clean water, eradicating hunger and poverty, maternal health and abstinence. OutRight Action International has launched a petition to Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the UN, calling C-Fam a hate group and urging that the group be removed from the delegation. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, has threatened that the US will withdr…

Dispatches from the Election: How the Values Voter Myth Strengthened the Democrats

By Glenn W. Smith

…into a list of seven policy areas, such as “economy/jobs,” “health care,” “Iraq.” “Moral values” is at best a broad category; at worst an utterly useless one, especially in a pluralistic society. Unsurprisingly, it was the top priority for 22 percent of voters (besting all other categories), with 80 percent of those respondents voting for George W. Bush. Political journalists, whose own values are dominated by an obsessive keeping up with the Indi…

Is Torture Utilitarian?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ust prior to the 9/11 attacks, and their conviction that this prisoner had significant information he had not yet revealed. The memo specifically addressed ten new techniques the CIA wished to apply: from grabbing and slapping the face, to physical stress and confinement, to sleep deprivation, to the odd practice of confinement followed by the introduction of an insect implied to be dangerous, to waterboarding. Yes, waterboarding—we are still argu…