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New Clashes in Portland Confirm that Christian Nationalism Remains a Clear and Present Danger

By Chrissy Stroop

…80486?s=20 https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1424606103392772097?s=20 Per CNN’s reporting, Mike Lindell, the buffoonish Trump loyalist and MyPillow CEO who credits God for freeing him from his addiction to crack cocaine, is a key influence behind the current buzz around election conspiracy theories. Indeed, because of his popularity and reach, Lindell’s baseless claims are causing problems for local election officials who are compelled to field c…

Reparative Therapy is Quackery, Rabbis Agree—But that Doesn’t Mean it’s Okay to Be Gay

By Jay Michaelson

…the gay Jewish Orthodox world this past week: one was reported on CBS and CNN, and the other two passed relatively unnoticed. But to really understand the former, you need to know about the latter two. The big development was the lawsuit filed by four former clients of JONAH (“Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing”), the leading Jewish “reparative therapy” organization. The clients, and two of their parents, have sued JONAH for fraud, claimi…

The Absence of Public, Visible Mourning Has Weakened Our Ability to Fight COVID

By Joshua Ladon

…t and his administration. When we reached 170,000 Covid-19 related deaths, CNN published a similar call. As Americans, some of us have been touched by death personally during the pandemic, but for many more of us, Covid-19 deaths are abstract and impersonal. This is what made Kristin Urquiza’s voice so powerful during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention as she described her father, a Trump voter, whose “only preexisting conditi…

The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word

By Anne Linstatter

…erican Protestantism,” writes Diana Butler Bass in an opinion piece on the CNN website, pointing to the “rare move” when “more than 600 leaders in the United Methodist Church filed a strongly-worded formal complaint against Attorney General Jeff Sessions” last month. “Today the Methodists and Baptists are not really fighting over mere ‘issues.’ They are fighting about whether women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ people should, on the basi…

Response: What Black Prophetic Politics?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ally in the Republican Party’s bigoted southern strategy. But just because CNN took the ideological bait and began to identify the term “Evangelical” with White-Anglo-Saxon Conservative Protestantism, does not mean that this equation is historically or religiously accurate. Did not many evangelicals act as conductors along the Underground Railroad and become prominent voices within the Abolitionist movement? Were not evangelicals such as Washingto…

C’mon, Joel, Swerve a Little Bit

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…cornered on the gay question. It happened to him again when he appeared on CNN this week with Soledad O’Brien and a panel of guests including Deepak Chopra and Richard Socarides, an openly gay Democratic strategist. Osteen offered his signature pained full-toothed smile as he explained, again, that homosexuality is like lying or pride, all sins but no worse than the others. O’Brien kept hammering the theme, though, that lying and pride are choices…

Obsession with Attackers’ Backgrounds Misses the Point of Terrorism

By Ali Olomi

…ounding, it’s clear that it’s an act of terror. After the attacks in Nice, CNN correspondent Max Foster asked: How can we call it terrorism, though, when we don’t even think he was particularly religious? All his neighbors are saying he was never seen at the local mosque. So, why is he jihadi? Why is this terrorism? Terrorism has essentially become an umbrella term for any crime committed by Muslims. This categorization needs interrogation. From s…

HBO’s Game Change Hits, But Sarah Palin Pic Misses Religion

By Anthea Butler

…play a crucial role in her thinking. It’s why, even now, when cornered by CNN while voting in the Alaska caucus and asked whether she would throw her name into the ring if the 2012 Republican convention were contested, she responded with the words: “anything is possible.” For those with ears to hear, they would hear the prayers of a woman who is relying on the prophecies about her to carry her forward into the position she still believes is hers:…

Does Helen Thomas Work for Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…Is Thomas an anti-Semite? I doubt it. Her old friend Ari Fleisher who, on CNN, denounced the comment as despicable did not claim that she was an anti-Semite. But the comment was surely anti-Semitic. As the video circulated sparking outrage the Hearst Corporation, a corporation with its own dubious past when it comes to Jews (I know, my father worked for them in the 1960s), terminated her contract. While I agree with Fleisher and almost everyone t…

Campaign Calls On Anti-Gay Leaders to “Repent”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lity is not “God’s best” for humanity. Warren, appearing on Piers Morgan’s CNN talk show this week, compared being gay to slapping people and taking arsenic. Here’s what we know about life. I have all kinds of natural feelings in my life and it doesn’t necessarily mean that I should act on every feeling. Sometimes I get angry and I feel like punching a guy in the nose. It doesn’t mean I act on it. Sometimes I feel attracted to women who are not my…