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A Match Made in Hell: Demons Have Become a Serious Force in US Politics — But We’ve Seen This Show Before

By Michael E. Heyes

…seemed like a problem that was happening “out there” instead of within the United States. With the rise of the Soviet Union to a world power and the start of the Cold War, those pesky demons once again entered the world of politics. In the shadow of communism, Merrill Unger, one of the premiere demonologists of the 20th century, wrote Biblical Demonology: A Study of the Spiritual Forces Behind the Present World Unrest. Suddenly, the United States…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…elationship is part and parcel of that broader antisemitic worldview. “The United States of America has a Zionist occupied government,” railed white nationalist Keith Woods, who helped launch the antisemitic #BantheADL campaign last month that won support from Elon Musk. Woods’ tweet references the phrase ‘ZOG,’ long a mainstay in White nationalist propaganda. White Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes—who recently proclaimed “we need to eradicate t…

On Zion’s Mount

By Jared Farmer

…izens from any or all ethnic, religious, and genetic backgrounds, a people united by their shared allegiance to the Constitution. In theory the United States could adopt any language as its official language, could take any size or shape, and contain any kind of terrain. By contrast, Native Americans generally have specific homelands tied to specific landforms with unique names from their languages. By creating a sacred homeland, pioneer Mormons m…

Ignore the Rod: the Parental Rights Amendment Isn’t About Spanking

By Kathryn Joyce

…in the “the context of the ‘culture wars’ regarding ‘family values’ in the United States, emancipating children from parental authority seems like yet another attempt to undermine the family.” He writes: To a large degree, many religious conservatives distrust elite cultural institutions within the United States and prefer to cast their lot with democratically accountable institutions. These forms of religious populism reflect a deep strand of ant…

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…stimony (pdf) before the Senate Armed Services committee on March 16, Gen. Petraeus reiterated these concerns. Petraeus, one of the most respected military men in the country, told the committee that the Israel-Palestinian conflict “foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of US favoritism for Israel,” and that “Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and depth of US partnerships with governments and peoples in the…

Corporations, Religious Conscience, Citizens United, and Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…onents of the coverage requirement. O’Brien had argued that, post-Citizens United, a corporation should be considered a “person” under RFRA, thus capable of having a “substantial burden” placed on its religious exercise by government regulation or action. These are the two crucial legal issues at stake in cases brought by for-profit companies: is an attenuated “burden”—as opposed to an actual burden on one’s ability to exercise one’s religion—eno…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…hink about our bodies. What of Christianity, the dominant religion in the United States? A large majority of Americans identify as Christian, and even non-Christians may find themselves holding “Christian” ideas about sex and proper and improper uses of the body. Additionally, whether you are Christian or not, in the United States you will be subject to laws that are directly influenced by Christianity’s historical ambivalence about, and even fea…

RDPulpit: Israel, The Great Unmentionable

By Peter Laarman

…t don’t be immobilized by guilty knowledge, either. Simply insist on a new policy and a new vision for the United States in relation to this traumatized region. I recall when liberal American Christians organized and preached powerfully against the Reagan Administration’s inexplicable (to us) embrace of South Africa’s already-doomed apartheid regime. Also, of course, our outrage over the 43rd president’s embrace of regime change as more than suffi…

Rick Perry’s Kingmaker, and David Brooks Wakes Up

By Sarah Posner

…y, another Christocrat favorite whose willingness to substitute prayer for policy rivals Bachmann’s. (Applying Brooksian logic, at what point does one deem the GOP not a “normal” party?) In Time today, Amy Sullivan highlights Perry’s ties to the religious right, and zeroes in on David Lane, organizer of Renewal and Restoration Projects, and their associated Pastors’ Policy Briefings. When I wrote about Lane’s activities back in 2007 and 2008, it w…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…DEFHO) in 2003. “It’s on occasions like this that we must show we are one, united, universal in this fight.” …Despite death threats from critics who call her “the devil’s lawyer”, fierce opposition from institutions like the Catholic church, and the herculean nature of her self-assigned mission to change entrenched views, Nkom’s passion for the law remains undimmed, nearly 50 years after she became the first woman to be called to the bar in Camero…