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Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

By Lauri Lebo

…ca is staggering under the sheer weight of its white underclass, which now numbers some sixty million. Generally unable to read at a functional level, they are easily manipulated by corporate-political interests to vote against advances in health and education, and even more easily mustered in support of any proposed military conflict, aggressive or otherwise. One-third of their children are born out of wedlock, and are unemployable by any contemp…

Qaddafi Dies; Should it Matter How?

By Haroon Moghul

…to Qaddafi, it is hard to deny there is not here an epic, divine, overwhelming arc of evil rising and consuming itself. He brought this on himself. But that thought doesn’t push me to celebration. In this death brought by a man upon himself, I think rather of our own fragilities and failures, our weaknesses, our arrogance and its spectacular irrelevance. For here was a man who thought the world of himself, and was destroyed by himself. It is a go…

Why I Won’t Leave the Mormon Church Alone

By Holly Welker

…lt, particularly since the church wouldn’t leave me alone. (I got repeated phone calls, letters, and visits to my home from missionaries and people in the congregation, despite formal requests that they stop.) Eventually I sought a community of people also striving to come to terms with what it meant to have been but no longer be a devout Mormon. Luckily a diverse community of ex-, post-, or lapsed Mormons (we differ on what to call ourselves) thr…

AAA: Like a Good Neighbor

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…finition of “family.” It’s nice to know that now AAA South considers all families as families, despite AFA’s narrow definition, but AAA has been selling discount family policies to gays and lesbians for years under the radar. When it comes to treating gays and lesbians fairly, AAA has been doing its part for years. AFA is simply using a long standing policy of AAA to again, raise money for its coffers off the backs of gays and lesbians. Long ago J…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rect threat to LGBTQ people, women’s reproductive freedom, single parents, mixed families, and other family structures that do not fit into the parameters of WCF’s “natural family.” At best, those who are deemed “unnatural” by WCF standards could be excluded from the rights and privileges granted to “natural families.” At worst, they could be fined or otherwise punished by the state. The article is an in-depth look at the World Congress of Familie…

The Tweets of the Christ

By Nathan Schneider

…emed like a strategy precisely calibrated to, in the eyes of the audience, minimize the seriousness of a serious event. So what about the Twitter Passion Play that Wall Street’s Trinity Church conducted on Good Friday? Is this yet another stab at the seriousness of the sacred text, and no less at the most hallowed moment of the Christian narrative? “If you look in the scripture,” explains Linda Hanick, Trinity’s VP of communications and marketing,…

On Harith, and Matters of Inheritance

By Amina Wadud

…will and each of them are equal beneficiaries. Who knows, my circumstances might change? I might redistribute based on nafa’a. Like in my extended family, my sister, and not my brothers, took care of my mother. On the basis of nafa’a, my sister should have a bigger share than the rest of us. In the end, I tell people there are a lot of formulas to make sure your daughters are not unfairly disinherited. But if you really want to be sure, make them…

“Fast for Families” Immigration Reform Effort Enters 20th Day

By Joanna Brooks

…to remember that there are many “really good guys” out there waiting for immigration reform. People coming to the US for work get villainized. “Illegal alien” is one of the most unbelievably pejorative terms you can apply to anyone. Your experience seems to reflect something I’ve found in Mormon politics: there is a contradiction between incredible concern Mormons show for the individual and yet a reticence or even a resistance to thinking about…

Bedside Manners: The Broken Spirituality of Contemporary US Medical Practice

By Peter Laarman

…iny bit more time with each patient. But as they and we all know, the economics of health care today militate in the other direction: towards even less time per patient “visit,” and towards even more aggressive mechanization of what Groopman calls the medical assembly line. If there is any hope for positive change, however, it may just come from this same intense economic pressure to cut costs. I say this because of assembly-line medicine’s dirty…

The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…islation. While serving as a leader in the coalition, Kaggwa said, men claiming to be criminal investigators detained him at the police station where they forced him to strip naked and interrogated him. His wife received harassing phone calls. Kaggwa appears to be the target of intimidation. Kaggwa is also the executive director of the Support Initiative For People With Atypical Sex Development, a group that advocates for the rights of intersex pe…