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Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…litical community. Despite this, I’m very excited at the re-emergence of a domestic public political discourse in Myanmar over the past few years and hope that this book can encourage people (inside and outside of Myanmar) to look to this tradition for creative ways of thinking about politics and political matters. What alternative title would you give the book? Well, I was a little bummed at the rather mundane title that Cambridge preferred, but…

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No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…banning “bump stocks,” taking guns out of the hands of those convicted of domestic abuse or other kinds of violence, and so on. It may not be possible to legislate away evil altogether, but governments can decide the extent to which they want to be complicit in it. That ought to go for “slow burn” gun violence as well, but sadly it does not. If it were easy, of course, we’d already have gun reform. It isn’t and we don’t. In writing about Jimmy Ki…

Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives

By Jonathan Malesic

…victims were “asking for it” and poor mothers being evicted for reporting domestic abuse “made bad choices.” Trump wrote in 2014 that the Central Park Five—black men falsely convicted of rape as teenagers in 1989 who then won a $41 million settlement from the City of New York—should not be considered innocent because they “do not exactly have the pasts of angels.” By his own admission, then, Trump is no different from these men. But he sees littl…

Trump May Be “a Big Fan of Hindu,” But Hindus Are Running—and Winning—as Democrats

By Murali Balaji

…Democratic Party to be more open to a multitude of faiths, and on certain domestic policy issues, the party matches up with more of what they believe in,” he said. According to Padma Kuppa, a progressive activist and Hindu who is running for state representative in Michigan, Democratic values are in general alignment with what the Hindu American community prioritizes, namely “support of education, care for the environment, and fairness.” “It’s ab…

Dear #MeToo Christians: Time to Take a Long Look in the Mirror

By J. Dana Trent

…ghteousness, both of which correlate to sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, mental, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse. But Southern Baptist women are too entrenched to even notice the cognitive dissonance. This weighty theological and doctrinal baggage held by us—and similar ones held by evangelicals all over the world—place women in a losing power dynamic with men who can justify inappropriate behavior with inerrant scr…

Trump’s Abortion Gag Rule Is State Violence

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…justice. The Trump administration’s potential restoration of the so-called domestic gag rule—on which the DHSS will only take public comments through July 31—is the latest act of state violence against women’s right to self-determination, which directly attacks poor women of color. Originally implemented by the Reagan administration in 1988 and rescinded by Clinton in 1993, it would not only prohibit health care providers who receive federal Title…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts in Australian society. Opposition was concentrated in suburbs with high numbers of working-class immigrants on the suburban fringes, including locations popular with Islamic communities. Brazil: Conservative Christian activists protest gender theorist Judith Butler At Inside Higher Ed, philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler describes to Scott Jaschik her experience earlier this month in Brazil, where “she faced an ugly protest at which s…

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

By Anne Linstatter

…? They’ve kicked out the president of a seminary for counseling victims of domestic violence to keep quiet, and for telling at least one rape victim to forgive her assailant and not report to police. They dethroned a few other predator pastors and confessed to past failures to protect the weak. This counts as feminism? I’d simply call it justice regardless of gender—which, by the way, actually is the definition of feminism. Apparently a stance of…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he Human Rights Commission has criticized a legislative proposal to create domestic partnerships for same-sex couples and withdraw from them the right, won in the courts, to be legally married. The Commission said that it recognised “many” in the community were “strongly against” same-sex marriage, in some cases due to religious and moral beliefs. It added: “We also recognise that there are sectors of our religious community that are supportive of…

Is it ‘biblical to enforce the law,’ as Trump Admin Claims in Defense of Separating Families?

By Daniel Schultz

…lew up at the last minute). I can’t interpret the law to accept victims of domestic violence or gang violence. The US shouldn’t have to address the poverty and violence it helped create in Central America. If migrants choose to die in the desert, that’s on them. Again and again, Sessions deflects responsibility, interpreting conscious decisions made by him among many others over the years, to be immutable facts, just the way things have to be. Not…