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C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…ment, but they don’t bother to think too deeply about the delicate balance between the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. Respecting a politician’s freedom of religion doesn’t mean ignoring his religion—it means asking smart, sometimes tough questions about its role in his political life. For a relatively brief period you made the rounds, were interviewed in a number of mainstream media venues. Then, nothing! What happened? Actua…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the enactment of gay marriage in three countries: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Based on extensive interviews in the three countries, Díez argues that three main key factors explain variation in policy outcomes across these cases: the strength of social movement networks forged by activists in favor of gay marriage; the access to policy making afforded by particular national political institutions; and the resonance of the frames used to demand t…

Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ls lived their lives in clubs, engaging in cheap, easy, and often public sex, or were sexually abused. For all the claptrap the religious right yells about how they don’t want to think of us “that way,” the trailer for the film is positively voyeuristic! Let’s face it, gay sex is completely titillating to heterosexuals, especially conservative Christian heterosexuals. They can’t stop thinking about us in bed! Remind me again, who’s the perv here?…

Muslims Need Not Apply—To the White House or Congress

By Julie Ingersoll

…trying to follow the movement is that every time we write about something extreme, it’s dismissed with “well, every movement has its fringe folks.” I started to write this a week ago but had second thoughts because the whole exchange with Joan seemed like a one-off. Then today Salon.com is reporting that Tea Party Nation leader and founder Judson Phillips is calling for the defeat of Congressman Keith Ellison because he is a Muslim. Tea Party Nati…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…zes certain actions or statements on the basis of sexual orientation Homosexual Adoption—Expanding laws to permit adoption by homosexual couples Sanctity of Life: Constitutional Right to Abortion—Roe v. Wade was correctly decided Protecting Infants Born Alive—Laws requiring protection for infants born alive born alive as a result of a botched abortion Prohibiting Partial-Birth Abortion—Laws banning the procedure known as partial-birth abortion Mak…

Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

…inciple that imagining creates reality has captivated modern readers,” the promo copy explains. The publisher probably didn’t expect the book to resonate quite so uncomfortably with the political moment when they chose November 8th—Election Day—as its publication date. But indeed, Donald Trump’s distinctive style has roots in the spiritual tradition of which At Your Command and The Secret are both a part. Neville was just ahead of his time. Born i…

Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…#39;t get a veto. This is about our national security. https://t.co/wfRNLm9XTL — Max Boot (@MaxBoot) November 15, 2015 So, for example, if we think it’s okay, like Max does, to drop thousands of troops into another country because “national security,” we should be aware that we have no ground to stand on when other countries (ahem Russia) we are not fond of do so against our interests. 6. Trial and terror It isn’t all bad news. There’s a lot of pe…

Why Obama for the Nobel? A Nudge? A Reminder?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e again, the decision has changed little of substance “on the ground” in Tibet. The decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Mikhail Gorbachev the very next year (1990) was clearly intended as a gesture of support for his new politics of openness (glasnost) and democratizing reforms in the former Soviet Union. It was the opening of a door, a path, to fuller European-ness, with the requisite economic and political reforms. The came Yeltsin. Then…

Howling at the Moon

By Amina Wadud

…They are often called bayt al-mal, even if not in an Arabic speaking context. In the diasporic context there are supplications for these funds made by charitable organizations and various non-profits where one can pay, in addition to the community centers that collect and distribute. It’s hard to say who is qualified to advise about the correct calculations. So it is a matter of personal conscience. If you think about it, it seems a fairly simple…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…cally “unadulterated,” 3) therefore revealing real Islam as irredeemably toxic. Muslims themselves deploy a similar language, tying Arabness and Islam or Pakistani-ness and Islam, judging any other experience inferior and derivative. But Islam has been in Bosnia for as long as it’s been in much of India, where my family’s from. It’s possible that many South Asians have been Muslim for less time than many European Muslims. The same goes for Istanb…