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Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of Representatives began their own campaign to publicly support Brewster, using the hashtage #ImWithWally. Brewster told the Windy City Times last week that he has never questioned the support of the Obama administration, saying that “the President of the United States has our back and so does the administration. So we’re going to keep doing our job.” Malawi: Pastors Threaten to Sue if Govt Does Not Arrest Gays The Young Pastors Coalition of Mala…

Satanic Temple Protests Pseudoscientific Therapies for Satanic Abuse and Witchcraft

By Joseph Laycock

…c cults. Gigi Jordan had been trying to communicate with her nonverbal son using a discredited technique called “facilitated communication.” Jordan would place her son’s hand on her Blackberry and then place her own hand over it to “help” him type. The text produced through this process described how her son was being horribly abused by Satanists, seemingly right under his mother’s nose. In 2010 Jordan gave her son a lethal dose of Xanax and Ambie…

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

…n to the clamoring of the majority of churchmen who gave their blessing to using militias and private armies to shoot down strikers “like mad dogs.” What interests Fraser far more in relation to religion (and what interests me) is how early populist and working-class movements treated their cause as a righteous and holy one. For example, the full name of the once-mighty Knights of Labor was actually the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor…

Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll

By Jessica Johnson

…the graphically sexist, homophobic rhetoric Driscoll spewed relentlessly, using the anonymity afforded by an online alias, William Wallace II: a portrait in virtual violence. Whether it is Driscoll or the men who justify the violence of MMA, the ‘matter’ of violence gets lost in (dis)embodied spectacles, both visual and virtual, that infect cultural imaginaries and affective atmospheres. In their brutality within the cage and online, Fight Church…

Why Such Outrage Over Star Trek Actor’s Geocentrism?

By Joseph Laycock

…hop, Kevin Rhoades, demanded that Sugenis stop writing about Jews and stop using the world “Catholic” in his organization’s name. More recently, Sugenis has created the blog “Galileo Was Wrong” to support his theory of geocentrism. Ignorance of the solar system is sadly quite common. A recent poll demonstrated that 1 in 4 Americans is unaware that the Earth revolves around the sun. But Sugenis has followed the lead of Ken Ham in boldly challenging…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…p a presidential campaign for 2018. He is exceedingly anti-LGBT, regularly using anti-gay epithets to attack his opponents. He has compared marriage equality to pedophilia and claimed that LGBT people want to recruit children for sex. This anti-LGBT violence and sentiment could permeate what should otherwise be an inclusive Olympics. The Pride House is back, promising a welcoming space to celebrate and honor LGBT athletes and promote human rights…

Did the National Prayer Breakfast Create a New Conservative Superstar?

By Sarah Posner

…voiced concern about the national debt and argued the case for a flat tax, using the Bible’s injunction to tithe a set percentage, and for health-savings accounts, a medical option popular that has gained currency among conservatives. Crucially, he delivered this speech from a podium just feet from President Obama, who of course oversaw the passage of a very different health-care plan and has been a major proponent of progressive taxation. This,…

Ken Mehlman: Sorry about All the Anti-Gay Stuff!

By Sarah Posner

…ct a vicious, horrible thing they once did, especially when that thing was using political power and influence to deprive people (including oneself) of basic civil rights. Good news. As Schaller’s piece notes, although on a national level opposition to gay marriage is losing its potency, that hasn’t diminished the vigor of anti-gay activists in the states to block marriage equality measures, or, as is about to happen in Maryland, push referenda th…

Bibi’s Megillah to Obama

By Sarah Posner

…n anti-Semite [who] tried to annihilate the Jewish people.”) The genius of using religious scripture for political purposes is its resistance to criticism. After all, in the week when the book of Esther figures in a sacred Jewish ritual, who would be foolish enough to challenge Netanyahu’s invocation of it? Me, apparently. Me, too. It’s simply not the thing you do on Purim, unless you’re trying to drive a deeper wedge between the president of the…

The End of “Israel-Firster”

By Sarah Posner

…o lead this country and/or Israel to war in Iran. But I will do so without using the term “Israel Firster.” The term was coined in 1960 by the late Abram Leon Sachar, founding President of Brandeis University, and a renowned Jewish historian (his son Howard Morley Sachar remains the greatest historian of contemporary Jewry) and was first used by the elder Sachar in a speech he delivered that year to a Zionist organization. It has proven to be a di…