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In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…important role of the media. Rather than to please advertisers, I take it that the role of a free press, on religious issues as well as secular ones, is to raise issues of common concern, examine them, and help readers and viewers form their own opinions. If the issues are obscured, no such process can play out. A little practice with Catholicism would go a long way toward improving press coverage of smaller, less well known groups. Second, if the…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…o his audience at a 2002 Holocaust denial conference in Washington, D.C., that his organization, the Free Congress Foundation, did not engage in Holocaust revisionism. However, he winked, it was worth mentioning that “these guys [Frankfurt School theorists] were all Jewish.” Today, a central belief of the alt-right and white nationalist movements is that generations of progressive Jews in the United States have worked patiently and covertly, throu…

Debate Over Mother Earth’s ‘Rights’ Stirs Fears of Pagan Socialism

By Bron Taylor

…ther non-human entities should be conferred legal rights. Fox also noted that Morales had recently signed into law Bolivian legislation that “establishes 11 rights for nature,” and “a Ministry of Mother Earth to act as an ombudsman.” This was indeed a historically significant development, although Fox inaccurately stated that Bolivia was the first nation to confer rights upon the natural environment. In fact, on December 28, 2008, Ecuador enshrin…

Google-Phonics, Or, ‘What Is the Sound of a Thousand Tech Workers Meditating?’

By Kevin Healey

…posited this as a quiz to the audience on Friday, and no one remembered: that was the week that Ed Snowden’s NSA leaks appeared in the papers as he slipped off to an undisclosed location. It was clear that tech companies like Google were implicated in those leaks. This is not just about Snowden the person. It’s about the institutional frameworks that enabled the leaks—namely journalistic organizations—which are in a state of crisis while the tech…

The Penis+Vagina Monologues

By Sarah Posner

…reporters don’t really care about religious liberty like they care about a free press and free speech. In fact, she writes, “we have a press that loathes and works actively to suppress this religious liberty.”* She claims that reporters “are ignorant of natural rights, history, religion and basic civility.”* That, she maintains, is why they cavalierly dispensed with journalistic integrity as they reported on SB 1062. Hemingway insists that SB 10…

Missing the Forest for the Witches

By Joseph Laycock

…s comes from countries such as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen that have very different notions of free speech and the separation between church and state. It was thoughtless for the library to check the box marked “occult” when planning their Internet filtering policy, but what’s even more disturbing here is that something as central to a democratic society as which sites can be accessed in a public library have been outsourced to a fo…

I Am Better than Him

By Amina Wadud

…with that 1GB player which was a gift from my friend Arnold. It’s not all that fancy; that I miss it in the material sense: some unknown maker (coincidently called ZEN!: I love that too.) I think my ear buds probably cost more than the little thing, but oh, how I miss my reading partner. Yeah, sure, I can read the Qur’an without it, and I did; even for approximately the same amount of text. But I get way too distracted into thinking about certain…

Transparent Season 3: The Intersectional Messiah

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…ason 1, she reminded her congregation that “it’s only those that were born free, that were born in the wilderness—that get to see the promised land.” This fall in America, the promised land feels far away—particularly for those of us in female, or black, or trans bodies. The ones in Ali’s visions. Teshuvah, at its root, means “turning.” To turn freely we need space. We need to be able to breathe. When I reflect on our current crises of police viol…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…just laws wherever there is a Christian presence because ‘Until we are all free, we are none of us free.’” Anglican Communion: Gay couple’s church wedding expected to rile Communion’s conservatives The first wedding by a same-sex couple in an Anglican Church in Britain is expected to further exacerbate tensions within the Anglican Communion. Excerpts from The Guardian’s Cathering Pepinster reporting: The first gay Anglican wedding in Britain took…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…Iran’s chief justice claimed (not very credibly) this week it is “a lie” that the country executes homosexuals, but confirmed that Iran does not recognize homosexuality as a human right. “We cannot abandon the Quranic teachings for the sake of your human laws that are being implemented in European countries.” In a fascinating related story, the Daily Beast’s Nina Strochlic reports that Toronto “has emerged as the unofficial capital for gay Irania…