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The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night

By Katherine Stewart

…ent over the same period. In other words, “nones” and evangelicals are equivalent in numbers. One explanation for this change in America’s religious complexion is that white Christians are aging: 72 percent of voters over 65 are white Christians, compared to only 26 percent of voters under 30. Pew also tells us that most of the unaffiliated are white—and that much of their growth has come from the white population. That said, lack of religious aff…

Great Moments In Bipartisanship: Bible Edition

By Daniel Schultz

…rning talk show guests agree that it’s no worse than liberals protesting invasion of Iraq, and [http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/financial-times-columnist-obama-like-felix-the-cat-black-and-lucky/ besides]. Also, somebody somewhere once said something mean about Trig Palin. Too. [Matthew 2:13-15]: Republicans threaten to filibuster amnesty laws for illegal aliens. Lou Dobbs says on his show, “Oh sure, they claim to be saviors. But are you going to…

Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a”, speaking out on a range of issues, most notably the obsession of conservatives: the Safe Schools program. The alliance’s anti-Safe Schools and anti-marriage equality flyers were recently found being handed out to children on school buses in regional Victoria, and the group was called out in Parliament by Labor MP Tim Watt for depicting a woman with a rainbow noose around her neck. York has also lobbied for gay people to get a different term fo…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…issed a “gay propaganda” case against Deti 404’s administrator, Elena Klimova. Klimova told Human Rights Watch that she had not yet seen the ruling and did not know the specifics of the court‘s decision. Neither Klimova, nor the group’s lawyers knew that the court had changed the date of the hearing to March 25. As a result of the ruling, Russia’s state agency for media oversight could now move to block Deti 404’s website in Russia. Colombia: ‘One…

American Jewish Leaders Get Gaza Wrong

By Sarah Posner

…by the Al Qassam Brigades). Yousef Munayyer provides some history of the numbers from Gaza at Open Zion: For example, in 2011, the projectiles fired by the Israeli military into Gaza have been responsible for the death of 108 Palestinians, of which 15 where women or children, and the injury of 468 Palestinians, of which 143 where women or children. The methods by which these causalities were inflicted by Israeli projectiles breaks down as follow…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…e the Latin mass and the teaching that Catholicism was the only road to salvation—change as a result of Vatican II and widely expected the contraception ban to be lifted. It seemed that the church was perfectly willing to evolve doctrine—except when it affected women. The day following the encyclical’s release, eighty-seven leading Catholic theologians released a statement condemning it, saying it relied on outmoded conceptions of papal authority…

Obama’s Gay Marriage Support Shocks Black Church

By Anthea Butler

…s, stunted sexuality, homophobia, and sexual abuse are competing for issue number one in their churches; at many, they are tied at the number one slot. It is high time to for the leaders of the black church to ‘put away childish things’ and to engage in a real conversation about sexuality, same-sex marriage, and the homophobia embedded in the black church community. Pontificating and posturing props up preachers, and does little to edify congregat…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…on of organizing week-in, week-out events: Klan rallies, Bible camps, survivalist and gun shows, White-power music concerts, etc., many of which are described in my book. Second, when David Duke won a majority of White votes while running in two Louisiana statewide elections in 1990 and 1991, he uncovered a middle-American constituency that supported at least a portion of his national socialist ideas. Third, a group of respected (if not respectabl…

Mormonism’s “9/11 Mosque Moment”

By Joanna Brooks

…ajor natural disasters, I’m getting at this point only an eerie silence on flood-ravaged Pakistan, which is 98% Muslim. To make matters worse, a local Southern California LDS Church representative who had pledged to join seventy other religious leaders at Friday’s interfaith press conference against Islamaphobia failed to show. Certainly we can do better. Whatever one thinks of the Park51 Islamic community center (and the project is not with…

The Fourth of July Is Not America’s Birthday

By Peter Laarman

…, was in no way the birthday of anything. It was the start of a long and savage struggle against the world’s most powerful empire at the time. If the United States can be said to have an actual birthday, that date should be June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution—the number specified in order for the Constitution to be in full and binding effect for all 13 former colonies. Those who prefer a winter birth…