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Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

…non-state online media… Chinese literature documents centuries of gay men. But homosexuality was stigmatized after the Communist revolution in 1949, largely because it was associated with western decadence. Japan: Business community ‘tiptoes’ into LGBT issues The Japan Times reported on July 28 that the country’s business community is “increasingly showing support” for LGBT people, as are some local governments.  …

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Clinton vs. Sanders isn’t About Policy, it’s About Power

…and with dealings that skirt the law. Most voters know politics is grisly business. We recognize the seamy side and pick a candidate whose better sides we like. In short, we vote for a candidate in spite of the flaws. As one millennial supporter recently told the New Republic’s Adam Peck, “I am willing to say Sanders has been a little hypocritical when it comes to guns, but it is not enough to make my support waver.” But votes for Hillary come, a…

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Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion

…nformation,” and intimidate potential vendors and contractors out of doing business with Burkhart by tarring them as abortion collaborators online. With help from national partners in other cities, they would also track down staff members in Wichita or out of state and protest outside their homes. Most effective, he said, would be Operation Rescue’s increasingly dominant strategy of “constricting the clinics out of business” through the enactment…

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Hip-Hop Religion and Spiritual Sampling in a “Post-Racial” Age

…iftieth Law is much more interested in the path to success, writ large—the business side—than it is in the particularities of its subject’s story, who has after all, long been clear that music was always a means to an end: Get Rich or Die Tryin’. Significantly, Fifty’s commercial strategy was deeply indebted to a rap group that made its debut just a decade earlier: the Wu Tang Clan. In fact, one could draw a line in the sand of hip hop history—bef…

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Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

…ther Muslim, African American, female, etc.—democracy is an all or nothing business. You fight for everyone’s rights (and the operative word here is “fight”), or you get none for yourself. Democracy isn’t a buffet. You can’t pick and choose which civil liberties apply to which people. Either we are all equal, or the whole thing is just a sham. We Muslims are already a deeply marginalized people in mainstream American culture. More than half of Ame…

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Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

…CrossFit adherents view its methodology as universally applicable. Yet its business model and promotional culture presume the experience of white people as the norm, making white experience the universal standard against which difference becomes visible. The economic model of CrossFit produces more whiteness: white bodies, white owners, white communities gathered together to make more fit white bodies. “Top CrossFit athletes of 2018” Dismantling w…

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Doonesbury Comic Waxes Eloquent on the Greatness of Jesus, Slams Old Testament God

…ideas led Trudeau to make this slip—to associate those opposed to Jesus with usury—the game grows a little less fun.) The money changers, who most likely provided a necessary service to pilgrims coming to the Temple from afar, seem to get caught up in Jesus’s frenzy against those who conduct business in the sacred precinct. That is to say, when Jesus gets mad, Mr. Trudeau, it’s not like those vicious “old testament” prophets Isaiah and Amos, who…

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Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

…to be citizens, has been integral to the business model of California agribusiness from the beginning; starting with unemployed Chinese railroad workers in the 19th century, and, eventually, Filipino, Japanese, and Mexicans hired by growers to work in the fields. When an influx of white refugees from the dust bowl were immortalized in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the plight of the farm workers came briefly to national attention. It did n…

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Baptist Resolutions Signal More Culture War

…“sex” in federal law rejects God’s design of male and female; and WHEREAS, Business owners and employees of various faiths are increasingly faced with decisions to submit to unjust laws about marriage and sexuality or violate their consciences; and WHEREAS, Experience and recent history have shown that when the government redefines marriage as anything other than between a man and a woman, the police power of the state is brought to bear to enforc…

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Utah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics

…Church publicly declared its support for a “Utah Compact” designed by Utah business and political leaders identifying five principles to guide immigration debate. The Compact pushed for problem-solving at the federal level, discouraged the use of local law enforcement in profiling alleged “illegal immigrants,” opposed the unnecessary separation of families, and urged a simultaneously “humane” and “business-friendly” approach to immigration. The Ch…

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