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A Victory for Conservatives in Revised AP History Curriculum

By Peter Laarman

…effectively sapping national morale by “de-nationalizing” the teaching of United States history, singling out NYU’s Thomas Bender as the “internationalist” villain of the plot. It is certainly true that the people who created last year’s framework made some blunders that gave ammunition to the critics. Eschewing the “great man” theory of history, they neglected to name important figures like Benjamin Franklin and even Martin Luther King, Jr. A…

Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP

By Chip Berlet

…the “appeal of Bush’s born-again experience” was the way his “escape from freedom” resonated with Bush’s conservative evangelical supporters. Their “powerful emotional affinity” for candidate Bush thus is less a Christian community’s embrace of a prodigal son than the result of a dysfunctional psychological syndrome propounded in 1941 by Eric Fromm in his book Escape from Freedom. Republican Gomorrah, however, rises above these problems and still…

‘Only Christopher They Acknowledge is Columbus’: The ‘Biblical’ Reason why Replacing Columbus Day is an Uphill Battle

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…phill battle. In 1977 indigenous leaders from around the world organized a United Nations conference to promote indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Their first recommendation was “to observe October 12, the day of so-called ‘discovery’ of America, as an International Day of Solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.” Within the United States, the Colorado branch of the American Indian Movement (AIM) would, in the 1980s, pro…

Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hurch filled with intolerance and outright hate. The open disrespect for a United States ambassador is unchecked and unprecedented. The Washington Blade has more details about the campaign against Brewster: Nearly 32,000 people have signed the petition that a group of Dominican evangelicals posted to the White House’s website earlier this month. A group of Catholic bishops in the Dominican Republic have urged Medina’s government to formally compla…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…ervened in Afghanistan to prop up its preferred client government, and the United States worked with select allies to back fundamentalist movements on the ground, preferring the more religiously extreme. Afghanistan has known war, occupation, starvation, extremism, and hardship, for some thirty-seven years now, and there appears to be no end in sight. Much more happened beside, but the nadir might have come with the Bush administration. Secular, d…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…and unity in the wake of those attacks via the display of large numbers of United States flags. The general pattern for these rituals involves one flag displayed each of those who lost their lives on 9/11. While this often leads to the use of smaller than standard-size flags (in the Village Green of Winnetka, Illinois this year, for instance, 2,977 flag of 8’ by 12” inch each will be planted, an increase from the 4” by 6” flags used in previous ye…

Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ces when Parliament attempts to legislate protections for basic rights and freedoms, such as freedom of religion. “The Government is particularly concerned to prevent uncertainties caused by generally worded Bill of Rights-style declarations. “This will be a timely expert stocktake to inform consideration of any necessary legislative reforms.” LGBTI activist Rodney Croome called for LGBTI representation on the panel, saying, “Genuine religious fre…

Innocent Until Proven Muslim — A Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

By Habiba Farh

…Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 (1517 Media, 2022), 147. [2] United States v. Zubaydah. Zubaydah was embroiled in a legal battle with the United States government in the Supreme Court over disclosing the details of his torture. [3] Hilal, Innocent Until Proven Muslim, 59. [4] Charlotte Lawrence and Cyrus J. O’Brien,“Federal Militarization of Law Enforcement Must End,” American Civil Liberties Union, May 12, 2021. A provision in a 199…

“You Lie!”: Messing with American Mass

By Ben Brazil

…d: …there is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America. After all, even a commitment to argue with each other carries implicit commitment to the nation and its democratic institutions. Civil religion—and the power of civil religious ritual—goes a long way towards explaining the out…

National Association of Evangelicals Supports Immigration Reform, But Elsewhere Discord Reigns

By Donna Schaper

…requires resolution at its source. People don’t illegally immigrate to the United States just because we are so wonderful. They mostly come because they can’t make a living at home. The source of emigration is usually economic and caused by the lack of opportunity in the homeland; not by the great attraction of uprooting oneself to come to the golden land of America. Of course, sometimes people migrate because they want to migrate, and that, too,…