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Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…example, some of the achievements of our last “liberal” administration: a “free trade” pact deeply opposed by working people; the partial privatization of welfare; and the passage of a “religious freedom” act that allows conservative evangelicals to influence foreign policy according to their analysis of other faiths’ religious customs. Each of these projects had been long dreamed of by the avant-garde of American fundamentalism. That’s not to say…

Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

By Henry Jenkins

…he is the only one with free will (though this may still be an illusion of free will, as the code for the game is likely to be quite deterministic). Since she is the only one in the game that suffers pain but no death, it will be interesting to see the evolution of her ethical code within the virtual world. The transformation of Tamara from a helpless lost soul to a gun-toting avenger sets up the stage for her probable showdown with Zoe—a continua…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…top priority as president,” an FRC Action PAC press release stated. “ The ‘Freedom of Choice Act,’ [which] will overturn virtually all federal and state limitations on abortion… is a response to the Matthew 25 [a pro-Obama religious organization] initiative, which sought to mislead voters and downplay Obama’s extreme pro-abortion views.” The ad buy, which will run in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Michigan, and in the Washington D.C. market, “w…

Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

By Spencer Dew

…ul find their way to the ancient Nabatean capital of Petra, the Rose City, Jordan’s most famous archaeological site. “Petra is the one-and-only place of safety” for the next three and a half years of Tribulation, declares the Petra—Place of Safety website, which identifies Petra as “the singular ‘place prepared for her in the wilderness’ for the Woman of the End Time (Revelation 12:14).” This figure, identified as “all the Holy Spirit Sealed belie…

Sharing the Bad News of Donald Trump’s ‘Theology of Glory’

By Matthew Dodrill

…ence Jordan, the founder of an interracial community called Koinonia Farm. Jordan, who described his community as a “demonstration plot” for the Kingdom of God, asked his brother, Robert, to assist him in the struggle against the racial injustices of the Jim Crow South. Robert was keenly aware of the community’s hardships: Local citizens boycotted the farm, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the produce stands, and ominous letters flooded the mailbox. The co…

Satanists Infiltrate a Ritual Abuse Conference in Oakland: Your Guide to What Happened and Why

By Joseph Laycock

…Most recently, the Grey Faction has brought attention to the case of Gigi Jordan, who killed her autistic child believing this was the only way to stop Satanists from abusing him. Jordan had been treated by Ellen Lacter, a psychologist who has advanced conspiracy theories about witches and Satanists. The Grey Faction has filed a complaint about Dr. Lacter’s advocacy for conspiracy theories with the California Board of Psychology. All right, SRA c…

How Obama Made Gun Control A Religious Freedom Issue

By Sarah Posner

…d up getting killed by guns are also protected, rights including religious freedom, and freedom of assembly in public places that far too often have become gruesome sites of massacres. It’s telling that daily accountings of gun deaths, of lives ruined by loss or disability, of children killed in classrooms, have not changed the rights calculus of gun control opponents. It’s still about their rights, and someone else’s rights are just an infringeme…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…eater Syria, an historic region which includes Palestine (and now Israel), Jordan, Lebanon, and modern-day Syria. The question is, did ISIS mean Syria or greater Syria? Some have translated the group as “the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,” while others, including our government, translate the group’s name as “the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant,” indicating the terror movement’s ever more expansionist ambitions. They’re not just stopping at…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…unisia and Turkey test the boundaries of secularism and faith. Morocco and Jordan contend with traditional monarchy and modern statehood. But as I watch the latest news from Egypt, that the country’s parliament has been dissolved by a Mubarak-era court, I wonder: Has the revolution ended before it began? (Revolutions are, by definition, simply movements around the wheel: The end is the beginning is the end.) The Islamists made a big mistake in con…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gal equality: The government continues to retain Section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalizes sex between men. The law is sandwiched between codes that ban sex with corpses (Section 377) and sex with animals (Section 377B) in the Penal Code, indication of official attitudes towards homosexuality in the wealthy city-state. Convictions under 377A allow for two-year prison terms. In a bid to placate both liberals and conservatives, the governme…