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In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

By Hussein Rashid

…empt to recognize that Americans are generous and responsible. The current policy of letting no one into the country says that we are neither. When we say that we do not want people to come and help us realize that vision of a greater country, we mean that what we think is not worth anything. Something of value is always shared, unless we choose to say we are greedy. To turn away refugees, from anywhere, at anytime, but particularly when they are…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Front Party. “At this stage, Russia is trying to influence French domestic policy,” says Jean-Yves Camus, a political researcher at France’s Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS). If so, Putin’s strategy resembles the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1991, when Moscow funded trade unions and political groups in western Europe in an attempt to buy influence and destabilize foes. “In this respect Putin is pretty much in line w…

Virginia High School Says Students May Post Ten Commandments on Lockers

By Lauri Lebo

…ith Floyd County High School have announced that they are rethinking their policy. In the meantime, they are permitting students to tape the Ten Commandments to their lockers. According to the Roanoke Times [the original article incorrectly identifies the county by which Terry Arbogast is employed]: “We have decided to review our policy and procedures to put in writing more specific guidelines for students,” Floyd Giles County Superintendent Terry…

Allowable Discrimination?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…new advisory board to wrestle with the constitutional implications of this policy of allowable discrimination. To many this is somewhat surprising and disheartening. There are few with the “constitutional law bona-fides” of the president, a former law professor at the University of Chicago. And he has made it clear in the past that if you get a federal grant, it is unconstitutional to discriminate against the folks you serve or the people you empl…

Gingrich and Hagee, End-Times Buddies

By Sarah Posner

…dow into how Republican candidates re-tool apocalyptic theology as foreign policy, for mass consumption. The pair have long been fellow travelers; despite Hagee’s history of anti-Catholic statements and Gingrich’s recent conversion to Catholicism, they have both orbited the same nexus of neoconservative foreign policy and apocalyptic biblical prophecy for quite some time. Examples: same claims about new “Holocausts;” same claims about cosmic, civi…

Satanists Take Aim at School Spanking

By Joseph Laycock

…same sex. So superintendent Michael Kelley had the school board revise the policy so that male teachers can paddle female students. (Other reforms included requiring a same-sex staff member to be present during punishment and a maximum of one parent-requested paddling per semester). Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves explained that the billboard was meant both to shame the school board and to help students imagine an alternative to accepti…

Progressive Christian: Wallis “No Longer Speaks for Us”

By Sarah Posner

…ing same-sex partners certain legal rights. But Sojourners does not have a policy on same-sex relationships, nor is it prepared to say that churches should welcome gays and lesbians as members—or even to make room at the inn for those who do so. UPDATE #10: Tony Jones offers the view that if Wallis is concerned about what conservative evangelicals might think of him if he were to adopt a stance that was or appeared to be pro-LGBT, he needn’t worry…

Bishops Double Down on Issues of Pelvis Over Poverty

By Peter Montgomery

…ith typical bluntness that they should stop talking so much about the many policy issues they have taken up in the name of social justice. They should concentrate their authority on “the moral social” issues like abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage, where, he argued, the natural law and Gospel principles were clear. To be sure, he said, he had no objections to bishops’ “making utter nuisances of themselves” about poverty a…

Tea Party’s Cosmic Conflict in Wisconsin

By Gary Laderman

…s continue to be a flashpoint for larger national arguments about economic policy, you can be sure more and more faith leaders—Christians, but hopefully others too—will weigh in on how God views the current political crisis. God, however, is not the only point of religious relevance in this looming budget battle. At bottom, after all, it amounts to a question of moral priorities for Wisconsin’s Tea Party Governor and the nation at a time when the…

“Mitt Romney Style”—A Virtually Religion Free 2012 Contest?

By Joanna Brooks

…ve Christian leaders rallied around him, urging their followers to vote on policy, not theology. Obama campaign headquarters has shown little interest in making use of Romney’s religion, and Democratic operatives have fallen in line as well. Perhaps it’s because Romney’s policy positions bear virtually no imprints of his faith. Perhaps it’s because Romney himself has taken pains to avoid discussing his religion. Or perhaps it’s because Obama wou…