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Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…umanitarian Sector.” The glossary has initially been published in English, French, Turkish, Farsi, and Arabic. The London-based Kaleidoscope Trust has published a set of recommendations designed to help The Commonwealth of Nations (formerly known as the British Commonwealth) to improve the lives of LGBT people even though, as 76 Crimes notes, “dozens of those countries still have anti-LGBT laws inherited from their former colonial overlords.” The…

Lady Gaga’s Secret Religion

By Jeremy Biles

…, Lady Gaga just is image: she is all persona, all spectacle, all surface. French philosopher Jean Baudrillard might have called her “hyperreal”—a term in the postmodernist lexicon that refers to the simulation that conceals the secret that “there is no longer any reality or truth beneath the simulated image.” Lady Gaga self-consciously applies an analogous logic to the various facets of her public personae, including her use of occult symbols. No…

Call Me Pesach

By Peter Manseau

…ime as a Jewish book collector, I came in contact with Jewish images of my French Canadian grandparents who settled uneasily in a new country, desperate to spare their children the stigma of their foreign tongue. I also met Jewish versions of my Irish immigrant grandmother who came to this country at age 21 and died with a brogue thick as stew 75 years later. In both the Catholic environment I came from and the Jewish one in which I worked, I saw…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…lso target individual rights, minority groups, and checks against what the French political philosopher Tocqueville called the “tyranny of the majority.” These erosions can occur even in places that continue to have free and fair elections. This combination—of elections and declining rights—is referred to as illiberal democracy.[15] Most organizations that track democratic erosion measure it at the national level,[16] but democratic erosion can ha…

Building Jesus out of Toast, “Pro-Life” Effigies, Apple is a Religion, and Taunting Muslims with Dogs

By Michael J. Altman

…ckson. France declared war on Al-Qaeda after the terror network executed a French aid worker taken hostage in April. Bus ads are the latest arena for debate between Muslim and anti-Islamic groups. One ad from a Muslim group reads, “The way of life of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. Islam. Got questions? Get answers.” Meanwhile an ad from Stop Islamization of American responded, “Fatwa on your head? Is your family or community thre…

Religious Freedom Gets Hollywood Treatment

By Daniel Ramirez

…y victorious Juárez received no quarter from his clerical antagonists when French troops invaded to exact payment of the war debt. In fact, the invasion was sought after by the prelates, and supported by Rome. Pope Pius IX fulminated against Mexican liberalism in 1856 and, in his 1864 Syllabus of Errors, he established the Church’s stance against modernity (e.g., public schools without religious instruction, civil marriages, etc.). The rapprocheme…

Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…am” section, but quite another for me to show a breathtaking film like the French/Moroccan production, Le Grand Voyage (director: Ishmael Ferroukhi, 2004). In Ferroukhi’s fictional film we see people, quite average people, in the flesh and working through the same difficulties that all non-Muslims also go through: struggles with families, and particularly father-son relations. What is wonderful about this film is that it is about people who happen…

Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…this culture of debate as a better way of dealing with diversity than the French model of laïcité, with its public suppression of religiosity and religious difference, and a relativistic (and ultimately incoherent) multiculturalism which claims that there are no universal truths. Fraenkel is not unaware of the challenge his vision presents; he recalls that the Athenian gadfly was sentenced to death for his attempts at popular enlightenment, which…

Muslims Are Not the Only Group Endangered By Hate

By Shabana Mir

…k embrace. Non-Whites, non-Christians, and non-nationals (German, British, French, whatever) are threatened. But beyond that, White nationals are also threatened. Hatred is not some arrow that contents itself with reaching its mark. Hatred is a super-germ, not content with one victim, or with many. It spreads like the plague, and the loss of liberties, terror, and violence that follow in its wake infect everyone. If a woman can be stabbed to death…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…The origins of this myth in France have to be seen against the backdrop of French colonial history, especially the fear of white slave owners of slave uprisings when it comes to the construction of the social in- and out-group. The “Great Replacement” became more widely known after Jean Raspail published his novel Le Camp des saints in 1973, which details an invasion of France by “dark-skinned” refugees. In the end, white Christian Europe falls, a…