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The Invention of a Corporate Christian America

By Andrew Aghapour

…not to the Soviet regime in Moscow, but to the New Deal administration in Washington, DC. In the 1930s and 1940s, they popularized a new language of “freedom under God” (as opposed to what they saw as “slavery under the welfare state”), which finally took hold nationally in the 1950s. You track the emergence in the 1940s and 1950s of “Christian libertarianism,” a blend of conservative religion, economics, and politics. How did this Christian libe…

U.S. Bishops (Who Lit Religious Liberty Fuse) Urge Civility

By Patricia Miller

…holics to pray and become politically active. A conservative think tank in Washington, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, hired a state policy director … and created a program to work the statehouses and advise elected officials interested in sponsoring religious rights acts…Conservative leaders held conferences, drawing into the coalition Mormon leaders and a small showing of Orthodox Jews, Muslims and Sikhs, along with legal advocacy groups, a…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rs gathered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. for a panel discussion. The Washington Blade reports that Ambassador to the Dominican Republic James “Wally” Brewster discussed the opposition he and his husband face in the predominantly Catholic country, where Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo had referred to him as a “faggot” after he was nominated to the position by Barack Obama. The Daily Beast released…

Evangelicals Want Immigration Reform. Why Won’t Republicans Listen?

By Sarah Posner

…shared by Republicans broadly. As Republican pollster Whit Ayers told the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent at the time, a third of Republicans support a path to citizenship, but that number jumps to two thirds if the conditions leading to citizenship “are strict and rigorous.” When a comprehensive reform package was still being discussed in 2012 and 2013, evangelicals claimed there was a major obstacle to their support: the possible inclusion of th…

WaPo OpEd: Pope Francis and the Koch Bros Love and Serve the Poor Together

By Patricia Miller

…ckles of big government—or so say John and Carol Saeman in an op-ed in the Washington Post that must have mistakenly migrated from The Onion. The Saemans are Catholics who claim to “adhere to the Holy Father’s vision” of a preferential option for the poor. As part of their charitable activities, they donate to Charles and David Koch’s Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, also known as the Koch brothers’ “secret bank.” They are among some 200 larg…

Is Downward Dog the Path to Hell?

By Andrea R. Jain

…” Even more recently Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, told a live audience that: “Yoga is demonic… It’s absolute paganism… Yoga and meditation and Easternism is [sic] all opening to demonism… if you just sign up for a little yoga class, you’re signing up for a little demon class. That’s what you’re doing. And Satan doesn’t care if you stretch as long as you go to hell.” Similar to Islamophobic attempts to produce a…

California Tribes Denounce Catholic Church’s “Fraud” and “Blatant Fabrication” on Serra Sainthood

By Peter Montgomery

…al representatives of California tribes held a press conference Tuesday at Washington D.C.’s Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ to proclaim the opposition of more than 50 tribes to the canonization of Junipero Serra, which is set to take place just down the road on Wednesday afternoon. One speaker called the canonization mass that Pope Francis will conduct “a disastrous celebration of slavery and cultural termination.” [Read: Why Serr…

Netherlands’ “War on Xmas” is “War on ‘Black Pete’”

By Joseph Laycock

…ist tradition, it seems remarkably similar to our own controversy over the Washington Redskins. The tradition of Black Pete demonstrates that there is more to racism than asserting negative stereotypes or mistreating minorities. Race is also a mythological category. The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss theorized that myth serves to take elements that oppose and contradict each other and to somehow “reconcile” them. When human beings create narra…

Israel Votes to Limit Sheldon Adelson

By Sarah Posner

…Hayom will be forced to charge its readers at least half the price of its cheapest competitor. Israel Hayom, as Pfeffer reports, is widely known in Israel as a mouthpiece for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the bill is sponsored by Netanyahu’s political adversaries both on the left and right. Adelson launched the paper “as his own personal loophole to do in Israel what he has been doing in the United States. The paper’s financial statement…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ičs announced via twitter that he is gay, a move that, in the words of the Washington Post’s Michael Birnbaum, “immediately gave gay rights advocates a prominent voice in post-Soviet Eastern Europe” where acceptance of, and legal protections for, LGBT people have lagged behind Western Europe. “Latvia enacted a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in 2005, and very few gay men and lesbians in the country are open about their sexuality,” accordin…