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Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…to build civic community at a time when the government was keeping people apart. Protestant and Jewish professors gathered in abundance but if there were another Catholic beside myself they were few and not there in any official capacity. To their credit, the liberal Protestants were also active in human rights, so much so that the seminary where I taught was firebombed, presumably by government forces, and thousands of books, but no lives, were l…

“My Name is Will and I’m Putting You on Notice”

By Lauri Lebo

…ge of Allegiance in class. Will believes that until gays and lesbians receive the same rights and recognition as heterosexuals in this country, the phrase “liberty and justice for all” is just a farce and he refuses to be a part of it. Phillips was speaking at the Big Commit Sunday in Washington DC, a counter-rally to the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage’s wrap up of its “Summer for Marriage” tour. (Hat tip to Republic of Gilead.)…

Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…g The Peace Summit, interfaith dialog was a real priority and so the youth participants were not only from a number of different countries—Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya—they also came from a wide variety of faith backgrounds. One of the things that I became very quickly aware of was how unsure and self-conscious I was about talking about my own faith. I was totally blown away by the openness and ease with wh…

Rand Paul Is Not Anti-Authority

By Sarah Posner

…ed the very authoritarian view everyone should have a “Christian” moral compass. Paul, who supports outlawing abortion in all cases, even when a pregnancy is caused by rape or incest, is an advocate for constitutional amendments that would define life as occurring at conception. To make passing such an amendment easier, he supports legislation that would strip federal courts of jurisdiction from hearing “cases like Roe v. Wade.” What light-hearted…

Turkish ‘Lord of the Rings’ Has God, Guts, Girls, and Glory

By Haroon Moghul

…h history (though, what would you expect?) The last Byzantine Emperor is a pasty, conniving caricature, busy with relatively tame Jacuzzi parties while his nemesis readies the world’s most fearsome war machine. For a student of history, it was intriguing to see how the Turks try to recreate their history, with all the delicate contortions required for a secular Turkish Republic to make on behalf of a pluralist, Islamically-oriented but far more de…

Why is Huntsman’s Mormonism “Tough to Define”?

By Joanna Brooks

…ntity may put him in bad a light as Mitt Romney, now infamous for his double-talk and “flip-flop” on healthcare. (Dana Milbank went so far as to compare Mitt to conjoined twins recently born in China. Ouch.) In dodging the question of Mormon identity, was Huntsman acting the part of the slippery and crowd-pleasing politician? Or was he trying to negotiate the often difficult path of the other-than-orthodox Mormon? Either way, I claim him as a memb…

Chris Caldwell Sees Muslim Bogeymen. Again.

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…alyst with Brookings Institution. Like Leiken he too has spent much of the past decade thinking about Europe’s newest and growing minorities, though instead of framing his argument as “Europe’s Angry Muslims,” his new book is titled The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration (Princeton University Press, 2012). Laurence traces what Caldwell denies ever could, or might already, exist: the largely unnoticed ways in…

Captain America: Civil Religion (And Why Donald Trump Thinks He’s Batman)

By Jeremy Biles

…through military might. Trump, the agent of empire, has comic-book counterparts. According to Jeet Heer at the New Republic, Trump is not only a political pop-culture figure, but one modeled specifically on superheroes and comic-strip/book characters like the moneyed weapons manufacturers Daddy Warbucks (caretaker of little orphan Annie) and Tony Stark (Iron Man), as well as the billionaire vigilante Bruce Wayne (Batman). (Trump once remarked, “Y…

God, Guns, and the Confederate Flag

By Sarah Posner

…en Moore’s Wallace-esque stance made news, he was supported by the Alabama Republican Party chair, Terry Lathan, who had just returned from a trip to Israel, which, he wrote in a blog post bearing the state’s motto in the headline, solidified for him the “basic truths” of the Bible. The state of Alabama and the United States, Lathan went on, “will reap God’s wrath if we embrace and condone things that are abhorrent to God, such as redefining marri…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tude to sex and relationships as private matters also comes into play. But Paul Parant, web editor at the French gay magazine Têtu, believes that the struggle to make marriage equality happen—a fight that was “really ugly, really painful, really long” and above all unexpected—caused French LGBTQ people to quickly depoliticize and retreat. Most hurtful were those accusations of communautarisme (communitarianism), the idea that gay marriage represen…