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Do Make Trouble: The Complex World of Radical Jewish ‘Revenge Theologian,’ Meir Kahane

By Shane Burley

…DL “Jewish Panthers.” He respected Sonny Carson (a local Black militant in New York) and Stokely Carmichael along with Malcolm X. He also thought they were antisemites and he fought Black antisemitism, which was the reason for him starting the Jewish Defense League during the 1968 New York City school strike (due to the antisemitism directed at union president Albert Shanker). So Black antisemitism does play a role. He had this kind of twisted rel…

The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…person when I was well into my third decade, after I’d spent some years in New York City. The experience still confuses me. Because where I grew up, I was one of the few minorities. My white friends, classmates and pretty much every white person around me had no specific ethnic identity. They often claimed that they were this percentage Irish or that percentage Lithuanian, but these differences seemed perfunctory. They were just white Americans, t…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…a Rugarcia, secretary general of the Mexican bishop’s conference, told the New York Times: “We reiterate our conviction, based on scientific, anthropological, philosophical, social, and religious reasons, that the family, cell of society, is founded on the marriage of a man and a woman.” The difference in attitude is clear: high ranking Irish churchmen cast doubt on traditional understandings of marriage (upheld by both church teaching and civil j…

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…c effort to detain people in unprecedented.” Lawyer Samed Rahimli told the New York Times that police had “targeted homosexuals in general, not prostitutes as they have claimed.” Many of those arrested were sentenced to up to 30 days in jail, after being charged with disobeying police orders, said Javid Nabiyev, a local activist who is helping lawyers appeal the sentences. Many were detained at home or at work, exposing their sexual orientation to…

Exactly 30 Years Before Illinois AG’s Devastating Sexual Abuse Report, a Plan for Prevention was Implemented, Then Scrapped

By David Clohessy

…d so publicly due to reports of sexually abusing children. Eventually, the New York Times and a handful of other national outlets picked up the story, which included salacious allegations, like a “sex ring” at a shrine (with clergymen using female nicknames for one another) and a priest who reportedly performed an abortion on a teen he impregnated. To understand how unprecedented and shocking this all was, remember: it all happened more than a dec…

Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…chapters and falls apart by chapter three. Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit, they fall away from the obedience God intended for all time and the whole rest of scripture onward is the story of God bringing blessing outside the standard pattern set forth in the creation stories of Genesis. So, you look at that and say every part of the Bible testifies to God’s willingness to bless people beyond these standard patterns, except in this one issue o…

Why Must Jesus Contain Gluten?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…on, without breaking. What needs it bends for, and how far it can bend to meet them, may or may not be adequately answered by rules for the host. The only certainty is that new needs will arise, new questions will be asked, and the central practice of Christianity will find new ways to adapt….

October “Baby” is a Grown Woman

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ion would be like if women were all beautiful, tragic figures, living in a world run by men who treated them with, not respect, but a kind of indulgent kindness. Well, okay. In the real world of policy, poverty, pregnancy complications, and domestic violence are often important factors too. But never mind that. Just look at the sad, beautiful, fragile women in need of forgiveness. October Baby’s usefulness for understanding reproductive health pol…

Right Wing Disputes Lesbian Motherhood Research

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…al, academic and total competence. They also showed lower rates in social, rule-breaking, aggressive problem behavior. Despite these glowing results that children are not just surviving, but thriving in lesbian households, the “pro-family” spokesperson picked by CNN, Wendy Wright, president of the Concerned Women for America, disputed the study because it was funded by pro-gay groups. “That proves the prejudice and bias of the study,” she said. “T…

Fact Check: Is the Evangelical Youth-Inspired Great ‘Awokening’ Just Around the Corner?

By Chrissy Stroop

…icals” themselves, like The Washington Post’s Sarah Pulliam Bailey and The New York Times’ Elizabeth Dias, both graduates of prominent evangelical college Wheaton, surely have their own reasons for painting an overly rosy picture of America’s most Trumpist demographic. In addition to pushing the narrative that evangelical youth are liberalizing, so that any day now—just wait for it, it’s right around the corner—evangelicals are going to be more or…