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After Mumbai: Winning the Global War on Terror

By Mark Woodward

…symbols of colonialism. It was the perfect target. A small Jewish cultural center staffed by an American-Israeli Rabbi and his wife, both of whom were killed, was also singled out. This indicates a transnational orientation. Mumbai does have a small Jewish community, but the center served a Jewish tourist community. It was a symbolic target because in South Asia and elsewhere in the Muslim world, “Jews” and the religion of Judaism are routinely im…

Where are the Blessed Peacemakers?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ians claim? This relationship between Jesus’ death and salvation is at the center of atonement theology and of Christian faith. Perhaps more importantly for those of us wondering how to address violence today, it is at the center of Christian practices of activist nonviolence. Christians are called to nonviolence, that is, not because God asks them to be nice people, but because of why and how the God they worship through Jesus Christ ministered i…

Ground Zero is Sacred Space, But Not Just Because of 9/11

By Randall Balmer

…, and far too belatedly in the case of women and racial minorities, but we Americans generally come around. The proposed Islamic cultural center, Park51, provides a case in point. Initially derided as the “Ground Zero Mosque,” even though it was not primarily a mosque and it wasn’t at Ground Zero, Park51 has gradually won acceptance. Perhaps we should read some significance into the fact that the loudest critics of Park51, notably Sarah Palin and…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…understandable given that, according to a 2013 survey by the Pew Research Center, Spain is now among the most tolerant countries in the world toward homosexuality; 88 percent of Spanish people consider homosexuality to be socially acceptable, compared with 60 percent of Americans. As Ireland’s vote suggests, Western European countries are generally the most tolerant toward homosexuality, while a connection can be observed between societies in whi…

Rodriguez on Nativism in the GOP and Socially Conservative Latinos

By Sarah Posner

…endent movement that will be right of center, not hard-right, but right of center, independent movement that will run a counter narrative, or an alternative narrative to the Republican Party and even to the progressive, liberal, the Democratic Party. There’s a brand new movement emerging in America. It’s center-rght, it’s not hard right, it’s that cricle of protection but with social conservative values that do not alienate or polarize. It’s diffi…

The Washington Post’s New Religious Right Now Blogger

By Sarah Posner

…other religious right efforts to outlaw gay marriage and abortion. At the Center for American Progress Think Progress blog, national security and foreign policy expert Matt Duss argues: In addition to peddling the historically revisionist claim that “the United States is a Christian nation” — Sekulow believes “America has a special relationship with God” — he’s also part of the “creeping sharia” crowd, writing of Oklahoma’s ban on sharia law, “Th…

Another Far Right Theocrat Shows up on the Trump Team

By Julie Ingersoll

…nopoulos. Without his familiar identifier as lead counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), he was introduced as a member of Donald Trump’s legal team. In case you’ve forgotten, ACLJ was part of the rise of Christian public interest law firms, beginning in the 1980s.* These groups pursued the religious right’s culture wars agenda in the courts focusing initially on battles over First Amendment religion clauses, abortion rights, a…

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Overthink the New Pew Data’s Impact on Politics

By Sarah Posner

…8 percent). Greg Smith, Associate Director of Research at the Pew Research Center, called the pace of the continued growth of the religiously unaffiliated “really remarkable.” The number of Americans identifying with no religion grew by 19 million from 2007 to 2014, and now the religiously unaffiliated are “more numerous,” said Smith, than either mainline Protestants or Catholics. Much of the rise of the “nones” is attributable to religious switch…

Judging Pat Robertson’s Influence

By Sarah Posner

…f which the governor-elect of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, is a graduate), the American Center for Law and Justice (whose president, Jay Sekulow, is considered “the leading Supreme Court advocate of the Christian right”), and Robertson’s “humanitarian” arm, Operation Blessing (which has been involved in highly questionable — but lucrative — relationships with brutal dictators like former Liberian president Charles Taylor, speaking of pacts with the de…

Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ebrants’ right to refuse to marry same-sex couples. At the moment, wedding service providers such as civil celebrants, or businesses such as florists or caterers, cannot legally refuse to provide their services to any couples seeking to marry. But 49% of Australian Christians oppose a law change that would allow civil celebrants to refuse their services to same-sex couples on the ground of conscientious objection. Conservatives in the ruling coali…