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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…But she rejected requests that the article be deleted from the newspaper’s website and that Arun Gandhi be removed from the panel of commentators. Howell noted that “it is the policy of washingtonpost.com editors not to remove articles; they equate that with trying to change history.” Arun Gandhi resigned three weeks after posting his essay. He told the Rochester City Newspaper that he resigned in order to protect the institute, which he feared wo…

Inside the Evangelical Beliefs and Practices that Facilitate Abuse in Families like the Duggars’

By Caroline Matas

…her with their husbands) protect and rule over their children. As the IBLP website details, a Godly wife realizes that “helping her husband fulfill his goals and dreams” should be her “main responsibility.” Even when a wife believes her husband is going down the wrong path, IBLP teaches, she must not “take over,” but instead “wisely appeal wrong decisions, and then give him room to fail.” Indeed, it is this kind of “adversity” that will allow her…

Welcoming the Stranger: Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus Speaks Out on DACA

By Kaya Oakes

…who say people should just get in “line” for legal immigration? We have a number of undocumented students at Berkeley where I teach, and the criticism they often get is “you took somebody’s place and you should have just applied for legal immigration.” How do we talk to people who think that way? The simplest thing is there is no “line.” There is no line that works for people, and this is one of the big problems. The DREAM Act is not sufficient t…

Did Mark Driscoll Plagiarize the Wrong Person?

By Rob Shryock

…Tuesday, Thockmorton discovered a primitive version of Trial on Driscoll’s website called the “battle plan” for his sermon series. In this document, the memo that leads to the alleged plagiarism appears—completely raw, still including the header “From: Justin Holcomb.” Holcomb, who works for pastoral research assistance company Docent Research, included the section in question in his memo without any indication that the words were not his. [see UP…

Gays in Great Danger in Iraq

By Bill Berkowitz

…ecently pointed out that “While statistics have been hard to gather on the number of LGBT Iraqis killed because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, it has recently been reported that at least 25 boys and men have been killed in Baghdad alone because they were either gay or believed to be.” Now, after months of silence, the United States finally issued a sharply worded condemnation. When questioned by reporters, State Department spokesm…

Tea Party Rhetoric: Literal Slavery Not So Bad

By Julie Ingersoll

…this meant, as I wrote here at RD nearly a year ago: Barton’s Wallbuilders website promotes a collection of “resources on African American History.” Much of the material is written by Barton himself but one of the essays is [Stephen] McDowell’s, drawn almost entirely from Rushdoony’s work in the early 1960s. McDowell’s discussion of slavery, written in 2003, comes from Rushdoony’s more familiar Institutes of Biblical Law… (that) …promotes a “bibli…

‘Landmark’ Speech From LDS Leader on LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom Was More Like a Sunnier Groundhog Day

By Aly Marino

…from membership or baptism. In a speech now scrubbed from an official LDS website, Elder D. Todd Christofferson called same-sex marriage “a particularly grievous…sin that requires Church discipline.” In other words, the legacy media hasn’t historically been the most astute critics. The truth is, Oaks has been preaching essentially the same message for nearly thirty years. Scaling back vitriolic language, quoting some diverse voices, covering the…

Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster Community, Arts

By Jesse James DeConto

…ybody to see the possibilities more clearly. Your bio on the Fremont Abbey website says you wanted to “change the city through community arts interaction.” What needed to change in Seattle? I think people in Seattle and other cities are increasingly disconnected from each other in spite of technology like social media that supposedly helps us stay connected. When people are in an experience where they’re closer to others, it just helps us remember…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…se of the issues affecting the lives of LGBTI people across the globe. The website also highlights international and U.S.-based organizations doing and funding cutting-edge advocacy abroad and enables donations to them, with 100 percent of contributions going directly to the recipient organizations. Meanwhile, notorious anti-gay politician Vitaly Milonov announced his own plans to create an international organization, whose mission will be to “sav…

Hamburg Shooter’s Manifesto Reveals the Complexity of the Influence of Far-Right Ideologies

By Annika Brockschmidt

…in the Kingdom Hall, or help with the sound system (I wanted to be a microphone carrier when I was little and was crushed when told girls couldn’t do that)… Growing up, it was taught and understood that married women did not hold control over their own bodies… Women are ‘lesser’—and that belief and feeling permeates everything the JW’s teach and believe and do.” Religion scholar Bradley Onishi agrees, noting, “There are theological echoes there w…