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The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…not get any worse than being gay in Syria today,” Halim, a human rights campaigner, tells me in a packed bar in downtown Beirut. “It’s a place where you don’t know your enemy. Seeing people you have had casual sex with being taken in on the street, and wondering if they will take you down with them. Lovers turning on lovers. “Also, this isn’t just an Isis story,” he continues. “If you are gay, you have many enemies intent on your persecution: the…

Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life: Rep. King Revives Manchurian Candidate

By The Editors

…ndly American Muslim leader, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani. In honor of this magic number and the hearings King will hold next month in order to address the “creeping threat of Sharia law,” RD presents the first edition of Life Imitates Satire Imitates Life. In this clip, from the Manchurian Candidate a Joseph McCarthy stand-in uses his own investigative tool to determine how many crypto-commies there really are… Rep. Peter King (R-NY), minus 45 years f…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…igrant groups (especially Hispanics) that has propped the Church up in the past forty years. Hispanic Catholics have a high fertility rate (2.75 children per couple), second only to Muslims in the U.S. Non-Hispanic Catholics (2.11 children), meanwhile, look a lot like moderate Protestants (2.01) and liberal Protestants (1.84). Here’s the kicker: Catholics are overrepresented among immigrants—again, especially Hispanics—who still account for a disp…

More Thoughts on Media Coverage of Liberal Religion

By Sarah Posner

…tuency, not as a religious one—is intentionally embedded in the Republican Party. Not only does the Republican Party depend on the votes of religious conservatives, it has gone out of its way to affirm their view of religion-based government and public policy. In its 2012 platform, for example, the party declares its support for public displays of the Ten Commandments as a reflection of “our nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage,” school prayer, and “…

In a Powerful Statement Black Presidents and Deans Say: No More Stolen Black Lives!

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…er’s assertion that they feared for their life. ○ Pressure on insurance companies to demand changes in police procedures and policies used by police departments that consistently lead to high incidents of police brutality against racial minorities by refusing those departments coverage. The immediate clarification by the FBI that Black Lives Matter is not a “black identity extremist” movement. American Academy of Religion/ Society of Biblical Lite…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…r a $15/hour minimum wage plank, for example, or try to get the Democratic party to abandon closed primaries. He’ll have to be selective—he won’t be able to shoot the moon—but there’s every reason to think Sanders and his movement will be strongly influential. There are any number of priorities Sanders could choose from, of course. God knows it’s not like our nation isn’t in need of reform. At the moment, though, I’m less concerned with the pros a…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…ers for the Advisory Council to his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and she ultimately shepherded the drafting of the Council’s recommendations, particularly those on reforming aspects of the Office that critics believed violated the Establishment Clause. That’s not to say that he only picked liberals — in fact, Obama did choose many advisors who are most definitely conservative (such as Joel Hunter, who is also on Newsweek’s…

Size Matters According to New Study

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ed of nothing) would create something else, something in addition to and separate from God. In particular, why create human beings? The traditional answer is that God created human beings in order to create the possibility of being in relation. One needs another person if one wishes to be in relation. And such relations involve being seen: the altogether singular experience of looking at another being who is looking at you simultaneously. Seeing…

Conservative Christians Insist the Toxic Theology Portrayed in the Duggar Family Doc is ‘Fringe’ — But is it Really All That Different?

By Caroline Matas

…hat would ultimately teach a reported 30,000 Christian pastors. Conference participants would grow to include Mike Huckabee, former Texas governor Rick Perry, former mayor of Indianapolis and deputy mayor of New York City Stephen Goldsmith, and current U.S. Representative Daniel Webster (R-FL). Past members of the IBLP’s Board of Directors and Advisory Board include billionaire and part-owner of the San Antonio Spurs James Leininger, former Congre…

To Get Through This Time We’ll Have to Shred the ‘Racial Contract’ and Choose Solidarity Over Sacrifice

By Christophe D Ringer

…As such, the beneficiaries of the racial contract do not understand their participation in supporting a racist society. And there’s another aspect to this racial contract that I want to add. The social unrest that put the nation on edge represents the rider to the racial contract. Historically, American cities do not burn as the direct result of profound disparities in education, housing, health, unemployment, incarceration, or a myriad of other…