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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

…re often enemy number one.” McDougall reports that religious police use social media to entrap people, and rely on informants. Knowing who the enemy is has become increasingly difficult for gay people. From the ranks of its own religious police force, Isis is believed to have deployed undercover agents to entrap those who have been accused by others of being gay. Elmo, a doctor now working in a call centre in Beirut, fled his Isis-held town in Syr…

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

By The Editors

…ry are controlled by radical Imams,” based on a remark made 12 years ago by neoconservative-friendly 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…

Are Conservative Churches Really Winning by Being More Orthodox?

By Daniel Schultz

…ially the consensus of American demographers of religion. Nor is this material trivial. The story of the rise of the nones in particular is vast, rich, and complex. Its social and political ramifications continue to unfold. Admittedly, there’s only so much room in a five-minute interview, but as it was, NPR wound up giving a platform to a shallow version of orthodoxy, and missed the opportunity to challenge some implausible assertions. That’s not…

More Thoughts on Media Coverage of Liberal Religion

By Sarah Posner

…logically ask, can Republican politicians continue to oppose same-sex marriage despite the tidal wave of change in public opinion and the law, yet Democrats fall silent on gun control, and specifically on positions supported by this interfaith gun violence prevention group, background checks and assault weapons bans? According to a 2013 poll, 92% of Americans favor background checks. But federal legislation can’t pass because of the power of the…

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

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…of Africana Studies, Rutgers University Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, PhD, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Rev. Eboni Marshall Turman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale University Divinity School Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, PhD, Associate Professor of African American Religious History, Vanderbilt Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion Mark A. Hicks, Ed.D, McLean Professor of Religiou…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…’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 and cons of any one issue than wondering what things might look like if Bernie tapped into what Rev. William Barber has named “fusion politics.” In the Christian Century, Jeremy Bord…

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

By Christophe D Ringer

…o force its residents to choose between the risk of death at work or financial destitution at home. *** As a nation our politics is imposing sacrifices and withholding solidarity. And some communities are experiencing this in a particularly painful way. The coronavirus has unmasked the legacy of structural racism that produces profound health disparities. With grim and heartbreaking regularity, the coronavirus exploits these disparities exposing B…

Newsweek’s Strange Faces of the Christian Right List

By Sarah Posner

…. It’s apparently evolving so much that it includes people who aren’t associated with the Christian right. Ten is a pretty small number to best represent a movement Newsweek describes as “changing and growing more diffuse, even as it remains a potent force in American politics.” While some of the picks seem obvious (Marjorie Dannenfelser of the anti-choice group Susan B. Anthony List, or Jim Daly, the new head of Focus on the Family, or Robert Geo…

How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

By Patricia Miller

…ogress on reforms the country needed in order to keep pace with the industrial revolution and the increasing urbanization and interconnectivity of life. In 1888, the Republicans finally broke through and gained control of the presidency and Congress and passed a number of historic bills, including the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which reintroduced silver into the currency supply, and the McKinley Tariff Act, the Republican attempt to modernize th…

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

By Caroline Matas

…larly reject what they describe as Shiny Happy People’s “slimy” anti-Christian bias. In a podcast debriefing their experience watching the series, Beal and Clark reveal that they participated in IBLP programs even as they describe it as a “fringe movement.” Rather than reject the whole organization as a distortion of the gospel, however, Beal and Clark lament the lack of “other voices” touting the benefits of the organization. “Where are the other…