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Dems’ New Faith Outreach Director “Pro-Life” and Against Marriage Equality (Updated)

By Sarah Posner

…, during Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC) conference held in Washington last June, Harkins was one of a group of faith leaders who participated in a press conference billed as “pushback” on the religious right, and challenging the support of many FFC participants for Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan. (I wrote about efforts of Democratic-leaning faith groups to challenge Ryan’s budget proposal at the FFC here.) The press conference Harkin…

Jeffress’ Statement About Trump’s God-Given Authority is Nonsense

By Rosalind C. Hughes

In one way, Pastor Robert Jeffress is right. In an interview with the Washington Post, he elaborated on his statement that Donald Trump has complete authority from God to use any means necessary to “take out” Kim Jong-Un, even if that means war. Jeffress cited Paul’s letter to the Romans to back up his claim that God has endowed the President with the authority to “execute wrath on the wrongdoer.” He predicts that others will use the previous cha…

Anti-LGBT Equality NOM Seeks Legal Protection from Glaring

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ters after the owners contributed to Proposition 8: In another instance in Washington state, an opponent of marriage equality was collecting petition signatures to challenge a law granting legal protections to same-sex couples, when two ladies “glared at him and one said ‘we have feelings too.’” He did not report the incident to the police. So far, Terkel reports, “four federal judges and three state boards in seven states—California, Iowa, Maine,…

Former AIPAC Spokesperson Rallies Conservatives to Attack CAP, Media Matters as Anti-Semitic

By Sarah Posner

…y lays bare the McCarthy-esque tactics the supposedly “pro-Israel” camp in Washington is willing to deploy. Block writes in his email to the listserv (which, with a brilliant lack of self-awareness, is called the Freedom Community): This kind of anti-Israel sentiment is so fringe it’s support by CAP is outrageous, but at least it is out in the open now — as is their goal – clearly applauded by revolting allies like the pro-HAMAS and anti-Zionist/O…

In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…w discriminated against Catholics is rendered even more absurd by the hard numbers: in 2011 alone, according to the federal government database at www.usaspending.gov, Catholic Charities received over $753 million in federal funding. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has not, as the president promised on the campaign trail, reformed faith-based funding to ensure, among other things, that groups receiving taxpayer aid do not discriminate in hirin…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…st dangerous cities.” Freddy Funez, a local LGBT rights advocate, told the Washington Blade the first Pride parade in Honduras’ second-largest city took place in 2000. He said people lined the streets on Saturday and watched the parade as it made its way through the city. “What we want is that our vote, our voices are included in these public political processes,” he told the Blade. Funez told the Blade a group of “homophobes” shot guns into the a…

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…ew York Times headlines, such as “Tumult of Arab Spring Prompts Worries in Washington,” and “The Dangers Lurking in the Arab Spring,” reflected the fear and apprehension of what was essentially a series of anti-authoritarian movements. The Economist was forced to fully retract and apologize “unreservedly” for attributing a number of false statements to Rachid Ghannouchi, one of the leading Islamist figures of post-authoritarian Tunisia. Among them…

Beck Plus God Does Not Equal X

By Anthea Butler

…mon. He stood close to the spot where King stood for the historic March on Washington, calling America back to “God.” Wright did the same, criticizing the government for treating Native Americans wrongly, for many acts, but all of his criticisms in the “God Damn America” sermon rested on God’s judgment and the Bible, and what happens when nations kill innocent people. To quote Wright: “God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God a…

Gay Mormons Tie the Knot

By Johnny Townsend

…d to me this morning after we saw that the gay marriage referendum here in Washington State has passed. We’ll be getting married in 2013 on our sixth anniversary, two gay ex-Mormons tying the knot. I’d start singing, “I’m getting married in the morning” from My Fair Lady, only Gary and I are both officially members of GLAM (Gays and Lesbians Against Musicals), and he just wouldn’t have it. We met in 2007 at a summer party. It was mixed, with both…

Ponzi Pastor, Bacon Terrorism, & Spiritual Jewelry

By Michael J. Altman

…for “psychological terrorism.” He wants $350 million as compensation. The Washington Post decided not to run a comic from the popular Non Sequitur comic strip entitled “Where’s Muhammad?” The single-frame comic was a parody of the popular Where’s Waldo books and did not actually depict the prophet. In Great Britain, a Muslim woman, forced to remove her veil in court, gave her testimony behind a screen so only the magistrates could see her. The ra…