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Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…will be hosting the first-ever U.S. Summit with African heads of state in August, with a focus on issues such as electrification “and our ongoing work to foster peace, food security, health, and democratic progress across the continent.” She addressed the U.S. commitment to human rights as well as the practical limits to that commitment in the world of geopolitics: “America stands proudly for the rights of all human beings – including women, the…

‘Empty the Pews’ Gives Voice to Those Who’ve Escaped Toxic Christianity

By Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O'Neal

…had formed on Twitter, I was immediately on board. I coined the hashtag in August 2017 to protest white evangelical leaders’ responses to Charlottesville and Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” comments, figuring that a hashtag that pointed to evangelicals losing numbers and losing the youth would be a good way to make waves. And it was. I have clarified multiple times that I never intended it to be anti-religious as such, but only to be a ca…

Glenn’s at it Again, and Again

By Joanna Brooks

…ck media empire. Witness his exchange with David Barton of Wallbuilders on August 16: Beck: I think this is an opportunity to gather God’s people together and wake people up. And I just have this feeling that this is the beginning of something gigantic in this country, that it is spiritual awakening. What’s going to happen there will raise the hair on your arms. What’s going to happen there you will never, ever forget and I promise you, then next…

Shocked by Aung San Suu Kyi’s Insensitivity to Ethnic Cleansing? Don’t Be.

By Michael Jerryson

…been no clearance operations. Nevertheless, we are concerned to hear that numbers of Muslims are fleeing across the border to Bangladesh. We want to find out why this exodus is happening. As State Counsellor for her government, Aung San Suu Kyi’s words are, at the minimum, disturbing. In her speech, she cites several times Kofi Annan’s final report of the advisory commission on the Rakhine State. On the very first page of the introduction, the re…

How Ancient Rabbis Can Help Combat STI Stigma

By Rebecca Epstein-Levi

…/GYN Jen Gunter, whose much-anticipated book The Vagina Bible comes out on August 27, is deeply familiar. As she notes in a recent op-ed, “No diagnosis, apart from cancer, can as reliably bring a woman to tears as an STI.” Gunter is perhaps the highest profile voice to date to draw attention to STI stigma in the face of rising infection rates, something which is central to my own work as a sexual ethicist. She’s right to say that STIs should be no…

Coulter Feasts on Gay Republicans at Homocon

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…n she makes a meal of you. That was the substance of my prediction back in August about what Ann Coulter would do to the gay Republicans at GOProud when they invited her to headline their soiree they so self-deprecatingly called “Homocon.” Over the weekend, Coulter put on her bib and sharpened her knife and dove into a plate full of tender gay Republicans. TPM reported on Coulter’s appearance: After a series of jokes about conservative that sounde…

Papal Consultant: Cuomo Should Be Denied Communion

By Randall Balmer

…e communion: “if he approaches for Holy Communion, he should be denied the august sacrament.” In fact, Peters says, the governor’s “taking Holy Communion is objectively sacrilegious and produces grave scandal within the faith community.” All of this calls to mind the kerfuffle over John Kerry during the presidential campaign of 2004. Like Cuomo, Kerry, a devout Roman Catholic, is pro-choice, and several bishops declared that if Kerry showed up for…

Opening the Door to Hell: Jewish Terrorism in Israel

By Shalom Goldman

…the holiest site in Judaism]. On the other hand, although in much smaller numbers, there are Jews who regard the very presence of the mosques as an obstacle to the redemption of the people of Israel. A larger number hold a Kahanist worldview, according to which—irrespective of the conflict with the Palestinians—the Jewish state should cast out the Arab minority from within. Some of them are willing to try to implement this goal in a violent way o…

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…mation of American Politics Nicole Hemmer University of Pennsylvania Press August 2016 Hanighen and Morley brought on a young Chicagoan named Henry Regnery to handle their promotional work. Regnery soon got the publishing bug, and left Human Events to start his own company, Regnery Publishing. Soon he was putting out some of the most important conservative books of the era, including William F. Buckley’s God and Man at Yale (1951) and Russell Kirk…

Ross Douthat’s Rosy Old-Time Religion

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…thodoxy as the result of self-inflicted wounds and the displacement of its august faith by what he considers contemporary Christian heresies. “America’s problem isn’t too much religion, or too little of it,” Douthat claims. “It’s bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of a variety of destructive pseudo-Christianities in its place” (emphasis in original). Orthodoxy had provided both “a moral and theological…