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No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…banning “bump stocks,” taking guns out of the hands of those convicted of domestic abuse or other kinds of violence, and so on. It may not be possible to legislate away evil altogether, but governments can decide the extent to which they want to be complicit in it. That ought to go for “slow burn” gun violence as well, but sadly it does not. If it were easy, of course, we’d already have gun reform. It isn’t and we don’t. In writing about Jimmy Ki…

Evangelicals and Immigration Reform, Again

By Sarah Posner

…to support a comprehensive package that included LGBT equality. “Same-sex domestic partnerships will doom any effort for bipartisan support of immigration and will cause religious conservatives to withdraw their support,” Staver said at the time. Democratic support for LGBT-inclusive immigration reform, he said, was “pandering to special interests.” Two years later, nothing has changed. There very well may be evangelicals involved with the Evang…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ver.” Although encouraged by the Democratic Party’s “pledges to reduce the number of abortions, … [he] now worries [that] the party is using abortion as a wedge issue by running ads sharply contrasting Palin and Obama on abortion rights,” AP reported. “Strang said he’s waiting for the Republicans to talk more about health care and the economy—and is both intrigued and unmoved by Palin. ‘It’s a great story, but I don’t know what’s changed,’ he said…

Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…the bishops charged that the World Health Organization and a European anti-domestic-violence effort were sowing sexual confusion among youth. Critics argued that church officials were using the campaign as a distraction from sex abuse allegations. Conservatives have been fighting about gender at international bodies for a long time. But the use of “gender ideology” as a propaganda tool against feminism, LGBT equality, and even the existence of tra…

How Sikhs Handle Hate

By Rajdeep Singh and Simran Jeet Singh

…ponsible for the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an act of domestic terrorism that resulted in the death of four girls between the ages of 11 and 14. This infuriated the Ku Klux Klan, which issued a written threat to Baxley. Not to be deterred, the Attorney General responded on official state letterhead as follows: “My response to your letter of February 19, 1976, is—kiss my ass.” Baxley’s response falls right in line with Sikh tra…

Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives

By Jonathan Malesic

…victims were “asking for it” and poor mothers being evicted for reporting domestic abuse “made bad choices.” Trump wrote in 2014 that the Central Park Five—black men falsely convicted of rape as teenagers in 1989 who then won a $41 million settlement from the City of New York—should not be considered innocent because they “do not exactly have the pasts of angels.” By his own admission, then, Trump is no different from these men. But he sees littl…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…national laws. Power criticized Russia for trying to “export to the UN its domestic hostility to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights.” Northern Ireland: Supporters rally for bakery in ‘religious liberty’ case In a case similar to the “religious liberty” debates raging in the U.S., where Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed such legislation into law this week, a baking company went to court this week defending “its right to refuse to ice a…

LGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ Enjoys Broad Support; There’s Just One Problem

By Sunnivie Brydum

…sider signing such a bill, when it would directly undermine so many of the domestic policy proposals his right-wing cabinet and advisers have implemented? For supporters of the bill, the best hope might lie in the knowledge that, more than ideological consistency or even appeasing his base, this President loves “winning.” And if he did sign The Equality Act into law, there would finally be a (tiny) grain of truth to his campaign promise to be an “…

2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ary state, local, federal, and military resources to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” Taking a page out of Viktor Orbán’s playbook, he promised his audience of die-hard fans “a baby boom,” including “baby bonuses”—inserting his very own brand of crudeness, announcing “you men out there are so lucky. You are so lucky, men”—presumably with all the sex they will be having to get those sweet baby bonuses. From…

Islam in Conflict with Democracy? A Response to Stanley Fish

By David True

…s to Western nations “evidence a desire to order their affairs, especially domestic affairs, by Shari’ah law rather than by the supposedly neutral law of a godless liberalism.” Fish is well-known for exposing the tensions between our political ideals and the practical demands of life in a pluralistic society. He does so in a way that is almost always entertaining and usually helpful, especially as a reminder that achieving justice is seldom as nea…