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Hiring of Accused Atheist Leader Is Reminder That #MeToo Is Still Needed in Organized Atheism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…ressive sociopolitical issues—such as the intersection of sexual violence, domestic abuse, reproductive rights, and the criminalization of Black and brown bodies—that are frequently marginalized in mainstream atheism and humanism. At the conference, many women of color presenters spoke of being in the crosshairs of misogynistic, heteronormative religious traditions and racist, sexist atheist and humanist institutions. Far from being a refuge from…

Taking It to the Streets: Anonymous vs. Scientology

By Gabriel Mckee

…11 news report in July 2007 announced the existence of a sinister group of domestic terrorists and “hackers on steroids” called Anonymous. 4chan’s users turned mockery of the news report’s tone-deaf sensationalism into a meme. Within hours, they began to turn themselves into an ironic caricature of the sinister hacker mafia Fox11 described. The birth of Anonymous as a group is a chicken-egg scenario, but there’s no doubt that Fox11’s report was a…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nding in the way of LGBT voters actually voting for Marine Le Pen in large numbers. But her anti-immigrant, anti-EU position — coupled with a more center-left economic policy that supports France’s robust social safety net — is pulling voters from left-wing constituencies to her side. Courting LGBT voters remains a high-wire act, because beneath Le Pen’s march to victory is a simmering internal battle that could build into a true revolt from withi…

Obama To Skip Golden Temple: Part of A Larger Problem With Religion

By Hussein Rashid

…o to a Sikh temple because it might seem respectful to Muslims. And on the domestic front, what is the Adivsory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships going to do? Talk about the important role of religion as long as it is only Christianity? President Obama needed to lead at this moment. He needed to become Professor Obama. He needed to do what Colin Powell did for him. He needed to say that Sikhs and Muslims have different religions…

This Veterans Day, the Centennial of the Unknown Soldier, Skip the Platitudes and Talk to a Veteran

By Sara Jaye Hart

…’ve never laid flowers at a veterans cemetery or followed troop deployment numbers. Doing so would not occur to most. Since the end of the draft and the initiation of the All-Volunteer Force in 1973, veterans have not been distributed widely through civilian communities, and Americans have allowed themselves to support the troops in a distant, spectatorial fashion that may signal gratitude or at least political correctness, but also underwrites a…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…gnified by the November 2016 election. LGBT Muslims have focused mainly on domestic challenges, aiming to capitalize on a new mode of grassroots intersectional politics galvanized by visionaries like Bernie Sanders and the leadership of coalitions like Black Lives Matter, Fight for $15, and Rise and Resist. Yet they see that events on the global stage, in educational institutions, and in private spaces consecrated to spiritual healing are vying fo…

A Pro-Patriarchy Argument in All Its Glory

By Patricia Miller

…rules regarding sex and marriage on society in order to weaken pagan practices and t0 capture inheritances (that would have otherwise gone to family members) in order to strengthen the church. “By insinuating itself into the very fabric of domestic life, of heirship and marriage, the Church gained great control over the grass roots of society itself,” he argues. Today we see the Church clinging to the faint remnants of that social control, with wo…

Religious Discrimination and the Violence Against Women Act

By Sarah Posner

…ven the nature of services provided under VAWA—relating to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, among other things—it’s not terribly surprising that a far broader group of advocates has joined CARD in calling on DOJ to abandon 2007 OLC memo. As the coalition letter notes, it is difficult to imagine that RFRA envisions that requiring federally-funded, faith-based organizations to comply with anti-discrimination laws is…

Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family

By Mihee Kim-Kort

…pocalyptic anticipation, and American nationalism.” The connection between domestic stability and national security continues to emerge as a mainstay of evangelical rhetoric especially in this decade when, more than ever before, the family is at the center of American political life as something that needs to be protected not only by churches and other religious organizations, but by the government. And so, the figure of the Asian woman in America…

Election 2016: Postracial Blues, #BlackVotesMatter, Evangelicals for Trump, and “Who Are We Now?”

By The Editors

…we” advocating for the return of a violent mob? Who is the “we” justifying domestic terrorism, boldly threatening to kill a specific target, “the next time we see him?” For people of faith, the challenge of this election cycle—and perhaps the challenge of the Lenten season itself—is to figure out who we are in this particular season of death and violence. In a time of significant transition for the entire landscape of American Christianity itself,…