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Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…let, Chile’s president-elect, is a supporter of marriage equality. South Africa: “Corrective Rape” on Rise? UK’s Independent published a story this week on violent “corrective rape” against lesbians in South Africa. The story is based on two years of reporting by photographer Clare Carter. “Even in the two years I was there the stories I was hearing were getting worse,” Carter told the Independent. “Corrective rape is getting more violent.” Accord…

How U.S. Conservatives Conjured the Jesus of Their Dreams

By Peter Laarman

…is found in Keddie’s middle section, where he expertly identifies the historical currents that feed conservative Christian ideation. Whereas many historians oversimplify by identifying Calvinism as the Ursprung of free market capitalism, Keddie more precisely singles out Arminianism, the deviation from orthodox Calvinism that reserved some room for human effort in the work of salvation. He pinpoints the crucial contribution of Hugo Grotius, whom t…

Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’

By Ed Simon

…ndamentalism, from its pre-millennial dispensationalist eschatology to its free-market economic ideology is at odds with the actual ideology of American Puritanism. The reductionist ‘culture wars’ obscure the nuances of history and culture, while failing to recognize the full complexity of both secularism and religion. This year’s tempest in a coffee cup has provided us all with an unintended lesson in semiotics. That someone might see Christianit…

Olympic Ritual and Religion, Hosted by a Religion-less State

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rd where human rights are concerned, especially those rights regarding the free exercise of religious belief. Item Two: Beginning on Friday evening, 8/8/08, the same government in Beijing began hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, giving explicit voice to the implicit religious sentiments of those Games. Item Three: The most expensive ticket, and the hardest one to come by at the Modern Olympics, is a ticket to the Opening Ceremonies, where precisely n…

Capitalism and Christianity

By Peter Montgomery

…es. According to the survey, white evangelicals are more likely to say the free market and Christian values are at odds than black Protestants, mainline Protestants, Catholics, and religiously unaffiliated Americans. On first glance that seems difficult to accept given white evangelicals’ overwhelming electoral support for the Republican Party. But that finding is buttressed by another one: that only 44 percent of white evangelicals are economic…

First Gay Bishop? Give Me a Break

By Peter Montgomery

…obinson of not living his life. He is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. On Valentine’s Day he appeared at a press conference in New York City with other members of the group Faithful America and delivered petitions calling on MSNBC to stop using the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins as a commentator given FRC’s record of “dishonest, incendiary rhetoric about gay and lesbian Americans.” Related news: Conservative breakaway E…

House Votes to Repeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ory though is that passage comes after last minute — and increasingly hysterical — complaints by the religious right. One group, America’s Survival, Inc., complained that openly gay soldiers would “result in the spreading of deadly HIV-tainted blood throughout the ranks,” even while the report acknowledged that all soldiers are tested for HIV before they are allowed to enlist. They also claimed that “Corporal Klinger could become a reality in the…

‘Do You Want Columbia to be Cursed by God?’ — Alarming Exchanges in Congress and Beyond Highlight the Desperate Need for Religious Literacy

By Chance Bonar

…all of Eretz Yisrael, including the West Bank and Gaza.” Zionism has historically had left-wing and right-wing factions, and is an extremely prominent religious-political affiliation among American Christians. Some might agree with part of these beliefs and yet label themselves as a non-Zionist. To tokenize the political or religious affiliations of scholars of religion ignores our academic ability to increase religious literacy—critically examin…

Searching for Moral High Ground While Houston Drowns: A Perspective on the Lakewood Church Controversy

By Joshua L. Lazard

…eins of American Christianity function so closely with some of the core American ideals around free-market capitalism, wealth and consumerism. Prosperity gospel, for instance, only makes logical sense in a system of free-market capitalism. Those core American ideals have come under assault in very public ways when measured against the yardstick of liberation theology and faith-based social justice initiatives. By Tuesday afternoon, August 29, news…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…llowed Obama to succeed, and they worship what they believe is “God-given” free-market capitalism. In effect, the radical right movement in America, having failed at the ballot box to find a successor to their boy in the White House, George W. Bush, is regrouping in the Senate and Congress and working hard to undo the Obama presidency. The sooner Americans wake up to the fact that what Jeff Sharlet describes in his book is only the tip of the iceb…