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The ‘Have More Children and Disciple Them Like Crazy’ Culture War Strategy is Neither New Nor Responsible

By Cindy Wang Brandt

…as catechized by youth group leaders, missionaries who had the zeal to add numbers to their newsletter reports—uh, I mean, for the Kingdom. Of course, as a child, I didn’t have the awareness of this culture war strategy, I simply believed I was being taught the love and grace of a good God. When I grew older and, gasp, developed my own critical thinking abilities, I began to see with more clarity the unspoken strategies put in place to ensure I st…

Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…would talk for half an hour naked, about almost anything. (There’s also a website, in which Taub leaves her own digital trail of blog posts.) Despite the media focus on the connection between Taub and DePape, however, she clearly hasn’t been involved in any of his recent actions since she’s been in the California Institute for Women for stalking and the attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old boy since 2021. DePape’s association with Taub and his v…

Where Joe the Plumber and Allen West’s Gun Control Conspiracy Theory Comes From

By Sarah Posner

…andates self-defense (see Talmud Tractate B’rachos [Blessings], p. 58a and p. 62b), JPFO, Inc., works with GOA and like-minded groups to restore law-abiding Americans’ civil right to be armed.” Zelman died in 2010, but the JPFO continues on. Its website today still promotes his book, Death by Gun Control: The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament alongside arguments that gun control “enables the evildoers” (the government) “and works against righteous…

Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n advance of the 2015 Synod on the Family. The ultra-conservative Catholic website Church Militant is complaining that “Jesuit homosexualist” James Martin, author of “Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity” will be speaking at an upcoming alumni event at a theological school associated with the Catholic University of America, and at an October event in…

Not All Christians are Terrorists

By Reuven Firestone

…S are united under the banner of “Christian Unity,” while the Ku Klux Klan website claims that its “better way” is “the Christian way.” Of course one could easily argue that Christian white supremacist terrorists claim they are acting on Christian principles while they are actually acting against them. It’s the same argument that most Muslims make in reference to Muslim terrorists. According to David Schanzer and Charles Kurzman’s recent article i…

Don’t Believe a Word a Muslim Says

By Haroon Moghul

…lying around and looks good on fire for the camera (see my essay for this website, “Are Muslims Nuts?,” for my thoughts on this meme.) But, of course, the bigot is not interested in consistency. He engages in moral deception, or perhaps is just incapable of logical thought, in order to advance his agenda. The accusation of taqiyya is uniquely maddening and frustrating to deal with; how can we prove someone is not lying? It’s impossible to reason…

Omar Ahmad: Muslim, American, Cowboy Boot Aficionado (1965–2011)

By Wajahat Ali

…is community the old-fashioned way, by getting to know you. He says on his website, “If you ever have questions regarding who I am or what I believe, please feel free to ask me. It will be through open dialog that we will get to know each other!” He leveraged his good-natured spirit in politics, and was elected to the city council of San Carlos, and from there, to the mayor’s office. In that position, he did what every American mayor does, he foug…

Christian Nationalist Bestseller Rooted in Volk, Homeland, and Patriarchy is ‘Blood Relation’ of a Certain 20th Century German Manifesto

By Bradley Onishi

…another fringe text touting an obscure ideology; the National Conservatism website has it at the top of their Books section, and it appears at a time when American Christians have begun to gladly accept the Christian nationalist label. In June, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists.” In September, a University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll found that Christian nationalism i…

Will Mormon-on-Mormon, Hunstman v. Romney Primary Save the GOP from the Religious Right?

By Joanna Brooks

…onal Seacoast megachurch in suburban Charleston. (Seacoast’s rock-and-roll website, with leather jacket-clad pastors and guitar-wielding acolytes, seems right up Huntsman’s sartorial alley.) From the buzz his nascent campaign is gathering, it seems that those who cover politics couldn’t be more relieved by the fascinating prospect of a Huntsman run. What’s not clear is how he will connect with the Republican base, especially the evangelical Chr…

Uganda’s Radical Anti-Gay Measure and the American Religious Right

By Michelle Goldberg

…d a “Seminar on Exposing the Homosexual Agenda” in Uganda’s capital. PRA’s website contains video and text excerpts from the event. “The gay movement is an evil institution that’s goal is to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity in which there’s no restrictions on sexual conduct except the principle of mutual choice,” Lively says at one point. Later, he says, “Nobody has been able to stop them so far…