Probably few who gathered to hear Bonhoeffer’s latest biographer expected to be asked to imagine themselves called by God to rise up against a regime that might be as heinous as the Third Reich—but as it turns out Metaxas is not unique among religious-right intellectuals in his use of the language of armed revolt.
This year, LGBT advocates in New York had ample cause to be hopeful, but the opposition—led by National Organization for Marriage, the Catholic Bishops, and Orthodox Jews—remain confident of victory.
