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New York Times Columnist Peter Steinfels’ Letter To RD; With Author Response

…sexuality and same-sex marriage but that I have not come down on his side. Jordan’s version, in other words, of the Bush doctrine: if you’re not with us, you’re against us. This would explain why Jordan can ignore the fact that I patently agree with him that this is a genuine religious division among Christians who honor tradition (not just one between Christianity and secular liberalism) and that many journalistic accounts do the complex substanc…

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First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

As President Obama signs the health care bill into law today, we are watching the first draft of history. But imagine what students a generation from now will be taught about the most significant overhaul of this nation’s health-care system since Medicare if the conservative activists on the Texas Board of Education are successful at their long-range goal of using the public education system to rewrite history. If publishers kowtow to the board a…

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You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

…It might as well be as old as Moses, given what a commonplace it is for right-wing Christians. The rest of it is a chestnut of its own. We ought to just be grateful that Lindell isn’t enforcing coronavirus rectitude with a hatchet. (Carrie Nation was also an unabashed self-promoter, by the way.) It’s a strand that goes back to Wesleyan perfectionism and Calvinist propriety, some of the deepest roots of American religion. It may look like faith se…

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Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

…ownright bizarre things “Cussing Pastor” Mark Driscoll says, usually while promoting a new book, as well as the ensuing negative publicity and essays critical of Mark Driscoll, which somehow increase the popularity of Mark Driscoll’s new book.  Mark Driscoll has a new book coming out, and with suspiciously good timing, he’s managed to initiate back to back controversies. First, he showed up at John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference uninvited a…

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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

…entalism Suryatapa Mukherjee writes about the situation for LGBT people in Jordan, where homosexuality is not illegal, but where earlier this year a Lebanese rock band with an openly gay lead singer, Hamed Sinno, was banned from playing. “It’s one of the only countries in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region that does not criminalise being LGBT+,” said Khalid in an interview. He is the founder of My Kali magazine, the first LGBT+ friendl…

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Atheists Take Heart (and Office): New Poll Shows Major Support for Nonreligious Candidates

…e of rationality and humanistic compassion. Despite these vicious attacks, Jordan increased her share of the electoral takings, earning 28.3 percent of the vote. These attacks didn’t hurt Jordan politically, they simply exposed the Tennessee GOP as chock-full of religious intolerance. Jared Huffman (D-CA) is the only publicly nontheistic member of Congress, having announced in November 2017 that he’s a humanist and an agnostic. Huffman was first e…

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The Tea Party are Sodomites

…as to who the real Sodomites are, notwithstanding the broader definition. Jordan goes further, arguing persuasively that the way sodomia was defined has permanently colored how we conceive of sexuality. Sodomy is defined by genitalia and orifices, and so we tend to define someone as “homosexual” or “heterosexual” by the combination of them. Other cultures, however, have defined sexuality differently. For example, until the 20th century (and even,…

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

…r, decriminalization alone has not ensured complete freedom for members of Jordan’s LGBT community. Article Six of the Jordanian Constitution protects citizens from discrimination on the basis of race, language or religion, but these protections do not extend to people of variant sexual identity. This gray area is where discrimination still manages to play out in the daily lives of LGBT persons. Nasser*, a 23-year-old who moved to Jordan about a y…

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Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…nting them any rights as it is considered a deviation from Islamic law and Jordanian constitution.” Although Jordan decriminalised same-sex sexual activity in 1951, the justice minister, Dr Awad Al-Mashagbeh, offered similar remarks, contending that LGBT people’s “sexual deviance violates… the state’s general system and decency”. Indonesia: Interview with Activist on 30th Anniverary of Human Rights Group At Huffington Post, Bob Ostertag speaks wit…

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Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

…n between the rich and poor didn’t play prominently, either in the event’s promos or at the stadium rally itself. PK did offer a “pay what you can afford” program to woo low-income rally-goers, and it also urged attendees to bring food donations for the Denver Rescue Mission. At the rally itself, there was no sustained talk about the spiritual or political effects of the global financial crisis, but there was a call to support something called the…

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