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Florida Qur’an-burning Pastor Terry Jones Shoots Himself in the Foot (well, almost)

By Julie Ingersoll

…gnize other state’s concealed weapons permits through a reciprocity program. Florida’s permit is the most widely accepted (some 30 states recognize the Florida permit and Florida even issues non-resident permits to non Floridians that are accepted in many states). Florida’s permit is also really easy to get: I called the gun shop up the street that offers the classes and was told you must be 21, have a drivers license, a “clean record,” and take a…

Florida Gov’s Plan Would Aid those who Seek Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

Last Week in St. Petersburg Florida, newly elected Republican Governor Rick Scott, who was expected to make changes to the state education system, surprised even his supporters with the breadth of his new proposal. If it passes, the proposal would transform education in the state by giving the parents of every school-age child a voucher, reportedly worth $5500 to over $6500 per student, toward tuition at any public, charter, private, or virtual s…

Florida Primary Winner: ‘War on Religion’ Talking Point

By Sarah Posner

…base to expect to hear it, or be suspicious. Echoing the reaction of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to the Obama administration’s recent decision not to broaden the exemption of religious institutions from the requirement that insurance cover contraception, Gingrich has claimed not just a broad-based war on religion, but a war on Catholicism in particular. At his campaign events, including tonight’s gathering, I met conservative Catholic…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…you have pre-determined to be the right one, is to reach a wider audience . . . There is nothing wrong with ‘Hollywoodized’ if it means the same thing to you as it does to me. Christians deserve bigger movies too with great actors, and high production values.” This has been the debate about Left Behind. Among evangelical Christians who like the franchise —which doesn’t include all of them—there are real differences about what the film should be….

The Faith that Faith Produced

By Haroon Moghul

…e started chatting because we were listless, but soon found a common interest. It turned out that my fellow passenger was a diehard L.A. Lakers fan. Unlike me, he was a successful dentist who lived in southern California, which rendered his experience of the Lakers qualitatively superior to mine in nearly every respect. Since the early 1980s, this man had had season tickets to our favorite team. He’d not just lived through but witnessed firsthand…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

…rgument wasn’t over, though, without a kosher butcher analogy. This one was raised by Justice Samuel Alito, who pointed to a Danish effort that would close kosher and halal slaugherhouses through a law that would ban killing an animal without stunning it first. Verrilli described that law as “targeted” at religion in a way the ACA is not. But, Verrilli noted, the contraception benefit is different, as is the companies’ objection. In this case, Ver…

Pennsylvania Called for Obama; Wins Catholics and “Nones”

By Sarah Posner

MSBNC just called Pennsylvania for Obama. Thirty-five percent of the electorate was Catholic, according to exit polls. Obama beat Romney among these voters, 53-46%. “Nones” make up 12% of the electorate, and Obama won 74% of those. Broken down by race, Romney wins among white Protestants (33% of electorate), 65-34% and among white Catholics (30%), 52-47. But Obama won non-whites (21%) by a huge margin of 85-14%. Jews made up 4% of the Pennsylvani…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…federal, state, and local governments through most of the 20th century. In St. Louis, for example, government policies included the segregated zoning of residential and commercial real estate, tax favoritism for private institutions that practiced segregation, urban renewal plans designed to shift black populations away from central cities, and the federal subsidization of suburban developments on the condition that they exclude African Americans….

Florida School Prayer Bill Stalls in Committee

By Lauri Lebo

…essage,” including prayer, at “noncompulsory” middle and high school events. Student government would have to decide on giving such a message, which could only be delivered by students. School personnel would not be allowed to participate or influence the message. “There is no participation from the school board, the principal, the coaches or anybody else,” Siplin said. But the American Civil Liberties Union and the Anti-Defamation League said the…

Politics in a Fallen World: Lying, Fact-Checkers, and the Future of Civilization

By Michael Schulson

…sident is a bald-faced liar. To many voters, Clinton seems uniquely dishonest. To many others, it’s apparent that Trump is living in an alternate reality, willing to make statements that directly contradict video and Twitter evidence. Why this disconnect? If anything, the 2016 election has highlighted the enormous diversity of ways that Americans perceive honesty. But the territory of lying has always been contested. Even when the truth is clear-c…