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Southern Evangelicals Defend Pedophilia Using Catholic Legends

By Karen E. Park

…toevangelium is concerned, beginning to end, with preserving the perpetual virginity of Mary, not the virgin birth. In fact in the text a midwife who doubts that Mary could remain a virgin even during birth performs a quick pelvic exam on her, only to have her hand burst into flames for her unbelief. Both Matthew and Luke affirm that Mary conceived Jesus while a virgin, but unlike the Protoevangelium they do not imply that she remained a virgin fo…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…converted it into sugar and molasses died of horrific abuse in staggering numbers. These islands were perpetually hungry for more flesh. New arrivals, coming from North America in chains, were always welcome, and the grandee planters paid handsomely. But routinely selling captured natives to the islands was just the beginning for the North American settlers. The long-lived Roger Williams was barely in his grave before his Rhode Island colony was…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on be? U.S. Territories: Same-sex couples marry in Northern Marianas, U.S. Virgin Islands A Chinese lesbian couple became the first same-sex couple married on the island of Saipan. Mayor David Apatang told the Marianas Variety that although he is a devoted Catholic, “he believes that his religion also requires him to abide by the law of the land.” The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is an American territory and after the U.S. Supreme…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…n. All of these required not only the hassle of moving, but also the discomfort of a worse seat. Sometimes the person with the better seat was asked, sometimes s/he offered. In most situations, the person moving to the worse seat appeared happy to accommodate. Moreover, the surrounding passengers acted as if that individual had done something noble. Interestingly, several responders noted situations in which they had moved for other passengers, su…

The Week in Religion: Haggard Would Identify
as Bisexual, Trademarking
the Virgin, Woman Kills
‘Devil Dog’

By Michael J. Altman

…e Anti-Defamation League is supporting other mosque construction projects around the country. And while they opposed last year’s health care reform law, the U.S. Catholic bishops will not join in the repeal effort. Switzerland’s highest court refused to add “Madonna” to its trademark registry because, it argued, commercial use of the reference to the Virgin Mary would be immoral. An elderly couple with a faulty GPS ended up driving through the wal…

From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside

By Joseph Laycock

…t because, according to journalist Maury Terry, Lueken also made anonymous phone calls to reporters investigating the Son of Sam murders. She offered information connecting David Berkowitz to a Satanic cult. I’m very interested in Satanic Panic and it seems that the Baysiders had a major role in disseminating urban legends that serial killers are part of an organized network of murderous cultists. 4. What are some of the biggest misconceptions abo…

Country of Georgia Considers Constitutional Marriage Ban; Hindu Nationalist Leader Surprises India With Call to Decriminalize Homosexuality; No End to Anti-LGBT Propaganda Campaign in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ard, associate professor of social sciences at the University of the Faroe Islands, to Ritzau. Faroe Islands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, or the Danish Realm. Dominican Republic: U.S. Rejects Religious Leaders’ Criticism of Openly Gay Ambassador As we have previously noted, James “Wally Brewster,” the openly gay U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, has drawn bitter criticism from religious conservatives. He spoke this…

Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?

By Daniel Silliman

…e success either. The opening weekend saw sales of more than $6 million in tickets. That’s the kind of number that will inspire others to try and figure out the formula for the faith-and-family blockbuster. Yet, with the cost of the film reportedly exceeding $30 million, it’s an open question whether or not the Left Behind reboot will get a second installment. The marketing problem of evangelical movies is still, stubbornly, a problem. The general…

Invited by Allah

By Amina Wadud

…mmitted to use my little bit of savings to pay for this once in a lifetime trip and then my sister dies suddenly leaving me the beneficiary of her life insurance policies. The cost for the trip was secured and as the year wore on I simply waited for my return to the US to begin my hunt for a travel agency to handle the details. My first question was about the visa. Having been stalled at the embassy when I tried to make hajj almost three decades a…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…e Cone’s black theology with Marxism. Here he is wildly off base and his unfortunate tendency to take everything he doesn’t like, slap it on to his chalkboard, draw lines, and call it a connection, gets the better of him. Unfortunately, he doesn’t always do his homework. Unlike many Latin American Liberationists, black theologians, including Cone, actually tend to reject Marxism as a philosophical source. It is too white, too Western and, tends to…