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Catholic Church Campaigns Against Gay US Ambassador; Global LGBT Recap

…Marriage Equality Law Taking Effect Marriage equality goes into effect in Greenland on April 1. “Greenland’s Bishop has welcomed the arrival of a gender-neutral marriage law and the Greelandic Church worked closedly with the government to amend the portion of the Danish law that covered same-sex blessings in religious weddings,” according to The Perchy Bird. More from the website of the Parliament: On 01 April 2016, the latest change of the Marri…

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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

…ircuit riders hit the frontier villages. Even today, there’s no difference between Mike Lindell and a dozen televangelists, save a thousand milligrams of lithium. If you have any doubts about the commodification of the healing grace of God, google it for yourself. There’s a part of American Christianity that believes deeply and sincerely that if they can make it out of the lion’s den, they can teach you to do the same—for a modest fee, of course….

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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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What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

…on to marriage equality, even though three-quarters of Germans support it. Greenland: Marriage equality law passes unanimously The Parliament of Greenland, an autonomous country in the Kingdom of Denmark, voted unanimously this week in favor of marriage equality and adoption rights for LGBT couples. According to Out.com, In 1989, Denmark became the first nation in the world to recognize same-sex unions, in the form of “registered partnerships.” Gr…

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BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

…de, we sounded a note of caution here at RD about the “dark side” of honor code enforcement. After all, the honor code had been created during the 1960s in an effort by ultra-conservative BYU President Ernest Wilkinson to root out liberals, and honor code enforcement (including anonymous referrals) had been used to bait and harrass feminist, liberal, and gay students, shut down campus free speech, and compromise the privacy of pastoral counseling…

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The Dark Side of BYU’s Honor Code

…reating serious backlash among BYU students and faculty. Since then, Honor Code enforcement has been conducted through referrals—even third party referrals—of suspect students to a campus Honor Code office, a system of enforcement that has created significant opportunities for abuse. (When I was a BYU student, it was possible to make an anonymous third-party referral.) Honor Code enforcement on campus has been used to bait and target gays and libe…

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Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?

…1354 commissioning an expedition to Greenland. There were rumors that some Greenlanders had fallen away from Christianity and the expedition was charged with finding these fallen Norseman and returning them to the church. It’s not clear that the decree was actually carried out, but Holand concluded that the men Magnus sent to Greenland sailed through the Hudson Bay and up the Nelson and Red Rivers, arriving in Minnesota. This interpretation made t…

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Gambling with God: Ryan Bell’s Atheist Bet

…to act as if he did not believe. Yet his understanding of the relationship between belief and practice suggests something about how we have come to think of religion in the marketplace approach of contemporary spirituality. Bell treats atheism as a religious practice in which one attends services and reads devotional literature, the “sacred texts” of atheism, as he calls them. The conclusion he hopes for is just what Pascal thought was impossible,…

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When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

…nt, and a pledge at the end. A final admonition declares that breaking the Code will result in immediate execution. The Code is illustrated with images pulled from a website promoting the 2007 Swedish film Arn: The Knights Templar. This past spring, copies of the Code were mysteriously distributed across Michoacan. Like La Familia, members of the Knights Templar must refrain from drugs and must commit to routine drug testing, but unlike La Famila…

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