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Atheists Battle for High School Clubs

…h and Muslim student groups. School administrators have reacted much the way they did to gay and lesbian groups. The groups faced hurdle after hurdle, one was even called a “hate group,” and a faculty sponsor was told that supporting the group would be a “bad career move.” But this opposition has only steeled the will of many students, including 18-year-old Brian Lisco, a senior at Stephen Austin High School in the Houston suburbs. The school offe…

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Our Dance Clubs, Our Churches

…I was young and looked really good in 501s I would spend more late Saturday/early Sunday hours than I care to remember dancing my butt off in rooms where the drinks might be watered but where the music was always hot and no one gave a damn. The Eagle in Exile, across from the old library in DC. The Clubhouse up on 16th Street. Paradise Garage in New York City, Todd’s Sway Lounge (yes, that was its name) on Seven Mile in Detroit. These places repr…

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Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study

…ion. Further, the clubs produce the false but unavoidable impression in very young children that they are part of the school; they set up shop in public school classrooms immediately after the bell rings, so as to appear a seamless part of the school day. And finally, Good News Clubs instructors tell kids attending the clubs to recruit their peers at school. It turns out that Encinitas public elementary schools that sparked the national outcry ove…

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Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

…Muntarbhorn in 2006 co-chaired the meeting that led to the adoption of the Yogyakarta Principles, a set of recommendations on the application of international human rights law to fight discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. He also spoke at the 28th ILGA World Conference that took place in Bangkok last November. “The mandate is to address the issues of violence and discrimination,” Muntarbhorn told the Blade. “That’s the e…

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“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

…American Jews to blend in. No one has to know you are Jewish if you Anglify your last name, stop speaking Yiddish, stop wearing distinctive clothing, drop dietary regulations, pay plastic surgeons to re-shape your profile. By blending in, Jews have been able to avoid drawing unwanted attention to ourselves. And unwanted attention is one thing Jews have had plenty of. So, if we’re so good at conforming to a generic “American” ideal and negative as…

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Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

…ues so he could fully integrate his sexuality with his identity in a healthy way and remain who he most likely was (and still is, of course) … a gay man. You see, this kind of full integration happens all the time and people give up addictions or other harmful behaviors and remain happy, healthy … and gay or straight. One’s sexual proclivities have little to do with orientation and a lot to do with how we relate to ourselves and others through int…

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Spinning But Not Religious: Inside the New Economy of Spiritual Fitness

…ething larger than themselves. It’s easy when you are out running, either by yourself or with a group, to feel that there’s something bigger than you going on. In your book you explore those two sides of fitness culture: individual experience, on the one hand, and group dynamics on the other. How do those interact? I’ve thought about this on a very personal level because running is my main thing. Ultimately, there’s nothing more individual than ru…

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God’s Chosen Tweeters?

…hite, college-educated men? They’re on LinkedIn. African American women? Try MySpace. Hispanics? Visit Twitter on your way to MySpace. Of course, pretty much everyone’s also on Facebook, so you’ll need to wend your way there as well. What about that Ning site you created for your church? Not so much. But the Pew data point beyond where people are to what they do in ways that should interest God-geeky types. (Bear with me; this is going to get a li…

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Why Antisemitism is an Insufficient (and Risky) Explanation for Hamas’s October 7 Attack on Israel

…mply to acknowledge that their praxis is to cause harm to the powerful party by any means necessary. Decolonial movements largely rely on guerilla attacks simply because they lack the structures that established nation-states possess, so the “acceptable” rules of engagement are therefore stacked against them. Instead, like the Viet Cong or Algerian Liberation Front before them, they take on small-scale operations, which often focus on vulnerable t…

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Sacred Geography: A Queer Latino Theological Response to Orlando

…alked along the route and saw the same anti-gay protestors who show up every year. Yesterday, they were behind two sets of barriers with a squad of SWAT officers next to them. And as I stood across from them, listening to their loud condemnations, I felt worried. Not for myself. Not even for them. But for the spirit of our community. Headlines continued to flash buzzwords—“terrorism,” “ISIS,” “hate crime”—but the truth is, we really don’t have lan…

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