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‘Son Worry’ and the Hypocrisy of the ‘Purity’ Movement

By Patricia Miller

…ns are rare and since son-panickers have made little effort to distinguish between those decrying baseless allegations and those looking to excuse “boys will be boys” behaviors, it makes much more sense to focus on the latter. With that in mind, what about all those Ross Douthat paeans to the lost “structures of suburban bourgeois Christian morality,” which led to “drunken teenage parties in the suburbs and hard-core pornography in Times Square”?…

Muslim Beard Decision was a Boost for “Religious Liberty” Advocates

By Kara Loewentheil

…t that the opinion continues the slippage between the concepts of sincere religious belief and substantial burden that were evident in Hobby Lobby as well. The Court notes that the state has not disputed the sincerity of the prisoner’s belief that his religion requires him to grow a beard. It then turns to the substantial burden analysis, but simply states, quoting Hobby Lobby, that the policy requiring the petitioner to be clean-shaven means he m…

It’s Not “Inappropriate” for Public School Teacher to Tell Class that Obama Isn’t Christian

By Joseph Laycock

…s cannot discuss important controversial topics and that schools must be “religion free zones.” Superintendent Ledbetter announced that he’s considering more diversity and sensitivity training for teachers. He also sent a certified letter to the parents explaining that the incident will not happen again and that Nancy Perry is retiring. A local NBC affiliate reported, “The superintendent believes it goes back to a basic lesson: don’t talk politics…

Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…ill, vice president for legal and policy affairs at the American Atheists; Elizabeth Reiner Platt, director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project at Columbia Law School; and me. I provided an overview of Project Blitz; Gill outlined the Project Blitz program, including a preview of the prime focuses of the 2019 Project Blitz manual; and Platt explained how the Project Blitz agenda, which is framed under the rubric of religious freedom, i…

Arrests Made in Murders of Atheist Bloggers in Bangladesh, But Int’l Response to Violence Remains Anemic

By Murali Balaji

…ct Bangladesh’s Hindus and other minorities from ongoing violence mandate religious freedom and human rights be at the forefront of the U.S. relationship with Bangladesh While the resolution is unlikely to come to the House floor for a vote (due to House Speaker John Boehner’s general refusal to vote on resolutions), it’s an important symbolic step towards recognizing that Bangladesh continues to fight the battles of yesterday with disastrous cons…

The Tea Party, the Blind Man, and the Elephant: Part 1

By Julie Ingersoll

…ed-neck, Bible thumping (something or other) owns this joint,” making me feel generally unwelcome. Last night there were over 100 people there. When one speaker asked how many were “new” nearly 75% raised their hands. Overwhelmingly over the age of 50 (and North Florida, unlike much of the state, has a median age in the 40s) and pretty evenly split male and female, this struck me as the kind of “community organizing” for which conservatives ridicu…

Back to Basics: Feminism 101

By Amina Wadud

…ar, the rejection of Satan to surrender to the truth because he deemed himself better, is the same idea behind gender oppression or patriarchy. Males are better. So the logic is also accounted for in the Qur’an, but is challenged by tawhid, which says no one is better than another if all are under the unicity (or tawhid) of God. It forms a metaphysical line: on the vertical axis, Allah is higher, or as the highest focal point. Each person, no matt…

Bipolar Faith, an Autobiography of Race and Mental Illness

By Monica A. Coleman

…emphasize that freedom is often hard-won. The final chapter is now named “Free.” How do you feel about the cover? Initially, I resisted having my face on the cover of the book. When the publishers presented the idea to me, I gave them a list of all the memoirs without the author’s face on the cover. They gave me a comparable list of memoirs that have the author’s face on the cover. Between the Atlanta-based photographer Anne Simone and cover desi…

Biblical Law in Central Florida House Race

By Julie Ingersoll

…whole life. Having “tried everything” she went to this seminar and is “now free.” Gothard immediately follows the nail biting story with this conclusion: “so that means. . . conquering habits of sodomy of smoking of drinking. . . we’ve got excited people around the country that give testimony that by following these principles in God’s word they have lasting freedom.” He argues that God says, “I will make you more wealthy than the nations around…

When White Terrorism Goes Unpunished: Trump’s Acquittal and the Persistence of Anti-Blackness

By Peter Laarman and Charlene Sinclair

…ence of having to watch abusive white cops and other white terrorists walk free despite compelling evidence of wrongdoing. As in the case of the Senate’s vote on Saturday, white killers get to walk even when there is superabundant visual proof—in the form of videos and photographs—of murderous atrocities committed. Only an investment of religious proportions in the project of maintaining racist power at all costs can account for the adamant refusa…