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Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…hange for your Bible as part of their “smut for smut” campaign. In related news, this weekend isn’t just Super Bowl Sunday, it’s also Porn Sunday. The XXXChurch is using videos featuring NFL quarterbacks to get churches talking about porn addictions. Fox Sports rejected another religiously-themed Super Bowl ad. This time they said no to an ad featuring John 3:16. In Fox’s defense, there was no Rainbow Man in the commercial, which we all know is th…

Gospel and Soul Lose a King and Queen

By Anthea Butler

…ove of women, he said: “I just got stuck on that bible verse that said be fruitful and multiply.” The passing of these two greats should be mourned not only for their contributions to the musical world, but for their contributions to helping keeping slick, overproduced, vapid praise songs from taking over every black church. Nothing irks me more than to attend a service with soulless worship music being sung by folks who want an easy life. Both Wa…

Anti-Contraception Activists Claim Their Suits are Last Resort to Undermine Health Care

By Sarah Posner

…he deceptive anti-Planned Parenthood videos, issues a statement with some truly dubious word choices and arguments: Today, the Supreme Court has upheld nothing more than a Ponzi scheme to expand the abortion business. If this legislation is not overturned by the next administration, Obamacare’s socialist-style diktats will be used, not to provide better or more affordable health care, but to expand Planned Parenthood’s abortion empire across the b…

It’s Only a Game: How Not to Think about Video Game Violence

By Joanna Brooks

…has in the name of freedom of speech legalized the sale of animal torture videos and struck down limits on corporate political spending on the grounds that corporations have free speech rights too. But in his dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer asked, “What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting the sale to that 13-year-old of an interactive video game in which h…

Vigil Planned in Wake of Suicide by 17-Year-Old
Gay Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

…like having sensitive matters publicized in an election year of unwanted scrutiny for the faith. The May 1 vigil is as true a picture of Mormonism as any you’ll find in a time of sensationalized campaign-related media coverage: aspects of Mormon doctrine and culture can create lethal circumstances for LGBT young people, and some Mormons are working hard to voice more affirming elements of the tradition. The pace of change is slow. Young people…

How Many Ways to be Mormon and Gay?

By Joanna Brooks

…erence co-organizer Kendall Wilcox, “The challenge is how to be fully and truly inclusive on such a delicate issue.” Some gay Mormons embrace their LGBT identity and their Mormon identity, even as they step away from activity in the institutional LDS Church. Some choose to live orthodox Mormon lives, rejecting LGBT identity and preferring instead to describe themselves as Mormons who experience “same-sex attraction” or “same-gender attraction,” wh…

The Rabbis are Right to
Be Afraid

By Jay Michaelson

…l and satanic elements.” Well, two out of three ain’t bad.) Or the YouTube videos of Hasidim who are glad to have left the fold. Or websites devoted to egalitarian, LGBT-inclusive, and open-minded Judaism. The rabbis are right to worry, are they not? Maybe what’s ridiculous here is the irony: tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men using technology, cramming into Citi Field, and learning why they should fear technology. Then again, no ultra-Orthod…

“Tonight I Am Ashamed to be a Baptist”

By Sarah Posner

…s statement sparked great controversy inside and outside the seminary. His words were true then, and perhaps even truer now. Such concentration-camp language is shameful, whether used in 1930s Europe or 2012 North Carolina. UPDATE: Perhaps Leonard might also have some words for the Family Research Council’s honoring another North Carolina pastor, Ron Baity, with its 2012 Watchman Award. Via Towleroad, Jeremy Hooper has compiled videos of Baity imp…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…he image of an engorged sun bursting from behind the branded tailfin of a cruising aircraft, I heard the unmistakable strains of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” the majestic opening melody of the slow movement, the andantino moderato. From the first moments, it was obvious that the sonorous orchestral instrumentation had been replaced by the sheen of digital keyboards. By the time the music reached the third measure, I sensed the dawning of…

Personhood Activists Regroup as “Next Civil Rights Movement”

By Sarah Posner

…Till’s mother’s decision to show photos of her son’s battered body to the world ignited the actual civil rights movement. Last year, House Republican crusader Chris Smith suggested creating a new protected class entitled to equal protection of the law: immaturity. And at a presidential candidate forum in South Carolina a few months ago, Manhattan Declaration author Robert George stunned even the GOP hopefuls with his question about whether, as pr…