Religion Dispatches
…hts and best interests of children. We are proud to join the Catholic bishops and priests of California, and so many other people of good will, in this effort, on which so much depends.” The website reports that the Knights of Columbus are often called the “strong right arm of the Church.” Certainly very few would call them the strong left arm….
Read More…-handed profile in the Washington Post, Anderson was briefly lauded on the website of the Friends School of Baltimore, his childhood alma mater. Barraged with criticism for its implied support of the controversial Anderson, the Friends School removed the link and issued an apology. Linker writes: The reaction of those who raised objections to the link as well as the decision of the head of school to remove the link and offer an abject apology for…
Read More…. Referring to a memo on the state Department of Health and Human Services website declaring that foster parenting was for “heterosexuals only,” Justice John Wright wrote that “It is legally indistinguishable from a sign reading ‘Whites Only’ on the hiring-office door.” Debate will justifiably continue about the cultural appropriateness of that particular analogy, but Wright nails it by specifying that it certainly applies in this context. Click t…
Read More…help improve the lives of LGBTI people around the world,” includes on its website an interview by Leah Entenmann with Ani Zonneveld, founder of Muslims for Progressive Values. Feeling unfulfilled in her traditional religious community, Ani Zonneveld began to re-study the Qur’an for herself after 9/11. Within the Qur’an, she found that the foundation of Islam was profoundly different from what either the sensationalist media or her traditional rel…
Read More…, 99 churches merit a high priority examination. Of these 99 churches, the number of churches alleged to have violated the prohibition during 2010 is 15, during 2011 is 18, during 2012 is 65, and during 2013 is one. As a result, FFRF wrote in its motion: Based on available information, FFRF and its counsel are satisfied that the I.R.S. no longer has an explicit policy or practice of not enforcing the the electioneering restrictions of § 501(c)(3)…
Read More…mate as an offering to “Slender Man”—a supernatural entity created for the website Something Awful in 2009. The story has made international news. But how did an Internet meme manifest into actual violence? Criminologists and psychologists, as well as Christian demonologists and a retired FBI agent have all weighed in. The genesis of the crime appears not to lie with media or an inability on the part of the perpetrators to distinguish fantasy from…
Read More…n the more westernized Middle Eastern nations by showing a screenshot of a website from February 2010 with a banner headline proclaiming “Freedom!” And now, “Lots of guys who are al Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood in the capitol” and in everyother important American institution. They see the “expansion of mosques” in the U.S. as a key part of the infiltration strategy. Building “mega Islamic Centers,” with foreign money (they say we don’t know where the…
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…ased beliefs,” explains the app’s creator, Peter Boghossian, on the Atheos website. This gentler approach is something of a departure for Boghossian, a philosophy professor at Portland State University whose first book was titled A Manual for Creating Atheists. Boghossian has openly referred to his attempts to “disabuse” people of their faith as “interventions,” which include some less than charming rituals. For example, Boghossian said in an inte…
Read More…ming. Only time will answer Sharma’s question, but according to the Park51 website, “Park51 will be open to all, regardless of religious, ethnic, racial, or sexual orientation.” It’s important to remember that Adhami will be only one of several advisors, and he is not the spokesperson for the vision of Park51. I should make clear that I disagree with Adhami on both points. I believe in Mill’s marketplace of ideas and everyone should be free to exp…
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…reher confirms that Tichy himself was present and quotes directly from his website. Tichy’s blog, which also publishes pieces from a who’s who of the German Right, had previously come under fire for falsely claiming that Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor was investigating sea rescue organizations and for its sexist attacks against Sawsan Chebli, a German politician of the SPD (Social Democrat Party). These attacks were so vile that a German cour…
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