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Purity Culture is Also About National Purity: Anti-Asian Hate and Purity Culture [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

…s https://religiondispatches.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Anti-Asian-Hate-and-Purity-Culture-Excerpt.mp3 Purity culture is about more than bodily purity. It’s about national purity. It’s about racial purity. It’s about ethnic purity. Okay. So if we bring all these things together, we have a man who seems like he was brought up in youth group purity culture in a church. That was probably—and I’ve tried to check this out and the sites are down b…

“I Chose Esther”: Elizabeth Smart Testifies

By Joanna Brooks

…n Paris—where I wish her many, many delicious pastries and very little door-to-door tracting—sets a powerful example that LDS women who survive sexual violence have no reason to be ashamed of themselves. At one point in the trial, Smart testified that Mitchell had forced her to relinquish her name and instead named her Shear-Jashub, from the book of Isaiah. She was able, for a time, to choose her own middle name, provided it was Biblical. “I chose…

A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

By Frances Kissling

…ployer offers and that, as with other services in the plan that carry no co-pay, they too are offered without a co-pay. Catholic hospitals are explicitly exempted from providing abortions and sterilization (abortions are not covered in any event by the new HHS insurance regulations); they need not offer contraceptive services; they are not required to provide condoms or information to prevent HIV/AIDS or the transmission of any other sexually tran…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…was “complicated,” the activities of FWI reveal a very uncomplicated, black-and-white strategy: laws opposing homosexuality in any form should be retained, while those which might provide basic freedoms to gays are opposed as bad for everybody else. The only caveat is that they prefer that gays not be beaten or killed. Slater’s good vs. evil calculation leads to some unexpected alignments. For instance, in March 2010, FWI partnered with UN delegat…

Rand Paul’s Buddhist Roots Uncovered

By Julie Ingersoll

…Aqua-Buddha college pranks notwithstanding, Rand Paul embraces Buddhist notions of the interconnectedness of everything and the illusion of difference; “nothingness” is The Word. Thanks to my colleague Jon for sharing. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Nothingness www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive…

Lesbians Sue Lesbians, Sodomites to Follow?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…this case are the names “Sodomy” and “Sodomite.” A Sodomite was, once-upon-a-time, a citizen of the city of Sodom. In the Middle Ages, reinterpretations of the famous story from Genesis 19 led to the creation of a new mortal sin called “sodomy,” in addition to violent new punishments for its conduct (Mark Jordan has told this story brilliantly, in a book called The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology). What is strange about this interpretat…

Josh Duggar and the Purity Lie

By Sarah Posner

…e he was alerted in March, 2002 by a female minor that Josh — who turned 14-years-old that month — had been touching her breasts and genitals while she slept. This allegedly happened on multiple occasions. In 2006, Jim Bob told police that in July, 2002 Josh admitted to fondling a minor’s breasts while she slept. “James said that they disciplined (redacted, Josh) after this incident.” The family did not alert authorities. The police report reveals…

Why President Obama Should Not Visit the Western Wall

By Melissa Weininger

…berties. While the Western Wall remains under the administration of a state-sponsored religious entity that prohibits the free worship of its citizens, President Obama should not visit the site. To do so would be a tacit endorsement of the laws and policies that limit civil liberties in Israel in favor of religious control of public prayer, life-cycle events, and, in cases involving conversion, even questions of citizenship. The White House may ci…

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…ction cycles. But there’s no analogous sustained organizing in the moderate-to-liberal religious community with the broad political and electoral vision and ongoing development of related skills and practices that define the Christian Right. But there could be. Some may argue that a religious prochoice political movement would be little more than a funhouse mirror of the Christian Right and the institutions that undergird it. That would be a good…

The Theology That Inspired the Poway Synagogue Shooting (and New Zealand) Remains Strikingly Commonplace

By Ivan Strenski

…y and Saint Brenton of Christchurch” (sic). Others assume insincere passive-aggressive, self-pitying stances. One, posted by Owen Benjamin pleads, “I did not want to kill Jews. But they have given us no other option…the Jew—with his genocidal instincts—is insistent on poking the bear.” Yeah, right. Or, another post, this time anonymous, reads “Vigil Held For Annihilated Parasites Of Poway Synagogue Shooting.” To be fair, many other posts on chan8/…