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LDS Church Asserts Trademark of “Mormon”

By Holly Welker

…ce your parents named you Jon Stewart, and all you’ve ever want to be is a comedian. You especially like political humor. You find a comedy club that likes your material and they begin advertising “Daily Shows featuring Jon Stewart.” Even though the guy on Comedy Central was named Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz at birth, and even though you don’t claim to be on The Daily Show, Comedy Central and Stewart et al could take you to court and get you to stop…

Graham’s Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Not New

By Sarah Posner

…al of Muslims and Muslim-Americans getting involved in public policy. They compile that into a guilt-by-association Powerpoint and then shop it to reporters.” These individuals include, said Khan, Frank Gaffney, who issues baseless warnings to members of Congress about “creeping shari’ah;” Paul Sperry, co-author of the book Muslim Mafia, which claimed that the Council on American Islamic Relations had infiltrated Capitol Hill by placing interns as…

RD Response to Fox Crit of White Supremacy in Yoga Engages in Victim Blaming

By Rumya Putcha

…who initially belittled Gandhi and Wolff in the comments section on Foxnews.com and elsewhere. To be sure, by referencing her own work Jain enacts a version of what Edward Said once famously critiqued as the “citationary” nature of Orientalism and its reliance on “antecedent authority” to maintain White supremacist hegemony. For the past thirty years, critical race scholars like Richard Delgado have described this sort of gate-keeping as “imperial…

Tiger’s Confession: Maybe Marriage Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

By Anthea Butler

…is banned, and singleness is looked upon as a curse to be cured with Match.com or Eharmony. It is striking that many of the news commentaries lament that Tiger had everything: a beautiful wife, kids and a great career. Clearly, given his serial philandering, he had some issues, none of which were solved by marriage. In fact, marriage probably brought them to the forefront. Clearly, Tiger’s inner frat boy pimp was still operational. In my estimati…

Want Marriage Equality? Follow the Money

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…se marriage equality for gay and lesbian people are interested in finding “common ground.” They aren’t, and the Glen Eyrie meetings should prove it. Anti-gay groups are more interested in continuing the fight – in moving their agenda forward. Even though some polls may show increased support for marriage equality when “religious freedom” clauses are inserted, these groups aren’t interested in such things. They’re looking for the annihilation of ga…

Updated: Gay Activist Beheaded in Uganda…
Is it a Hoax?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…missing after Uganda’s Martyrs Day early last month. According to AllAfrica.com, the day is celebrated “annually on June 3 in memory of 30 martyrs who died for their faith on the orders of Ssekabaka Mwanga 11 after they refused to denounce the Christian faith.” At a gathering to mark the day, Ugandan President Museveni blamed the West for homosexuality in Africa. ”Europeans are putting us under pressure because of homosexuality. They think we are…

Are Colored Eggs More
Easter-y than Cesar Chavez?

By Peter Anthony Mena

…hy is the latest in an ongoing attack on their faith. In a post on Townhall.com titled “Ponder Christian Soldiers Google’s Smirking War On You,” Colorado State Senator Shawn Mitchell decries the choice of a Chávez “doodle”: “Sure, no Christian was mocked, defamed, arrested, or persecuted. And heaven forbid any believer needs internet graphics to help bolster their faith. But hundreds of millions of Christians received the clearly intended message…

#ReinstateDocHawk: Wheaton Does Not Speak for Its Students

By Ellie Roth

…esent, and one that is tragically hurting American Muslims. https://twitter.com/christinefolch/status/677262569002811392 Many of my peers have impressed me over the past few days. I have witnessed prayer, courageous words and thoughtful actions like the #ReinstateDocHawk petition that’s almost at its goal of 15,000 signatures. I participated in a student-led sit-in at President Philip Ryken’s office where we broke into the final verse of “O Holy N…

Drop that Candy Bar, Pagan!

By Peter Montgomery

…against wimpy Christians who are more concerned about pastoral care than becoming an army of “warriors” dedicated to bringing about “kingdom rule” on the earth. Don’t despair if you can’t make it to Dallas, you can watch online starting at 7 p.m. Central. But if your kids really like candy, you can comfort yourself with the approach to Halloween taken by Mars Hill church, the authoritarian megachurch phenomenon associated with hipster homophobe Ma…

Podcast: Progressive Buddhist Hozan Alan Senauke

By Robert P. Jones

…and Buddhist Leaders are Moving Beyond the Culture Wars and Transforming American Public Life. The book is available for pre-order from Amazon.com and will be in bookstores nationwide in August 2008….