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An Extravagant Welcome For All: Believe Out Loud, a Faith-Based LGBT Campaign, Launches

By Peter Laarman

…or and longtime director of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion and Faith Program, also appreciates the way organizers of Believe Out Loud have tried to build it as a big tent with resources that every part of the movement can adapt and use in their own way. Says Knox: LGBT people, their families and friends are calling for full inclusion in the life of the church. Clergy, too, are hearing their call for justice and hearing God’s call to leadersh…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…power to block or remove materials and events that they deem to be age-inappropriate in matters of sexuality and gender identity Potential criminal penalties for failure to comply include a fine or up to a year in jail for librarians and defunding of the library by the state. Parental Review and Consent for [Sex-Education] Participation Act—Requires parental review of and consent for their minor children’s participation in public school system sex…

A Post-Christian America? Not Quite—Though Devoutly to be Wished

By Peter Laarman

…to Meacham’s piece: 1) There’s got to be a connection between the smaller number of people, especially young people, wishing to claim the name “Christian” and the cultural prevalence of toxic forms of Christianity in recent years—and there’s growing anecdotal evidence to support such a connection; 2) If conservative Christians are losing adherents and losing cultural power, why are the Democrats so intent on cultivating them—on fighting the last…

Life as a Game Show: Reading Slumdog Millionaire

By Paul Courtright

…is also a very Indian film faithful to the Bollywood aesthetic formula. It produces a number of rasa, “tastes,” in the viewer: heroism, humor, disgust, eros, fear, and tranquility. The final dance scene on the train platform pays homage to the familiar Bollywood genre. The musical score crackles with energy. There are any number of reasons why Slumdog has emerged as one of this year’s favorites among American audiences. Perhaps the Oscar nominatio…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…t by the European Court of Human Rights, which illustrates just one of the practical problems same-sex couples encounter due to institutional discrimination. Same-sex couples, just like opposite-sex couples, often like to live together and should have equal access to this right.” “The ruling shows the way forward for the EU, and beyond. Discriminatory provisions still prevent same-sex couples, often with children, to exercise their right to freedo…

The Abortion Debate, Texas Style

By Dhawn Martin

…d to push through the proceedings, while rebuffing charges of procedural impropriety. Democrats pressed Laubenberg to consider amendments to her bill that would ameliorate its more draconian measures; the author rejected these overtures. One side charged the other with changing constitutional standards; that side accused the other of trading in idle speculation as to supposed outcomes of the bill, outcomes that some argue would leave only five abo…

The Fretting About Whether Democrats Are “Friendly” To Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ealth care bill. From Pew: After peaking at 38% in mid-2008 during Obama’s presidential election campaign, the number of Americans describing the Democratic Party as friendly toward religion returned in mid-2009 to levels similar to those seen in 2005 through 2007. About one-in-five say Democrats are unfriendly toward religion (22%), up from 15% who felt that way last year but about the same as in surveys conducted in 2005 and 2006. Views of the D…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…e movement and American atheism. Stedman models an atheism that while uncompromising in its principles is also warm towards and respectful of religious believers—a striking shift from the hard-hitting argumentation of the New Atheist movement—and ends up humanizing atheism while he’s at it. New Atheists—Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and so on—have been all about the polemic. But you chose to write in a very different genre:…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…r, CRM, fed up with attacks on Christians and Jesus, announced that it had produced a program titled Is Jesus God? which would air on a number of television stations (mostly religious) across the country. “It is just amazing what God has done in history, and we as Christians need to know this information because our faith is challenged,” said Dr. Jerry Newcombe, senior producer of The Coral Ridge Hour. “But it’s challenged by baseless feelings and…

When God and Gender Mix: New Book Examines the Southern Holiness Movement

By Colin Chapell

…st academic historians want to write a best-selling, Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize-winning work with the prose skills of Michael Chabon! I don’t know if there’s a specific book out there that I wish I had written. For me, I want to improve my craft all the time. That being said, Gail Bederman’s Manliness & Civilization and Matthew Frye Jacobson’s Barbarian Virtues are two of the most influential books for me, so I’d have loved to have written those!…