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Birther Criticism Causes Computer Brain Freeze on Daily Show

By Julie Ingersoll

…up about questioning something that Obama has said as fact, ‘I was born in Hawaii, when it was the United States.’” For the record, global warming opponents are upset at being compared to birthers. But everyone can just take it easy on the question of President Obama’s citizenship because Jon Stewart (beginning at about 3:05 in the video below) put the whole thing to rest last week in his “Watson”-inspired interview of Republican computer presid…

Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…access to the long form certificate and to request on that basis that the Hawaii State Department of Health make an exception to release a copy of his long form birth certificate. They granted that exception in part because of the tremendous volume of requests they had been getting. President Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate can be seen here (PDF). As I write this, the president is on my television, an extraordinary political moment, th…

A Buddhist and a Hindu Walk into the Congress…

By Joanna Piacenza

…emocrat Tulsi Gabbard became the first Hindu in Congress—both representing Hawaii. These women have been credited with bringing religious pluralism to our elected leadership; currently, 85% of Congress is Catholic or Protestant. But then again, according to Pew, roughly 75% of Americans self-identify with those two denominations, while Buddhism grabs 0.7% and Hinduism 0.4%. So as groundbreaking as it is that we have two minority religions represen…

Religious Freedom Battle Is Far From Over: Here’s What to Look for in 2019

By Patrick Hornbeck

…s and administrative regulations sought religious exemptions in increasing numbers. The Little Sisters of the Poor, the owners of the Hobby Lobby chain, various Christian colleges and universities, and wedding florists, photographers, and cake-bakers have all advanced such claims. It’s clear that this issue is here to stay. The year that just ended saw the opening of new fronts in the legal battles over religious freedom. In 2018, the Supreme Cour…

New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense

By Kelli D. Potter

…p stop gay marriage. It was released during the fight over gay marriage in Hawaii in the 1990s. The church needed a theological document to justify its participation in the legal case. But why did they care? To understand this one must understand that the gender binary is used to impose a strict division of labor in the church between men and women that goes all the way down to the level of the family. This division gives men the bulk of the insti…

Religion in Real Time on CNN’s “Believer”: A Conversation with Reza Aslan

By Kaya Oakes

…in India to Vodou in Haiti, from the doomsday cult of “JeZus with a Z” in Hawaii to Scientology in America and Santa Muerte in Mexico, the series takes viewers on an intriguing, and sometimes harrowing, tour of religion in real time—as far from orthodoxy as you can get. A couple of weeks ahead of the show’s March 5th premiere, Reza and I talked about the decline of religious literacy, Santa Muerte and immigration, why institutional religion is re…

The “Religious Freedom” Issue That May Cost the Accused Boston Bomber His Life

By Anthony Santoro

…the state’s six million residents identify as Catholic, however, a sizable number of potential jurors—those who follow the Church’s teaching on capital punishment—are likely to be excluded from jury service for their religious beliefs.1 This regularly happens in capital trials across the country, and it’s important to reflect on this case to highlight both the potential Establishment Clause problem and a remedy to that problem. The basics of crimi…

WHO IS JEW RUN FOR PREZDNET?

By Evan Derkacz

…est it. When you see “Muslim” replace it with “Jew” or “Christian” (or any number of other affiliations) and ask yourself how you’d feel about receiving an anonymous e-mail with purple, tortured grammar, asking questions that are all fairly easy to answer with Google. My sample below is Jewish, because I received a version of the email from a Jewish listserv. This was my response along with a short note: “We Jews, of all people, should understand…

2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think

By Annika Brockschmidt

…seemed to echo Russian propaganda. Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democrat from Hawaii, claimed that the Biden administration and NATO were “waging a proxy war through Ukraine against Russia,” painting NATO as the aggressor and claiming that Biden wants “World War 3”—a theme that Trump would later pick up in his closing speech. Gabbard further declared that Biden and his allies would be on board with WW3, “because they have the bunkers’,” unlike normal…

End-of-Life Lessons from The Walking Dead

By Ann Neumann

…a lawmakers sat through pleas to keep aid in dying legal in their state, a number of local television stations had their regular programming hacked. A ticker scrolled across the top of KRTV’s broadcast of The Steve Wilkos Show in all caps, like an emergency weather alert. A dark and distorted voice announced: Authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. Do not attempt to…