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ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…t Amendment has any meaning, it is that the government cannot suppress the free speech because it — or anyone else — disagrees with the speech.” The Thomas More Law Center has pledged to file a suit on Jones’ behalf. By the way, I’ve seen TMLC in action. Its lawyers defended the Dover school board in Kitzmiller v Dover. If Jones has any brains at all – and I’m not saying he does – he’ll get on the phone to the ACLU right now, begging its attorneys…

Should Evangelicals Smoke Pot?

By Eric C. Miller

…, Crouch says this: We at Christianity Today believe Christians are absolutely free to use marijuana (where legalized). And, when it comes to pot in our particular cultural context, we think it would be foolish to use that freedom. For the CT editors, the moral quality of marijuana use seems to depend entirely upon the “cultural context” in which it occurs. And since our particular context is not conducive to marijuana use, marijuana use would be…

Jerusalem Honors Right-Wing Mogul Sheldon Adelson

By Diane Winston

…and “deeply offensive to Palestinians.” They ought to be offensive to Israelis as well, but Adelson is doing his best to spread the message through Israel HaYom (Israel Today), a free tabloid that is the country’s must-read news outlet. Adelson told reporters at the Jerusalem gathering that he does not dictate the newspaper’s coverage or editorials, but that both reflect his point of view and that of his close friend, Prime Minister Benjamin Neta…

The Sacred and the Dead: How an Iranian-Jewish Angeleno Discovered Her Tribe

By Saba Soomekh

…ly, where they were part of the fabric of Iranian society, and where they felt free to practice their religion. With the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the consequent fall of Mohammad Reza Shah and the Pahlavi dynasty, 70,000 Iranian Jews fled the newly forming Islamic country and flocked to the United States, with Los Angeles having the highest concentration of Iranians in the United States. This is where my story begins. It was 1978 and my paren…

‘Son Worry’ and the Hypocrisy of the ‘Purity’ Movement

By Patricia Miller

…ns are rare and since son-panickers have made little effort to distinguish between those decrying baseless allegations and those looking to excuse “boys will be boys” behaviors, it makes much more sense to focus on the latter. With that in mind, what about all those Ross Douthat paeans to the lost “structures of suburban bourgeois Christian morality,” which led to “drunken teenage parties in the suburbs and hard-core pornography in Times Square”?…

The Devil is in the Details

By Amina Wadud

…e things that need to go in a suitcase but you use them every day. Fortunately, I have all those nifty scent-free products; as far as most of the cosmetics go, I don’t use those on a daily basis. But other things, like toothpaste, I’m not really planning on using a travel size since mine is pretty small anyway. The other things are my medications—the ones I take every day I have to take every day and then pack so I have access to them while in tra…

Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column

By Daniel Schultz

…ce. If you’re a media type who feels unnecessarily or unfairly skewered, feel free to respond at dan@religiondispatches.org with your side of the story. If you’ve got a point I’ll say so in print. (If you don’t, I may note that as well.) Readers are also welcome to send perspectives, tips, or suggestions. It’ll be like Rod Dreher’s mailbox—except not made up. Meeting the critical moment requires answering basic questions: Is a particular story acc…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…y dole out charity. However well motivated, providing soup kitchens and homeless shelters can never meet all of the need; but more importantly, it doesn’t do anything to confront the psychological and moral devastation faced by those without the prospect of meaningful, self-supporting work. Putting America to Work The underlying logic of the New Deal was that society had an obligation to offer aid to persons denied the opportunity to be self-suppo…

Why Won’t Conservatives Call Gay-Bashing a Hate Crime?

By Eric Reitan

…break down, ideologues experience it as a threat to their self-worth and feel compelled to “take matters into their own hands,” often through bursts of overt violence. But what all of this means is that to label homophobic violence a hate crime is to label it as more than just an isolated violent act by some antisocial nut. Acknowledging that gay bashing is a hate crime does more than just say that gay-bashing is wrong. It says that a dangerous id…

Is Pope Francis Yogaphobic?

By Andrea R. Jain

…yoga, which he suggested was “unsavoury.” Colhoun joins this yogaphobic maelstrom and, unfortunately, drags Francis in with him. He recently warned that yoga leads to the “Kingdom of Darkness” and draws people toward “Satan and the fallen angels” by distorting the words of Francis: Pope Francis said ‘do not seek spiritual answers in yoga classes’. Yoga is certainly a risk. There’s the spiritual health risk. When you take up those practices from o…