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UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

…insists also that a fundamental human right is the protection of religious freedom–namely, freedom of conscience, belief, and religion, including, alone and in community, in private and in public, the right to freedom of worship and practice, the right to manifest one’s religion, as well as the right of religious communities to religious education and to the full function and exercise of their religious duties, without any form of direct or indire…

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Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency

…he modern world using literalist religious beliefs. You also find symmetry between fundamentalist Christians and New Atheists: both think that truth claims need to be taken very seriously. How do you respond to the accusation that there is a fundamentalism to New Atheism, where science is often treated as an absolutist metaphysics? Well, absolutism is almost always a mild term of abuse. Nobody champions absolutism. Whenever anybody is called an ab…

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Sex and the Ummah

…say, well I disagree, or even, I think it is wrong; but then the matter is between the person and Allah. When your disagreement must put you between a person and Allah, you have just sunk as low as you can go. Nothing you can say or do would exonerate your perspective in my mind. It is true that there is much more work going on the issue of same-sex relations. There are nuanced interpretations of the Qur’an there are more thorough searches of hist…

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Electability of Biden is More ‘Conventional’—and Less ‘Wisdom’

…t even as he’s deepened pre-existing US military involvement in the Middle East. Biden, by contrast, was not only a key ally to the Bush administration in selling the Iraq War—something he continues to lie about when challenged—he’s supported military action in countries as far afield as the former Yugoslavia and Sudan, and was part of the administration that fought the disastrous war in Libya. A social conservative for much of his career, Biden’s…

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Hurricane Sandy Spawns Right-Wing Theodicy

…homosexual Mormon along with a pro-abortion/homosexual, Muslim Brotherhood promoter, Hard Left Fascist are running for president. And there is no cry of repentance from God’s people! I see this storm as a warning from the LORD to call His church to repentance, This might be the last call from the Holy God of Israel. Of course, all this insane talk completely disregards the actual science behind how hurricanes form. Hurricanes have no political age…

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Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

…ial dishes for offering to deities,” while modern varieties, the only kind promoted by the government, “are considered ‘impure’ for socio-cultural and religious ceremonies.” Faced with a soaring rate of Diabetes caused by the abandonment of traditional foods for “white” food products, the Tohono O’odham of the Sonora Desert have organized through communal institutions to support a return to their nearly extinct thousand-year-old former diet, write…

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It’s Time To Ordain Women—Again

…rgument must be made that these were (or were not) “real” ordinations. At least some churches in the East have decided that the ordinations of women deacons were “real.” For Roman Catholics, the jury on that question is still out. I saw recently that Paulist Press, your publisher, provided an opportunity for readers to buy copies for the US Catholic bishops. Do you expect that they’ll read the book? Phyllis Zagano (PZ): I think they will. My own b…

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Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

…ped from such aggressive documentary techniques is, if not a misnomer, at least misleading: this is “realness television”—not reality, but something closer to that religious terminology invoked by the MTV crew. This is television confessional. The subject, once put within the constraints of the filmmaker’s structure—put on a locomotive like the one used to transport Jews to the death camps, as in Lanzmann’s case, or locked in a luxury house with v…

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For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

…te is about the definition of citizenship. Immigration exposes the tension between an idea of citizenship as identity and citizenship as a category of legal belonging. In the former case, being a citizen means that one shares culture, language, history with the sovereign group. In the latter, citizenship means the ability and obligation to be part of the demos, the body of people who decide on law, are obligated by the law, and benefit from the la…

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Passover with Mohammed: A Jewish Journalist in Yemen

…a in the south, a story about drone strike in Marib, just two hours to the east, is also emerging. But lunch is a very important time in Yemen. Three other reporters join us and we order rice, salta—a traditional Yemeni lamb dish—chicken, soup and piles of fresh bread. Because of Pesach, I don’t touch the bread. I’m eating my salta with a spoon instead of scooping it with a handful of bread and Khalid raises his eyebrows. In Yemen, a meal without…

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