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What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…urned out” on beltway politics, Mero eventually made his way to the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society in Rockford, Illinois, where he was invited to help lead a then-nascent gathering of faith-based anti-LGBT “pro-family” groups—which would eventually become the World Congress of Families (WCF). For the uninitiated, the WCF is, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an annual gathering that “pursues an international anti-choic…

Suicide Bombers and the Prozac God: A Review of Dying for Heaven

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ve.” (Even if Hezbollah has curtailed its suicide bombings, does anyone in American or Israeli intelligence think that they have been reduced as a regional, and possibly transregional threat?) The real danger, according to Glucklich, is interior: “small scale groups that center on a spiritual master—a Sufi shaykh, for instance—are potentially annihilative”—and thus to be more feared than their Hindu and Jewish counterparts. Why? The logic is serpe…

Religion Scholars Convene, Have Nowhere to Sit

By Ivan Strenski

…ly appeared, what space would it occupy? Lobbies don’t exist in convention centers. Hotels lavish wasteful public spaces—“lobbies”—for people to sit and talk; convention centers don’t. There are simply no places carved out for informal sitting and talking in the vast, vacant corridors of these complexes, better suited for massing extras for a sci-fi battle scene. Convention centers excel at funneling vast hordes of corporate factotums into even va…

ACLU, LGBT Rights Groups Drop ENDA Support Over Religious Exemption

By Sarah Posner

…ies Union, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Transgender Law Center this afternoon announced their withdrawal of support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), because of the inclusion of a religious exemption in the current version of the bill. In a joint statement, the groups said that in light of “the types of workplace discrimination we see increasingly against LGBT pe…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…alk his way in. By then a torrent of rain had descended on the Times Union Center and I had no choice but to hang out in front until it stopped. That’s where I learned that the ticket prices had been reduced to $25 and I seriously thought about just buying one; but after about an hour a woman, who had been milling around, suddenly decided she wasn’t going in and offered me her ticket. Even then there was a drawn out decision as to whether to admit…

In a Field of Anti-Science Candidates, Santorum Sets Himself Apart

By Lauri Lebo

…Dover, the school board’s attorney Richard Thompson of the Thomas More Law Center tried to make the argument that federal law recommended that students learn alternatives to evolution such as the teaching of intelligent design. At the time, Santorum was an advisor to the Thomas More Law Center and had even written an editorial endorsing the school board’s actions. Recently, the Dover Area School District in York County updated their biology curric…

Do Sheriffs Actually Have the Power to Disrupt Elections?

By Cloee Cooper

…is limited. According to a recent fact sheet from States United Democracy Center and Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), sheriffs do not have the authority to oversee elections. State laws dictate the extent of a sheriff’s power to investigate voter fraud, and while some states allow sheriffs to deputize citizens or form “posses,” these powers are typically constrained by law. It’s worth…

By the Way: John the Baptist?

By Randall Balmer

…altar, with the pulpit on the side, whereas in a Baptist church the visual center is the pulpit; the altar (or “communion table”) is rarely used. Accordingly, the climax of the worship service in a Baptist church is the sermon, while everything in Episcopal worship culminates in the Holy Eucharist. If the pews are filled, you’re probably in a Baptist church. Sadly, if there are a lot of empty seats and a lot of grey hair, it’s likely you stumbled…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e Church complained and appeared to suggest it might boycott the company’s services. According to 9News, “Telstra currently holds contracts for all the Catholic schools in Australia.” After many customers complained that the company had caved to pressure from the church, Telstra said it had not changed its position in favor of equality but would refrain from public advocacy during the proposed plebiscite to give everyone “an opportunity to contrib…

Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence

By Sara Kamali

…ially in light of the recent evaluation by the Joint Regional Intelligence Center, a DHS-funded fusion center, that their influence is “diminished.” It’s naiveté to believe that de jure law will translate into de facto equity; however, the current inequities also must not stand. White nationalists in the court of law The unequal designations and sentencing of Americans as two categories of terrorists are also apparent in the categorization of weap…