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Engle Supports “Principled Stand” of Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill Promoters

By Sarah Posner

…ve its own voice. Gender rights, will trump religious rights. I think it’s wrong, it’s not good for society. Those are the statements I came with, so frankly I was quite surprised to be thrown into this huge controversy.” It speaks volumes that Engle was surprised that calling homosexuality “wrong,” saying it can “sweep” into an educational system, can cause the church to “lose its privilege,” and will “trump religious rights” would be controversi…

A Comedy Writer Confronts ‘Mind-Shredding Evil’ in Uganda

By Frederick Clarkson

…to meet John Prendergast. He wasn’t just hot; he was wise. I wondered how wrong it would be to sit on his knee during the interview.” Bussmann found in Prendergast a dashing romantic interest; “his eyes red from saving the world.” While her pursuit of Prendergast by way of pursuing Kony became “the worst date ever” of the book’s title, he is generous about her work. She has the capacity, he said, to school people about “some of the worst human ri…

Mitt, Moochers, and Mormonism’s “Other” Legacy

By Mary Barker

…zing much of the priesthood” (Mormon men), he argued. “To have been on the wrong side of the freedom issue during the war in heaven meant eternal damnation,” and nothing less hangs in the balance today. The “choice spirits” take the lead, he cajoled; they don’t wait “to be commanded in all things.” After all, the prophecy did not say that the Church would save the Constitution, but rather that the “elders of Israel” would. “What are you waiting fo…

Torture Denial: U.S. Flunks the Religious Acid Test

By Peter Laarman

…S. on account of these dark deeds. Like a child who knows that he has done wrong, behaved shamefully, we expect to get a deserved spanking. We are particularly ashamed of how we ditched our morality during a period of panic. There’s much more going on here than mere embarrassment. But there have been no major incidents of anti-U.S. violence anywhere in the world so far. And why? Perhaps because the rest of the world already knows things about us t…

Expelled: Christian Student Claims Discrimination, But Judge Says No

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

A federal judge has ruled that a Michigan university did nothing wrong when it removed a Christian student from its graduate counseling program because her belief that homosexuality is wrong led her to refuse to work with gay and lesbian clients. US District Judge George Caram Steeh dismissed (Julea) Ward’s lawsuit against Eastern Michigan University. She was removed from the school’s counseling program last year because she refused to counsel h…

The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark

By Jay Michaelson

…the H-word—the Holocaust. Is the core lesson that “hatred and bigotry are wrong,” or that “hatred of Jews is wrong”? The ADL generally tries to have it both ways. On the one hand, they give more than lip service to combating bigotry where they find it: they have serious programs on civil rights and immigration, among other issues. On the other hand, by mission and by donor composition, they are focused on Jewish issues specifically. Their directo…

Beck Condemns “Bigotry for Sport” in New York

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus—band—Do, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, ‘Yeah, I’d kill Michael Moore,’ and then I’d see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I’d realize, ‘Oh, you wouldn’t kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn’t choke him to death.’ And you know, well, I’m not sure.” Yeah, perhaps that’s…

From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

…on structure for possible political violence enacted against anyone on the wrong side of Donald Trump, by marking them, not just as a political threat to Trump, but as a threat—a physical threat—to the safety of the families of their viewers. In case this message was too subtle, Carlson added: “I feel like we’re being pushed towards Civil War.” Pushed towards—notice the passive form. Any violence from the pro-Trump side, in this framing, is merely…

Why Amy Coney Barrett’s Religion is Fair Game

By John Stoehr

…ls mean well (to be clear, in presuming this, I’m being generous), they’re wrong. They assume, for one thing, that religion and politics can be disentangled. Sometimes they can be. Sometimes they can’t. For another, these liberals behave as if politics is somehow taking religion hostage. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote Monday night: “When politicians use faith as an excuse to pass and uphold laws that seize control of people’s bodies…

Dear Pew, What of Jewish Agnostics?

By Naomi Seidman

…ew. Who are you, Pew Forum, to tell me that Jews aren’t (often, in sizable numbers, famously, proudly) atheists/agnostics? Or that atheists/agnostics aren’t (often, in sizable numbers, famously, proudly) Jews? Happy belated Sukkot, Pew. *And what’s up with adding “agnostic”? Doesn’t that just mean people who aren’t all that sure? Does that mean that all those other people who checked a box (including “Jews”!) are so sure? Really? Could that be bec…