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Catholic Prof Teaches that Same-Sex Marriage is Violation of ‘Natural Law’

By Mary E. Hunt

…ic Thought which he founded as part of the UI’s St. John’s Catholic Newman Center. The whole operation received funding from the Catholic Diocese of Peoria. He taught courses at the university with his salary paid by the Institute. Patricia Gibson, Chancellor of the diocese, said “We funded the position so he could teach at the UI. He has been told he cannot teach these classes in the future.” So he was also let go from the Institute/Newman Center…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…rals do believe in something, whether it’s the 19th century variety or the American left-of-center variety. But it doesn’t seek to impose a particular belief on society at large. And that’s in some ways held against it by those who want society to be overtly Christian, or kick the Muslims out. Can you say something about the new culture wars, or kulturkampf, in Europe now—about multiculturalism versus the defenders of “enlightenment values”? The…

Disingenuous Pleas for “Common Ground” on Religious Liberty Aren’t Likely to Find Any

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…profit Faith in Public Life. But then, in a slippery Beltway appeal to the center, Gehring quickly adds: “If conservatives need to do some soul searching about how they often set back the important cause of religious liberty, progressives also need a better approach that fosters dialogue and common ground instead of division.” Yet Gehring offers just one example of that purported divisiveness. And, in order to give this single example even a chanc…

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…novels of Jane Austin are any indication, such bookish encounters were not centered on didactic performances for passive listeners, but were rather fully interactive engagements that enlarged any given book into a much wider social “text.” That is, as scholars have been reminding us for a very long time by now, private reading and the linear thinking that Carr so values as essential for deep, contemplative thought did not feature much in the lives…

Court Rules Against Texas Education Employee Forced To Resign Over Forwarded Email

By Lauri Lebo

…agency e-mail account in late 2007 to forward a message from the National Center for Science Education, under the subject heading “FYI.” An official, outraged over the email, demanded that Comer resign from her position. The issue? The email was about an upcoming talk by Barbara Forrest, a philosopher of science and one of the creationists’ most hated enemies. Forrest wrote, along with her co-author Paul R. Gross, Creationism’s Trojan Horse, a da…

Pamela Geller in Brooklyn: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Futility of Arguing with a Bigot

By Haroon Moghul

…lakis of anti-Muslim terrorism. 6:44 Brooklyn College needed a new student center twenty-five years ago. Thank God they’re not wasting public funds on this. 6:46 The front few rows have been occupied by a largely greying audience, and will spend much of the event looking like jilted retirees. The rest of the room seethes with oppositional energy, buzzing, unable to stand let alone sit still. I get it, because fifteen years back, I was them. Which…

Texas Woman Opposes Divorce Citing ‘Blood Covenant’; Will Anti-Sharia Law Get in the Way?

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…ign laws and foreign legal doctrines, especially Islamic Shariah Law”; the American Freedom Law Center, which, according to its website, “aggressively seeks to advance and defend our Nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage”; and ACT for America. The term “sharia law” is itself a misnomer, as sharia is not a codified system of laws but, as Amina Wadud wrote for RD back in 2011: [Shari’ah] is really a lot like the Tao, or like Zen. It is the way, but not…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…what they believe in. Four years after PPRM’s new headquarters and health center opened in Denver, contractors who built it are still picketed at their homes on holidays (including by the Masons, Kekoas, Enyart, and other Colorado for Life affiliates). One pro-life website links, under the heading of “blood workers,” to photographs of the contractors, as well as PPRM staff and security. So far in 2012 PPRM averages 19 incident reports per month,…

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…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…ited States. On that same episode, Dr. Don, founder of the Divine Wellness Center, and Mary Colbert, author and prophet, said that the spirit of the anti-Christ is on Hillary Clinton. Little of what Bakker and his guests are saying about Trump is unique. Where Bakker stands out from the crowd, though, is his willingness to use the election to hawk his goods. Certainly, media outlets—most notably Breitbart, but also CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC—seem to…