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Daily News Corrects JR Smith’s “Fool[ish]” Slavery/Black Friday Post… Incorrectly

By Evan Derkacz

…s’ Jaime Uribarri drags Smith through the mud by recounting the cruelty of online critics: “You’re a f——— idiot” was one of the the more blunt responses to the head-scratcher of a post, while others, like Twitter user @j_weech1, tried enlightening Smith about the true meaning of the term. “It’s called Black Friday because businesses get into the black (profit) for the year, because it’s the biggest day.” Unfortunately for Uribarri, who clearly bel…

Free Will, Fate and FiveThirtyEight: The Theology of Election Polls

By Alan Levinovitz and Michael Schulson

…Chinese philosophy and religion at James Madison University, got together online to chat about fate, uncanniness, and prophecy as spectator sport. Michael Schulson: I’ll confess: I check Nate Silver’s odds obsessively. Am I alone in this compulsion? Alan Levinovitz: No. I check the Vegas odds. MHS: Vegas! Are the bookmakers better than Silver? AL: No. At least I don’t think so. But I don’t like the idea of Nate Silver (or his team) as some kind o…

The ObamaCare “Abortion Fee” Hoax

By Patricia Miller

…and some states such as Connecticut are still bringing the complying plan online. Significantly, the ADF is the legal group that represented the town of Greece, NY, in theTown of Greece v. Galloway Supreme Court case. As with the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood (which ADF also represents) contraception mandate case, this suit brings together high-profile political objections from the Catholic bishops, a well-funded conservative public interest law…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…anti-gay “propaganda” law that had been brought against the creators of an online support group for gay teenagers. The Washington Blade reported this week that activists fear that, with the Olympic spotlight no longer on Russia, human rights activists are worried that lawmakers will consider a bill that would take children away from gay parents. Slovakia: Activists in Uphill Battle Anti-Gay Revision to Constitution According to ILGA-Europe, the Sl…

Oscar Watch: Why Spike Jonze’s Her Is Not About Technology

By Daniel Pecchenino

Spike Jonze’s Her, up for best picture at this Sunday’s Oscars, has both fierce backers as well as disgruntled critics: hard to be neutral, perhaps, about a movie that wants to tell us so much about ourselves. In a brief essay for Slate, Anna Shechtman blasts the film for failing “to present us with a single convincing female character—one whose subjectivity and sexuality exist independent of the film’s male protagonist or its male viewers.” But,…

Promise Keepers Launches Effort to Support Messianic Jews in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…didn’t report what happened inside. (There is, however, video of the event online.) There appear to be no such concerns about secrecy around the Promise Keepers event, given its efforts to publicize it months in advance. Jesse said the group had held meetings with representatives of Israel’s Ministry of Tourism, who were “very supportive,” and had a meeting scheduled with Jerusalem’s mayor. Jesse was very clear that the event is aimed at bolsterin…

For Love or Threat: Pro-Life Prayer Includes Names, Photos of Abortion-Rights Advocates

By Alana Massey

Watching the abortion debate play out online rather than in real life, it can appear to the casual observer that violence and threats are primarily things of the past—a vague and dark period of the early 1990s sandwiched between Waco and Mogadishu. But with an impending Supreme Court decision over clinic buffer zones and large numbers of clinics shutting down in the face of new regulations, hostilities between activists outside abortion clinics h…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…gious. Cathy Lynn Grossman, formerly at USA Today and now at Religion News Service, tweeted, “I’ve only worked in secular media where the newsrooms were full of believers.” There’s a difference, obviously, between being religious and being capable of writing intelligently about religion; it’s the latter that is most critical in a religion reporter, not the former. But I saw complaints in the Twitter chat that mainstream media treat their religious…

Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…r LGBT persons from taking up HIV education, prevention treatment and care services and also hinder the ability of government as well as civil society and religious groups from implementing such services. She called on authorities to observe a “moratorium on prosecution”. In response, Justice Minister Mohammed Bello Adoke said the law’s focus was discouraging same-sex marriage. The New York Times published an op ed by Denver David Robinson, whose…

The Mormon Version of Infallibility

By Holly Welker

…he health of its members as individuals. “Utah has the highest rate in the country of online porn consumption, mental illness, and passive-aggression,” he says. “For a state to lead in any one of those pathologies is enough for me to step back and say, ‘Hey, what’s going wrong here?’ But for Utah to lead in all three markers is persuasive evidence that we have serious things wrong in our culture.” Part of the pathology is summed up by Dallin H. Oa…