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Supreme Court Rules Religion is Special… This Time

…“no logical difference in kind” between a religious group—such as The Good News Club, an after-school program of religious instruction for children that spends much of its time praying, singing hymns, and learning the evangelical gospel—and a soccer team. The same logic was applied in a set of rulings that, at least for a time, required that New York City schools opened to the community after-hours should make themselves available as rent-free hou…

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Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

…he law and gushed that “the Russians might be the Christian saviors to the world.” The World Congress of Families is a global collection of culture warriors that oppose legal abortion, legal recognition of LGBT rights, and comprehensive sex education. The WCF has a long relationship with Russian politicians, oligarchs, religious leaders, and “pro-family” politicians, what one reporter has called “a Bible Belt-to-Kremlin collaboration around its an…

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White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

…orters’ violent White Supremacist tantrum at the Capitol. Thinking of the TrumperTantrum as White Supremacist isn’t to claim that all people there were overt White Supremacists in their beliefs. Presumably many were not, even if they happily marched among Confederate flags or horrific “Camp Auschwitz” and “6MWE” (i.e. 6 million wasn’t enough) shirts. As Adam Serwer explains, the storming of Congress and the lies that incited it were themselves an…

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Declining Southern Baptists Double Down on Homophobia

…ngeles for changing its anti-gay stance after pastor (a word the Christian news puts in scare quotes) Danny Cortez’s 15-year-old-son came out as gay. Instead of condemning his gay son and casting him out from the church and his family (which I suppose the SBC would have seen as the Christ-like thing to do), Cortez loved and accepted his son. Mohler was further enraged by the church’s move to, y’know, love and accept their pastor (or “pastor,” as t…

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Does the Historical Jesus Matter?

…ers are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.” (Mt. 11:5: Crossan observes that in the context of grinding oppression, the most miraculous item in this list is that the poor are learning that God has good news for them.) And then there is the radical nonviolence. Jesus is certainly among the great axial age figures who invites us to explore and apply the immense power of nonviolent direct action….

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Openly Gay Mormon Appointed to LDS Church Leadership Position

…leaders have positions analogous to those of priests, pastors, and rabbis, news of Mayne’s calling is having an impact, revealing continuing divisions among Mormons and questions about evolving Mormon views on homosexuality. There is, in fact, no consensus Mormon view on homosexuality. While most Mormons view homosexual sexual activity as a sin, Church leaders have expressed divergent perspectives on LGBT issues, ranging from condemnatory and deri…

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Do iPads Cause Religious Experiences?

…s than he did on other gizmos and gadgets. This shouldn’t be a surprise—he runs an Apple-news website, and makes a living tracking the product releases, updates, and rumors associated with the brand. “Enhanced visual attention” should be expected in the brains of any other experts, from fashion designers to cell biologists to shepherds shown pictures of sheep among other animals.  At most, Calvert’s experiments seem to show a correlation between v…

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Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

…nished, and the public policy implications thereof. “[T]here are clearly structural factors that enable sexual abuse, including patriarchal power structures,” she said. However, “sexual abuse is also so incredibly common but also so sensationalized that we will see it (or not see it ) however we are primed to, by our prior experiences.” Common is right: according to the Department of Justice, in the United States 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls are s…

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Premature “Gay Marriage Defeated” Post Removed from National Review

…tion that had defeated marriage equality in New York. Strangely enough, no news outlets were reporting the defeat of marriage equality. A few hours after NOM’s claim, CBS news reported that negotiations over the scope of the religious exemption—reportedly the sticking point for a number of Republicans in the state senate—were still moving forward. Looks like NOM’s eagerness to declare victory got a bit ahead of the facts. Peters’ premature proclam…

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Tea Party=
Religious Right=
Unpopular

…us right just because they need it to form a coalition—they are it.” In February, Pew released a survey which similarly found the overlap, too. And today, in an interesting piece in The Awl, Abe Sauer, who spent two years with the Tea Party, concludes: “I finally know what the Tea Party wants: A Christian nation.” Digby concludes, drawing on Putnam and Campbell, thatt’s good news that the Tea Party brand has lost its luster,” even if it’s just the

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