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Megachurch Pastor: We’re “American Al Qaeda” for Opposing Homosexuality

By Tom Bartlett

…on homosexuality with the following syllogism: sex outside of marriage is wrong, God said marriage is between a man and a woman, therefore gay sex and gay marriage are wrong. But he was quick to name-check other sins and to note that he had been a “fornicator,” i.e. sexually active while single, back before he was saved. “I will not be baited into picking on homosexuals,” he said. But why not? I grew up in conservative evangelical churches in the…

Did Romney Cynically Cite His Mormon Faith for Impeachment Vote as Critics Claim?

By Daniel Schultz

…ke people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,” the president sniffed (literally). “Nor do I like people who say ‘I pray for you’ when they know that’s not so,” an apparent swipe at Nancy Pelosi. Fox & Friends, being who they are, were quick to get Trump’s back: [Fox & Friends co-host Brian] Kilmeade balked at the suggestion that Romney’s faith had to do with his conviction vote. “For him to bring religion into t…

Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…also about how we can manage to live with people we think are dangerously wrong about important matters. For political liberals like me, it’s about the challenge of loving the blockheads all around us. In previous years, I sympathized with Linus’s earnest, countercultural faith in the Great Pumpkin, a benevolent, all-knowing gourd he hopes to meet on Halloween night. While the rest of the Peanuts gang enjoy the worldly goods of trick-or-treating,…

A Profanity-Laden Sermon for White People Who Want to Talk About Race

By Daniel Schultz

…the rules, the “virtues” that make for a good society. He’s praying to the wrong god. Sure, he dresses it up with language about “distorting history” or “individuals making choices,” but it’s the same old hymn: it follows the rules of God, or it gets the Hell again. Follow the rules! Any time you lay rules on someone, you’re putting a burden on them. That’s not fair to those who suffer, obviously. When someone mourns the loss of a loved one, and t…

Israel Votes to Limit Sheldon Adelson

By Sarah Posner

…man said here today,” Adelson told the audience. “He said ‘we look for the wrong, to tell the people what’s wrong in life. Are they insane from that? Yeah, they’re mad.’ That’s not professional journalism.” This statement, attributed to me by Adelson, was never uttered during the panel discussion. There are legitimate questions, of course, about the serious problems involved in a government limiting the distribution of media, and about laws that t…

Vatican: Gay Rights Opponents are Real Victims

By Joseph M. Palacios

…st as the Church finally acknowledged slavery and racial segregation to be wrong and finally recognized full equality for black people, it can acknowledge that homophobia and sexual orientation discrimination and violence are wrong and recognize that sexual orientation and gender identity are social realities in our complex world. Otherwise, the Church lends legitimacy to violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Church is not…

Anti-Gay Tour Organizer Comes Out for Gay Marriage, Renounces Hate

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…try jumping ship like this—Marinelli still believes that “homosexuality is wrong.” My transition from an opponent of same-sex marriage to a supporter does not mean I suddenly think homosexuality is a good thing. I personally disagree with it. The same way I disagree with many other things other people do with their lives. That doesn’t give me or anyone else the right to prevent homosexuals from being homosexuals or to take away their constitutiona…

Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…at particular moral values are. He also gave reasons why Harris’s book was wrong. It was an intentionally narrow agenda. Nearly the entire time afterward, the two talked past each other. Each accused the other of misrepresentations and red herrings, then pushed on so as not to lose the offensive. “Allowing yourself to get led around the nose by a person like Craig is a losing strategy,” Harris says. In his twenty-minute opening speech, he laid out…

Material(ist) Girl: A Philosopher Argues Against the Soul

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ey have this profound conviction that they are right and everybody else is wrong. I think extremism can come in many forms. We see extremists in the environmental movement. We see extremists about food and nutrition. I think sometimes, this is wild speculation, but I think it’s all related. It almost doesn’t matter what the ideology is, but people with a certain temperament fall into some ideology and then they’re willing to do terrible things. Th…

Not God’s Army: The Front Lines of the Fight Against Proselytizing in the U.S. Military

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…zed within the ranks for resisting the proselytizing. Don’t get Weinstein wrong. He’s no bleeding heart liberal. He’s a registered Republican, and he worked as the Assistant General Counsel to the White House office of Administration under Ronald Reagan. He has a long history with the military and has seen both his sons, and a daughter-in-law go through the Academy. The payback for his work with MRFF has come in the form of about a dozen death th…