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Mass Bible-Based Sexual Dysfunction as Root of Culture Wars? Frank Schaeffer Breaks It Down

By Frank Schaeffer

…ion has treated and treats women and not be pissed off they have something wrong with them. So, yes, I intend on pissing off every misogynist homophobic religious conservative and/or empire-building neo-conservative imperialist supporter of our permanent war economy stuck in the ideological straightjacket that I used to so proudly wear. But I’d also like to plant a seed that changes a few minds. I hope that someday a few right wing evangelical’s a…

Pseudo-Historian David Barton in the Times and on The Daily Show

By Julie Ingersoll

…, Stewart, flipping through his index cards, says he feels like he got the wrong dossier to prep for the interview: “Here’s the story I have and you can tell me if I am entirely wrong like you have the whole time….” Near the end of the interview Stewart gets Barton to agree that he believes the public practice of religion should be left up to the local community. Stewart then asks so you believe that “in Dearborn Michigan …where it’s a majority Mu…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…my own reporting about The Family, which nobody gave a damn about until a number of Family members started getting caught in affairs. You know, did they care [that The Family was] providing lists of communists to Suharto for the genocide? Or about total war in Somalia? I remember a producer saying to me, and I kid you not: “What’s a Somalia?” What’s a Somalia? But! Oh, he had sex with someone he wasn’t married to! Who? Tell us more! We all have t…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…yle choice or phase and needed prayer. “This fundamentally says I was made wrong,” he told the synod. As a result of what he described as spiritual abuse, he suffered severe depression. John Sentamu, the archbishop of York, said conversion therapy was “theologically unsound, so the sooner the practice of [it] is banned, I can sleep at night”. Paul Bayes, the bishop of Liverpool, said LGBT orientation was neither a crime nor a sin. “We don’t need t…

Christocrat Competition

By Sarah Posner

…r Founding Fathers in the conception of religious liberty and the terribly wrong direction our modern judiciary has taken us. Everyone today seems to think the U.S. Constitution expressly provides for separation of church and state. I guess you could ask any 10 people if that is not so and I will bet you most of them will say, well, sure that is so. And some would point out that is in the First Amendment. Wrong. Miller then recommended the writing…

Paul Ryan’s Bible, Jim Wallis’, Or None of the Above?

By Sarah Posner

…d well be argued that some of these “faith leaders” have got it completely wrong on other issues. And on those issues—particularly LGBT rights and access to abortion and family planning services—these same progressives cheering the Christian anti-Ryanism would be hard-pressed to cheer bringing the Bible into policy debates. At the press conference on Friday, Butler focused on Ryan’s affection for Ayn Rand, an atheist and anti-religionist, and the…

Retribution v. Reform in American Justice

By Jennifer Graber

…s. I thought all Christians did that sort of thing. Finding out that I was wrong about that, including the fact that there were Christians who supported capital punishment [see related blog post: “Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis?” —ed.], prompted all sorts of questions for me. Second, the historic jail in downtown Pittsburgh. On a tour of the facility, I was told that the jail was modeled on earlier Pennsylvania penal institutions a…

Good News For Bad News Addicts

By J.J. Goldberg

…he 1990 survey, presumably because of intermarriage. That turned out to be wrong, too. And again, nobody noticed. Now comes news that Jews actually number 6.3 million, or maybe 6.7 million, proving…that we’re increasing? That the previous surveys were off by a million? Where did things go right? Does anybody wonder? Not a chance. The hot news is that Jews are detaching from religion at a terrifying pace: 22 percent say they’re Jews without faith….

Religion at the Moral March

By Peter Montgomery

…berals and conservatives. Instead, he portrays it as a matter of right and wrong, of the common good versus extremism, of policies that reflect a concern for the vulnerable rather than policies that attack the powerless to further advantage the powerful. This language, he believes, embraces people who do not consider themselves political, and leaves space for Republicans opposed to far-right policies to find a place in the movement. Religious grou…

Planned Parenthood Gets Religious Support

By Patricia Miller

…politics to restrict or deny access to family planning services is morally wrong. It will effectively result in coercing women into childbearing. … let us remember that Planned Parenthood saves lives, promotes human flourishing and advances the common good.” O’Brien said it’s equally important for faith leaders to call out the immoral tactics of the sham organization that spearheaded the sting, the Center for Medical Progress. “From a moral and et…