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The Religious Implications of Nudity

By Steve A. Wiggins

…ance-enhancing drugs. The sense of freedom and fun (and free food, even if airline food) was exhilarating. The airport has now become a place of horror. Do they have full-body scanners? I wonder as I’m herded into a long, bovine line. Abattoir or boudoir? Why is this bothering me so much? Don’t Touch Me There Even cursory reflection reveals my embodiment issues are buried deep in my religious upbringing. I was a teenage fundamentalist. That remark…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…stroyed; ruined, esp. morally or spiritually; (of the soul) damned.” To be lost is not merely a geographic problem for marooned airline passengers, or for men unwilling to stop and ask for directions—it’s a spiritual and moral condition. These days a google search turns up over 500,000,000 hits (that’s half a billion); not too surprising for a basic and often-used term. Similar numerical results come from google searches on terms like “run” and “h…

Penn Jillette’s Signs You May Already Be an Atheist

By Steve A. Wiggins

…llette’s rant in “Penn’s Bacon and a Kiss Airline” was like finding a long-lost brother; another guy who feels it is criminal to be viewed naked by strangers—involuntarily—is a true freedom fighter. This is a comedian with a conscience. He may come down on the wrong side of many traditional issues (global warming and sexual mores, e.g.), but he is keenly aware that too many people suffer. Theodicy in motion. In the end, most of Jillette’s Ten “Sug…

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men “Stand Up” for “Religious Freedom”… On a Plane

By Kara Loewentheil

…h ultra-Orthodox men interfering in your travel, you can just take another airline. If only it were as easy for female employees affected by the numerous lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement to find a better job. *Correction: This post originally indicated that gender separation was due to concerns about women’s menstrual cycles. To read more about gender separation among Haredi Jews in Israel and in the U….

What’s More Frightening Than Snakes on a Plane?

By Devin Kuhn-Choi

…an ad in a local shop or community center. Last minute emergency? Call the airline right away to see about possibilities for accommodating your needs. Likewise, if one is ardently anti-abortion for moral reasons, rather than only focus on making it illegal, prevent it by limiting unwanted pregnancies: help ensure adequate, healthy sex education and contraception are available to those who need or want them. Work to make affordable, quality prenata…

Busy Days For ‘eBay of Prophecy’

By Bill Berkowitz

…the fact that the people get the last word, not the judges.” Earlier, the Los Angeles Times reported that “Proposition 8 backers want to intervene in the litigation because they said that Attorney General Jerry Brown could not be trusted to defend the measure.” Frank Schubert, Prop. 8’s campaign manager told the Times that his organization is “confident that the law is on our side, and the court will make a correct decision. We are not confident…

Off That (Rationalist Anthem)

By Lauri Lebo

…hip-hop video from self-described rap troubadour Baba Brinkman in which he blasts pseudo-science and irrationality. A Chaucer scholar who started out rapping the Canterbury Tales, lately he’s been branching out into the world of science and religion. In 2008, the Vancouver artist developed the utterly brilliant Rap Guide to Evolution. I met him last year while he and I were on a tour in the U.K. in celebration of the 200th Birthday of Charles Darw…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rrival through integration,” said Sharalyn Jordan, board chairwoman of the Vancouver-based Rainbow Refugee, which helps match LGBT refugee applicants to private sponsors. Examples she offered: Where is a safe place for a gay Muslim refugee to pray, or for a lesbian with children to find services in Farsi? On a related note, the Russian LGBT Network has asked media outlets not to report information on the location of resettled victims: People, who…

Is the State a Religious Actor in Deeming Teen’s Crotch-Rubbing of Jesus Statue Illegal?

By Joseph Laycock

…ernment in maintaining distinctions between sacred and profane objects. In Vancouver, a guerilla artist erected a statue of a red, nude Satan (complete with a thorny phallus) atop a pedestal that formerly featured a statue of Columbus. City workers removed Satan, breaking a leg off in the process. However, a petition to return Satan to his original place has already gathered 1,000 signatures. In Everett, Pennsylvania, a teenager is facing up to tw…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…are pulling me in situations I don’t want to be in. I’m happy where I am.” Vancouver’s Vancity Buzz invited LGBT readers so submit coming out stories; one they published is from 27-year old Hasan Abood, born in Iraq to Muslim Iraqi parents. Abood writes about his father asking him to move out of the family house after he came out to him, trying to “change” his sexuality by becoming a devout Muslim, and eventually finding peace with himself and God…