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Spinning Ft. Hood

…at allowed Hasan to go undetected in the first place, Marc Lynch (aka “Abu Aardvark”) believes this is not a question of “political correctness,” but of preserving what values define us as a nation and a people. On the Foreign Policy Web site, he writes: This framing of the issue is almost 100% wrong. There is a connection between what these critics are calling “political correctness” and national security, but it runs in the opposite direction. T…

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“That Guy In Rome”: A Catholic Town in Idaho Where The Pope is a Heretic

…answered a question about Islamic fundamentalism by pointing to the same malady in his own flock. “We Catholics have some—and not some, many—who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my Church.” He didn’t name names, but for some, it was hard not to take it personally. Father Dennis Gordon, for one, pastor of the St. Joan of…

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Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

Growing up in Topeka, Kansas, wasn’t exactly Hell—not for me anyway. Then again, I spent most of those 18 formative years hiding from Topeka’s foremost biblical authority, the infamous anti-gay funeral picketer, Reverend Fred Phelps. As a child I had a secret buried deep within and was convinced if what Rev. Phelps said was true—that “God Hates Fags”—then I must be the Antichrist. The fact that the US Postal Service assigned “666” as Topeka’s zip…

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Rick Warren Busts a Gut Over Cultural Revolution

…ect such hideous posts are all from Saddleback membership.  I’m sure quite a number are.  It’s as disturbing as it is disgusting. Warren commented on Tsang’s article, “Thanks so much for teaching us! It was removed instantly.” However, Warren did not get around to posting a formal, public apology until the next day, once again, via Facebook: Finally back home. Staff handed me a hard copy of an email from someone offended by a picture I posted. If…

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Washington Post Critic’s Coded Racial Comments On New ABC Host Christiane Amanpour

When ABC News announced recently that they were hiring Christiane Amanpour to front This Week most sane, intelligent people thought this was a good idea. She has a degree in journalism, traveled throughout most of the world, met with a fair number of international leaders, and covered some of the most challenging stories of the last decade with fairness and accuracy. There was a sense that perhaps ABC was treating the news like a serious business…

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Black Churches are Burning: Is It the 1990s All Over Again?

…t Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last month feels like “déjà vu all over again.” We remember all too well the daily images of burning churches on the nightly news in the late 1990s. I was involved in extensive research on the phenomenon at the time, so in many ways I feel as if I’m watching reruns of old news reels. Still, can this be the beginning of another wave of racist violence targeting the spiritual homes of African-American Christians? O…

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RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

…ell Houses. Will the religious right take a time out from demonizing Sen. Barack Obama to create Halloween Hell Houses this year? You betcha’. Built on fear and based in church-initiated intimidation, Scaremare—the first Hell House project—was started in the late 1970s in Lynchburg, Virginia, by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. Since then, hell houses have sprung up in all parts of the country. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Hell Houses are fa…

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Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

History was made yesterday, as Barack Hussein Obama was elected president of the United States of America. While “The religious right’s access to power in Washington, D.C. has been seriously diminished,” as the Rev. Barry Lynn of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State wrote early this morning, even in an Obama administration, expect some or all of the following to take place against the backdrop of a mainstream media giddy with r…

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Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

…ose Driven Life, supports women in roles of spiritual leadership. Backlash against women isn’t reserved for the Supreme Court. The Vatican ought to send the SBC a thank-you note for distracting attention from its actions, or lack thereof, regarding women. Catholicism has neither an assembly to vote congregations out, nor any women in approved priestly leadership to expel. Parishes are simply closed by bishops, often related to bankruptcy proceedin…

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Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

…with Bishop David Zubik to tell him that his rhetoric—Zubik accused the Obama administration of telling Catholics “To Hell with you!”—was angering parishioners. Fr. Neil McCaulley spoke with National Catholic Reporter: McCaulley, who is retired after serving 46 years as a parish priest in the Pittsburgh area, said the idea for the meeting with Zubik first came as members of his group talked with others and decided “we owed it to the people… of th…

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