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Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tion of sharia laws has speeded up since Aceh struck a peace deal with the central government in 2005. Slovenia: Court OK’s Catholic Church-Backed Referendum Challenging Marriage Equality Law On Thursday, the Constitutional Court “gave the go-ahead for a referendum on whether to implement legislation allowing gay marriage, an issue that has divided the central European nation.” More from AFP: The court’s decision comes after parliament in March ad…

What do Crystal Meth and Contraception Have In Common?

By Kara Loewentheil

…itating communion with the divine. And in a religion like Wicca, without a central authority (like the Pope, for instance), how do we determine that the use of meth is not in fact central to this particular Wiccan’s religious exercise? I’m not suggesting we can’t determine that, but I am suggesting that if we think that’s an easy question we should be more cautious about the willingness thus far of courts to throw up their hands and refuse to prob…

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…tle that is actually stable about them over time, even as they continue to promote the eternality of their claims. Many have also noted this trend, and usually they describe these changes as smaller or peripheral in light of a rigidly maintained core. Others have simply called it hypocrisy. Neither one of these explanations was satisfying to me, however, as they did not seem to acknowledge the gravity of the shifts that are often taking place, nor…

LDS Church Asserts Trademark of “Mormon”

By Holly Welker

…at birth, and even though you don’t claim to be on The Daily Show, Comedy Central and Stewart et al could take you to court and get you to stop using that name to promote your comedy, because doing so harms him by confusing people about who is performing what comedy. Another is that the term Mormon has already been used to promote professional endeavors. In the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s, a race car driver from Utah named Ab Jenkins set records for spe…

What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

…asked him, as we are hearing reports that Tsarnaev brothers spent time in Central Asian states, about what their experience might have been in Kyrgyzstan or Kazakhstan. Radon’s response echoes what he said about Chechnya: “we have no full picture of what is actually going on in that part of the world, the suffering and poverty many people endure in a number of those states; and we have no understanding of what our foreign policy could unintention…

America Does Not Have a Religious Identity

By Dennis J Goldford

…deliberate double meaning of 1) the Constitution as a charter of religious freedom, and 2) the act of constituting religious freedom, and Baylor came up with the clever subtitle, God, Politics, and the First Amendment. I was able to give my concluding chapter the title, “One Nation under Whose God?” How do you feel about the cover? I’m actually quite happy with it. Beyond being aesthetically attractive, it makes a substantive point by nesting the…

Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…ured is still not clear. In March there were similar riots in Meikitla, in central Burma south of Mandalay, which left forty-four people dead and thousands of homes consumed in flames. Last year’s conflict in Burma’s western Rakhine state, also saw thousands of homes destroyed and roughly a hundred thousand people displaced—mostly Muslims—in ethnic violence between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas. There has been violence on both sides. Rece…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…e. “Good,” he replied. Early Indian media coverage, as well as state and central government relief efforts, focused on the famous site of Kedarnath and the plight of those visitors to Uttarakhand who needed to be physically rescued. In 2013, even Himalayan pilgrimage tours can reasonably be expected to be somewhat safe, beyond the occasional threat of landslide—it is not like in earlier days when setting out on pilgrimage meant the possibility o…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…“truth” is thus everywhere assailed, but we still demand that it remain a central category (if not for politics as such, then for our affective experience of the political). This partly explains the zeal for evidence, for observability and substance. But when “religion” enters the swirling tide of words and allegations, it complicates things. On the one hand, “religion” has played a role in two hidebound discourses: we must use it to steer the sh…

Atheists Who Don’t Like “Under God” Can Leave

By Rob Shryock

…aps the most popular stereotype about atheists: it’s the “Muslims hate our freedom” of atheist-bashing. For example, just a day prior to The Five segment, Fox and Friends’s Steve Doocy questioned the patriotism of the family that brought the case in Massachusetts. There’s a central irony to all this: the idea that atheists are unpatriotic appeared around the same time “under God” entered the Pledge of Allegiance. Originally, adding “under God” to…