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What My Christian High School Taught Me About Being a Black Girl

By Carlyn Ferrari

…e of them. He made me hate them, and he made me ashamed. When this teacher approached me that night, I thought I might get in trouble for violating the dress code. But I realized my costume wasn’t the problem. I was. My mother wanted me and my three siblings to have a safe, Christ-centered education. I received neither. What I received instead was years of racist, sexual harassment at the hands of a man entrusted to educate me. But I did receive o…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…orhood, one Hasidic man who wouldn’t give his name said that blaming dress code for the removal of the bikes lane “is just bullshit.” He is disappointed with how his people have been portrayed in news reports about this issue and insists that safety was a genuine concern. That’s what nearly everybody walking up and down Hasidic Bedford in daytime says as well. When asked directly about it, they concede that they believe many cyclists to be inappro…

Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…n developments in Christianity as “social and political factors.” The SBOE approved both changes. The work groups also corrected a particularly objectionable example of Christian Americanist bias—again with board approval. A 2010 world history standard for the period 500 BCE to 600 CE required students to “describe the major political, religious/philosophical, and cultural influences of Persia, India, China, Israel, Greece, and Rome, including the…

Abuse in the Name of God? Children and Faith Healing

By Shawn Francis Peters

…g for the average layperson to understand because one part of the criminal code (the child abuse statute) appears to explicitly protect spiritual healing practices while another (the second-degree reckless homicide law, under which they were charged) does not. Which measure were they supposed to follow? And in which circumstances? Unlike the religious liberty argument, this claim has proven effective in several other states, including Minnesota. I…

Will Ralph Reed’s New Venture Wed Religious Right to Tea Partiers?

By Sarah Posner

…ho has spent years leveraging his evangelical and conservative contacts to promote the economic interests of his clients, rather than the principles of the political movement he once led.” After the piece appeared, Focus on the Family executive Tom Minnery complained on the radio that the magazine’s reporter, Jamie Dean, “wanted me to dump on Ralph Reed for his involvement with Jack Abramoff.” Minnery had declined to respond to Dean’s requests for…

Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…with breaking away from what I was anchored in, and trying to find my own code. But it was a code that was birthed from parents who were strong believers in a higher set of ways of living your life. And that’s what they bequeathed to me. So precious. Do you think that some people are just better at religion than others? Christopher Isherwood talks about the idea of the “religious genius.” Do you think that’s possible? Why not? It makes sense. I t…

Televangelist Watchdog May Be Forced to Close Its Doors

By Sarah Posner

…ssisted the Senate Finance Committee with an investigation of possible tax code violations by televangelists, Trinity has seen less media coverage, and hence fewer donations from the public, according to the letter. Trinity’s investigations for the Senate Finance Committee led the Committee to launch an investigation, in 2007, based on revelations that televangelists had used tax-exempt funds for luxury cars, private jets, mansions, and even plast…

Police Violence is Baked in: Academy Training Encourages Racial Profiling and Emphasizes the Use of Violence

By Samantha J. Simon

…defensive tactics, and shooting guns. I spent long days learning about the code of criminal procedure, traffic code, and arrest procedures. I also had a first-row seat to the cadets’ physical, ideological, and emotional transformations as, over a period of six to eight months, they became police officers. What I saw in that year directly conflicted with the “bad apple” arguments that existed then and that would continue to offer a popular explanat…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…de a brick each for the Taung Pyone pagoda, leaving gaps in the walls. And apparently what keeps Min Gyi and Min Lay happy is chain smoking, dancing, and drinking their favourite tipple. “My nat likes to drink beer, wine, Johnny Walker and champagne”, says Mg Mg Kyi, who has been a nat-kadaw, or spirit medium, for 40 years – since he was 13. His first husband fell in love with him when he saw him dance. Most nat-kadaws are gay or transgender. Gay…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…mad said, is charity. But Gaffney et al. portray shari’ah as a fixed legal code that a fifth column of “adherents” seek to implement in place of the Constitution (somehow, they don’t explain how one Muslim in Congress or the less than one percent of the U.S. adult population that is Muslim would accomplish this). Gaffney told the audience for his talk, which was directed at Congressional staffers: [I]n fact we are looking at a mortal threat to the…