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Religious Leaders On Anti-Muslim Frenzy: “Silence Is Not An Option”

By Sarah Posner

…ps. Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, speaking to evangelical Christians engaging in or promoting anti-Muslim bigotry, said, “Shame on you . . . as an evangelical I say you bring dishonor to the name of Jesus Christ.” Many speakers, including Cizik, chided unnamed purveyors of anti-Muslim fervor as antagonists of the First Amendment. Richard Killmer of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture c…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…for International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia were held on and around May 17. In Chile, more than 50,000 people joined the annual March for Equality last Saturday, and a group of anti-gay evangelicals invaded and disrupted a press conference being held by a gay rights organization. Activists were reportedly attacked in Kyrgyzstan, where anti-gay violence has been on the rise as the government considers a Russian-style anti-gay “propagan…

Raelians’ “Clitoraid” Met With Suspicion in Burkina Faso

By Joseph Laycock

…movement emphasizes technological Utopianism and has advocated genetically modified food (GMO) as well as cloning, which they regard as a step toward immortality. They also support sexual liberation and have organized campaigns for a woman’s right to go topless in public. In 1997, Raelianism founded Clonaid, a company that claimed to be able to clone human beings. The project followed closely on media coverage of Dolly, a cloned sheep. Brigitte Bo…

Harry Reid vs. Islamic Cultural Center

By Joanna Brooks

…tter. It’s not a proud day for freedom of religion when a prominent member of the number two most disliked major religion in America effectively sides against a honest project by the number one most disliked major religion in America. Especially when Mormons have just recently come through our own years-long struggle to build an LDS temple in Center City Philadelphia after Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter tried to extract a six-figure sum from th…

Swiftboating Obama’s Health Care Reform?

By Bill Berkowitz

…largest independent PR agency in the U.S. in 2008: created controversy during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito, Jr., claiming that the Democrats grilling of Alito caused his wife to leave the hearing in tears; was hired by Viacom’s Paramount Pictures to build support among conservatives and evangelicals for Oliver Stone’s film “World Trade Center”; and was hired by the National Abstine…

Seeing the Future: Can Religion Evolve and Survive in a Changing World?

By Peter Savastano

…sociated with “religion.” In my work as a teacher and speaker, I encounter more and more people who identify themselves as “spiritual but not religious.” I especially encounter this among my students in the Catholic University where I teach and where the majority of the students are, like me, Roman Catholic by heritage. But it’s not just students or young people who identify themselves in this way. In my travels, I meet people of all ages, colors,…

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…History shows that Darwinists can believe in God. By definition, science seeks naturalistic explanations for physical phenomena. It does not study the supernatural. More modesty is needed all around. Last time I checked, that was a virtue in both science and religion….

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…Says His Anti-Gay Religious Views Do Not Trump Constitution Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said this week that comments he made last week promoting religious views in the public arena and saying that the law should prohibit divorce and adultery were being misinterpreted to mean he was not committed to protecting gay rights. He vowed to protect all citizens’ rights and said he would not allow his faith to take precedence over the Constitution. “I k…

The Rage Behind Outrage

By Becky Garrison

…s and lesbians in order to maintain and gain power. Why didn’t you include more Democrats, cabinet members, and UN members? We looked at a wider range of subjects, but again the issue was could we get the substantiation. But we were also looking at people at a certain level of power. Mike Rogers of BlogActive.com has at times outed staff members, and we decided that was not something we were going to do. What kind of public exposure do you want fo…

Gaza Play Sparks Mixed Reaction Among Jews

By Benjamin Weiner

…week. Playwright Tony Kushner, a champion of “Seven Jewish Children,” will moderate a reading with scholar Alisa Solomon at the New York Theater Workshop, to be attended by representatives of the Israeli and Palestinian communities. The Jewish world, in light of the horrendously disproportionate body count of the last war, the number of victims who were women and children, and the latest allegations being voiced by soldiers returning home from the…