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Crisis Pregnancy Centers and Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative

By Sarah Posner

…oney continue to operate under Bush-era rules. In other words, there is no official monitoring function in place to ensure that organizations operating with federal grants do not proselytize, or that they do provide beneficiaries with secular alternatives. Under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Fatherhood Initiative gives out “capacity building” grants which are intended to “develop these organizations’ cap…

Crisis in Philly: Trial Date Nears for Priests Indicted in Sex Abuse Scandal

By Anthea Butler

…is that it is the first time in the American Catholic Church that a church official has been arrested and brought to trial. Church officials have never been legally prosecuted for the mismanagement of priests and the countless shuffling of molesters and pedophiles from one parish to another until now. That blow was dealt by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams (dubbed “the avenging altar boy” by columnist Maureen Dowd) who is spearheading…

Vatican: Gay Rights Opponents are Real Victims

By Joseph M. Palacios

…ming the protection of LGBT persons against discrimination and violence an official human right. The reason, according to Vatican representative Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, is that ending discrimination against gays, lesbians, and transgender persons would make those who oppose such human rights the real victims. During a debate on the resolution (officially called the “Joint Statement on Ending Violence and Related Human Rights Violations Based on…

Does Conservative Watchdog Actually “Get Religion”?

By Joanna Brooks

…that evolution if you only listen to the speech of high-ranking LDS Church officials. Thirty-five years ago, LDS Church leader Elder Boyd K. Packer stood at the pulpit during a worldwide Mormon conference and related how he once congratulated a Mormon missionary for assaulting his missionary companion after a perceived homosexual advance. Last fall, at a worldwide LDS conference, Elder Packer delivered another controversial talk on homosexuality t…

Virginia High School Says Students May Post Ten Commandments on Lockers

By Lauri Lebo

…t up by individual students expressing their religious views, but were the official government-sponsored displays of the Giles County School District. After the district decided to remove the Ten Commandments, the Giles County students hosted a walk out from school and said that those who didn’t agree with their version of Christianity should just move away. While the Giles County School District has not put back the displays, officials with Floyd…

Newt Gingrich’s Apocalypse

By Sarah Posner

…of EMP’s allegedly lasting impact is purely theoretical, EMP awareness advocates can make outlandish claims regarding the threat that even the smallest nuclear arsenal poses. They can also point to allegations made by the official EMP Commission, ignoring the fact that many outside experts dispute its findings. So just how far out there are Republican apocalyptic theologies? In the 2012 campaign, they will probably be par for the course….

The View from a Jew at a “Solemn Assembly” Like Rick Perry’s

By Sarah Posner

…ople of all faiths, and that his “behavior is inappropriate for any public official, much less one who is weighing a run for the presidency.” Of course religious people are free to have political rallies. But they shouldn’t be used to convert people, if they involve elected officials or otherwise have a government imprimatur, and if they are intended to influence legislation or policy, they should merely reflect the legislative or policy perspecti…

Creationist Theme Park Gets $43 Million in Tax Rebates

By Lauri Lebo

Kentucky made it official Thursday to give a planned Noah’s Ark theme park $43 million in tourism tax rebates. The Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority voted unanimously to grant the tax incentives for the $172.5 million project. Answers in Genesis, which built Kentucky’s Creation Museum, is behind the theme park. Gov. Steve Beshear defended the tax incentives because plans say it will create 600 to 700 jobs, almost assuredly just for C…

How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump

By Joanna Brooks

…t.” Mitt is so Mormon that if elected he’ll require every state to have an Official Casserole. Mitt is so Mormon that the Marine Band will play “Praise to the Man” when he enters a room. Mitt is so Mormon that he’ll appoint Lavell Edwards head of the Department of Defense. Mitt is so Mormon he won’t allow advisers wearing non-white dress shirts to participate in cabinet meetings. Mitt is so Mormon that he’ll rename the weekly presidential address…

Wild Goose Festival’s (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians

By Kristin Rawls

…by organizers or staff. Some of the less-than-affirming messages came from official programming. Tony and Peggy Campolo gave their much-practiced talk, touted in the program as “a model of how to disagree agreeably,” about their differences on the matter of LGBT affirmation (she’s “for,” and he’s “against.”). Off-stage, Campolo lectured LGBT audience members who approached him that “when either side imposes its views on the other, it’s tyranny.” C…