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In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…ing press coverage of smaller, less well known groups. Second, if the American press cannot handle its responsibilities with regard to Catholicism (which is well known to many of them), how can we expect them to be helpful in reporting on Judaism, Islam, the Baha’i faith, Wicca, or any number of other groups that form the pluralistic religious mosaic in the United States today? No reporter or anchor could be expected to be an expert on the ins and…

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…explanation for origins. “After a searching review of the record and applicable case law,” the judge ruled, “we find that while ID arguments may be true, a proposition on which the Court takes no position, ID is not science.” He gave three reasons. First, unlike science, ID invokes supernatural explanations. Second, it rests on the flawed argument that evidence against the current theory of evolution supports the design alternative. Third, scient…

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

…e midst of the review of the Sexual Offenses Act, an estimated 25,000 Jamaicans came together in support of the sodomy law in a protest organized by CAUSE (Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation). The report also says that “some religious figures are engaging constructively on LGBT issues, both through advocacy and through providing services to the LGBT community.” In addition, the report praises U.S. President Barack Obama for calling a…

Refusal of Interracial Couple Shows How Slippery the Slope of LGBTQ Refusal Really Is

By Heron Greenesmith

…marriage is as wrong as same-sex marriage, regardless of legal or theological justification? In 2018, the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that Mississippi was one of only six states in which less than half of residents supported the right to marry a same-sex partner. The same poll found that only 57% of Mississippians thought LGBT people should be protected from discrimination, compared to 70% of Americans overall. There aren’t cu…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…imed by individuals or groups from an assumedly neutral state? What claims can and cannot be made regarding religion, personhood, and freedom? What modes of religiosity, notions of religious difference (or non-difference), and idioms of social order and harmony are rendered unintelligible or incoherent? My forthcoming book, Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion, also opens onto a broader set of questions involving the polit…

RDPulpit: Rick Warren and the Limits of Empathy

By Tom Davis

…ty, war, or AIDS. No mention of global warming, either. Because the Republican candidate opposed all five issues and the Democratic candidate was pro-choice and supported at least two more of them, it became clear that President Bush was the one to vote for. Why, all of a sudden did abortion trump all other issues? Rick Warren is a man of compassion—why does he not have compassion for women who make the decision to end their pregnancy? Limited The…

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…murder its Negroes systematically instead of little by little and catch-as-catch-can. If Coates is right that reparations at least partially correlated with German societal and cultural reckoning, then one can see their fruits in Germany today. Last month, following a number of horrid, hateful slogans chanted at Jews (in the context of otherwise legitimate protests against Israel’s attack on Gaza), and a number of violent incidents, there was a la…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…the person selling them has called them “securities.” This crisis is ironically not psychological at all, though much of the pain is. No, this crisis in empirical, a simple matter of numbers (and words) not adding up. And the reason they don’t? Because people, really bad people, lied about them, cooked the books, sold this nonsense to their friends, and to the rest of us. So forget economic theory, and psychology; we need an ethicist. And the que…

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

By Bill Berkowitz

…n providers are engaging in racist population control measures against African American and Latino women (charges that numerous groups, including the Guttmacher Institute, have thoroughly debunked). Obama’s administration would likely “expand the role and access of faith-based initiatives,” said Joyce, warning that: “The Democratic Party’s courtship and pursuit of moderate evangelicals such as Jim Wallis and Rick Warren—who represent a putatively…

Ten of Our Favorite Top Tens

By The Editors

…st, everything from the Mormons to monks rioting in Tibet, the new evangelicals, the Kosher workplace debacle—and even the Catholic church on aliens.) 2.) Heading the list of TOP TEN RELIGION STORIES FROM RELIGION NEWS WRITERS is the “Pastors Gone Wild” story. Religion journalists agree that the top story of the year was that of presidential candidates and the pastors they kept company with; Jeremiah Wright “damned” America, discredited himself (i…