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Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…o-maniacs—Bob Enyart, a convicted child abuser is the man behind PersonhoodUSA & currently the Masons are under investigation for criminal conspiracy & online criminal libel for making numerous false reports of child abuse against an innocent family. [Link to Enyart charges added, but no corroboration could be found for the allegations against the Masons —Ed.] Bob Enyart is an influential pastor of the Denver Bible Church, under whose auspices the…

How Not To Respond to Haiti

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…eaks of the devil, but what he really has in mind is a characteristic Afro-Caribbean form of quasi-Christian religious practice: Vodou, with its spirit possession, sacrifices, and all. The old quip about Haiti—that the nation is “85% Catholic, 15% Protestant, and 100% Vodou”—has long legs and longer appeal. These percentages have been very helpfully emended in a companion piece on RD by Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, who reminds us of the intense ev…

New World A-Coming: How Black Religion Helped Shape Racial Identity

By Judith Weisenfeld

…and urbanization shaped the religious worlds of African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants, but questions about the intersection of religion and racial identity frame my project. What’s the most important take-home message for readers? I want readers to come away with an understanding of the complexity with which religion and racial identity have been intertwined for people of African descent in the United States. Religious ideas, practices,…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…or a halachic document that cements some principles for the relationship.” Caribbean: World Congress of Families Holds Regional Gathering The U.S.-based World Congress of Families, which brings together social conservatives from around the glove, held a Caribbean regional conference in Barbados ast weekend. Among the speakers were WCF’s Theresa Okafor, National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown, Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton, a…

The Paranormal to Pop Culture Pipeline

By Joseph Laycock

…ll allegedly given to Robert Eugene Otto of Key West, Florida in 1906 by a Caribbean woman skilled in black magic. This doll—currently on exhibit in Key West’s Fort East Martello Museum and Gardens—allegedly moved by itself and exhibited other disturbing behavior. Why did two stories of demonic dolls emerge in 1970? It may have something to do with the Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll,” which aired in 1963. In that episode, a mother (named Annab…

Rum and Gunpowder: How to Take Out a Vodou Doll

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…. He looks like something you would buy at a tourist stand. In fact, as I gazed at him, that is where I assumed he came from. But no. He was discovered by workmen. The computer in one of the university’s classrooms had been crashing, and no one could fix it. Finally a tech person came and took the computer out of its cabinet. There he was, wedged behind it. The computer was fixed. My colleague did not want to leave him to perform any more mischief…

Animal Sacrifice and Sexuality in Santería

By Nick Street

…u to the tradition? Did you consider following the practices back to their Caribbean or African roots? My research focus was here, in the U.S.—not elsewhere—because learning how these practices traveled was as important to me as the practice itself. Unlike Santería practice in other regions of the Western Hemisphere, practice in the U.S. includes people from many ethnic and racial groups. In fact, there are groups here, like Puerto Ricans, who tak…

Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? Does it Matter?

By Andrew Porwancher

…dmitting a Christian student into the Jewish school would have prompted accusations that Jews were trying to Judaize the children of Christian families, precisely the kind of outcome that Jews sought to avoid. It strains believability to imagine that in a prejudicial climate like Nevis, local Jews would have hazarded that kind of risk. Hamilton’s mother tragically passed away when he was only thirteen, and it appears that any Jewish affiliation he…

Synod ‘Fight for Soul’ of Catholic Church, Flap On English Translation of Key Report; Anti-Gay Law Advances in Kyrgyzstan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hington DC planned a protest at the Kyrgyz embassy for Thursday afternoon. Caribbean: Women and Sexual Diversity Conference IGLHRC reports that the second Caribbean Women and Sexual Diversity Conference was convened in Surinam last week. Jamaican activist Paige Andrew reports on the event’s workshops and the need for additional research to support activism in the region, and she writes: The conference culminated with a pride march, which was a par…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…waste American money to buy their expensive oil when we could have our own cheap oil?” “Why is he trying to make rich people poor?” “How is it right to punish rich people for working hard and realizing the American Dream?” It was late on a Friday night and I was tired, so I half-heartedly responded by explaining that there are other factors to consider in every charged question she’d been armed with. But I wondered, “Why the hell was the Salvation…