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Gay Marriage Still Resonates As Top Issue Issue for Some Republicans

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…t made this country the most powerful and prosperous in the history of the world—father, mother, children—is under assault today as never before,” he wrote, later adding: “Still, I believe that we’re in denial about potential problems as we see more and more homosexual couples raising families. It will be years before we know whether or not our little guinea pigs turn out to be good at marriage and parenthood.” In a side note, we don’t have to wai…

Frank Gaffney Appointed to Clarion Fund Board

By Sarah Posner

…way of life.” During the 2008 presidential campaign, the Clarion Fund made headlines when it launched a campaign to insert copies of Obsession into Sunday newspapers in battleground states. Think Progress recently reported that the group planned for its anti-Islam campaign to be “something pleasing to the eye, edgy, hip and fun!” Obsession, which compares “radical Islam” to Nazism, was widely condemned by Jewish leaders and others in 2008. Rabbi J…

It Gets Better: Gay Mormons Hold Conference in DC

By Joanna Brooks

…n activists as well as high-profile gay Mormons like Mitch Mayne, who made headlines last year after having been called to a leadership position in a San Francisco LDS congregation. They’ll gather as local Mormon conservative activists in Maryland also organize this weekend—acting individually and without involvement from LDS Church headquarters—gathering signatures in support of a ballot initiative to overturn a recently-passed marriage equality…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…ell, if you ask me, I would tell you, no.” Which of course suggests that Yerushalmi is the legalistic purist, but, uh… oh, never mind. While he claims that strict adherence to Jewish law is required to be a “good” Jew, Yerushalmi misapprehends shari’ah as a set of requirements and, more ominously, punishments. As Haroon Moghul wrote here just after Oklahoma voters passed a shari’ah ban last year: Shari’ah is, for Muslims, the “path to the water,”…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…rs have used increasingly aggressive, victim-blaming tactics as part of a brutal Church defense industry, composed of attorneys, insurers and the bishops who hire them. “That’s been our experience here,” says Jeb Barrett, “that people who have gone to the Archdiocese have found their families scrutinized and questioned. It’s revictimizing, and it discourages other victims from coming forward.” If anything, adds David Clohessy, “I think Church offi…

Pew Survey Skews Christian

By Hussein Rashid

The recent Pew survey of US Religious Life has been generating headlines over how ignorant Americans are of religion. Lauri Lebo points out that one of the problems with this survey is that it does not distinguish between those who are actively religious and those who are passively religious. However, I think what most critics fail to realize is how Christian the quiz is. If you look at the questions on the survey, there is detailed information o…

Did We Drink the Kool-Aid in “Suicide Cult” Disappearance?

By Julie Ingersoll

…henomenon in many Pentecostal, Charismatic and non-denominational churches today.” While the headlines indicated that family members, authorities (and the press) were in something of a panic, I followed the story on a discussion board of religious studies scholars who specialize in New Religious Movements (NRM), many of whom have expertise in incidences that have resulted in violence. In fact, Catherine Wessinger wrote an essay for RD describing t…

Glenn Beck Takes on Liberation Theology

By Elijah Prewitt-Davis

…me in. They appeal to all of those unconscious fears that we have and they run the spectrum. Racism is always just a general subcategory of playing on that fear. Glenn Beck obviously has a large following, many of which may be the very poor and oppressed that liberation theology seeks to speak to. In what ways might progressive Christianity seek these other directions? My guess is that the people who are most attracted to the perspective that he o…

Chicken or Egg? Now We Know…

By Lauri Lebo

…protein is responsible for creating the shell. So, it’s not all that groundbreaking, despite the breathless claims of the news stories. As a matter of fact, the evidence remains quite clear on this one. Chickens, as did all birds, evolved from dinosaurs. Dinosaurs laid eggs. Ergo, the egg came before the chicken. But why such defensiveness from folks like Myers? I mean, yes, it’s kind of a lame story. But it’s summer. It’s hot. And all that scienc…

Religion Reporting as Therapy? Praying for Help with Budget Crisis…

By Michael J. Altman

In case you missed all of the witty headlines, Jesus was struck by lightning and burned to the ground this week. But despite the $700,000 in damages, the Solid Rock Church vows to rebuild “Touchdown Jesus.” Meanwhile, in the wake of his recent scandal, Tim Wilson at Killing the Buddha outlines how the Church of Tiger Woods is also burning to the ground. Baptists are using their presences in the military to oppose the repeal of Don’t Ask/Don’t Tel…