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A Bill Passes, Westboro Baptists Shrug

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…already found to be protected—a challenge is likely to be successful. The problems include the large buffer zone. Five hundred feet is a significantly large buffer, one that could put the targeted audience out of reach and that the court may not find necessary to accomplish the goal of having a funeral without disruption. And while most states now have some restrictions on funeral protests, including buffer zones of up to 300 feet, the constituti…

Judge Halts “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Discharges

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ns of their religious freedom to preach against homosexuality. “One of the problems with it going through the legal system is that there will be no legislative rules written about how chaplains and other Christian military people are treated and what their rights are under a new policy,” Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Bentley B. Rayburn, the executive director for the Presbyterian and Reformed Joint Commission on Chaplains and Military Personnel said…

On Death and After-Death

By Amina Wadud

…nd who went with her husband and although he was not without a few medical problems, no one expected him to get sick and succumb to whatever it was and die there. I hear tell that some elderly people would LIKE to die on hajj, sort of make their beginning of the after-death with the sweetness of a clean slate. Sometimes, the sweetness of life is over and yet the person is still alive. I do consider that an amazing thing. I’ve always had a will, bu…

Can Mormonism Save Mitt Romney’s Campaign?

By Joanna Brooks

…orship it breeds are to me the key stories of the Romney campaign. Solving problems in small rooms with spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations for self-selected audiences is, after all, a vastly different enterprise than the public arts of democracy. And living your life in those closed circles can lead not only to a general disdain for the people not in the room (cue the 47%) but also to stark disparities in the way a man views himself and the…

The Latest Suspicious Ex-Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…thinks this is “humanly possible” and he is therefore a valid speaker. At the rate the ex-Muslim industry is growing, I suspect they will quickly outnumber Muslims—only, without the number of Muslims actually decreasing….

Pakistan’s ‘Martyrs of Love’ Under Attack

By Daanish Faruqi

…able ailments. Ami’s visits unfortunately did little to mollify her health problems, and in witnessing a critical mass of vagabond con artists at the shrines swindling poor uneducated Pakistanis under the pretext of intercession, she became somewhat disillusioned with the process. Nonetheless, largely due to my frequent discussions with her on the issue, she’s begun to rethink that position. In reviewing the photos of my trip to Lahore in 2005, an…

Final Thoughts on Religion and the DNC

By Sarah Posner

…secular Americans: Trivial bickering about who mentioned God a sufficient number of times, the fact of our warming planet being used as a punchline for derision, and leaders constantly citing Bronze Age mystical texts as a basis for acting on our very real problems. And at almost no point were nonreligious Americans mentioned or made to feel welcome in either party’s verbose orations. “Our nation, and our entire planet, face so many great challen…

Bill Nye Video Riles Creationists

By Evan Derkacz

…nd taxpayers for the future… we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems. It’s just really a hard thing, a really hard thing. A fine, if slightly prosaic message—and one that the U.S. Navy sought last year in its efforts to make America competitive again through science and technology education. Of course, if it weren’t Bill Nye but the person two seats down at the dinner party, you’d hardly look up from your small talk and salad if you…

Tyler Perry’s Museum of Blackness

By Sevonna Brown

…n that subtly redirects his framework. The white family in this film faces problems distinct from the issues concerning black households in the previous Madea franchises. Instead of addressing dilemmas such as drug use, adultery, or sexual and physical abuse, Madea’s Witness Protection focuses on the problem of transitioning from wealthy to suddenly poor, how to properly do yoga, and the value of teaching one’s son how to play baseball—issues that…

Burning Man: Fear of an Alternative Pagan Social Order

By John W. Morehead

…. This includes not just those outside the cultural mainstream, but also a number of professionals connected to the social movement called the Cultural Creatives, discussed by Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, which includes “writers, artists, musicians, psychotherapists, environmentalists, feminists, alternative health care providers, and other professionals.” It is when Matthews discusses the spirituality of Burning Man—one that he characterize…