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Can You Become Un-Autistic?

…issues aren’t unique to autism. We might call them challenges of the spectrum, recognizing that the “spectrum” is the ascendant identity model for our time. In sexuality, gender, and cognition, the old binaries—male/female, gay/straight, normal/disordered—have splintered into a range of more granular designations, or a rejection of the process of precise designation altogether. We can observe something similar about religious identity, where slot…

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LDS Church Calls on Members to back Minnesota Anti-Equality Initiative

…h refused to marry my divorced mother. I pointed out that the LDS church already restricts who can get married in the [LDS] temple. I asked her about the religious freedom of my LGBT friends who attend churches that would happily marry them. Where was their religious freedom?… She conceded she hadn’t thought about these things… The LDS Church has an army of volunteers at its beck and call. Imagine the good it could do if rallied for health care fo…

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God’s Obituary: A Humanist Response to Mass Murder

…to do what a loving God is supposed to do. Instead, it seems to me, as we read the stories of the victims we are also reading God’s obituary. By this I mean that such extreme human tragedy makes it impossible to talk about God in any useful way. Don’t read this statement as a selfish demand for comfort, for an easy life. No, it’s recognition that nothing explains away the destruction of life’s integrity; but instead it highlights the fact that we…

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Religion or Ethics at the Supreme Court?

…re than one commentator has noted, Souter’s address was a brilliant deconstruction of “originalist” readings of the Constitution that deserves to be read again and again in law schools around the nation. But I can’t quite agree with Prothero’s conclusion: If Souter was speaking the truth at Harvard (and I think he was), we should take religion into account in selecting our most powerful justices, because no matter how fairly they read the Constitu…

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Critics of Hasidic Schools Exposé Missed the Point: It Wasn’t Antisemitic or the Product of Secular Bias — It’s a Story of Corruption

…estick makers.” (His haredi readers will not get that reference.) This is true. The haredi world is a fully functioning subculture where Torah study is accompanied by professions that do not require a secular education (this is true of the Amish as well). But that does not mean that some secular education doesn’t contribute mightily to good citizenship (even if some, or many, citizens lead unhappy lives for all kinds of reasons). Unlike Leibovitz,…

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Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

…esidency invisible: the lies that started the wars, the deception, the destruction, the torture. While reading this book, it takes great effort for me to keep at the front of my mind the awareness that the soldiers’ bodies bear the consequences of Bush’s wars, while his reveals no sign of struggle, no consequence. Bush’s portraits of veterans remind me of another set of portraits. The American lawyer Susan Burke, accompanied by a writer, a playwri…

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The Religious Lives of Soldiers

…there isn’t a good religious history of American involvement in the Second World War. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I grew up in Minnesota. Pissing people off terrifies me. I’m only slightly more comfortable with the concept of pleasure. Such is the lot of the culturally Lutheran. In all seriousness, informing people is a worthwhile goal for any author; informing people well or artfully is exceptionally…

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Kentucky Court Clerk, A “Professing Apostolic Christian,” Questions Legal Authority

…science”—setting the stage for her disobedience of a court order. With the latest ruling from the Supreme Court, Davis faces being held in contempt of court if she continues to refuse to issue the licenses. But for her, she is acting under “God’s authority,” not the courts’. *Editor’s Note: At least one commenter on RD has pointed to this statement of faith, which includes obedience to the government, to argue that Kim Davis is in violation of her…

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Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

…the talent and brand recognition to offer an audience that mixed academic readers and popular readers. Perfect. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? We definitely want to inform our readers and help them gain a rich understanding of how family dynamics can work. We want readers to see that traditions and heritages may or may not carry through to the next generation and to understand We imagine we might piss off pe…

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‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

…hem” struggle between God’s plan for the family and the ways of a degraded world. In Hawaii, an initial letter read to members in Church meetings in September encouraging opposition to same-sex marriage legalization featured what veteran Salt Lake Tribune religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack characterized as a “new post-prop 8 tone and emphasis.” A second letter read to members in Church meetings in October, as Mother Jones’s Mencimer noted, had…

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