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An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

By Christopher Douglas

…of big religious ideas like Robert Bellah or Charles Taylor. What’s your next book? I’m not sure yet. I think I’d like to examine conservative evangelical fiction like The Shack or the Left Behind series in more detail. Evangelical fiction could be considered the literary arm of the Christian Right—which was modeled in some ways on other minority social movements, as strange as that may seem. I’d like to examine this body of work without losing si…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…bylaws that extend Sharia to non-Muslims, criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual acts as well as all zina (sexual relations outside of marriage). The criminal code permits as punishment up to 100 lashes and up to 100 months in prison for consensual same-sex sexual acts, while zina violations carry a penalty of 100 lashes. The criminal code also allows Islamic courts to dismiss charges against rape suspects who take an Islamic oath, sumpah dilak…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…n Islamic civilization was relatively accepting of various forms of same-sex attraction and love. Same-sex acts might have been illegal, but they were too ubiquitous to be taken seriously and very rarely punished. In thirteenth-century Cairo, for example, Muslim jurists observed that the masses seemed more leery of indulging in socially unacceptable sins (such as public eating during Ramadan) than of engaging in sins particularly abhorrent to God…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…hought to be essential, heritable, and inextricable. None of this is new, exactly. Between 1790 and 1952, because U.S. law barred naturalized citizenship to anyone who wasn’t white, courts often had to decide the race of citizenship seekers. In making that judgment for immigrants from the Middle East, Islam often came into play. “Religion has always served as a proxy for racial identity,” said Khaled Beydoun, a law professor at the University of D…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Ulema Council and other Muslim leaders urged the government “to make gay sex and the promotion of LGBT activities illegal,” reports Associated Press. “The council’s statement said the clerics and other Muslim leaders supported the government’s rejection of foreign funding of LGBT causes and they called for bans on promoting and funding LGBT activities in Indonesia.” The government has also moved to ban Tumblr unless it blocks LGBT content, and the…

“I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically”: Darwin, God, and the 2500-Year History of the Debate

By Edward J. Larson

…s, automatic process which Darwin described, and which we now know is the explanation for existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind.” Adding urgency to the matter for Dawkins is his conviction that the wide-spread acceptance of an evolutionary view of life would free society from the destructive consequences of religion. In the Preface for this latest bestseller, The God Delusion, Dawkins describes the non-so-sub…

James Dobson’s Family Values Were Influenced by a Eugenicist [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

…been articulating as Popenoe’s assistant more of a religious cloak. So in Beth Allison Barr’s new book, which I’m sure everybody, or most people have heard of, The Making of Biblical Womanhood, she uses the term ‘sanctified’ to describe how people like Dobson recast these cultural or man-made ideas as scriptural ones. And I think that’s exactly the right verb. Dobson is trying to make the Bible the basis for these eugenic ideals that he’s learned…

Of Personhood and the Pill: What’s at Stake?

By Atlee Parks Breland

…at I wasn’t going to get pregnant without serious professional help. The next six months were full of miseries, large and small, as my doctors tried various unsuccessful treatments. We debated skipping straight to IVF, but eventually decided to first do intrauterine insemination (“artificial insemination,” or IUI) cycle, to see how I responded to the IVF medications. Because we are incredibly and undeservedly fortunate, that “practice” cycle concl…

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Unemployed from being a Burden to
the Rich

By Lauri Lebo

…so sponsored another bill, which was recently signed into law. As Argento explains: He pushed a law through the Legislature that codifies something called “The Castle Doctrine” which, in essence, makes it easier to legally shoot people, the reasoning apparently being that it should be easier to legally shoot people. Actually, he explained that the bill would remove your legal obligation to retreat in the event of an attack so you wouldn’t have to…

Pagan Soccer Mom Wins Blog Contest Despite “Biblical Womanhood” Opposition

By Julie Ingersoll

…tly thought they own the category of faith (though Circle of Moms doesn’t exhibit any signs of being explicitly religious). It turns out that someone in the community of Pagan and Witch moms, many of whom also homeschool, nominated Mrs. B at the blog Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom. Then many of the biblical women got concerned about witches and pagans in the contest, expressing shock and horror. They organized to vote for the Christians and app…