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What Should Truly Disturb Us About Game of Thrones’ Child Sacrifice

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

Stannis Baratheon is not new. Like many viewers, I was sickened by his choice to sacrifice his young daughter, Shireen, in this past weekend’s episode of Game of Thrones. As he and his stranded army freeze in a snowstorm, the high priestess Melisandre advises him to burn Shireen for the “Lord of the Light” so that her “king’s blood” will work its magic and grant him a military victory. In a brutal scene, tiny Shireen, unsuspecting of her fate unt…

Same-Sex Marriage May Lead to Polygamy, But So What?

By William E. Smith

…Research Council, recently published a predictable slippery-slope argument against same-sex marriage and polygamy in Religion News Service. Having legalized the one, the other will surely follow. And that is bad—very, very bad according to Sprigg. His position rests on two separate lines of argumentation: the curtailment of freedom of religion and harm to children. Both are rather spurious. Sprigg is still trying to make the case that same-sex mar…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…heories over the top — further peddled the utterly false claim that Soros, a child at the time, aided and abetted the Holocaust. Michelle writes: To inoculate himself against charges of anti-Semitism, Beck hurled them at Soros, pointing out that he’s an atheist and a critic of Israel. He accused Soros of helping Nazis steal Jewish property as a teenager and of feeling no remorse about it. In fact, when Soros was 14 in Nazi-occupied Hungary, his fa…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…h of these places is someone’s neighborhood. This time, it is only an hour away for me. Picketing as “The Workingman’s Means of Communication” On March 2, 2011, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in response to a series of prior decisions around Westboro Baptist Church’s picketing of a Marine’s funeral. The case was Snyder v. Phelps. In its majority decision, the Court ruled that such picketing is “speech” and thus protected constitutionally. We…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…about her. She heard a local pastor who preached a word of justice from Isaiah say that God cared about those who toiled on the land—that same man took action, going to the school board to find out why all of the local Hispanic children were tracked in the lowest classes and how to change that. Minerva decided early on that she wanted to be like him, preaching and doing the work of justice. After college at the University of Texas Pan American,…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

In the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling that sent shockwaves through the country, the word “God” appears 41 times—and that’s no coincidence. Embryos, according to Alabama’s highest court, are in fact “extrauterine children”—a phrase so dystopian it would make Margaret Atwood shudder. The consequences of this ruling, similar to the fallout from Dobbs, are immediate and devastating: The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health Services, as well…

Sovereign Grace Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Just Got More Complicated

By T.F. Charlton

A number of developments in the lawsuit against Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM) have taken place since I first covered it for RD back in early March. On May 14, a second amendment was filed to the suit: [The suit] adds three new plaintiffs, making a total of 11. Five plaintiffs are now using their real names, and the rest are pseudonyms. It accuses church leaders of conspiracy, negligence, misrepresentation and intentional infliction of emotiona…

How Long Does It Take a Man of God to Admit Child Rape is Wrong?

By Joanna Brooks

…going sexual abuse problem? Maybe the Holy Spirit is trying to tell the Magisterium something, but I doubt most of these folks would be listening to her anyway.” Still. Fifteen years’ gap between crime and compunction. Fifteen years. Fifteen years. First-degree felonies. Rape. Committed against the most vulnerable: undocumented, Spanish-speaking children. As young as twelve. While preaching from a sacred text that plainly states: “Whoso shall…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…ent Chen Guangcheng as a “pro-life” activist, Chen is, in fact, a crusader against forced abortion and sterilization. In the U.S., “pro-life” connotes opposition to abortion, per se, so Chen isn’t an anti-abortion activist in the U.S. sense. He is a self-taught lawyer who brought down the wrath of local officials by demanding they follow the law of the land and stop forced abortions and sterilizations. As a “barefoot lawyer” Chen has fought to exp…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e been notable successes, a strategy of “shaming” states that discriminate against LGBT people could be self-defeating and generate greater resistance to equality. He argues that western nations should put a greater focus on strengthening democracy, the rule of law, and civil society. Encarnación is the author of “Latin America’s Gay Rights Revolution,” forthcoming from Oxford University Press. The Human Rights Campaign has published an in-depth r…