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Shariah-Approved Sex Aids, Abstinence-Only Goes to China, and Abercrombie Hijab…

By Michael J. Altman

…continues: There’s the vandalism in Madera, California and Hudson Valley, New York. Meanwhile, federal investigators have ruled that a fire at a the construction site of an Islamic center in Murfreesborough, Tennessee was an arson. Elsewhere in the state, a Memphis pastor put a “Welcome to the Neighborhood” sign outside his church to welcome the new Islamic center being built nearby. And a new mosque has gone up in Lousiville, Kentucky quite peac…

Cherry-Picking in the God Gap: A Post-Election Conversation on the Religious Vote and the Battle to Spin it

By Daniel Schultz and Chrissy Stroop

…with the campaign’s outreach to Hispanics. That cost him, particularly in Miami-Dade County, filled as it is with Cuban-Americans who tend to be more conservative and more evangelical than Hispanics overall. Had they understood some of those nuances, they might have been able to counteract Republican appeals and win Florida. We might not be in the current mess of the president denying the election results in that case: I mean, a 335 electoral vot…

Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…he South, and when it came time for a college search, she cast her eyes to New York University, graduating in 2005 with her BFA. She is now studying for a master’s degree at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Button doesn’t flinch when approaching difficult subject matter. From the Jim Crow South to the Rape of Tamar in the Bible, Button’s work presents a complex and fresh artistic vision. Her Hymnbook Project features pages from…

‘Atheizing’ the Dead, Religious Doughnuts, & Tax-Free Witching

By Michael J. Altman

…itten by Matt Taibbi, nicknames Tebow “Kid Jesus.” A pair of Muslims from New York spent every night of Ramadan in a different mosque in a different state on what they called a “Ramadan Roadtrip.” A group of vengeful Oklahoma City atheists, reminding Oklahomans that they live in town too, erected a “Don’t Believe in God? Join the club” billboard provoking the ire of local Christians. One local pastor referred to the billboard as poking “a finger…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ograms next. In 2022, the court dealt a devastating blow to gun control in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, where the 6-3 majority opinion, written by Clarence Thomas, showed the might of the conservative super majority by broadening the scope of the Second Amendment, with Thomas claiming that gun laws must be rooted in the country’s “history and tradition” in order to be constitutional. The fallout from this case is potentially…

From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ive Republican nominee for president, was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York on Thursday, it was to be expected that the Right would take the news badly. And indeed—the various factions of the US (but also the international) right-wing have been in meltdown mode since the news of the guilty-verdict broke, threatening everything from violent retribution to killings. For those who had, somehow, still hoped that having a convicted felon as a n…

With This Thanksgiving Bombshell SCOTUS Began Implementation of an Ultraconservative Agenda

By Andrew L. Seidel

…emergency opinion in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo blocking New York’s health order as it applied to some churches. The metaphorical bombardment is particularly apt here because this opinion weaponized religious freedom and came as something of a surprise to the country—though of course it shouldn’t have been. Just a few weeks ago, I warned that Barrett would “flip the high court on an issue that is crucial for America to fight the…

Gun Owners of America Celebrates Defeat of Gun Control Amendments

By Sarah Posner

…ote of Gun Owners of America’s role in the debate, tweeting a link to the [New York] Times profile and saying the group ‘is making deal on even background checks extremely hard.’” – TPM Media, “Democrats Blame Gun Owners of America for Gun Control Setback,” April 8, 2013 Julie Ingersoll and I profiled GOA back in 2010, when it celebrated another victory, the Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago. As the Times noted in an editoria…

The Ex-KKK Priest and the Subtle Terrorism of the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Patricia Miller

…the Catholic hierarchy. The same year that Aitcheson was arrested in Reno, New York Archbishop John O’Connor led a high-profile march on an abortion clinic in New York City. Previously he had expressed support for Operation Rescue, which would go on to lead a series of confrontational abortion clinic blockades in Kansas in the summer of 1991. It’s also instructive that about the time that Aitcheson was burning crosses in southern Maryland and plot…

A Catholic Sister, a Buddhist Nun, and Two Rabbis: Friendship That Goes Beyond “Interfaith”

By Matthew Gindin

…friend. She thought her mom, who attended a Reform synagogue in Hightown, New York, would enjoy the service and returned with her. Her mom loved it. “I probably wouldn’t have attended the synagogue so regularly or become a member if it hadn’t been for the clear joy that it gives my mother. At the same time, it is a very rich and multi-layered experience for me.” She now attends services about twice a month as well as Torah study classes. “Often,”…