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Aung San Suu Kyi: The Verdict is Unfair

By Juliane Schober

…l ended in long prison sentences for all of the accused, and has triggered international outrage. Senator John Webb negotiated Yettaw’s release last week. General Than Shwe reduced Aung Than Suu Kyi’s sentence to a year and a half under continued house arrest. His act of leniency prevents her from playing a role in national elections scheduled for next year. Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma’s national martyr and founder of the armed force…

Recounting (Again)
The Role of American Religious Activists in Uganda Anti-Gay Violence

By Sarah Posner

…is “initiative” was David Bahati, the Ugandan parliamentarian who achieved international notoriety for introducing the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009,” a bill that sought to introduce the death penalty for certain same-sex consensual acts. Commenting on the Rolling Stone article, Mr. Bahati said that the campaign “would have been very helpful to law enforcement of these people; it would have been a great source for law enforcement.” David Kato w…

Mormon Leader: Religious Freedom Under Attack by Gay Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…e day before Oaks’ speech, on February 3, a gay-rights activist invited by students to visit BYU had his tires slashed while parked in the lot of BYU’s Law School. A painful juxtaposition, especially inasmuch as the tire-slashing incident has made the news in Salt Lake City, but has not yet been acknowledged by the campus newspaper or University officials. Another LDS RD reader made the equally provocative observation that 18 years ago Oaks himsel…

Atheists Battle for High School Clubs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a “bad career move.” But this opposition has only steeled the will of many students, including 18-year-old Brian Lisco, a senior at Stephen Austin High School in the Houston suburbs. The school offered a compromise—call it a Philosophy Club and drop any affiliation with the Secular Student Alliance. He refused. “We atheists are already invisible—we don’t come out. That’s a form of repression in itself. It’s about getting pushed to the margin of ou…

RD Book: Class Conscious

By Lynne Gerber

…udiesis a very useful effort at formulating that language for scholars and students of religion. Class matters, McCloud argues, but not in the ways that earlier academics thought. In order to think about class productively, he points to four ideas about class that need to be dispensed with. While class is certainly a structural reality, he notes that it is not always a felt affinity; the very idea of “class consciousness” might not be as useful as…

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…e power of travel informs British kids on gap years, American study abroad students, Israeli backpackers, and more. Learn about yourself! Broaden your horizons! Experience a new culture! Perhaps you believe these pieces of advice are nothing but noxious window dressing on conspicuous consumption; ideological cover for displays of social status. I suspect, however, that the quickness with which critics sneer at “the narcissistic culture of Woo Woo”…

Joe Miller’s Anti-Gay, Anti-Islam Advisor

By Sarah Posner

…as summer reading, the school’s Chancellor, added, “thousands of Carolina students are better prepared to enter this University, they are better citizens for it.” Ah, but being better informed citizens was actually anathema for Moffitt and his genius friends who apparently saw this as a threat to Christianity. At the time, Moffitt told the PBS program Religion and Ethics Newsweekly that the assignment of this academic text constituted proselytizi…

Religious Right “Compassion” and Other Lies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ton, D.C., said the rash September suicides by gays might be linked to the students believing they were born gay. “That creates hopelessness,” he said. “It is more loving and compassionate to say you don’t have to be gay for the rest of your lives.” What would be far more loving and compassionate is for Sprigg and his compatriots to actually engage in a true act of compassion. “Compassion” literally means “to suffer with” or “suffer together.” We…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…ing continues to cite Tanton groups as authoritative, tellingly describing NumbersUSA as an “immigration reduction advocacy organization” in an August 2010 piece and citing FAIR in a story claiming that “illegal aliens” would “trump veterans at US medical offices.” Groening also praised a Mississippi immigration raid, citing the Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement (MFIRE); listed on FAIR’s Web site as a “local group,” one…

Beware of Yoga, Taking the Jesus Out of AA, Atheist Billboard Wars—The Sequel

By Michael J. Altman

…ool superintendent in Wellesley, Massachusetts has apologized for allowing students on a field trip to a local Islamic center to participate in midday prayers. The city of King, North Carolina has decided to remove a Christian flag from a public Veterans Memorial. The ACLU of New Jersey is suing the city of Point Pleasant Beach over the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer at city council meetings. Oh, and by the way, Hitler invented the phrase “separa…