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Pentagon Report Rejects Religious Right Arguments On DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mpatibly side-by-side. Adding homosexuality to the mix should cause no new problems: However, the reality is that in today’s U.S. military, people of sharply different moral values and religious convictions – including those who believe that abortion is murder and those who do not, and those who believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and those who do not – and those who have no religious convictions at all, already co-exist, work, live, and fight…

Paula White’s Coronation, “Rabbi” Messer’s “Apology,” and Great Parody

By Anthea Butler

…rable followers through their personal issues (sex, divorce, and financial problems), the desire to get their place of authority and power back made them throw caution to the wind. Chaining their lust for power to another huckster Messer, though, may bring more ruin. The outcry within the community of Christians and Jews has been fierce, and it will likely wound their crippled ministries even more. Meanwhile, Messer has been trying to salvage his…

Cone of Shame: A Spiritual Crisis in the Humanities

By Beatrice Marovich

…ermind some sort of solution. I approached this as I tend to approach most problems—I tried to think my way out of it, as thinking (for me) is almost preferable to breathing. I did research, detective work. I tried to engineer solutions. I altered my diet several times (and learned that it was not the gluten). I had all sorts of mad scientist tricks up my sleeve. You might say I’d fallen victim to one of the chief humanist errors: I’d made a fuss…

Watch the New Birth Throne: Eddie Long Declared ‘King’ by ‘Rabbi’

By Anthea Butler

…ng. After declaring in December that he was taking a hiatus to work on the problems in his marriage, Long has returned with a new lacefront and a defiant attitude. Having a fake rabbi declare him “King” of a fading, dying mega-church is a joke, but what is not are the deluded New Birth Members cheering him on. Clearly they have drunk the “Kool Aid” and I don’t use that term lightly. I’ve believed since my trip to New Birth back in 2010, when Long…

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…was forced to fully retract and apologize “unreservedly” for attributing a number of false statements to Rachid Ghannouchi, one of the leading Islamist figures of post-authoritarian Tunisia. Among them, that he had “threatened to hang a prominent Tunisian feminist, Raja bin Salama, in Basij Square in Tunis, because she [had] called for the country’s new laws to be based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” What all this anxious coverage…

Which One Has the Religion Problem, Gingrich or Romney?

By Sarah Posner

…idate mattered most to them. (Most, 45%, said ability to defeat Obama was the most important to them.) But Gingrich won only 6% of those “strong moral character” voters. (I’d like to hear a speech from those voters, in fact.) Romney has a lot of problems as a candidate — and they are legion. I don’t want to hear a religion speech from him, or from anyone else, particularly not Gingrich (God save us from that, please). Tonight, it’s not Romney’s re…

Gingrich, Historian, Religionist, Fails Own MLK Weekend Test

By Sarah Posner

…Gingrich’s (via David Barton) vision of America, many, if not most, of our problems would be solved. But when Gingrich appeared at a town hall at the Jones Memorial AME Zion Church in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday, he did not flash his Christianist talking points. Surely he knew what sort of religious angle would inspire here, being a student of American history, an aficianado of its religions (because, after all, he also knows how dangero…

Missing the Extra Point: The Real Cause of Tebow Fever

By Carter Turner

…y he can help a faithful nation free itself from its seemingly intractable problems; or a faithful person find a job, have children, survive cancer, etc. These people root for Tebow because his success keeps their hope and optimism alive. His victories are victories over the dreadful limits of human existence. The theological question is the elephant in the living room. TV and radio commentators can’t ask their viewers and listeners if they think…

Creationists and Dawkins Agree: Science Rules Religion

By Paul Wallace

…t’s evidence right there. Zimmerman does an admirable job pointing out the problems with Bergevin’s bizarre proposal, so I’ll merely suggest, as I noted above, that this thinking only makes sense if science is held up as the arbiter of all belief—including religious belief. Which is strange coming from one as ostensibly religious as Bergevin. But there it is. Think about it: Bergevin is saying that if the science of evolution is right, then the un…

Vaginal Ultrasound Required for Abortion in Texas

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…al ultrasound is a procedure (duh!)—one usually used to diagnose potential problems with a pregnancy in the presence of certain symptoms. Except in Texas, where it’s also used to treat the malady of not being as opposed to abortion as some people wish you would be. Which is different from the way things typically work. Ordinarily, in this country, adults have the right to refuse a medical procedure without it thereby cutting off their access to ot…