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Merry Kitzmas! Marking An Evolutionary Victory

By Lauri Lebo

…g that they have a scientific claim, they now just try to instill doubt in students’ minds about the validity of evolutionary theory. Earlier this month, creationists led by the Louisiana Family Forum, lost a battle over textbooks. A state board recommended the books with actual science and evolution in it. Now, LFF is focused on sneaking creationism into the classroom via state-approved “supplemental materials.” So, while the fight continues and…

Equally Blessed: Wear a Rainbow Ribbon to Mass

By Alex McNeill

…e denied communion for wearing the rainbow ribbon. Two months ago, college students in Minnesota were denied communion when wearing rainbow pins to church. Also, people from another group, the Rainbow Sash Movement, have been denied communion for wearing a rainbow sash on particular days. How do people feel, wearing the ribbons to church? It’s a scary thing at first. It’s not like wearing any other kind of ribbon because the rainbow stands out and…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…Princeton lecturer Melissa Harris-Perry sought to explain why many of her students (and her eight-year-old daughter) found Sarah Palin so compelling a figure. “[U]nderestimating Sarah Palin is a mistake of epic proportions,” Harris-Perry concluded, adding that while “Much of the urban East Coast discourse about Palin and The Tea Party women is dismissive and mocking… this perspective ignores that visceral emotions are at least as important as sob…

Sullivan v. Gallagher: Catholics Debate LGBT Rights At Georgetown

By Sarah Posner

…uditorium at the revered Catholic institution, to an audience of about 300 students, faculty, and members of the public, Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan thanked God for homosexuality. Sullivan was speaking at what was billed as a “family” event — as in a discussion among fellow Catholics — co-sponsored by the College Democrats and College Republicans and publicized by the pro-LGBT group Catholics for Equality. With Washington Post columnist and G…

Should Faith Healing ‘Do Business’ with Modern Medicine?

By Beatrice Marovich

…er our skin,” almost like a virus or bacteria. She warns her undergraduate students that, in order to do well in her course, they’ll need to take reports of demonic possession seriously as well. More, she sees these miraculous accounts embedded within medical science itself. The suggestive power of healing—merely through hopeful belief—has long operated, in medicine, under the guise of the “placebo.” It is just one of what she calls the “mollifyin…

Forgiving LeBron, Fetal Jesus Sonogram, and Hummus Wars

By Michael J. Altman

…s. Bummer. Hummus sparked a controversy between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students at DePaul University. A federal judge has put a permanent hold on the Oklahoma ballot measure that prohibited Sharia law in state courts. In Saudi Arabia, the Mecca Clock Royal Tower is under construction. When finished it will be the second tallest building in the world. It is also located right next to the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site. And there is now a video gam…

Teacher Who Burned Cross into Student’s Arm Finally Settles Suit

By Lauri Lebo

…s report that said that Freshwater had been using class time to witness to students, teaching intelligent design and displaying numerous Christian materials around the classroom for more than a decade. The district settled with the family in July 2009, but the settlement with Freshwater had dragged on, due to Freshwater and his attorney’s obfuscation and refusal to produce evidence. I’ve written about this case numerous times, most recently, here,…

Hajj Journal: Part of the Process

By Amina Wadud

…ny, then, like hijabi and niqabi girls trying to be less nerdy (stereotype number one) and go off to an important college sports event (stereotype two) in search of a place to pray at halftime which they were reasonably confident was not wet with vomit, pee, or the rain. No, it really did have some funny parts. But it was just that all the college girls were too squeaky-clean—all advanced-placement honor students from middle class suburban familie…

Creationist Master’s Degree… Denied

By Lauri Lebo

…threw out ICR’s case. Sparks wrote, “Essentially, the panel reasoned much of the course content was outside the realm of science and lacked potential to help students understand the nature of science and the history and nature of the natural world.”…

Air Force Speaking Invitation to Member of “Lord’s Army” Sparks Outrage

By Lauri Lebo

…r mission of the United States Air Force Academy, they are totally anathema to the purportedly globally inclusive purpose of this National Prayer Luncheon. MMRF is demanding that the academy withdraw its invitation and find a speaker more inclusive of all students’ religious beliefs. In a news release, Weinstein said, “Egregiously sectarian statements like [those] from former Lt. McClary blatantly exclude not only non-Christians, but also the many…