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Wait Until You’re Denied Service, Federal Court Tells LGBT Mississippians Challenging “Religious Freedom” Law

By Sunnivie Brydum

…businesses and individuals (including state and federal employees) to deny service to anyone who they believe offends those “sincerely held religious beliefs.” As enumerated in the law, those beliefs that deserve special legal protection are that: (a) Marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman; (b) Sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage; and (c) Male (man) or female (woman) refer[s] to an individua…

Packing Heat At Unitarian-Universalist Service

By Daniel Schultz

…hat’s mentioned above. A poster in the comments claims to have been at the service, and says that the woman “had come to church because of the sermon on civil rights & civility.” Given the ugly racial and sexual rhetoric that’s been floating around our political discourse of late, not to mention the embrace of violent fringe elements, not to mention UU’s recent history with guns in church, am I the only one who thinks making this point was a reall…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vi took issue with some media reports that referred to the Argun detention center as a “gay concentration camp,” saying the center has been in use for some time to hold and torture various detainees — not just LGBTQ ones. “Calling it a concentration camp is actually inaccurate. Creating more misinformation can damage and endanger people on the ground and discredit those who are trying to bring more attention to the issue,” Eristavi said. … Outrigh…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…so I just called them up.” According to press reports, the questions will center on AIDS, poverty, human rights and the environment. Not everyone was thrilled by the choice of topics. In his daily FRC Action Update (July 21), the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins said these are subjects that “the Left would have us believe … is the faith community’s new agenda,” but what is needed, said Perkins is “a candid discussion of traditional values i…

Religion at the Moral March

By Peter Montgomery

…pel at Shaw University, near the staging area for the march, for a Shabbat service sponsored by Temple Beth Or. The service, led by Rabbis Lucy Dinner and Ari Margolis, included a special blessing for people who had participated in civil disobedience during last year’s Moral Mondays protests. It also included references to scriptural exhortations not to oppress the stranger, and to love your neighbor as yourself. Dinner’s message was a call for t…

Harry Reid vs. Islamic Cultural Center

By Joanna Brooks

…id (who is Mormon) has now weighed in against the Park51 Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan. The project should “be built someplace else,” Reid said Monday through a spokesman, after Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle demanded he take a position on the matter. It’s not a proud day for freedom of religion when a prominent member of the number two most disliked major religion in America effectively sides against a honest proje…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…r, Cohen introduced me to the counselor at his ministry’s crisis pregnancy center. It is stocked with diapers and baby supplies, as you might see at a US crisis pregnancy center, on which these are obviously modeled, but there are no clients. “She is advising them, and helping them not [have an] abortion,” and providing them with supplies they may need, Cohen told me. The counselor claimed she has served more than 70 clients, adding that word of t…

Douthat, Do Tell! Some Questions for a Columnist Longing for the Good Old Days of American Religion

By Peter Laarman

…ays” you think liberal Christianity might be suited to hold the “religious center,” and you still haven’t told us what you think this center really consists of. You haven’t told us that you’ve got anything more than a flagpole of some kind. To be fair, much useful academic attention has been paid to how elite liberal Protestants of eras past advanced and embraced the idea of a secular society while also wishing to see that secular society imbued w…

Purchasing Morality: What Happens When “Buying Local” Itself is Marketed?

By Laurie Patton

…at might be lost if not preserved by cultural historians like those at the center. The pamphlet continued: “The exhibition contains many parts: mainly the traditional living room, a furnished Bedouin tent, library, exhibition of traditional items, and a gift shop.” The center even provides a place where visitors can dress up like authentic Palestinians and be photographed. I note my distaste at this last aspect but quickly move on, with a reminder…

Jacksonville Islamic Center The Target of Attempted Arson

By Julie Ingersoll

…Human Rights Commission there was an attempted arson at the local Islamic Center at which he is a member. No one was injured in the explosion that occurred shortly before evening prayers on Monday, and the fire it caused was put out with a fire extinguisher. A security video showed a white man carrying what appeared to be a gas can. The incident is being investigated by local and federal authorities as a possible hate crime. Interfaith Leaders i…