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Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…nancial resources to do so may prefer to provide their ministers with housing directly, since Crabb’s ruling leaves subsection 107(1) intact. But that’s an option that less well-endowed congregations, which already struggle to meet the financial needs of ministers and their families, will almost certainly find unfeasible. Will lay leaders shrug their shoulders and remind their ministers that the only certainties in life are death and taxes? Or wil…

Detroit’s Baggy Pants Fatwa

By Svend White

…rt. According to the ruling, the FCC had overreacted to what was merely a “fleeting image of nudity.”) With the exception of the occasional “plumber butt,” men dressing thus are rarely any less “covered” than anybody else. This isn’t really about modestly. The real offense is dressing “low class.” That in my view is a gratuitious violation of a person’s right to express themselves. Just as a woman’s face or hair pose no objective threat to public…

New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns

By Sarah Posner

…ith and Action’s townhouse. McBath shares her story, one suffused not just with a mother’s unbearable grief, but with her determination to “walk the walk” of her religious values, not just “talk the talk,” as she put it to me when I met her and Schenck, along with the film’s producer and director, Abigail Disney, in Washington this week. “We have replaced God with our guns as the protector,” McBath tells Schenck in the film. The meeting in the gar…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Republican Party for quite some time. It’s too early to tell whether this wing of the Party will indeed establish itself as the new orthodoxy. I have my doubts. But even if they do, the victory will be a Pyrrhic one, resulting (as both Paul’s symbolic victory in the New Testament and Tertullian’s Christian self-exile did) in mass expulsions of those with variant points of view on the central articles of the faith, and those less convinced that ab…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tickets to help gay people leave country Tsargrad TV, a channel affiliated with right-wing Russian Orthodox activists and modeled after Fox News, offered to pay for a one-way ticket overseas for gay people who want to emigrate. The channel was funded by Konstantin Maofeev, a billionaire known as “God’s oligarch” who dreams of Vladimir Putin becoming a Tsar. More from the BBC: In a video on its social media channels this week, Tsargrad TV called on…

Constitutional Attorney Changes into Drag During Talk on Cancelation of West Texas A&M Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…me might call Texan defiance, Spectrum is planning to move ahead, not just with its legal appeal, but also with a drag show on campus this coming spring. In a time when the Right is relentlessly attacking LGBTQ people and families, drag performances, and transgender rights, young people like Stovall provide hope. It’s also encouraging to see national figures like Seidel, author most recently of American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizin…

My Value Voter ’rents go Obama

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…we need.” I was flabbergasted at what I was hearing—a staunch Republican switching tickets. It wasn’t long before my shock increased when my mother later that same morning said of McCain, “I can’t vote for him. He acts like he’s supposed to just be elected without doing anything.” When I asked if she would vote for Obama, she hedged. “I don’t have to vote for anybody.” True, she doesn’t, but I hate to think she might not vote for Obama simply bec…

Is Joel Osteen, Success Mag Cover Boy, Really “God’s Best”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d have the ‘success’ that we’ve had,” Osteen tells SUCCESS in an interview with his wife in the formal living room of their Houston home. “I believe every person has potential that is still waiting to be released, or you wouldn’t be alive. I tell people all the time, ‘If you woke up and God gave you breath to breathe, then you’ve got something else you need to do. Somebody needs what you have. You have an assignment. You have something to offer th…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

…indeed what’s happening.” He concluded by saying that while he wants to wait and see if Beck’s professed faith in Jesus is “real,” he is “very encouraged by the movement all around the country to get back to the foundations of our country. God is using Glenn Beck.” It will be interesting to see if Beck’s influence can keep the anti-Mormon criticism at bay. Moreover, what if the Mormon convert from Catholicism were to have a born-again Christian c…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…orrelation between religion and happiness is amplified by economic misery, with “People living in nations or states with more difficult circumstances… substantially more likely to be religious.” In circumstances of prosperity and security, religiosity has a negligible impact on perceived happiness. That is, religion does seem to turn out to the opiate of the masses. But wait: Diener’s research also indicates that the dominant religious orientation…