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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…ute about a basketball game. • May 4, 1956, in Prince George’s County, Maryland. 15-year-old student Billy Prevatte fatally shot one teacher and injured two others at Maryland Park Junior High School in Prince George’s County after he had been reprimanded from the school. • October 20, 1956. New York City, New York. A junior high school student was wounded in the forearm yesterday by another student armed with a homemade weapon at Booker T. Washin…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…on? An ideology? A cult? A civilization? A racial or ethnic category? Last December, Trump was pressed on the details of his immigration plan during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. He did little to clarify the issue. After pointing out that religion does not appear on passports (which is true for most, but not all, countries), co-host Willie Geist asked about logistics: Geist: Donald, a customs agent would then ask the person his or her reli…

A New Goal for Anti-Choice Activists: Targeting “Sex-Selective” Abortion

By Andy Kopsa

…vil rights, women’s rights, or the rights of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. For example, this year alone, sponsors [of PRENDA] voted to defund family planning, eliminate funding for the United Nations Population Fund, ban abortion coverage in State health insurance exchanges, and allow providers to refuse abortion care even when a woman’s life is in danger. This passage from Ms. Yeung’s testimony, along with similar testimony by African-Am…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…hools, continues to rehash his failed attempt to insert intelligent design language into the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In his December 17 column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Santorum complained that scientists are trying to foist their viewpoints on people, and (reality be damned) “Americans don’t like being told what to believe.” Maybe because we have learned to be skeptical of ‘scientific’ claims, particularly those at war with our com…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…, even while insisting that that alone was not reason enough to remove the lane. An ambulance driver said that there had been a lot of accidents with children, though he had never personally seen one. A man named Moshe, however, said he did once see a child hit by a bike. “It’s terrible,” he said. A yeshiva school bus driver complained, in an extended conversation aboard his bus, “bikes don’t obey any laws.” He doesn’t think religious concerns abo…

Modern Savagery: Vatican Says No to LGBTQ Rights

By Kate Childs Graham

…GBTQ rights, the Vatican is sadly lagging behind. As the Vatican has been planning its program of events for December 10, member states of the European Union have been drafting a declaration to condemn discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. France plans to present this declaration on December 10. The Vatican—no surprise here—stands in stark opposition to this declaration. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the apostolic nuncio…

QAnon’s Predictions Haven’t Come True; So How Does the Movement Survive the Failure of Prophecy?

By Amarnath Amarasingam and Marc-André Argentino

…reenshot of Qdrop 1082, from the 8kun board where “Q” posts (the string of numbers are Q’s previous messages he is replying to) , hinting at a link between JFK Jr.’s plane crash in 1999 and Hillary Clinton’s run for Senate in 2000. In 2018, QAnon adherents became convinced that Q, whose identity remains a mystery, was JFK Jr. This conspiracy theory began in April 2018 following Qdrop 1082 [image left], which is a reference to the Clinton body coun…

GOP Candidate Allegedly Orchestrating Shooting of Democrats’ Homes is no Accident

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ump’s martyrdom, at least in the eyes of the American Right, justifies vigilantism, political vengeance, and even civil war.” And now that we’re seeing vigilantism, vengeance, and even, as Jeff Sharlet puts it, a slow civil war, one thing is abundantly clear whether we choose to see it or not: Solomon Pena’s story is no accident and it’s not an anomaly. It was an utterly predictable consequence of a dangerous game the GOP has been playing with inc…

Into the Darkest Moment of a Dark Year Comes the Saturnalia, a Time for Drinking, Swearing, Gambling, and the Circle of Life

By Farah Abdessamad

…t occasional murders occurred taking advantage of the distractions). On 19 December, gifts would be exchanged. Green garlands would decorate homes. People nominated a “King of the Saturnalia” (though please excuse me while I modernise tradition and nominate myself Queen in my living room to oversee the ceremonies alone). In a year of prolonged lockdowns, it’s easy to lose track of temporality altogether. Wasn’t March just yesterday, and a hundred…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…uman rights violations” since the passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Act in December. The advocacy group Sexual Minorities Uganda also released a new report documenting more than 160 Ugandans that have been targeted since December 20. The report estimates that the Anti-Homosexuality Act promoted by some US evangelicals and praised by many Ugandan religious leaders has led to an almost 20-fold increase in anti-LGBT incidents, reports Buzzfeed’s Lest…