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Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…s? “Mankind is My Religion” At age 20, Bedi was sailing through the Police Service entrance exam until a question about her religious affiliation made her stop and think. “It was a deciding point in my life,” she said, recalling the moment and sitting up tall on the ottoman. “I wrote, ‘Mankind.’” She says an officer grilled her about her answer, asking her if she thought she was some kind of divinity. “I said no, but that I would be recognized by…

Martin Luther King in the Era of Occupy

By Paul Harvey

…s had made it a target of white terrorists. The evening before the morning service on September 15, a group of Klansmen placed over one hundred sticks of dynamite outside the church building. At about 10:20 a.m., the explosives detonated. The impact of the blast destroyed the rear wall and steps of the structure, and blew out all but one of the stained glass windows. The sole surviving window frame featured a stained glass rendering of Jesus leadi…

In Israel, Left and Right Join to Protest New Government Threat to Democracy — What’s Striking is What’s Missing

By Shaul Magid

…pation. To change the subject. This is not unintentional. In order for the center-left to attract the soft right to join its movement, discussion about the Occupation must be muted, or excluded. If the Occupation is at the center, the soft right will stay home. And so, in a sense, the Occupation is essentially sacrificed for the larger cause of Jewish democracy (“Jewish” because, since the Palestinians don’t live in a democracy that includes them,…

An Immoderate Proposal: Sam Rodriguez, “Centrist” Evangelical, to Give Benediction at RNC

By Sarah Posner

…McCain 54-33% in the last presidential election, according to Pew Hispanic Center data. According to the Center’s 2011 National Survey of Latinos, although Latino evangelicals lean Democratic (44% to 37% for the Republican Party), they do so less vigorously than do Latinos as a whole (64% Democratic, compared to 19% for the Republican Party). Rodriguez is correct that his constituency is conservative on social issues; according to a 2012 survey by…

Sarah Posner to Mark Silk: Dems don’t need to cater to the center-right evangelicals.

By Sarah Posner

…eates a perception that Democrats have to be seen with a (largely right-of-center evangelical) religious crowd—or that they have to talk about their faith more at all—in order to be successful electorally. Second, that Democrats have to soft-pedal their advocacy for reproductive and LGBT rights in order to attract those religious voters. And finally, that such soft-pedaling represents the preferred way for Democrats to appeal to religious voters….

Lou Engle Attacks Planned Parenthood Facility As “Abortion Super-Center”

By Sarah Posner

…laims that an unspecified “they” are calling the clinic “an abortion super center.” But who is the they? Engle himself. In unveiling its planned move to the new facility, Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas announced, “we look forward to serving the thousands of women and men in our area who are without health insurance and need affordable health care.” Never mind all that, though, and never mind all the unintended pregnancies the fa…

Abe Foxman’s “Irrational Or Bigoted” Positions

By Daniel Schultz

…the ADL’s move “could” change the whole debate over the proposed community center. (Then again, it “could” not.) But the Times provides no supporting evidence. Is Mayor Bloomberg, a fierce supporter of the Islamic center, suddenly going to abandon his support because of the ADL press release? Is the local NYC community board, which has “has given overwhelming backing to the project,” suddenly going to reverse course because of the press release? …

Should NASA Have Given $1.1 Million to a Theology Institute?

By Michael Schulson

…ain. The potential issue here is obvious: NASA is a government agency. The Center of Theological Inquiry is, well, a center of theological inquiry—an institution that seemingly has a religious, and specifically Christian, orientation. At least in theory, the government is barred from sponsoring religious activities. And doing theology about extraterrestrials does sound kind of religion-y. Earlier this month, the Freedom From Religion Foundation as…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…riage licenses at the Beverly Hills Courthouse, to shopping at the Beverly Center, to hair & make up before the wedding to a reception at the L.A. LGBT Center and a mini-honeymoon in WeHo. The film will be posted online at China’s top video platforms, including Youku and Tudou, for all of China to see. Though homosexuality was decriminalized in 1997, it is believed that up to 80% of gay men will marry women to avoid stigma and shame for their fami…

BYU Skinny Jean Controversy: Sexism, Sizeism, or Standards?

By Joanna Brooks

…a church meeting, but they still drew the enforcement attention of Testing Center employees. “There were skinny girls who were wearing tight pants who were getting admitted, but I’m curvy so my regular-fitting pants were a little bit tighter on me and he wouldn’t let me in. It was offensive and humiliating,” she told BYU-Idaho’s Daily Scroll. Other students and Testing Center employees came to the defense of the young woman, but they were overrule…