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Will bin Laden’s Death Finally Quell Obama Conspiracy Theories?

By Anthea Butler

…uld be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity. In a speech designed to bring some closure to 9/11, the emphasis on not demonizing Islam was crucial. For those, including myself, who have wondered if the president was too soft on his detractors, the killing of bin Laden will resonate as a moment in which the president has proven his resolve as a leader who is willing to go to the wall to finish the job. The prattle of the religious…

WikiLeaks Strikes the Vatican, a Camel in the Pews, and Luke Skywalker Tolerance

By Michael J. Altman

…g operations where undercover agents are sent into US mosques as “an essential law enforcement tool.” In Georgia, the ACLU is suing the City of Douglasville on behalf of a woman who wasn’t allowed to wear her headscarf into a courtroom and was subsequently jailed for contempt. Fort Worth, Texas is in the midst of a brouhaha over “Good without God” bus ads put out by local atheists. Some local Christians have responded by following the buses around…

Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

By Mike Greer

…month that led up to the vote to dismiss us. Those conversations were cordial. They were not heated. They were pragmatic in nature and I appreciate that there was a clear channel of communication between those leaders and us. How has your church family taken this ending of a 100+ year relationship? With mixed emotions, as you can imagine. So many folks at Crescent Hill are like me. They grew up in Southern Baptist churches and it was in those pla…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…of Vladimir Putin becoming a Tsar. More from the BBC: In a video on its social media channels this week, Tsargrad TV called on gay people to compete for a one-way plane ticket overseas. “Just recently, California—the most liberal state in the USA by the way—proposed to facilitate the granting of green cards to Russian perverts,” said TV host Andrei Afanasyev. The channel regularly uses offensive terms to refer to LGBT people. “The staff of Tsargra…

“Tell Me What You Believe About Ferguson, and I’ll Tell You What You Believe About God”: A Missouri Pilgrimage

By Anita Little

…with Tyler and T-Dubb-O becoming connected to Palestinian, Mexican, and Brazilian activist groups. Tyler and T-Dubb-O took us through the blighted suburbs of St. Louis that are slowly being eaten away by urban decay and overrun with dilapidated buildings and empty lots. When we reached the small community of Ferguson, I was taken by how normal and everyday it seemed. There were well-tended houses and apartments, closely cropped lawns, people walk…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…he message: festivity and celebration can never be undermined by a utilitarian ethos or draconian politics. Part of the celebration, however, involves a recognition that the show is an example of American seduction. Hunter says in “U.S. Blues,” as if answering our question: “I’m Uncle Sam, that’s who I am, been hiding out, in a Rock and Roll Band.” All this critical awareness of duplicity, you see, is happening now as you and I become mesmerized b…

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is Inspired by a Biblical Account of Divine Massacre: Welcome to the Jericho March

By Thomas Lecaque

…rose to prominence recently. Supporters have been marching around the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa for around 20 days. They are, for Americans, a gothic reminder of what had been brewing in the lead up to the J6 sacking and looting of the US Capitol. The same toxic brew Jericho March, the group, is one of the religious groups, movements and ideologies at play in the insurrection. The Uncivil Religion project has uncovered a bevy of beliefs. The J…

Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages is Wrong

By Nancy Marie Brown

…y established the Polish Catholic Church and sent missionaries to the Prussians, Swedes, and other pagan tribes; they strengthened the empire’s ties with Spain and made overtures to Constantinople. But Otto died in 1002, just twenty-two—and Gerbert a year later, some say of grief. Their plans for a Christian Empire based on peace, tolerance, and the love of learning died with them. What’s next? I am beginning a book on the thirteenth-century Ic…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…esident Walter Wendler, who has a record of inserting his right-wing Christian bias into his public roles, unilaterally canceled the performance via a pedantic email. Seidel tells the story of the drag show cancelation at West Texas A&M (clip=5.5 minutes): Much of the moralizing communique was couched in a faux-feminist argument that drag shows “denigrate and demean women,” but Wendler also cited his personal faith, basing part of his reasoning on…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…e pursuit of happiness. Labeled the “sex guru” for what were liberal attitudes in 1960s India, Rajneesh, as Osho was known then, was equally contrarian on politics, economics, and religion. A fervent capitalist, he hailed science, denounced institutional Hinduism and encouraged followers to leaven their asceticism with sensual pleasure and material comfort. (His vision of the enlightened man was “Zorba the Buddha.”) In 1974, when he opened a cente…