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East Lansing Demonstrates How Not to Respond to Anti-LGBT “Christian” Businesses

By Sunnivie Brydum

…family own Country Mill Farms, an apple orchard and event venue located in Charlotte, Michigan. Country Mill Farms (which is not located within city limits) had been participating in the East Lansing Farmers Market for many years. The Tennes family claim that, as devout Catholics, they could not host same-sex couple’s wedding ceremony in 2016. After the women posted their criticism on Country Mill Farms’ Facebook page, local government officials,…

Innocent Until Proven Muslim — A Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

By Habiba Farh

…you describe it this way? Dr. Maha Hilal: There are a lot of reasons why. Number one: the protests were significant. Unfortunately, White Americans don’t understand the gravity of this country’s violence, even though it’s happening in the backdrop, every single day. Around that time, people were talking about the 1033 program,[4] and how the War on Terror was coming home. I thought that was interesting because the War on Terror has been at home….

Do Not Attack the Writer

By Peter Montgomery

…ally disagree, and am glad that Sister Simone Campbell will be speaking in Charlotte. Sarah and I agree on many principles regarding religious liberty and church-state separation, but sometimes don’t agree on how those get applied in particular situations. The acknowledgment that people of good faith can disagree this way is a central premise of “12 Rules for Mixing Religion and Politics,” a People For the American Way Foundation publication I rec…

Dear Public Employee: Think the Government is “Hostile to Religion”? Get Another Job.

By Hollis Phelps

…, such county registers of deeds, magistrates, and their employees. As The Charlotte Observer reported, the conservative North Carolina Values Coalition, for instance, sent an email the weekend before last to the state’s registers of deeds, stating that they can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples based on their “First Amendment right not to violate their religious beliefs.” Tami Fitzgerald, director of the North Carolina Values…

OB/GYN Corrects Bishop’s False Claim About How Contraceptives Work

By Sarah Posner

In the Charlotte Observer, Dr. Jennifer H. Tang, a gynecologist in Chapel Hill and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, writes: In his attack on the birth control rules, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has gone so far as to claim “the contraceptives mandated as ‘preventive services’ [to be covered by employers] will include abortifacients.” This is false. Contraceptives preve…

Moses on Facebook, Christian Pro Soccer, Televangelist Breakfast Cereal, Child Preachers

By Michael J. Altman

…folks on the ground. Got a question about Islam? Dial 1-877-WHY-ISLAM. The Charlotte Eagles, a Christian pro soccer club, bring their faith to the pitch. For some Muslim youth, scouting and Islam are a perfect match. Meanwhile, organizers of the World Youth Day Catholic festival in Madrid, Spain set up 200 outdoor confessionals for pilgrims. The National Geographic Channel has an upcoming documentary on child preachers. In China, a Tibetan monk im…

Christians are ‘Jerks,’ The New Scopes Trial, Pastafarians’ Rights

By Michael J. Altman

…church billboard in Texas admits that Christians are “jerks.” A church in Charlotte, North Carolina won’t allow a Mormon couple to serve as leaders in their Cub Scout troop because they don’t consider them “real Christians.” A giant statue of Jesus is being built in a small town in Poland. At over 50 meters tall, it will be the largest statue of the Nazarene in the world. Florida’s Qur’an (not) burning pastor wants a New Jersey car dealer to make…

“Not a Christian Book”: The Perils of the Amazon Book Review

By Charlotte Gordon

Granted, it is never pleasant to have readers complain about one’s book, especially when the book is approximately three days old and one is still caught up in the heady pride of publication. In addition, if one is a veteran writer (which I am), one knows what to expect: generosity from some, slingshots from others. But my book just received an irritable review that stuck in my craw. The reviewer, Amazon pen-name “Jubilee” wrote that: [In Gordon’…

Manufactured Outrage Over ‘Godless’ Democratic Platform [UPDATE]

By Peter Montgomery

…d mercy it inspires.” God, it turns out, has already been quite welcome in Charlotte, from opening and closing prayers to references in several speakers’ remarks. But that is not enough for the word-counters at Fox News, who demand to know why the number of uses of “God” has dropped. In response, Sen. Dick Durbin took on the insinuation that the platform revision somehow proved that Democrats are anti-God: Well, I can just basically tell you that…

Jesus Said Punch Up, Not Down: Why William Barber’s Attack on the Religious Right May Not Be What It Seems

By Daniel Schultz

…ncerned for the poor, with the Rev. Mark Harris of First Baptist Church of Charlotte arguing that “what churches are doing is the most effective means of truly helping the poor, not government programs where the money … never seems to reach those who need it the most.” This is pretty much the same thing I hear whenever I cite scripture in support of the social safety net: God never says government should provide for the poor! (Which is true, thoug…