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Prop 8 Ruling a True Test of Liberty (Religious or Otherwise)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e Fourteenth Amendment by impinging on fundamental liberties.” This is the central issue in Lawrence v. Texas. In that case, Kennedy found that in Bowers v. Hardwick , the case that had previously upheld sodomy laws, that the court had erred in its interpretation of the 14th amendment. To say that the issue in Bowers was simply the right to engage in certain sexual conduct demeans the claim the individual put forward, just as it would demean a mar…

Betraying a Sacred Trust: From Penn State to Dover Air Force Base

By Gary Laderman

…and ultimate commitments. Football is about many things, but perhaps most central to the game is power, not simply in its crudest form but in more subtle and complicated ways. First is the collective power to defeat your opponent that emerges from bodies united by game plan and practice, each player knowing his role, and a more amorphous but critical team spirit shared by all the players. Second is a will to power that is built, ironically, on ce…

The Lethal Mix of Religion and War, Or, Why the World Ended in 1099

By Jay Rubenstein

…and His Biographer has influenced me tremendously. As a human being, I’ve always wanted to write like Raymond Chandler. What’s your next book? I want to write a sequel to Armies of Heaven, a book that will study the first fifty years of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. The central question will be, “How in this world do you run a successful government originally founded on an Apocalypse?” As with the First Crusade, there will be blood-soaked ba…

Fueling Activism: An Interview with Bill McKibben

By Peter Laarman

…ndustrial agriculture, for instance, would become much more difficult. The central logic of a post-carbon world is towards more localized economies, simply because the sun and wind are spread out in a way that fossil fuel isn’t. Another way of saying this: our addiction to fossil fuel is so important that it undergirds and explains our institutions and ideologies more than the other way around. At the theological conference you keynoted in LA rece…

LGBT and Muslim? A New Report Busts Stereotypes

By Peter Montgomery

…any gay Christians). That, combined with a focus on marriage and family as central to community social order, has meant that many LGBT Muslims remain on the “down low”—many in marriages of convenience. In Muslim countries that harshly punish homosexuality, the report notes, those punishments are often drawn from religious teachings about punishing adultery, but without the high evidentiary bar called for in the Qur’an—such as multiple eyewitnesses…

Does Perry’s New Ad Suggest Romney is Satan?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…a pre-existent divine Person that became incarnate in time. But still, one central dispute between the LDS and Trinitarian Christians is over the nature of Jesus’ flesh. Curious. And then there’s the whole association with President Obama, in a time when some people seriously believe that Barack Obama is the slick-tongued hypnotic lying world leader “predicted” in Revelation. (That’s if you’re a dispensationalist, a theological viewpoint that is b…

A Head Full of Monsters: American History as Horror Show

By W. Scott Poole

…feel about the cover? Love it. Gothic, threatening, weird, touches on the central them of the book in subtle ways…come with me to the darkest part of the forest…you can trust me (insert evil laugh). Thank God they don’t let authors design their own covers. I would have been like, “Lets put Freddy Krueger on it, and some zombies and splash some blood on the spine and put an exorcism image and we need Godzilla and, and…” It would not have been appe…

The David Lane Effect

By Sarah Posner

…hristians.” Now, obviously, Lane is close with the Perry camp. He played a central role in organizing and promoting The Response. His organizations have supported Perry, dating back to 2005 and his leadership of the Texas Restoration Project, which boosted Perry’s reelection race for governor. As the emails Coppins obtained make clear, he’s anti-Mormon. But there’s no evidence that he coordinated with the Perry campaign to put Jeffress front and c…

Does Jeffress Help Romney?

By Sarah Posner

…mney. Dave thinks so—he says Jeffress is the outlandish demagogue sent via central casting that will turn off even evangelical opponents of a Mormon candidacy, but I’m not so sure. I think evangelicals will turn not on Jeffress, but rather on his critics, for reacting too harshly to what they believe is his truth-telling. Via Erik Eckholm at the New York Times, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler, whose views are conside…

News Flash: God Has Revised the Laws of Physics

By Paul Wallace

…and the mountain of solid science that depends on it. One of relativity’s central ideas is that nothing can travel faster than light. Related to this idea are a host of counterintuitive (and experimentally verified) results. Time and space are relative and not absolute. Your one mile is not one mile for everyone. Your one second is not one second for everyone. Twins, taking different paths through space and time, can rejoin one another only to di…