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

By Joanna Brooks

…portionate attention to dress standards sends the right message about the relationship between appearance and spirituality to LDS youth, especially when the brunt of conservative dress standards enforcement falls on young women, and particularly on curvy young women or young women of size. Curvy girls bear a burden of attention—negative and positive—to their bodies anyways. Faith-based “modesty” enforcement compound those body issues among young w…

Famous Atheists, Fat Ministers, Papal Tweets, and a Mega-Hoax

By Michael J. Altman

…ance have worked together to issue a code for how Christians ought to evangelize. No word on how this code effects the use of Chick Tracts. A village in the Philippines celebrates its patron saint, John the Baptist, with a Mud People Festival. Reminds me of my weekend at Bonnaroo 2004. The Pope tweeted—from an iPad, no less. It’s all part of the Vatican’s new multimedia news portal, news.va. Biblical criticism is getting high-tech. A new computer…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…les having children. Indeed, this right [of same-sex civil unions] has largely been delayed due to a lack of political will among political leaders.” For now, deliberations over the AVP continue, but Jiménez and Movilh have already set their sights on the future: “In the next three to four years we’re hoping for equal marriage. Like I said, there’s been an very positive cultural change.” Levy Fidelix, a minor presidential candidate whose support s…

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Re: Creationist Tactics Pre-Dating the Exposure of ID as a Fraud

By Lauri Lebo

…also promoting intelligent design. As is their modus operandi, they switch between intelligent design and coded phrases like “teach the controversy” when it serves their purposes. For an example of their promotion of intelligent design in public school science class, see their 1999 booklet Intelligent Design in Public School Science Curricula: A Legal Guidebook. Also, in the case of Dover, Discovery initially sent pro-ID DVDs, such as Signature in…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…n face and no little beanie on his head and eat pork every other Tuesday? Well, if you ask me, I would tell you, no.” Which of course suggests that Yerushalmi is the legalistic purist, but, uh… oh, never mind. While he claims that strict adherence to Jewish law is required to be a “good” Jew, Yerushalmi misapprehends shari’ah as a set of requirements and, more ominously, punishments. As Haroon Moghul wrote here just after Oklahoma voters passed a…

Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…el.” Boy, that just says it. The envy part has to do with people who can feel joy, feel peace, and feel uplifted. I would have welcomed, oddly, those kinds of emotions. But you can still feel good emotions if it comes organically out of your childhood as it did for me. Larry David once did a whole bit about synagogue where he says: Oh God you’re great, you’re fantastic, you’re the highest, you’re the most supreme. That’s how it sounds sometimes, a…

Where Christianity and Islam Collide

By Maggie Fick

…n internationally-brokered peace agreement signed in 2005. The Tenth Parallel delves into those places where ecstatic forms of Christianity and Islam have arguably, necessarily, become extremist versions of the faith. But in these “peripheries” along the rough geographical boundary between the religions, Griswold suggests that “exclusive claims on truth tend to call forth their opposites.” In other words, there is hope that extremism will be conte…

Creationism: Don’t Use the “C-Word”

By Lauri Lebo

…t, creationism is never specifically mentioned in the LSEA. Instead, LSEA relies on code language to attack the teaching of evolution and other subjects that Christian fundamentalists hate because it contradicts their narrow religious worldview – reality be damned. The language that was inserted into the LSEA, which the Livingston school district properly understood to mean it could teach creationism, says that the Louisiana State Board of Element…

Extra-Terrestrial Kitsch: Capricology #4

By Anthea Butler

…s. I am not quite sure about the “film noir” feel of Caprica. It’s a cross between a 1930s pre-code movie and Metropolis. The cops, the smoking, the old-fashioned cars; I thought Caprica was supposed to be technologically savvy, not a cross between the future and the past. What does this say about its inhabitants—and the show’s creator? I agree with Diane, this week seems to be a placeholder for something to come, but in the process, I did not lea…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…me difficult in practice, but no arrests or confrontations occurred. Loop deliberately planned the event for sunset on Saturday to coincide with the end of the Sabbath in the hope, she said, that “they would all be coming out of their houses to see us standing up for what we believe in.” But the Williamsburg Hasidim continue the Sabbath until some time after sunset, well after the bicyclists had come and gone. Because of their observance, most of…