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

By Michael J. Altman

…, a Polish Catholic missionary was beaten to death with a crucifix. And in Phoenix, Arizona, the bishop is threatening to strip St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center of its Catholic status over a disputed abortion procedure. So, apparently, former President George W. Bush was sloshed the first time he met Billy Graham. He had had “about four beers and five wines.” Well done, sir. A group of US Senators are asking Switzerland to reconsider an im…

Vampires, Communion, Redemption

By Joseph Laycock

…“completely unpretentious and silly,” it can be read as an allegory for a number of social issues. The new society that has seemingly transcended mortality is actually unsustainable and built upon a foundation of human suffering. The blood shortage seems an obvious reference to fears about oil depletion and projected shortages of potable water, while images of American soldiers sporting fangs and glowing eyes may be a critique of US imperialism….

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Rainbow Index ranked it the worst place in Europe to be gay, based on the number of violent homophobic attacks and discriminatory remarks by public figures. The CBC says the president of an Azerbaijani LGBT rights group, who now lives in Germany, “told CBC nes gay people in the oil-rich, mainly Muslim country have been subjected to occasional harassment in the past, but a systematic effort to detain people in unprecedented.” Lawyer Samed Rahimli…

Texas Textbooks, Kenyan Constitution, And Slurs Of “That Jew” and “Monkey God”

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…n abortion in a Catholic hospital was excommunicated. A statement from the Phoenix diocese said, “She gave her consent that the abortion was a morally good and allowable act according to church teaching.” The procedure was necessary to save the patient’s life. A religious leader in Zimbabwe claims that a government immunization program to combat an outbreak of measles is “a ploy to reduce the population of his growing sect” that does not believe i…

What Does It Take to Fell a White Nationalist? (Hint: Pedophilia)

By Anita Little

…os will slink completely into oblivion. Similar to a bigoted, anti-Semitic phoenix rising from the ashes, white privileged men like Milo always seem to bounce back with another book deal, another commentator gig and more notoriety. White nationalism is one very persistent hydra, and those who think this is the end of Yiannopoulos seem to be underestimating what he means to the young “alt-right” movement. Yiannopoulos seems to agree, posting this m…

The Prophet Amos on Unemployment and Our Leadership

By Peter Laarman

…can’t find any job; among younger males, especially African-Americans, the number is much higher—in many areas one in two workers is without work. Yet Congress, with a Democratic majority, can’t get it together to extend unemployment benefits. Our solons just flew out of town for a weeklong holiday vacation. Republicans, joined by Democratic deficit hawks, insist that any extension be “deficit neutral” and come out of unspent stimulus money. But…

Houston’s Pastor Subpoenas: A Meme Made for Fox News

By Sarah Posner

…erendum petition were invalid, the petitioners no longer had the requisite number of signatures to place the referendum on the ballot. The subpoenas, served on pastors who are not litigants in the lawsuit, seek a broad range of documents and communications, including sermons, regarding their statements on homosexuality, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), and the petition process. Represented by the religious right legal firm Alliance Defen…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…half. There were still probably 80 empty seats, and it was clear that some number of attendees had free tickets. The largest financial supporter of the event was a local news/talk radio station and its representatives were the only media allowed in. As I arrived with my Religion Dispatches press badge they stopped me before I even got to the door. I chatted with an AP reporter and he said AP had been trying for weeks to gain media access—but that…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…Candyman’s in town” This is the grateful seduction, sometimes for good, many times for ill, but real any way you slice it. Two more times for the Dead to, in the words of bassist Phil Lesh, “suck the last dance right out of you…” How much are those tickets to the very last gigs at Soldier Field this weekend going for? For real? You got to be kidding me! I could feed a family for a month for that price. But one can’t put a price on American Beauty…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

While a number of conservative Christian leaders raise questions about Glenn Beck’s Mormonism, Worldview Matters’ host Brannon Howse continued his attack in a conversation with Kirk Cameron about why Cameron did not participate in Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny. Howse marveled at the “thick irony” wherein Cameron (the actor who played Buck, the converted journalist warning about the “demonic spirituality of a one world religion” in the Left Behind m…