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Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

…electrocution of Ruth Synder. The photo was displayed the next day in the New York Daily News (January 14, 1928) with the headline “DEAD!” One million copies sold that day.   The problem is not the desire to look; that’s much more human than we are willing to acknowledge. The problem is instead the need to find an adequate framework within which to view the images. Right now, voyeurs are consigned to underground clubs, cult films, and obscure-tho…

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Obama Admin Rules Religious Institutions Must Comply with Contraception Mandate

This post has been updated. In a move that is sure to become a new anti-Obama rallying cry for the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services has ruled that religious institutions have a one-year exemption before they must comply with the requirement under the Affordable Care Act that employers provide co-pay free coverage for contraception in their health insurance plans. Churches and other houses of worship have always been ex…

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

…n affront to their right to discriminate based on religious beliefs. Their new Web site even points out that “contemporary laws that ‘redefine’ marriage to include two persons of the same sex threaten to stifle the Church’s ability to teach publicly about and witness to the uniqueness of marriage as a lifelong bond between one man and one woman.” Which is ridiculous. They can still say what they want. What’s really threatened is their authority to…

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GOP, Gingrich, Perry Team Up to put Satirists Out of Work

…dds the delicious tidbit that the day after asking Marianne for a divorce, Newt gave a speech to Republican activists on “The Demise of American Culture.” Shortly after Perry’s announcement Gingrich asked Perry to head up a “10th Amendment Enforcement Project” because, oh, well, never mind. That’s just a sideshow in the theater of the absurd. How many more times will voters have to endure a Gingrich lecture on how secularists ruining America, or t…

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LDS Church Calls on Members to back Minnesota Anti-Equality Initiative

…ommitted and loving individuals is ordained of God; and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the happiness of all God’s children. “We also believe that children should be reared by loving parents who honor their commitment to each other and their family. “However, Affirmation unequivocally asserts that God still knows that ‘it is not good that man should be alone’ and that having a helpmate is a marvelous blessing to those who find…

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God or Gay, No Need to Choose Sides

…ness—and only in those contexts. 2. That whatever the prohibition is, it’s central to religion. It isn’t. The “sin” in Leviticus is the same as eating a shrimp cocktail. Jesus never mentions homosexuality at all. It’s not in the ten commandments. It’s marginal, and of marginal concern. 3. That the “sin of Sodom” is homosexuality. It isn’t. It’s greed, cruelty, and inhospitality (Ezekiel 16:49-50, Jeremiah 23:14, Amos 4:1-2). Who is your audience?…

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Missing the Forest for the Witches

…essing positive or neutral views about Native American religion, Wicca, or new religious movements. In addition to the obvious free speech issues involved in Internet censorship, The ACLU argues that Netsweeper privileges Christian perspectives by categorizing minority religions as “occult” and “criminal skills.” Visitors to the Salem Library cannot, for example, access the Wikipedia page on Wicca, though they’re free to read the Catholic Encyclop…

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Greek Abbot Arrested for Role in Financial Scandal

…has happened since then: revelations of staggering Greek debt early in the new year; grinding new austerity measures imposed by Europe in the summer; a threatened Greek default in October; the inexplicable decision by the Greek Prime Minister George Panadreiou to call for a nationwide referendum on a deal immediately after the Europeans had hammered it out, thereby enabling the Greeks to pay off their debt to French and German banks at fifty cents…

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How (Not) to Understand What Mormons Believe

…potential Mormon involvement in other state LGBT equality battles. But his new site has nothing to do with redressing the damage from Proposition 8. It’s all about using the 2012 presidential campaign to make Mormons feel ashamed just for being Mormons. The site itself is flat and juvenile. It’s been denounced by the Los Angeles Times. (And it’s already been infiltrated by savvy Mormon folks and their allies.) But it participates in a mode of anti…

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Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground

…’s the most important take-home message for readers? That religion is both central to and often invisible in many Western bodily projects. It shapes the moral norms and values which fuel projects of bodily change and its practices provide disciplines that are believed to effect change. And, as in many other areas of life and culture, religious hopes and physical realities are often in a complicated dance. Or, in the words of historian Hillel Schwa…

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