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Boy Scout “Perversion Files” Raise Questions about Abuse in Mormon Contexts

By Joanna Brooks

…wide are co-sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But sources who have scrutinized the BSA’s so-called “perversion files” report that fewer than 2% of the cases documented therein are connected with Mormons. It is believed that LDS Church may have handled child abuse cases internally rather than reporting them to BSA officials. The LDS Church confronted patterns of child sexual abuse within its own ranks in the 1990s after…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…o the presidency was Rodrigo Duterte, a strongman mayor who has bragged about the number of extrajudicial killings during his tenure. Duterte has spoken in favor of LGBT equality and said he would consider legalizing marriage for same-sex coples. Cuba: U.S. Activists Join Mariela Castro For Pride Events Evan Wolfson, the American activists who master-minded the campaign for marriage equality in the U.S., joined other activists in Cuba for LGBT pri…

Covering Religion in The New Year: The Atheist Bus And More

By Diane Winston

…and political entanglements become sacralized. I’d like to read a story about American Jews who love Israel but question Israeli policy (and who aren’t savaged by other Jews for their opinions). Or what about one on American Christians who view Israel as something other than (1) a pariah state, (2) a mission field, or (3) the backdrop for Armageddon. Or maybe on American Muslims and Jews modeling new relationships? How to find these stories? I’d l…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…urging them to reconsider—citing the possible repercussions to the AAS’ reputation. It will be outstepping AAS’ role if AAS allows the selection of keynote speaker for 2014 conf. and gets critiqued for allowing the forums of the body to interfere with the laws in many Asian states and thus interfere with the friendly and constructive relations between non-Asian Asian states (sic). In an effort to combat the support of the American Academy of Relig…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…any his protector to inventory a confiscated Jewish estate. Asked by 60 Minutes if he felt guilty about it, he said no, because he wasn’t at fault. The slander that he was a Nazi collaborator has proliferated on the right ever since. What’s even more inexcusable here is that Fox (and Beck) have been questioned about Beck’s anti-Semitic broadcasts, have promised to end them, yet persist, unabashed. Simon Greer, president and CEO of the Jewish Funds…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…people are going to say, ‘my God.’” After issuing this warning, the show cut to a nearly five minute commercial for a portable fuel-less generator. What’s interesting is that, in the past, Bakker has shied away from politics. He broke ranks with televangelist Pat Robertson over the latter’s political turn, and he didn’t endorse Reagan in 1980, even as many of his peers were tripping over themselves to praise the candidate. Even in 2008 and 2012,…

Play to Extinction: Religious Groups Unite Against Predatory Gambling

By Frederick Clarkson

…highly debated issue. What isn’t debatable, however, are CFM’s concerns about addiction and democracy. Sacrificing Citizens Slots were legal in two states in 1985 (Nevada and New Jersey). Today there are 800,000 machines in 40 states. The new generation of electronic “slots” do not even use coins. You purchase and swipe an electronic card like you do at the ATM. The addictive nature of the electronic slots and their role as the main revenue stream…

Air Kissing the Mezuzah: Religion and Science Collide in Fight Against Virus

By Shalom Goldman

…n which the young god steals some yogurt curds. Israeli and Indian health authorities are soon to confer about their respective plans for vaccination against the virus, which will require the purchase of large amounts of vaccines from European pharmaceutical companies. I doubt that the respective religious authorities of these two countries will be meeting, though it might be a good idea for them to confer as how religious beliefs and rituals can…

Orthodox Rabbi Imitates Pat Robertson

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…l. Levin’s release says that he represents “1,000 rabbis” in this belief, but their own web site only boasts “800+ members” but does not list specific affiliations. The group of Ultra-Orthodox Jews have apparently been around since 1945, and “seeks to promulgate the cause of Torah-true Judaism through an organized rabbinate that is consistently Orthodox.” Levin says he agrees “with Eileen Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness that this wil…

Did the Pope Embrace the Prosperity Gospel?

By Sarah Posner

…perate enough to send in their money. Ewing, dubbed “God’s Ghostwriter”, routinely wrote similar garish letters for other evangelists using every trick to milk desperate people out of their money. The mailings still take in millions of dollars every month, though the group has lost its tax-exempt status several times. • A cursory search of property records show James and Betty Robison live in a “modest” Texas home appraised by Tarrant County tax-a…