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All Ducked Up: Reality TV, Not So Real

By Sarah Posner

…told an audience of college students. A&E, now attempting to distance itself from Robertson’s ugly views (“We are extremely disappointed to have read Phil Robertson’s comments in GQ, which are based on his own personal beliefs and not reflected in the series Duck Dynasty,” says a statement from the network that was sent to PEOPLE. “His personal views in no way reflect those of A&E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of t…

A Writer’s Murder Raises Fears of Death-by-Decree

By Shalom Goldman

…“sending the reprobate who insulted the Prophet to hell.” And one of the official Iranian newspapers wrote approvingly that “Azerbaijan’s Salman Rushdie is dead.” As 70% of Azerbaijanis are Shia with allegiances to the Iranian clergy, it did not prove difficult to incite someone to murder Rafiq Tagi. In December seven prominent intellectuals called on the European Union to investigate the circumstances of Tagi’s death. Among them were Taslima Nas…

Playlist #1: Indie Rock’s Dark Night of the Soul

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

Hopefully the first of many playlists to be featured on the RD blog, here’s a list from S. Brent Plate to accompany his article on the latest take on religion from angst- and doubt-filled indie rockers. Negative/Mystical Theology Arcade Fire, “Black Mirror” (from Neon Bible) Vic Chesnutt, “Flirted With You All My Life” (from At the Cut) Salome, “The Witness” (from Terminal) Arcade Fire, “City with No Children” (from The Suburbs) Danger Mouse and…

NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad

By Hussein Rashid

…Muslims, but they’re using a discredited Islamophobic film to train their officers. These activities continue to demonstrate several structural issues in the NYPD and their treatment of “minority” communities in NY—names like Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo are still on the lips of New Yorkers, decades after their victimization. Of course, since the city is all “minority,” it means that for the NYPD all New Yorkers are suspect. Mayor Bloomberg’s ac…

Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin

By Leigh Eason

…y resist the expanding embrace of LGBT rights by African American elected officials and civil rights leaders—and as proponents and opponents of LGBT equality contend for the moral mantle of the civil rights movement. Rustin, who became active in the gay rights movement in his later years, wrote eloquently about the need for activists to build coalitions for the elimination of all injustice. Indeed, Rustin’s work with King was only part of a life…

Was George W. Bush the Last Hippie?

By David R. Williams

…sparked your interest? I graduated from High School in 1967, took a year off to see the world in the merchant marine, ended up in the McCarthy for President campaign, and landed at Harvard the next year in time for the first student takeover. I was in SF during the summer of ’68, when chaos was simmering, and in Chicago in August of ’68 when chaos erupted. I did the dope and lived the life. The sixties, as they did so many of my generation, made…

Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”

By Alda Balthrop-Lewis

…selfishness. He wrote: “Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.” Philanthropy, he thought, was based more on the desire of the reformer to seem good than the goal of helping others. Worse, Thoreau worried that in many cases the “philanthropists” were in fact producing the economic circumstances their giving was aimed at allevia…

Catholic Church is Lucky it’s Just Same-Sex Marriage

By Marian Ronan

…igns about intersexed and ambiguously-sexed infants and the extraordinary efforts of doctors to hide these problems by correcting them in all possible haste, even if they weren’t clear which gender ought to be assigned. Since then, we have become increasingly knowledgeable about the complexities of sexuality and gender. One night this spring I came home late to switch on a PBS news segment about kids as young as 3 years old announcing that the…

Why I Joined Over a Thousand Faith Leaders in Masterpiece Case Brief

By Marie Alford-Harkey

…does the cake announce in any way that a marriage has occurred. It is the officiant, whether a religious leader or civil authority, who announces that a marriage has occurred. Indeed, the officiant must declare that the marriage has occurred for it to be a legal union in the United States. It seems to me that Masterpiece Cakeshop and their attorneys are grasping at straws, willing to push the limits of the Constitution and pursue any means necessa…

Gay Judge’s Prop. 8 Decision Holds

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ree with their rulings or not: “In our society, a variety of citizens of different backgrounds coexist because we have constitutionally bound ourselves to protect the fundamental rights of one another from being violated by unlawful treatment. Thus, we all have an equal stake in a case that challenges the constitutionality of a restriction on a fundamental right,” Ware wrote. The case is far from over and has been appealed to the Ninth Circuit Uni…