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Why Uruguay’s Move to Legalize Abortion is Not a True Victory

By Katey Zeh

…s rooted in the belief that a woman cannot be trusted to determine what is best for her own life and her family. Requirement 2: The panel must advise the woman about adoption and resources if she decides to parent. This assumes that a woman has not carefully considered the alternatives prior to requesting an abortion. While every woman has the right to comprehensive, accurate information about all of her options, the appropriate time to provide th…

Why I Will Not Submit to Arrest, Or, the Problem With Moral Mondays

By Amy Laura Hall

…arismatic hero is simply not true to the best of Southern populism. At our best, people in the South have agitated for change in break rooms, classrooms, prison yards and such, pausing for rallies rather than mistaking rallies for the real thing. While well-orchestrated arrests of large groups, at the instruction of a religious leader, may have the power of nostalgia, egalitarian democracy requires other models. It also does not matter to me wheth…

Shukr: Gratitude

By Amina Wadud

…n the phone and I was describing the birth event and sharing photos on Facebook. The next day, she went to bed, coughed once, and then breathed no more. She was 44. I thought about her when I read in the Qur’an how “every soul will have its taste of death.” So gentle was her moment of passing, and yet so painful has been these few months without her here to enjoy this Ramadan to share my blog, even; as the only one of my family even interested or…

How Donald Trump Has Exposed Rifts in the Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…brave, or just generally the best. For Trump, America risks not being the best anymore not because of the decline of religion (typically the heart of Christian nation ideology), but because of the rise of immigration. Even before Trump-mania took hold, religious conservatives like Moore and Reynolds were already rejecting the decades-old playbook of candidates genuflecting to the Christian nation ideology to win over evangelicals. As Moore wrote…

Does Mormonism Encourage LDS People to Lie?

By Joanna Brooks

…tered an old, familiar, sinking feeling. I tried to tell myself it was the best I could do. Was I lying for the Lord? Or was I a regular Mormon struggling to tell a complicated story to a world that often reduces us to stereotypes? What should I have said? Mitt Romney has said, “I can’t imagine anything more awful than polygamy”—even though polygamy remains a live element in Mormon doctrine and practice. Is that what he really believes? Is that wh…

Why it (Still) Makes Little Sense to Call ISIS Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…r, as delivered to his army, to ISIS’ practices. I pronounce the Prophet’s best friend a better interpreter of Islam than poorly reconstructed Ba’athists on the Muslim margins.) Suleiman stressed: “Freeing slaves” is so frequently mentioned as a meritorious act in the Muslim tradition that, in the 8th and 9th centuries, biographies of Prophetic companions cited, as virtues, manumission; Muhammad’s wife, Aisha, was lauded for “freeing six hundred s…

Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Still Sound

By Lauri Lebo

…oesn’t know what the heck it’s talking about. With such sensationalist headlines, readers might get the impression that this new study has single-handedly overthrown one of the best-documented scientific theories in history. Creationists will no doubt pass out copies of these articles at school board meetings as final proof against evolution, just as the Discovery Institute trumpeted an inflammatory New Scientist cover article (“Darwin was Wrong”)…

Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

By Ben Lorber

…e Age Zionists in an awkward position. Faced with ambivalent acceptance at best and unbridled bigotry at worst, some adopt a posture of ironic disdain towards their interlocutors—yet the barely-concealed desire for intimacy persists. One telling meme features the iconic 1818 painting “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” by German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, which was once admired by Nazi leaders for its ubermensch overtones. “Wanderer” show…

Growing Up Gay in 666: Fred Phelps in Retrospect

By Scott Blaine Swenson

…ven more than homosexuals, is when no one pays attention. “When even their best insults get ignored, that’s hard for them to deal with.” Confrontation does no good. The Phelpses aren’t winning converts, nor are they open to ideas other than their own. While he has no trepidation about them, Sweeting questions their sanity, particularly their trademark funeral pickets. Those pickets are, “calculated to inflict harm and pain, and poke fun at mourner…

Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden

By Chrissy Stroop

…share those beliefs. Nor should they shape anyone’s ability to access the best healthcare they need in a given situation, to adopt children, or to marry. This isn’t merely theoretical to me. Although I cannot get pregnant, being queer is enough to deter me from seeking healthcare in a Catholic or Protestant hospital when at all possible, since I can’t trust doctors beholden to Christian dogma to care for me appropriately. Catholic hospitals, whos…