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Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…ngled our nerves. He would look directly into our eyes and ask in his soft Irish accent, Who are you? Do you believe in God? Why? Do you believe in God because your mother believes in God? Why do you believe God loves you? Do you believe God loves you because your priest told you so? And so on. These were not cheap shots. He was serious. He loved us, he loved his job, and his questions were troubling. Some students wept. At which point he would o…

Mexico moves toward national marriage equality; Greek govt announces civil partnership legislation; Pope warns against ‘secularism and relativism’; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in Spanish. “It is a right that we all have.” Scotland: Russian Orthodox, Irish Presbyterians Snub Church of Scotland Over Gay Clergy The Russian Orthodox Church has formally cut ties with the Church of Scotland following last month’s vote by the church’s General Assembly to approve the ordination of gay ministers. According to Radio Free Europe, the Moscow Patriarchate said earlier this week that “formal contacts” with the Church of Scotland and…

What Masterpiece Cakeshop Oral Arguments Suggest About the Future of LGBT Discrimination

By Patrick Hornbeck

…rve black and white customers on an equal basis. Yet in 1995, in Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, the Court ruled that the organizers of a private St. Patrick’s Day parade could not be obligated to include an LGBT group among the marchers as that would violate their freedom of expression. Advocates on both sides lost no time in highlighting such precedents. Several of the justices pointed to the difficulty of dr…

Blame Series Bonus: How Federal Policy Created America’s Fergusons

By Andrew Aghapour

…re somewhat integrated. They weren’t segregated because African Americans, Irish immigrants, Italian immigrants, Jewish immigrants, all had to live close enough to the factories where they worked so that they could walk to work – they didn’t have automobiles. So in many cases, what the New Deal did was demolish integrated neighborhoods to establish segregated public housing. Segregation was created where it hadn’t existed before by the federal Pub…

Calvary is Bleak, But Can it Kick?

By Kaya Oakes

…hioned picture of a priest. The tricky thing is that this is 2014, and the Irish Catholic church has lost much of its moral authority due to the priestly abuse scandals, the aftereffects of which set the events of Michael McDonagh’s film Calvary into motion. Gleeson’s Father James embodies many of the contradictions of what it means to be a priest today. A recovering alcoholic, the father of a depressed adult daughter, and a widower who found his…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…ic Catholics—it’s a city where people still designate whether a family is “Irish,” “German,” “Italian,” or “Polish.” I was the next generation who attended those schools. Have you attended Christian heavy metal shows or Christian music festivals? Was your impression that religious bands were in fact bridging the divide between secular and Christian cultures? I attended my first Christian music festival, the Harvest Crusade in Anaheim, in 1998. I w…

Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism

By Peter Laarman

…so acknowledge the shadow side. For example, she might consider asking the Irish what they think of Oliver Cromwell’s Christian charity. To my mind it’s Michael Walzer who sets the bar for scrupulosity in discussing the problems inherent in the idea of enjoying God’s special favor. Walzer writes that exodus stories—the original one, of course, but also the exodus stories written by New England settlers and by South African Boers and by the founder…

Adventists Cancel ‘Holy Sexuality’ Confab; Egyptian Court OKs Deportation of Gays; Mongolian Trans Activist Gives TV Interview; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Sexuality Conference” later this month, which was to include “ex-gays” and promoters of “healing” people of homosexuality. Organizers cancelled the conference in the face of public outcry, which included a petition that collected nearly 40,000 signatures. Organizers’ statement: A decision was taken on Monday, 13 April to cancel the ‘Holy Sexuality’ Conference originally planned for London, 21-25 April 2015. Seventh-day Adventists are a people of p…

Evangelical PR Blitz Before Midterms Won’t Fix the ‘81% Problem’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ould be just as well off as whites,” and a whopping 91 percent agree that “Irish, Italian, Jewish, and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same without any special favors.” What we have here are “respectable” racists, the kind who are image-conscious enough not to want to be seen as racist, deflecting such charges with declarations that, “I can’t be racist, I have black friends.” What we certainly…

Training God’s Rottweiler: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Must End

By Anthea Butler

…ern is the deployment of power to protect the hierarchy at all costs. When Irish Cardinal Sean Brady says he will not resign over knowing about the sexual abuse of two children, it is no surprise. When he has served in a system that has squelched tens of thousands of sexual abuse stories, why wouldn’t he think he could survive the onslaught of criticism? Finally, and most importantly, no one should think that this current Pope is going to clean up…