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Religious Right to Newsweek: ‘Woe to [You] for Even Printing This’

By Bill Berkowitz

…he Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist organization, to display a sign promoting non-belief near a Nativity scene in the Legislative Building in Olympia. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has made the Washington fight his own personal Battle of Stalingrad (let’s hope that the only casualty is limited to a stolen—and later replaced—atheist sign). Local religious right leaders, led by longtime conservative evangelical and former National Football Lea…

Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the wake of the criticism to the point where many Komen executives have resigned—people took to Twitter and Facebook and it happened in just a few days. Another example is Sandra Fluke and the so-called religious freedom battle, which was an anti-contraception battle, and what happened to Rush Limbaugh. He is significantly diminished in both his sponsors and his radio outreach. That was completely a creature of social media—and again driven by wo…

Amid Growing Legitimacy Challenges from its Right and Left, Vatican Seizes Control of the Supernatural — to Prevent ‘Abuses’

By Emma Cieslik

…t or whether it challenges or contradicts the Roman Catholic faith). Those promoting the validity of a rejected event could face penalties from the Church. Of course, this isn’t the first time the Church has pulled rank. According to a series of apparitions in Amsterdam from 1945-1959, Mary herself requested the Church issue a new dogma. The Vatican later intervened in 1974 stating there was no evidence of anything supernatural, and four years lat…

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…ome commentators have alleged that the 33-27 vote in the Senate was less a sign of major cultural change than a way for the president’s husband, Nestor Kirchner (former president of Argentina hankering to run again), to look liberal enough to be reelected in 2011. That may well be, but it misses an important religious angle; namely, that the Roman Catholic Church was defeated as soundly as the political opposition on this one. Maybe it is a sign o…

Gay and Christian and About to Lose Their Jobs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…that institutions such as the military and private Christian colleges, who promote the ideas of honesty and integrity would force their members to adhere to statements that may result in employees feeling they must lie or hide to protect their livelihoods. Certainly, those who don’t like it can find new jobs and Shorter will have the employee base it wants — good, obedient, homogenized Christians who gladly sign a list of beliefs and adhere to the…

Hell in a Cell: ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ Reflects the Growing Belief That Cocksure Men Will Save Us in the Battle of Good v. Evil

By Eric Harrelson and Joseph P. Laycock

…oles because they’re celibate and take on domestic duties that are often assigned to women. By contrast, The Exorcist’s Father Karras is a boxer who grew up in the slums. When not investigating the demonic, he’s shown either working out or drinking and smoking with his fellow Jesuits. Now, this was the sort of priest who could fight for traditionalism. Significantly, Amorth named The Exorcist as his favorite film. In his 1999 book An Exorcist Tell…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…s worldwide had mounted a campaign urging President Yoweri Museveni not to sign the law; they were joined by U.S. officials. Among those urging Museveni not to sign the law was retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who had spoken personally with Museveni. Said Tutu: “We must be entirely clear about this: the history of people is littered with attempts to legislate against love or marriage across class, caste, and race. But ther…

Creationism and Evolution are Competing ‘Myths’

By Kelly E. Hayes

…ctions overlap significantly. While initially the ichthys symbol may have simply conveyed the owner’s identity as a Christian, the popular circulation of the Darwin variant seems to have narrowed the original’s semantic range in such a way that it now signifies a commitment to the creationist narrative over and against the evolutionist narrative. Thus one finds the ichthys symbol inscribed with the word “truth,” as well as other modifications, inc…

Getting Wright Wrong: Preaching is Not Policy

By Anthony B. Pinn

…gn of hate. To the contrary, passionate critique of the United States is a sign of patriotism, in that it arises from a deep need to push the country to be the best it can be, to embrace its full potential and live out its principles. In this public conversation we must be open to hearing diverse perspectives and opinions. These differences must be respected and allowed to shape healthy and rich exchange through which we learn a great deal about t…

Is “Weak Leadership” to Blame for Catholic Trump Support?

By Patricia Miller

…e Act, paired with opposition to same-sex marriage, that helped convince a significant segment of white Catholics that the Democratic Party is hostile to people of faith. As Mark Silk notes in RNS, the campaign to turn the Catholic Church “into a spiritual doppelgänger of the Republican Party” on the part of both lay and clerical elites from the right has been underway for some time: Despite the Church’s longstanding support for universal health c…