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Coulter’s Gay Gig Costs Her Right-Wing Gig

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…d Coulter from its speakers lineup for the Take Back America Conference in Miami next month: Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, said the decision was a gut-wrenching one for his team because of their fondness for Coulter as both a person and writer-speaker. “Ultimately, as a matter of principle, it would not make sense for us to have Ann speak to a conference about ‘taking America back’ when she clearly does not recognize tha…

Paul Ryan: I Reject Ayn Rand, She’s an Atheist!

By Sarah Posner

…d Milton Friedman,” a subject he eventually studied as an undergraduate at Miami University in Ohio. “But it’s a big stretch to suggest that a person is therefore an Objectivist.” “I reject her philosophy,” Ryan says firmly. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person’s view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas,…

Orlando Massacre and ISIS: The Illusion of Power

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…omophobia. The father said that Omar saw two men kissing when they were in Miami, and the son went into a rage. Omar’s former wife confirmed that he had a short temper and was prone to violence. She told the Washington Post that he used to beat her, and was “mentally unstable.” On the other hand, the Amaq Agency, the news outlet of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, stated that the shooting “was carried out by an Islamic State fighter.” Omar him…

Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

By Will E. Young

…, how, even when presented with photographic evidence of his presence at a Miami night club (Liberty students are prohibited from attending dances), he claimed it was photoshopped; how he dealt out university contracts to family friends; and how he ordered his staff to violate IRS tax code. Falwell’s been able to get away with such behavior partly because he doesn’t fear his board of trustees, which is essentially just a collection of close friend…

Evangelical Sexperiment

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rch in Grapevine, Texas—20,000 souls strong, with satellites in Dallas and Miami—has been admonished to start having more sex. Marital sex, that is. The Reverend Ed Young, aged 47, has proposed what he coyly refers to as a “sexperiment,” challenging his married congregants to have sex every day over the course of a single week. His single congregants presented a distinct problem to the proposal, of course: “I dunno, try eating chocolate cake,” the…

Could The “Grand Old Party” Now Be The “Gay Old Party”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…can group GOProud, at the Take Back America conference over the weekend in Miami. (You’ll remember, this is the conference Ann Coulter was disinvited from because she agreed to speak at GoProud’s “Homocon” event.) Barron argued that gay people can be true conservatives, listing his organization’s support for conservative causes like “tax cuts, repealing health-care reform, social-security reform, and a neo-conservative defense for the Global War o…

Atlanta Falcons “Defend the Dome”: Football, Religion, and Existential Power

By Kenny Smith

…Journal-Constitution enthusiastically reported following the defeat of the Miami Dolphins, the Falcons “fought, harassed, stuffed, smothered, smacked” and ultimately “dismantled and dominated” their opponents before a sold-out Georgia Dome. Following this Sunday’s defeat of the Chicago Bears, the Falcons were described as “proudly professional… they can take a punch [and] they can deliver one too”. Do You Cry for Blood at the Ringside? What is it…

Colin McGinn: Not the Only Masturbating Philosopher

By Nathan Schneider

…ominent philosopher was forced to resign from his job at the University of Miami because of revelations about sexually explicit correspondence between him and a graduate student. The likes of Steven Pinker defended him, but not many others. Now, an article in The New York Times this past weekend has spread the debate about his case further and wider. In the article, he appears to defend himself by casting his sexual remarks as mere philosophical t…

“Biblical” Disaster: Understanding Religion in Haiti

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…n the Caribbean. As I watch the drama unfold in Haiti, and feel it here in Miami, the home of the largest Haitian Diaspora in the United States, I cannot help but think of another earthquake, another country. In 1976 a 7.5 earthquake devastated Guatemala, leaving 23,000 dead and over 50,000 injured. My husband, a child at the time, has told me of the silence, the fear that followed this catastrophe. As a scholar of religion, I have often wondered…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…n our side. Number 1 could be “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” Number 2: “God doesn’t discriminate.” Number 3: “Sex is only for procreation.” And so on. We could get clever, of course, and assign separate groups of numbers to arguments pro and con or to thematic clusters. I can even imagine some seminary librarian proposing a sort of Dewey Decimal System to organize the arguments. This would allow long series of arguments to be cited b…