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Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…eck and Fox News scurrilously attacked George Soros, a prominent Jewish philanthropist and Holocaust survivor. No one who truly understands “the sensitivity and sacred nature” of the Holocaust would deliberately and grotesquely mischaracterize the experience of a 13 year old Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary whose father hid him with a non-Jewish family to keep him alive. Many other Jews survived the attempted extermination of the Jewish people by chan…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…s Marcia Z. Nelson records, Penguin justified their withdrawal with the explanation that it was their “…responsibility to follow the law of the land and protect its employees from harassment, noting it was involved in four years of legal action to defend publication of the book.” In a February 12, 2014 Time Magazine interview, Mr. Batra explained, “Her intention is bad, the content is anti-national and the language is abusive.” Another way of inte…

Boy Scout “Perversion Files” Raise Questions about Abuse in Mormon Contexts

By Joanna Brooks

…ims and accusers. In 1995, the Church established stronger guidelines and new protocols for reporting abuse, including a 1-800 number for local clergy. …

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…and its indiscriminate use of napalm and Agent Orange to lay waste to the land and its people, killing millions of noncombatants in three countries (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia). King broadens his critique of this war into a sobering look at how a country—ours—that once claimed to stand for revolutionary ideals became the ally of dictators and tyrants and counterrevolutionary forces everywhere. He cites examples of U.S.-sponsored counterinsurgenc…

Gay Marriage to End “Culture Wars”?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ne, the Pew Research Center For The People and The Press found that “The balance of public opinion regarding gay marriage is more positive now than it was during the 2004 campaign.” However, despite the change in public opinion, “Republicans and white evangelical Protestants, in particular, remain staunchly opposed to allowing gays and lesbians to marry, and increasing numbers of Republicans and white evangelicals say that gay marriage will be ver…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…at must be a warehouse full of books, pamphlets, tapes, and videos. In mid-December, however, CRM, fed up with attacks on Christians and Jesus, announced that it had produced a program titled Is Jesus God? which would air on a number of television stations (mostly religious) across the country. “It is just amazing what God has done in history, and we as Christians need to know this information because our faith is challenged,” said Dr. Jerry Newco…

Proposition 8—the Rematch?

By Bill Berkowitz

…n anonymous has given $50 million to the ministry to be used for “The Last Languages Campaign,” an effort aimed at “translating the Bible into the remaining 2,400 or so language groups worldwide which do not have their own translation,” OneNewsNow reported in late November. “We have been involved in this movement for about 75-years as an organization,” Bob Creson, president of Wycliffe said. “And as we have come into the last few years, we are rec…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…which textbooks are reviewed and adopted. The next two involve religious balance and imbalance in the textbooks themselves. The last item offers some overall lessons. 1. Boosterism of Christianity To be approved for use in Texas public schools, textbooks must satisfy at least half of the Texas curriculum standards—the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or “TEKS” (often pronounced “teeks”). While the TEKS for middle school and high school world…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…number of LGBT Ugandans are feeling for Kenya. Musaala, 58, was born in Ireland and educated in England and Uganda. He was ordained in 1994 in the Archdiocese of Kampala and began ministering to gays and lesbians in 1999. His archbishop considered that work “not in step with the church,” Musaala said. In March 2013, Musaala wrote a paper challenging priestly celibacy and criticizing African priests who abuse minors or father children and abandon t…

Don’t Blame Black Voters: The Obama Non-Effect

By Jonathan L. Walton

…his standing among African Americans? Do the gospel melodies of James Cleveland carry any less credibility on Sunday morning? Have not black Christians often looked beyond the, err, “covert indulgences” of prominent clergy and gender ambiguities of choir directors? And last I checked, a critical number of black folk just love them some Tyler Perry Mable “Madea” Simmons (image right). The difference, historically and culturally, is that being black…