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Muslims Murder, Christians Don’t: What Went Missing in Analysis of Tiller’s Executioner

By Dan Mathewson

…ried amid a sea of other biographical data. Some, like the Times, actually manage to exclude nearly all of the details of Roeder’s religion altogether. The Times, however, is not unique in its reporting of either case. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News all relegate Mr. Roeder’s religious motivation to the margins, while all play up Mr. Muhammad’s connections to Islam. Unsurprisingly, Fox News’ coverage is the most extreme. Its main story about Muhammad exp…

Why Are We Drawn to Horror?

By Mathias Clasen

…m, tell them about the exciting stuff I’ve discovered in my research. If I manage to occasionally entertain them, that’s great, but I didn’t set out to do that. I do hope my enthusiasm for the subject carries across, though. I imagine some readers might be pissed off by some of my claims, or because I left out their favorite horror writer or director or whatever. But that’s life in the big city. I’m hoping most readers will approach the book with…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…day, the Secular Coalition For America is an umbrella lobbyist group for a number of once-competing groups, including American Atheists, the Council for Secular Humanism, and the American Humanist Association. These “adult” organizations support the growth of campus groups. American Atheists offers scholarships to student activists, noting that “special attention is given to those students who show activism specifically in their schools.” The Amer…

Contraception Furor v. Catholic Realities

By Mary E. Hunt

…en’s reproductive health, something the Roman Catholic Church has tried to manage for millennia. The demand for widespread religious exemptions from a common sense policy that makes coverage of contraception part of a national health care package causes most people to scratch their heads. Why in 2012 would anyone resist birth control? Why would a church that opposes abortion not want people to use effective, economical ways of preventing unwanted…

What the Catholic Supreme Court Justices Get Wrong About Marriage

By Patricia Miller

…nly with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) “did the Catholic Church finally manage to impose its authority in this sphere by invalidating marriages that had not been performed in public before a parish priest.” So the modern, Western form of marriage as a public union that must be solemnized by an ecclesiastical—or, later, a civil—official that the justices are so worried about upending is some 450 years old. If we’re going simply by the longevity…

What’s Ahead in the World of Mormonism for 2011

By Joanna Brooks

…ted to have compared working with Elder Boyd K. Packer to trying to “stage manage a grizzly bear.” In October 2010, after Elder Packer delivered a highly controversial and bruising talk on LGBT issues at the Church’s global General Conference, grizzly bears indeed may have been stage managed. Packer’s talk was revised for publication and (in response to pressure from members and LGBT human rights groups) the Church subsequently issued a statement…

Stop the Coup 2025 Founder on the Dangers of the Heritage Foundation’s Authoritarian Playbook

By Daniel Schultz

…hat’s gonna happen to them? It would also be a reversal of a great deal of American policy. I’m thinking about the work the Bush administration did with PEPFAR. Exactly. PEPFAR funds quite a bit of these health agendas, not just in the area of HIV, but malaria and TB and waterborne diseases. I mean, here we’ve had a COVID epidemic. So everything having to do with pandemic preparedness has also been impacted. And not just that. They’re very much at…

A New Thing: On the Quest for a Biblical Politics

By Garret Keizer

…ence. Put in the simplest terms possible, what did I see? The best I could manage was two sentences. They went like this: Nothing short of a revolution can reverse the course our country has taken. The people most capable of making a revolution are on the counter-revolutionary side. The conclusions were disturbing but hardly new. George Orwell seems to have had roughly the same thing in mind when he wrote: “It is exactly the people whose hearts ha…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…ternalized a specifically Victorian homophobic outlook? Exactly how did it manage to poison the moral worldview of nearly all South Asian Muslims? This is what makes EHT rather precarious. In trying to identify the root causes of pervasive Muslim homophobic attitudes, it relies too heavily on speculative psychology, suggesting that socially conservative Muslims today have subconsciously mimicked a Victorian sexual ethic. Modern-day jihadis, too, h…

The Most Forgotten Queer Folks in the US are Fighting Back Against a Powerful — and Publicly Funded — Group That Discriminates With Impunity

By Chrissy Stroop

…ious church-state separation concern that ought to arouse the ire of every American who supports the idea that justice is best protected by a secular government. Religious organizations that wish to receive federal funding should be subjected to the same rules for recipients of that funding as secular organizations, and if they wish to violate the rules by discriminating against members of a protected class, that funding should simply be off-limit…