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Abuse in the Name of God? Children and Faith Healing

By Shawn Francis Peters

…appeals, and the state supreme court) ruled against them. The courts held that that the laws “provided ‘inexplicably contradictory’ definitions of prohibited behavior so as to violate due process requirements,” as one of the judicial opinions issued in the case put it. Because it’s from another state, the precedent in that case (State v. McKown) isn’t directly applicable in Wisconsin, but it almost certainly will be referenced by the Neumanns as c…

Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…rage of world religions are in the TEKS for high school world history, so that’s what we’ll focus on here.* The Good News … In a standard on major historical turning points from 600 to 1450 CE, students are now required to learn about “the spread of major world religions,” instead of “the spread of Christianity,” as the 2010 TEKS required. (A move by some board members to restore the 2010 language was abandoned after education agency staff noted t…

What My Christian High School Taught Me About Being a Black Girl

By Carlyn Ferrari

…I know this. But I still looked for the photograph. There’s a part of me that wants to know what my teacher saw that night at the school banquet and what made it so funny. I want to show him this picture and make him see the child he refused to see at the time. I want him to tell me why he picked me. And I want to stop hearing his voice when I look at my naked body in the mirror. As a 37-year-old woman, I still feel a deep shame about my high sch…

Will Ralph Reed’s New Venture Wed Religious Right to Tea Partiers?

By Sarah Posner

…ted, he went on, to “a very limited government that functioned to protect that freedom,” a version of history that “not many get to anymore in our public school system.” Robison then introduced his antidote to the fallen nation: the recently resurrected Republican political operative Ralph Reed. The one-time golden boy of the conservative movement—sullied by the Christian Coalition’s decline under his leadership, and later his sordid partnership w…

“I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically”: Darwin, God, and the 2500-Year History of the Debate

By Edward J. Larson

…turalist aboard the British survey ship, the H.M.S. Beagle. It was during that voyage that Darwin first took seriously the idea that current plant and animal species evolved from preexisting species rather than each having been specially created by God. As an idea, evolution was as old as science itself, but had never gained widespread acceptance among scientists; at least until Darwin’s day. Writing to Darwin after he received his advance copy of…

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…,” she said. “It is not a unifying moment. It is exposing our children to that kind of hatred.” Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged people to vote no in what the Sydney Morning Herald’s Nick O’Malley described as a “declaration of a general culture war”: “I say to you if you don’t like same-sex marriage, vote no,” said Abbott. “If you’re worried about religious freedom and freedom of speech, vote no, and if you don’t like political correctness…

With Kurdish Genocide a Real Danger, How Ethical Was Mattis’ Resignation?

By Ivan Strenski

…w to block the Memory Hole from devouring inconvenient truths. One phrase that told me that Mattis had got off on the wrong foot was his writing that the president had “the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours.” Yes, the president’s “rights” cover the prerogatives of revered foundational institutions like the 1788 Constitution, the presidency, and the military code of honor. But at what costs do we maintai…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein criticized Gambia’s recent amendment to the criminal code that imposes life imprisonment for the broad and vaguely defined offence of “aggravated homosexuality.” He said the law “violates fundamental human rights” and he “expressed alarm at reports of a wave of arbitrary arrests and detention of individuals perceived to be homosexual in the country.” Since the new law was approved, representatives of The Gambia’s National Int…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ething true about themselves, and about their capacity for love, and know that what is true makes sense to them. And here is what is remarkable: this discovering of something that is true is working in exactly the way that the Gospel said it would, and following just the dynamic of the Spirit that flows upon us from Jesus. And yet bizarrely, Christian leaders of all denominations are joining together with leaders of other religious organisations,…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…ting that they do not have any particular religious affiliation. It seems that the powers that be in Hong Kong will, therefore, face increasing pressure on this issue. Russia: Dozens cross border to attend pride in Norwegian town; plight of lesbians in Chechnya The Independent Barents Observer reports that about 50 people from Russia, Belarus and Kazhakstan “joined the first ever pride parade in Kirkenes, Norway’s border town to Russia in the nort…