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You Gotta Have Heart: A Response to Critics of “Why I’m Not an Organ Donor”

By Kristel Clayville

…eed an organ and after the transplant. Or, you could offer space to a patient post transplant, since patients need to stay near the hospital for a period of time. If, like me, you’re more systems oriented, then get involved in the conversation. Organ transplantation policies undergo review fairly routinely, and public comments are always requested. Check the OPTN and HRSA websites monthly to see if there are policies up for review. Then read the p…

Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite

By Joseph Laycock

…a prayer invocation, only to retroactively uninvite them and change their policies to restrict which religious groups can offer invocations. The Satanic Temple sued, Scottsdale attempted to have their case dismissed, and here we are with the case likely heading to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Central to this case has been TST’s attorney, Stuart de Haan. Often in cases like this, the public only hears who wins. The legal principles behind t…

Anti-Gay Forces On Offense in Europe; ‘African Islam’ Challenged by Extremists; Irish Marriage Foes & ‘Sounds of Sodomy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t U.S.-based religious conservatives have played in promoting conservative policies and the political tactics used to advance them. The report discusses the right’s use of “gender ideology,” which it describes as a “pseudo-scientific term” that “is used as a political tool to curtail further development of sexual and reproductive health and rights.” From the report (with source citations removed): This strategic attempt by Catholic church to redef…

Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ce, the religious right has seized upon every opportunity to criticize his policies and his personnel choices. And when there wasn’t a glaring opportunity, it created one. The Ogden nomination became an excellent test case for revivifying the movement. Create the Message, Stay on Message: A message quickly emerged—Ogden was pro-abortion and pro-pornography—and dozens of groups and media outlets ran with that story. Show the Anger: Although it coul…

The Irony of the American Studies Israel Boycott

By Jon Pahl

…stitutions create “solidarity” with that suffering, when in effect Israeli policies have mirrored and benefited throughout the twentieth-century from U.S. policies that have created a military-University-financial system that is arguably as inequitable, brutal, militaristic, and unjust as the one in Israel? I can think of at least one Jew who talked about seeing the speck in another’s eye and missing the log in one’s own when calling out injustice…

Making Fun of Mormonism

By Max Mueller

…ith to how this faith might influence his or her political perspective and policies. This would not include sacred underwear, seventy virgins, or transubstantiation. It does however include (as Michael Ruse allowed in his CHE post) discussions of how a candidate’s theological views of the Holy Lands, for example, might affect American policies regarding the Middle East. As a scholar of Mormonism, and not (as I hope is obvious) as a spokesperson fo…

A New Theopolitical Order: But What About The Women?

By Frances Kissling

…3. The adoption of a gender perspective and analysis of both church/temple policies and practices and of public policies. 4. Acknowledgement of the moral agency of women, especially in relation to sexuality and reproduction, including sexual orientation, the use of contraception, and the decision to abort a pregnancy. 5. Elimination of all forms of violence against women within religious institutions and society. 6. An effort to empower women rath…

RDPulpit: Religious Bloggers Campaign to Stop Torture

By Daniel Schultz

…e yawn. That the American government had knowingly and repeatedly approved policies that allowed interrogators to beat, humiliate, or degrade prisoners, to push them to the edge of psychosis, even to cause them to fear for their lives and the lives of their families, barely drew a ripple in the media. They were concerned with more important things, such as whether Barack Obama wore a flag lapel pin or why he ordered orange juice rather than coffee…

Jewish Past/Israeli Future: A Review of The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shalom Goldman

…y about the fate of scholars engaged in any critique of Israeli government policies: “I know that there are a lot of organized Zionists that cannot accept the sort of criticism that one can voice in Israel. But I want you to know I am not afraid of Alan Dershowitz”. Highly critical of American Jewish support of the Israeli Right, Sand notes that: “since the late 1970s, the perpetuation of the Jewish ethnos state has paid handsome dividends, and th…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…basis. But other than that, there has been the removal of protections and policies that would have protected the unborn. Obama “is not doing anything he hasn’t said he was going to do during the campaign,” said the Rev. Joel Hunter, an evangelical megachurch pastor from Orlando, Florida, and another advisory board member. “So I am not enthusiastic, but I’m not disappointed, because we knew what to expect. I’m encouraged he is not totally flipping…