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Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…t sister Clarice. Lacy squirms her way out of Sister’s clutches, but can’t manage to escape Zoe. Zoe, after having to endure her parents having a frak right in front of her (this is the definitive nightmare for most of us, young, or old!), has figured out how to appear to Lacy as her “avatar” human self, rather than the one ton, six-foot-tall Cylon prototype that her essence is trapped in. She’s also managed to access Adama’s daughter Tamara, and…

Good News Bad News

By Amina Wadud

…as for hajj office. I still think it’s pretty dumb. How do Saudi embassies manage three million people requesting visas if they only open for processing within a month or so of the hajj itself? Seems to me they would alleviate some of their own pressures if they processed all along, with the dates for the hajj; or maybe for a girth of time or a specific duration. Indonesia renders a 30-day visa upon arrival—and so a 30-day visa, a 14-day visa, etc…

Rethinking a Classic from the Conservative Contraception Canon

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…things that it’s very hard for some people to understand; but indeed, they manage to both be true at the very same time. Thing one: I love my oldest son, and his younger brother, so much that of course I’d take any bullet, any day, to save them. I would certainly never wish that they hadn’t been born. Thing two: The circumstances of my older son’s birth were so incredibly hard that if someone told me I had to go back in time and do it over again……

Opting for Lucy Over Linus: Watching The Great Pumpkin in the Age of Trump

By Jonathan Malesic

…used it to teach about religious belief in college classrooms for more than 15 years. I love the story. I’ve all but memorized it. In an era of heightened political suspicion, argument, and even violence, Charles M. Schulz’s allegory has became about truth, falsehood, and stubborn belief in fake stories. It asks not just about faith and doubt, but also about how we can manage to live with people we think are dangerously wrong about important matte…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…e way religious leaders read scripture is painful. Children start raping at 14, 15 and take pictures. We’re sitting on a time bomb.” One strong voice in opposition to such violence is Anglican Archbishop Thabo Cecil Makgoba, who said in a video produced by Human Rights Watch last fall, “When you violate somebody on the basis of difference, you are not only violating them, but you are demeaning yourself…it’s a moral responsibility to stop the viole…

Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…pture are often said to be well skilled in the use of them (Judg. 20:15–16; 1 Chron. 12:1–2, 21–22). We can only surmise that 1) God gave them talent in this regard, and that 2) they engaged in target practice regularly. Further, under biblical law, to be disarmed was to be enslaved and led to a disruption of the economic order due to government regulations and monopolies (1 Sam 13:19–22). Reconstructionists are critical of those who defend the Se…

Time To Call a Satan a Satan?

By Peter Laarman

…ular? Energy/Climate: I’m not that hot—are you? We in the One Percent will manage to stay cool by any means necessary as the rest of you suffer. Regulation More Broadly: You can catch up with our death-and-debt-dealing corporate friends AFTER the damage is done, OK? That’s the American Way. That’s the House Republicans. And on the Senate side: Presidential Appointments: It is our firm intention to thwart and destroy this president; effectively …

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

…cting the attention of local news media and presenting a petition with over 13,000 signatures to WASC. WASC rejected the complaint, but Green believes the strategy of holding secular accrediting bodies that enable hardline religious institutions in their anti-LGBTQ discrimination has legs. Going forward, Green will be consulting with St. George about filing a more detailed complaint with WASC as well as working to push other accrediting bodies to…

Even Tougher Questions to Ask Mormon Presidential Candidates

By Joanna Brooks

…down with the two Mormon candidates in the 2012 race, this is what I’d ask: 1. In 2008, LDS Church leaders solicited $25,000 donations from wealthy Church members for California’s “Yes on 8” anti-marriage-equality campaign. High-ranking Church leaders even scheduled phone calls with individual members to make the ask in person. Did Church leaders solicit an individual contribution from you to the Yes on 8 campaign or any other anti-marriage-equal…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…y a member of the Anglicized elite, led a Sufi order which appealed to the spiritual leanings of rural, lower-class Indian Muslims, had no exposure to a Westernized education system, and expressly justified his moral condemnation of same-sex relations according to his well-known Urdu-language interpretation of the Qur’an. On what basis can one claim that, despite all this, Riza Khan had still internalized a specifically Victorian homophobic outloo…