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Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger

By R.L. Stollar

…as an “affluent LGBTQ-activist couple” who are alleged to have committed a number of crimes connected to the sexual abuse of their adopted children. Overnight, the tragic story of the Zulock children’s alleged abuse became proof to far-right activists that children aren’t safe with queer people. (This outrage is applied selectively, as other stories featuring cisgender, heterosexual predators creating and distributing child sexual abuse images—suc…

David Barton: Falling from Grace?

By Paul Harvey

…ing campaign speeches, and we just line up on our usual sides accordingly. Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s story for All Things Considered, which aired on Wednesday, typified this approach in both its stronger elements (more evidence in the print version than on radio) as well as in its more frustrating points. The story quoted Barton at length and correctly noted the extent of his political influence, and then gently corrected him on a couple of his h…

‘Religious Freedom’: Constitutional Principle or Electoral Politics?

By Frances Kissling

…During the Clinton administration’s attempt at health care reform, Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) made clear, with regard to the provision of a conscience clause for religious hospitals, that whatever the nuns in Baltimore who had cared for her mother wanted they would get. Nuns are especially popular today after the Vatican foolishly attacked them for caring more about the poor than about opposing gay rights and abortion. Catholic and non Cathol…

NPR Gives a Free Pass to Biblical Literalists

By Peter Laarman

…for far longer than I care to remember. This morning I heard the tease for Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s story and thought, “Aha.. .this should be good: people who read the Bible come to different verdicts on homosexuality. It’s time that non-specialists, people who just assume the Bible is all on one side, knew about this.” When the piece came up, I was also pleased to hear that Ms. Hagerty had interviewed two clergy leaders I know and respect—Rev. S…

January 6 protester holds giant image of White Jesus in a Make America Great Again cap.

America Appears to be Heading for a Religious Civil War

By Nilay Saiya

…et, a new American civil war is no longer unthinkable. Political scientist Barbara Walter has identified two specific factors that predict the likelihood of civil war occurrence. Alarmingly, both variables are present in the United States today and are quickly pushing the country to the brink. The first is “anocracy,” a political science term for countries that mix democratic and autocratic features. These countries are neither democracies nor aut…

First Gay Bishop? Give Me a Break

By Peter Montgomery

…pal monk. But the crowd favorite at the DC screening I attended was Bishop Barbara Harris, whose 1989 consecration as the first female bishop in the Anglican Communion also shook up the church. Harris is memorably direct. About the idea that Robinson is the first gay bishop, Harris snorts, “Give me a break.” In response to some of the rhetoric at the bishops’ gathering, she says, “if assholes could fly, this place would be an airport.” First Amend…

Creationism: Don’t Use the “C-Word”

By Lauri Lebo

…eationism as recently as 2004. (Read how Louisiana Coalition for Science’s Barbara Forrest connects the dots here.) However, because of that pesky First Amendment, which prohibits using public school biology class as a pulpit, creationism is never specifically mentioned in the LSEA. Instead, LSEA relies on code language to attack the teaching of evolution and other subjects that Christian fundamentalists hate because it contradicts their narrow re…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…ientific evidence relating to Darwin’s theory. Mr. Klinghoffer referred to Barbara Forrest as someone who shares my, as he puts it, “conspiracy theory.” But his attempt to trivialize Forrest utterly misrepresents her work. Forrest co-authored with Paul Gross Creationism’s Trojan Horse, which in a blow-by-blow account thoroughly exposed DI’s Christian motivations. And in the Dover trial, she was its most damning witness. In her testimony, she expos…

In Praise of Gay Republicans

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ir support for gay and lesbian issues, including George W. Bush’s daughter Barbara Bush, who made a video earlier this year supporting marriage equality in New York. Sen. John McCain’s daughter Megan has also been a supporter. Other Republicans, like Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, are also supporting LGBT people from within the party. Ros-Lehtinen has become the first Republican to co-sponsor a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. She…

Conservative Christians Finally Get Serious About Divorce

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…“red” and “blue” states are at the heart of those statistics, according to Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, who told the New York Times in 2004: “In states with lots of evangelicals, the more individualistic Protestant religious faiths may actually also encourage more go-it-alone attitudes than communal ones,” Ms. Whitehead said. And these are also states where the culture encourages sexu…