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Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…ndependent and organized to hold him to anything. Do you think there was a sign of hope for grassroots organizing in the U.S. during the occupation of the Madison capitol building? I definitely took the events in Madison as a hopeful sign. One could see a lot of Thoreau’s sleepers waking up and beginning the process of getting their act together. But the real question is whether the organizational work that comes out of that event takes full advan…

New York Marriage Equality Set to Begin, Minus Two Clerks

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ion of marriage is between a man and a woman. It is a sacrament.” In her resignation letter, Fotusky complained that “There was no protection provided in the legislation for town clerks who are unable to sign these marriage licenses due to personal religious convictions, even though our U.S. Constitution supports freedom of religion.” Which completely misses the point. Fotusky is certainly welcome to believe that marriage is between one man and on…

A Peek Inside the ‘Onion’ of Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…o join the Sea Org and sign the contract and that’s it; their parents must sign a document too, in which they give the Church legal guardianship and the right to act in loco parentis on the child’s behalf. The children are not expected to be independent actors. They are under the guardianship and direction of the Church. At this point, the Church says children under the age of 16 or 18 are no longer allowed into the Sea Org, and that may well be t…

Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News …

By Kiera Feldman

…ir histories with power and truth. The woman tapped her “40 Days for Life” sign against her leg as she read. “You could almost see the wheels turning in her head,” remembered Kromenaker. Arriving at the final prayer, the woman put down her sign and left. “Reasonable Christian people, when reading these prayers, understand that these are honest prayers for women,” noted Reverend Rebecca Turner, who wrote the prayers that RRWC had posted in…

North Carolina Feels the ‘Love’ in Amendment Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…sing you to sin, cut it off.” But he affirmed his insistence that “gender distinctions matter to God.” • Also this week, a person who declares on his YouTube account, “I vote for the Bible,” posted a video – since removed – of himself urinating on a “Vote No” sign. • That followed the posting of a video by a teenager shooting at a vote no sign he says someone put up near his house and concluding, “that’s how we deal with it around here.” Equality…

Palin Bus Tour Like Gideon’s Fleece

By Anthea Butler

…on sets fleece on a threshing floor, using it as a way of asking God for a sign whether or not to go into battle against the Midianites. God gives Gideon the sign to smite the Midianites and to do battle with his Baal-worshiping neighbors. Setting down Gideon’s fleece, then, in contemporary Pentecostal interpretations, is a way for believers to seek God’s approval for their own ambitions or “calling,” and to claim they are carrying out God’s purpo…

Oral Roberts, Pioneering Televangelist, Dies

By Anthea Butler

…money to build the center, it was the vision of a 900-foot-tall Jesus as a sign to Roberts that would place media scrutiny on his ministry in an uncomfortable way. Ridiculed for reciting the vision in a letter to supporters, the 900-foot-tall Jesus vision would eventually inspire Mark Griffin of Dallas to become a self-styled rapper with the handle of MC 900 Ft. Jesus, who had a string of hits. Roberts was not without his share of controversy over…

Anita Perry: “God Was Speaking to Me” that Rick Should Run for President

By Sarah Posner

…on sets fleece on a threshing floor, using it as a way of asking God for a sign whether or not to go into battle against the Midianites. God gives Gideon the sign to smite the Midianites and to do battle with his Baal-worshiping neighbors. Setting out Gideon’s fleece, then, “is a way for believers to seek God’s approval for their own ambitions or ‘calling,’ and to claim they are carrying out God’s purposes in conquering heathens and idol-worshiper…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…arian Ali Motahari as asking “why the West is moving toward animalism, and promoting affairs such as homosexuality that go against the human nature?” Chile: Marriage equality opponent wins presidential election; Congress will have pro-equality majority Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s president between 2010 and 2014, will return to office in March after winning a runoff election in December. Piñera is an opponent of marriage equality for same-sex couples…

Religious and Political Silence on India’s LGBTQ Decision Speaks Volumes

By Andrea R. Jain

…ur party position has been that homosexuality is a genetic disorder.” Most significantly, since his 2014 election, Modi and other parliamentarian members of his party have had the legislative power to initiate concrete action to decriminalize LGBTQ sex, yet they have not used it to do so. Baba Ramdev—a yoga guru; Hindu renunciate; celebrity; entrepreneur; right-wing activist; the person who would become Modi’s most high-profile spiritual advisor;…