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Gays Losing Value to “Value Voters”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…gh.” Even though opposition to same-sex marriage seems to be cooling its heels at number three, it’s presence is still felt in just about all aspects of the “value voters” belief system. With abortion remaining at the number one spot, it’s clear that all things sexual continue to occupy the minds of those who seem the most opposed to anyone actually having sex. It’s interesting to view the “value voter” summit in juxtaposition with a new survey co…

Conservative Points in Pope’s Speech Include Liberal “Chasers”

By Patricia Miller

…o nonviolence and diversity; and to Thomas Merton as “a man of dialogue, a promoter of peace between people and religions.” Nary a conservative icon among them—and both Day and Merton are beloved by progressive Catholics. Even when conservatives thought they had finally gotten to their part of the program, jumping to their feet when Francis spoke of “our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development”—which has l…

Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…aking experiments at CERN. When science explains away the hand of God, he believes, religion will lose its relevance. People will doom themselves to spiritless squalor. Ewan McGregor portrays, to my knowledge, the first action-movie villain driven to his diabolical acts by an addiction to intelligent design theory. Natural Enemies There aren’t a lot of religion-and-science movies, and even fewer great ones. Near the top of anybody’s list, though,…

Texas’ Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill Is Unconstitutional and Unnecessary, Say Texas Law Professors

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ould create, according to the legal memo: H.B. 3859 prioritizes the “sincerely held religious beliefs” of agencies over the welfare of children. H.B. 3859 tips the scales in favor of only one interest—the religious liberty and beliefs of child services agencies—foreclosing the opportunity for competing interests to be carefully weighed and properly considered. The absolute protection H.B. 3859 would provide to these agencies is overly broad and wo…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…al Code, which forbids “deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class of citizens.” The school teacher was Mr. Batra, a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist organization. As early as 2001, Mr. Batra has engaged in political and legal measures to affect educational curriculum through his organization Shiksha Bachao Aandolan Samiti (Movement to Save Education). For Mr. Ba…

#TeachAcceptance and the Fight for the Soul of SF’s Catholic Schools

By Patricia Miller

…ve” are the “sinfulness of contraception,” that “all extra-marital sexual relationships are gravely evil and that these include adultery, masturbation, fornication, the viewing of pornography and homosexual relations,” and that “the fundamental demands of justice require that the civil law preserve the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.” The anti-gay language particularly rankled in the liberal diocese and prompted local…

UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…olic Church, and thus a necessary step to protect the public sphere from “religious influence,” modeled in part on the legal initiatives adopted in France, and framed as a repudiation of “Canadian” multiculturalism policy as a weak and dangerously indiscriminate mechanism for regulating cultural and religious diversity and for securing social solidarity. Opponents decried the Charter as a thinly disguised attack on religious minorities, especiall…

God Bless Islam with Courageous Leadership

By Ebrahim Moosa

…for people in Iran, Egypt, or Pakistan? Does he teach the tradition creatively and help people think imaginatively? Or does he focus on impieties and promote the virtues of paraphernalia like the dress code and the mandatory length of facial hairs? If the imam is as wise as the religious leader in the Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, it will be a huge step up. Mosque committees share their burden of responsibility too. Often they appo…

Russian Multimillionaire Makes Peace with Anti-Christ Milk

By Joseph Laycock

…ans and secular authorities. That is, the ‘X’ is a compromise that allows Veliky to sell his milk while publically performing his Christian identity and framing government regulators as Satanic and illegitimate. Resisting the Mark of the Beast has long been an issue in American politics. In 2010 I reported on proposed state laws banning the forced implantation of microchips, which certain voters equated with the Mark. In Russia, barcodes are the c…

Margaret Cho: God Bless You, Fing Fers

By Lisa Webster

…dy for some serious War on Culture…er…culture war. So there’s Christian as code-word for ‘evangelical.’ Like when Republican politicians say it. And there’s Christian meaning Protestant, as opposed to Catholic. And there’s Christian the way a missionary might mean it, (as opposed to heathen?). And there are those “anonymous Christians,” or involuntary Christians…was that Rahner who devised that category? Does anyone outside of seminary or grad sch…