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Silence of “Religious Liberty” Activists on Muslims’ Cases Not What You Think

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…ers and their employer, Cargill Meat Solutions, a meat processing plant in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Until recently, employees had been allowed—with prior permission from a supervisor—to take one or two short breaks per shift to pray, as required by their faith. While the employer claims this policy has not changed, in early December a group of workers was not permitted to pray when they chose to, then told by a supervisor “If you don’t want to work…

Again, Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

By Patricia Miller

…he closure of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, GA, formerly known as the School of the Americas, which trained notorious dictators such as Gen. Manuel Noriega and was implicated in a number of human rights abuses in Latin America, including the murder of six Jesuits. In contrast to the relative alacrity with which the CDF moved against three elderly peace activists who celebrated mass with a woman, it took…

Obama Territory

By Nathan Schneider

…entourage, but younger than the Sunday morning crowd. After some back-and-forth to turn the channel off FOX, the debate got started and everyone hushed to listen. Except for cheers after Obama’s straight-faced retorts, the room stayed quiet. At the end, activist Adrianne Shropshire took the mic and asked, rhetorically, “Who won?” First came the true believers. Obama was “polished and poised,” one said. “So intellectual and so deliberate.” But soo…

SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree

By Dianna Anderson

…, working as president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, where he’s served for 15 years, until being removed from his position in May following the revelation that he had counseled women in his care to forgive their rapists and to stay with abusive husbands. (It should be noted, however, that Patterson leaves with a golden parachute that includes “compensation,” a title as president emeritus, and, according to the Was…

Obama’s Pastor and the Politics of Patriotic Treason

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ovejoy, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Harper, Lovett-Fort-Whiteman, Pauli Murray, Odell Walker, and Martin Luther King Jr., who were all labeled as unpatriotic at one point or throughout their careers. And this, I believe, represents the religious sensibility that informs Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. It is a community of faith that does not mind being in conflict with those in power, even as it wor…

The Paranormal to Pop Culture Pipeline

By Joseph Laycock

…woman skilled in black magic. This doll—currently on exhibit in Key West’s Fort East Martello Museum and Gardens—allegedly moved by itself and exhibited other disturbing behavior. Why did two stories of demonic dolls emerge in 1970? It may have something to do with the Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll,” which aired in 1963. In that episode, a mother (named Annabelle), gives her daughter a “Talky Tina” doll that proceeds to terrorize the girl’s s…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…proud to be a refuge of sanity in a world gone mad. We’re holding down the fort.” Indeed, in a national climate where solid majorities remain opposed to the Supreme Court’s gutting of Roe v. Wade, Hazony and others clearly perceive states like Florida to be a laboratory for battle-testing their Christian nationalist vision. “People say ‘look, we’re not the majority anymore,’” admits Hazony in his speech. “You don’t need to be the majority anymore….

NYPD Secretly Branded Mosques “Terrorism Enterprises”

By Rob Shryock

…ematic claim that the NYPD stopped 16 terrorist attacks on his watch. (The number, according to Pro Publica, is more in the realm of three) But has targeting mosques actually helped to protect New Yorkers? After all, the NYPD itself admitted that its investigation into the Muslim community produced zero leads. And there is compelling evidence that mosque attendance actually helps prevent terrorism. A 2011 study found that 95% percent of Muslims wh…

The Week in Religion, Poetically

By Michael J. Altman

…those guys in the military leadership looked like Hasidic individuals.” At Fort Eustis in Virginia, about 80 soldiers were punished for choosing not to attend an evangelical Christian concert organized by the camp’s commanders. A Muslim soldier is wants to leave the military as a conscientious objector. A South African pastor’s “Jesus had HIV” sermon has angered many Christians in the country. Michael Enright , a 21-year-old film student, has been…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…repare Renewed Push for Anti-Gay Law Gay Star news reported on a renewed effort by anti-gay Ugandan legislators to re-pass the notorious Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was overturned by the courts on a procedural issue. It quotes Member of Parliament Latif Ssebaggala saying, “We want to ensure everybody that we have not backtracked. We are still on course and in fact we are more energized that our culture, our norms, our religious norms are protect…