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Why Body Cameras Won’t Solve Police Brutality

By Stephanie Gaskill

…ection, there is reason to remain skeptical. Mayor Keith Summey concluded that the “lesson” from the release of Santana’s video is that the public should “give us the appropriate time to investigate, find out exactly what happened, and… act accordingly.” In other words, the North Charleston Police Department can be trusted to act in the face of clear-cut, objective evidence, and body cameras will ensure that officials will have access to such evid…

Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ple look for patterns to explain why it happened in this instance and not that one. And that’s a good thing: abuse prevention means recognizing common patterns and then looking for interventions that are likely to keep abuse from happening. But our pattern-seeking human brains can also steer us wrong here, especially if we’re well-intentioned dabblers (as opposed to statisticians, criminal justice experts, or psychologists, or others who have been…

Australian Prime Minister, Church Leaders Resist Marriage Push; South Korea’s Anti-Gay Christians Block Pride Parade; Morocco Arrests Men for ‘Obscene Act’ of Kissing; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…” Homosexuality is considered a crime in Morocco. Article 489 of the penal code states that any one found guilty of carrying out “a deviant act with a person of the same sex” will be jailed for to up to three years. Last week three men accused of homosexuality were jailed to three years each. In March, Human Rights Watch called on Morocco to decriminalise homosexuality, saying that “criminalising consensual, adult homosexual conduct violates inter…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…stroy it, and therefore also from the national and international policies that impede the promotion of positive values.” On this marching route there has been complete consensus. Even the only bishop of black Africa who in recent months had spoken out in favor of “openness” to divorce, Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, elected by the bishops of Ghana as their delegate to the synod, was found to be in agreement with all present in the defense…

White Supremacy, Mental Illness, or Society: What’s to Blame for Religious Violence?

By Michael Schulson

…l illness, and social problems all do contribute to bloodshed, of course. What’s strange is that we make sense of violence in such monolithic terms, and often with so little evidence. But it’s worth dissecting the peculiar terms of the debate that emerges after these highly public, tragic spectacles. Doing so highlights the extraordinarily low standards that we often accept in the analysis of blame. Getting to know everything you don’t know Which…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…e court has ruled about homosexuality, but in this country we will defend what is right and what our faith states,” said Ruto, according to the Standard. Ruto reportedly said “God did not create man and woman for a man to come and marry another man.” “We believe in God,” he said, according to the Standard. “This is a God-fearing nation and we will be firm on what is right.” “We will fight for and defend our country and faith,” added Ruto. “Those w…

Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform

By Xarissa Holdaway

…e impulses towards revenge). The sting of unfair treatment is so powerful that that we mythologize vigilante superheroes, reform our laws, and attack other nations because of it. All the more reason to make a change in the way we handle our prisons. It’s nearly impossible to claim that the current system, where inmates languish in long-term punishment centers and return to a world they’re even less prepared for than when they entered, is fair. And…

Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

By Alana Massey

…s with, and who has supported them their whole lives,” said Paquette. “So that’s definitely somewhere that we could grow,” she added without hesitation, noting that they could add essays to the resources or new scenarios that address sensitivity toward the experiences of believers and would-be believers. The desire to make the app work better seems sincere from the interface itself: Atheos features an option for users to leave comments on each of…

Is Religion the Only Tool Left for Legal Discrimination?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ur trans female employee as a woman, which means she’s violating the dress code when she arrives to work wearing clothing that meets your company’s guidelines for women. When she inevitably sues for wrongful termination, you’ll have a federal judge on your side—at least if you live and work in Michigan. That stunning decision is an outlier among current case law, and is likely to be overturned on appeal, says Elizabeth Platt, director of Columbia…

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…nched liberal bias, and they saw their new media ventures as an answer to that bias. That’s important, because it links conservative media and liberal bias, and it makes liberal bias normative. That is, the assumption of liberal bias underwrites everything conservative media activists do. For the first ten to fifteen years of conservative media, not too many Americans heard about this liberal bias—conservative media simply wasn’t powerful or well-…