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Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…last year was still 74 percent of the population. Finland: Lutheran Archbishop Tells Priests To Follow Church Ban on Marrying Same-Sex Couples In advance of legal marriage equality going into effect in Finland next year, Lutheran Archbishop Kari Mäkinen has told priests not to buck church policy by conducting marriages for same-sex couples. The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has learned of Lutheran pastors in the capital city region who say the…

Why Hipsters May Be Perfect Source for Brooklyn Occult Revival

By Joseph Laycock

…olding relationship with the universe. The website for the Brooklyn occult shop Catland also features glamorous profiles of witches and seers. Magic is the spiritual tradition where personal charisma matters most. Sociologist Emile Durkheim noted that magicians have clientele rather than a church. A congregation may tolerate a lackluster pastor or a priest who gives dull sermons, but people who get bored with their Tarot reader will simply move on…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…day morning, a friend dragged me past the smiling welcome team, the coffee shop, the panini cart (!) and the daycare center towards the booming speakers of an arena-sized auditorium. I didn’t renounce my Catholicism that day, but did leave with a free t-shirt, a key chain, and a couple of nifty pens I swiped from the visitors’ table. (Catholics churches should step up the free swag factor.) Now driving through Northeast Los Angeles, I pass about h…

Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…to attract greater sympathy than others. Disputes involving employers and shop owners with conservative views have received far more attention than those involving liberal activists like the Plowshares 7. To a certain extent, this is a function of demographics: it’s simply the case that there are more citizens who belong to religious institutions that teach them to defend religious liberties in terms commonly understood as conservative. Culturall…

Kansas Tries to Figure Out Its Own Religious Freedom Laws

By Sarah Posner

…s, then are we going to start providing protections so that nudists can go shop in the grocery store without putting clothes on? The list is endless if we’re going to start doing things like that.” Schuttloffel characterized a business owner’s refusal to serve a gay person as “immoral,” but suggested that making flower arrangements for a wedding would constitute participation in an immoral act. But what if a gay man is purchasing flowers as an eng…

Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Countries’ is Just a Cruder Term for What’s Been Said in American Churches for Generations

By Kathryn Gin Lum

…g to a sense of American greatness and exceptionalism. The tactical supply shop and social media site Tactical Shit, which boasts a “community of over 2 million veterans, first responders & patriots,” sells a “Shithole World Map Poster.” It shows the entirety of the world, save most of the U.S. (minus the coasts and other Democrat-leaning areas) and Norway, as brown colored shitholes—whether of the “Jungle,” “Desert,” “Poor/Hungry,” “Commie,” or “…

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

By Frederick Clarkson

…gram descriptions. Whatever his fate in these matters, Rapert epitomizes a number of trends on the Christian Right, here in the End Times. While the notion that the Christian Right is dead, diminished or in precipitous decline may never die, the movement nevertheless continues to grow and adapt to the ever-evolving religious and political landscape. Its strength has never been in the raw numbers of conservative evangelicals and conservative Cathol…

Ihram: Dressing for the King

By Amina Wadud

I think I’m about done with shopping for clothes to wear on hajj. Yesterday two “hajj” outfits arrived by Fed Ex. These were put away in the closet with the three I bought in Indonesia, just before Ramadan began. Technically the ihram, “sacred dress” for hajj is limited to what is worn by the men. They have two plain white clothes (about the size of a beach towel) which they wear. One piece is wrapped around their lower half, like a sarong or ski…

Of Values and Viruses: The Challenges for Obama’s New Global AIDS Coordinator

By Ariana Childs Graham

…f they are not permitted to refuse such services they will simply close up shop, denying care to those who need it most. This stalemate presents a real difficulty, and will require skillful leadership to overcome. Dr. Goosby Takes the Reins It is at this key moment that we are likely to see Dr. Eric Goosby step in at the helm, upon confirmation, as the Global AIDS Coordinator. Dr. Goosby brings a breadth of experience and knowledge to the table. A…

Sikh Prof Attacked on Heels of New Study

By Rob Shryock

…you, its your turban” My Superdry turban =) Its me or the turban A Corner Shop Is Like A Turban ‘Every Muslim Has One! Hi I’m a guy and I use my turban to get girls to sleep with me You don’t want me for me, you want me for my turban.:’ im too sexy for my turban Pimp My Turban (Sigh) How long are these turban jokes gonna CURRY on 😛 When someone gets all up in your turban Get In My Turban Nothing but your TURBAN on ;)! You Shall Be Called Turban,…