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Pseudo-Historian David Barton in the Times and on The Daily Show

By Julie Ingersoll

…nnual volume of the prayers being offered. For years it has recorded great numbers of prayers. But suddenly in 1961-63, the index tumbled; millions of prayers were no longer being prayed…the termination of millions of individual public school prayers had a significant impact.” Confusing correlation with causation is bad enough but Barton actually argues that the decline is demonstrably due to the fact that all those school children were no longer…

Ask the Dust: Do Queer People Have to Explain Themselves to Religious Conservatives?

By The Editors

…to keep some channels of communication open, even if it is not in person. Cards, emails, and other controlled options are good alternatives for keeping the relationship alive until there is an opening to work on improving it. Most importantly though, the Dust wants to make sure that you are investing in a community where you can just be you, where you are loved and accepted without condition, challenge or assumption. It sounds as though you may n…

Will Huntsman’s Mormon Mojo Work on the National Stage?

By Joanna Brooks

…he’s a decent man with killer instincts who just might be able to play his cards right and clinch the nomination. But perhaps it’s worth observing that the last time Jon Huntsman ran for office, he did so in the state of Utah. He ran as a Mormon Republican in an astoundingly homogenous Mormon Republican state. Moreover, he ran bearing a family name with massively positive associations for Utahns: his father, Jon Huntsman, Sr., is not only a global…

Why ISIS War Would Make Paris Attacks a Success

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…eheading ISIS captives, have themselves been killed by target strikes. The number of young people volunteering to join the ISIS forces have dwindled, and scores, perhaps hundreds, have been trying to return home, weary of being used as cannon fodder. ISIS, it appears, is on a downward slide. But perhaps this is precisely what explains the Paris attacks. ISIS is desperate. It needs a victory, a vivid show of force to bolster the morale of its suppo…

Why Defacing Confederate Monuments is Morally Justified

By Ryan Andrew Newson

…emoving Confederate monuments by “legitimate,” legal means, what else does one expect? In such a situation, I cannot help but recall the words of Daniel Berrigan, discussing his burning military files and draft cards in the 1960s: “Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house.”…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…new provision with regard to these groups which are specified on their ID cards and would in essence identify them as homosexuals and transsexuals. Not only the new protocol is more time consuming, but it is also degrading and violates the basic human rights of the individual applicants. The process forces the individual applicants to declare having same sex relations and reveals intimate details of their sexual lives. Mexico: Marriage on march w…

Manufacturing Religious Freedom Martyrs

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ing to the complaint, the women are scared they *might* be asked to design cards for a same-sex wedding. Now, if that were to happen, and if they refused, they might be slapped with a discrimination claim from the Equal Opportunity Department. If the business failed to resolve that claim, they might be criminally prosecuted. If found guilty in a criminal prosecution, they could, and we’re getting really hypothetical at this point, face jail time f…

The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…ty. I was deep into magic tricks at the time, sometimes carrying a deck of cards in my pocket, and I had seen magicians make coins disappear. But this was no illusion. I knew this was not only a waste, but technically illegal—one of the innumerable bits of trivia I knew about the world because of my father, who seemed to know something about everything. My love for relics and talismans coexisted with a love for chemistry sets and circuit boards. I…

Trump and Hindu Nationalism: A Match Made in Bollywood

By Andrea R. Jain

…ring, there were signs adorning the arena stating, “Trump For Faster Green Cards.” But the event’s most outstandingly awful moment came with a dance performance in which two sets of Indian actors, each consisting of a man and a woman engaged in a romantic dance, were suddenly attacked by terrorists adorned in stereotypical “Islamic terrorist” garb bearing lightsaber-like guns. The U.S. military then swept in and saved the dancers. Following the he…

After Embracing Female Bishop, Pope Spins Again on Women’s Ordination

By Kaya Oakes

…is and the church’s continuous denial of this history and the shifts occurring all around them means the Catholic church is not a house of stone, it’s a house of cards. And more denial of women’s vocations will only exacerbate the danger of its total collapse….