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Georgia Gov Vetoes Right-To-Discriminate Bill

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…legal rights in order to accommodate the preferences of religious actors. Columbia Law School’s Public Rights/Private Conscience Project recently released a memo, signed by many Georgian legal scholars, explaining why the bill was unnecessary, discriminatory, and unconstitutional. Two of Georgia’s three biggest cities—Atlanta and Savannah—both have municipal ordinances banning some forms of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender id…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…by House Commission I overseeing information and communication affairs on Monday, most of them voiced opposition to programs involving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) characters being aired on TV. Many of the candidates argue that anything besides heterosexuality is against the country’s values and norms. Among the candidates are news producer of private TV station Trans7 Arif Adi Kuswardono, Indonesian Television Academy (ATVI) mas…

Not All Christians are Terrorists

By Reuven Firestone

…ist attacks in America since 9/11, which would come to mind? Probably many more perpetrated by Muslims than by Christians. That’s because our memory stores our perceptions in mental categories that are formed and organized by our experience. And our experience comprises more than the interactions we have with other people in the flesh. It includes what we read and see and hear via the media. And it’s influenced by the repetition and excitement tha…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…who view that same-sex relations were imported form the West along with democracy.” More, via the China Post: In line with the Mongolian saying “look into your own chest of drawers, instead of looking for something from other households,” it is clear that we need to study what kind of local practices and habits we had in terms of sexual minorities in our social and cultural frameworks. As the masterpiece “One Day in Mongolia” reflected the ordina…

Latest “Religious Freedom” Bills Reveal a New Strategy

By Sunnivie Brydum

…‘government discrimination’ against religious organizations or people is a more resonant framework than one that outright condemns LGBTQ people.” Like most of the so-called “religious freedom” legislation we’re seeing lately, the Kentucky law makes no explicit mention of LGBT people, nor does it include the words “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.” Instead, in what critics see as an effort to shield such laws from legal scrutiny, the law po…

Poets and Preachers: How Black Literature Blurs the Lines Between Sacred and Secular

By Josef Sorett

…Aesthetics Josef Sorett Oxford University Press September 2016 What’s the most important take-home message for readers? While we more often than not learn about religion and literature in different classrooms, and we find books about these topics on different shelves in bookstores and libraries, religion and literature are best understood as part of a shared historical narrative. When I was regularly traveling from churches to poetry readings, I…

“Man of Steel” Brings Muscular Message to Oppose Right-to-Die Legislation

By Ann Neumann

…Hanson was diagnosed with a quickly growing brain tumor. He was given four months to live. More than two years later, Hanson is still alive. And he has positioned himself as the new face of a movement fighting against legislation that will give aid in dying to terminally ill patients (opponents call these “assisted suicide” laws). After his diagnosis, Hanson founded the Patients’ Rights Action Fund (PRAF). This fall, he has been working to thwart…

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ed after: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. But liberty is showing up more and more in courthouses and legislatures across the country, and it’s the word favored by supporters of the First Amendment Defense Act. RD spoke with a number of legal scholars who agreed that liberty is the language of exemption, of freedom from government intervention. “You might think of a regime of religious freedom as one in which the government is studiously neu…

U. of Colorado Appoints “Scholar of Conservative Thought”

By Paul Harvey

…would suggest that there’s a deeper bench of conservative academics at the most elite institutions than commonly alleged. Steven Hayward, currently a fellow at Ashland University in Ohio and previously a fellow with the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation, will be the first Conservative Thought Chair. He will teach four courses in political science and environmental studies. The appointment clearly has the look of bringing in som…

Is It Immoral to Believe in Miracles?

By Noah Berlatsky

…ul Feyerabend was familiar with Shapiro’s approach when he wrote his (in)famous monograph Against Method back in 1975. Feyerabend didn’t necessarily believe in miracles, but he was skeptical of skepticism. Science and reason, he felt, were not quite as systemic as their proponents liked to believe. Science, for Feyerabend, had holes in it—and those holes could be, and sometimes were, filled with things and theories and ideas from outside science:…