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The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…at comes up first in a Google search for Religious Freedom Day is ReligiousFreedomDay.com, the work of a California-based Christian right agency called Gateways to Better Education. This group is part of a wider movement that seeks to evangelize children in public schools—as detailed in Katherine Stewart’s book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children. Gateways states that they work with such leading Christi…

The Quietly Crumbling Wall of Separation

By Robert Marus

…nt to do—argue details, cautioning that the sturm und drang among religious-freedom advocates over religion’s imperiled place in the constitutional order may be overblown. “I think the scope of change can easily be overstated—and often is, by those on both sides of the church-state debates, who have reasons to highlight changes as signs of deeper problem,” said Robert Tuttle, a George Washington University Law School professor who is, along with c…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…to religion, while 45% say McCain is friendly to religion. More than seven-in-ten (71%) say it is important for public officials to be comfortable talking about religious values. Young first-time voters are heavily supporting Obama. Among young first-time voters, who make up close to one-third of this age group (ages 18-34), more than seven-in-ten (71%) support Obama, compared to slightly more than half (53%) of young voters who have voted in pre…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…’s not going to be found where they think it is, in some imagined, violence-free religious past. Our schools have regrettably always been violent, whether God has been “allowed in our schools” or not. In fact, below is a list of school shootings from K12 Academics, all of which took place prior to “the removal of God” from our schools: 1700s • The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac’s Rebellion schoo…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ronta Dnes (MfD). The Czech man and his French husband adopted the boys as new-born babies in San Francisco, where they bring them up, MfD writes. However, the children spent their holidays with their grandmother in the Czech Republic where the father, aged 41, had no rights to them. “Now we can be granted Czech citizenship, thanks to which we can move to the Czech Republic,” the Czech father, who works as a financial director in the USA, is quote…

How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?: An Interview with Jacob Needleman

By Lisa Webster

…the help of environment or community or culture, does someone appear who becomes a highly evolved person, in my opinion. What kind of community would be the question, and how difficult that is. People can relate to each other in such a way that it calls down something, and I’ve experienced that. When two or three people seriously listen to each other, speak and exchange with each other, something appears: “Where two or three come together in my na…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rst gender-equal, non-sectarian and interracial mosque. Not everyone is welcoming it opening. Despite death threats and severe backlash on social media calling it a “gay temple”, plans on behalf of Dr Taj Hargey to open an “all welcome” mosque will go ahead. This will be the first time openly LGBTI people will be able to attend services in a mosque in South Africa. Male and female Muslims will worship together, interfaith marriages will be endorse…

For Better or Worse: The Rise of the Professional Wedding Celebrant

By Carlos Wilton

…House luncheon at which the President pitched his matrimonial services. Son-in-law Jared Kushner jumped right in and offered to upstage his old man: “Hey, you know what? I’ve got my license. I could marry you.” The President was not amused. “Why would you marry them?” he asked. “They could have the President of the United States marry them.” Presidents have long had authority to preside at civil marriage ceremonies. So have governors, mayors and j…

Looking For Answers at the Oscars: A Guide to This Year’s Contenders

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…ing sense of shared and sharing identities, it is also a ritualistic coming-of-age story in which young Zuckerberg becomes a man through rites of passage. These are peculiar rites to be sure, even as they mimic broad structures of separation, transition, and reincorporation found in initiation rites the world over. From Face-to-Face to Interface Reviewing the film in the New York Times, Manohla Dargis tells us, “instead of discovering his authenti…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e Church of England and that the outcome of the conversations is genuinely open-ended…. The group also condemned the “failure to admonish the Bishop of Buckingham” – the only Church of England Bishop to openly support same-sex marriage, and the Church’s “lack of a consistent and clear response to those clergy who have entered into same-sex marriages”. Egypt: More on Egypt’s Anti-Gay Crackdown We reported last week on the increasingly harsh crackdo…