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Dragged Through the Mud: This Little Church-Backed Support Group for LGBTQ Teens Suffered Bomb Threats, Smears and the Cancellation of its Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…d their ilk stood in the back of the room, one wearing a face-concealing balaclava through the entire meeting. A representative of Project Veritas spoke to stir up more trouble. And Jeffrey Perrine, the aforementioned Proud Boys member who spoke last, talked about intimidating Tinnin outside his house a day earlier before inviting people to join him again that evening (which some of them did). In his speech, he thanked the board members, saying th…

Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”

By Elesha Coffman

…rty University’s archives, anyone can watch Graham preach this sermon to a large crowd in Sacramento, California. In it, Graham described hell as an “unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood subject.” He continued, “I’ve heard some preachers preach on hell as though they were glad there was a hell and glad that people were going there. But I’m not. I don’t like to preach on it. I do it only because I’m commanded in Scripture to preach the word….

RD News Round-Up—Nov. 4, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…headed the White House Office from August 2006 until September 2008. TVC’s last ditch slam against Obama: If the past is prologue, then one of the final anti-Obama e-mails sent out by Lou Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition possibly sets the stage for what is to come from the religious right during an Obama administration. The subject line of the e-mail was “Obama’s Policies: Your Congregation’s Right to Know,” and the perspective—predictably a…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…million Americans live below the official poverty line, constituting a population larger than the 25 smallest states combined… One in eight Americans is poor. One child in six is poor. … From 2000 to 2007, the number of children living in poverty increased by 15 percent… In 2007, the richest 20 percent of Americans had over 50 percent of the nation’s income, while the poorest 20 percent had only 3.4 percent.” In a piece titled “Fighting Poverty Wi…

How Much Did Jesus Care About Sex?

By Peter Laarman

…ves have done a lot of serious work on the importance of fidelity in all relationships and the difference between fully-realized relationships that participate in the sacred vs. liaisons that fall short of that mark. Religious progressives, after all, are the ones who have tried to enrich, not degrade, the marriage sacrament by arguing that God blesses all deeply committed marriage bonds, not just marriages made by heterosexuals. What progressive…

Hipsters vs. Hasids, Round: Yawn

By Evan Derkacz

…Master of the Universe, have mercy upon us and upon the borders of our village and do not allow the persecution to come inside our home; please remove from upon us the plague of the artists, so that we shall not drown in evil waters, and so that they shall not come to our residence to ruin it. Please place in the hearts of the homeowners that they should not build, God forbid, for these people, and strengthen their hearts so that they can withst…

Wal-Mart Faces a New Round of Historic Strikes… But Why Now?

By Sarah Jaffe

…ficial union, workers taking collective action on the job are protected by labor law. On the picket line and in Bentonville, in conference calls and statements to the media, the workers have charged that the company retaliates against workers who speak up about their conditions by cutting their hours or changing their schedules. They’ve demanded a halt to such actions by November 23, “Black Friday,” the biggest shopping day of the year. If the com…

Are Religious People More Generous? (Round LXXVII)

By Evan Derkacz

…for Bible Skeptics this would be the equivalent of padding their giving dollars by including gym memberships, classes, some social gatherings, etc. Point is, if you label as “generosity” the money we give to maintain structures that in turn directly nourish us, we’re talking about a qualified notion of generosity. At least I hope we are. There may well be a correlation between engagement with the Bible and giving to charity but this study won’t ge…

Liberty University’s #NeverTrump Petition Is No Shot Heard ‘Round the World

By Anita Little

…hold dearly.” Important also to remember that the students’ anti-Trump declaration is coming late in the game—and appears to be in response to offenses perpetrated on…white women. Where was that outrage when Trump was condemning Muslims, Mexicans, blacks, LGBT, the disabled, etc.? Falwell’s response to the student petition: “This student statement seems to ignore the teachings of Jesus not to judge others, but they are young and still learning.”…

In Latest Round of LGBTQ Discrimination Cases Before SCOTUS, Religion Is ‘The Elephant in the Room’

By Patrick Hornbeck

…suggested, applies here. These exchanges are neither surprising nor particularly groundbreaking. As Justice Breyer rightly observed, religion was lurking just under the surface of Tuesday’s arguments. Many disputes in recent years have involved claims that employers who hold certain religious beliefs deserve exemptions from generally applicable laws, including nondiscrimination laws designed to protect LGBTQ people. The Court’s 2018 Masterpiece Ca…