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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…5,000 pilgrims who gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “As ‘one flesh’, they become living icons of God’s love in our world, building up the Church in unity and fidelity,” he said. “The image of God is the married couple — not just the man, not just the woman, but both.” Peru: Officials Calls for Civil Unions The Washington Blade reports that last week a Peruvian official recommended that the Congress approve a civil unions bill that has been introdu…

A Public Monument to Atheism—In Florida

By Becky Garrison

…y O’Hair, Benjamin Franklin, and other atheists and freethinkers will be placed alongside a monument of the Ten Commandments on display in front of the Bradford County Courthouse. How did this come about? As reported by news4jax.com: American Atheists had sued to have the aforementioned Ten Commandments monument taken down, and in an effort to mediate, the county asked the monument’s sponsoring group, the Community Men’s Fellowship, to remove it—b…

Keep These Satanists Out of Congress!

By Joseph Laycock

…Prisoner of War. An article for Red State demonstrated reliance on our embedded cultural myth of Satanic cults, remarking, “Jake Rush also happens to be into Satanic symbolism, vampirism, “rape” photos, whips, chains, and … you get the picture.” This tactic of substituting innuendo for evidence was effective with Red State’s readers, causing one panicked commenter to post, “Keep these Satanists out of Congress!” Fears of Satanic role-playing gam…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…vie. Their Enochic counterparts, the Watchers, fall from heaven to earth, become encased in soil and rock and become walking, talking piles of rock with glowing, explosive inner cores. – The Watchers supply the bulk of the manual labor to build the ark. – Noah’s sons are not all adult, married men when they enter the ark (Gen 7:7). The lack of wives for the boy on the cusp of manhood and the much younger boy-child are plot devices. – When Noah get…

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…’s first year. According to Daniel Burke at CNN.com in a lengthy, mostly anecdotal piece, “there’s more way than one to measure the pontiff’s influence” than, say, actual metrics like the number of people going to mass or returning to the church. According to Burke, you just have to “ask around” Boston to find folks who know someone who’s thinking about returning to the church or who feels less horrible about the church than in the darkest days of…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…uck Jonathan for his signature. If he returns the law to parliament with recommended changes, that could delay resolution until after a coming election. LGBT activists hope that he will refer it to the National Human Rights Commission. Meanwhile, activists are considering with “dread” the potential consequences of the legislation for LGBT people and for HIV prevention and treatment programs South Africa: Concern about LGBT Equality in a Post-Man…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…eleased November 13, 2013 and which immediately went viral on YouTube and Facebook—tells a heartwarming story about reconciliation and reunion. But, of course, this reading is too simple, in a context carved in and through colonial and neo-colonial violence. The Google spot celebrates the final death of a British colonial past by celebrating the benevolent supremacy of multinational corporations, the salve for ethnic and religious strife. The bene…

Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

By Jeffrey Scholes

…—the interview that religion scholar, Reza Aslan, gave on the FoxNews.com webcast, “Spirited Debate”—or as Buzzfeed put it, “The Most Embarrassing Interview Fox News Has Ever Done.” If you haven’t had the chance to see it, or if you aren’t able to watch it now (below, right), here’s what happened, briefly. The interviewer, Lauren Green, purportedly embarrasses herself by primarily asking Aslan not about the substance of his new book, Zealot: The L…

Update: Fox News Tries Gotcha Game with Reza Aslan

By The Editors

Update: The video, which went viral thanks to Buzzfeed, has boosted Aslan’s book sales considerably. According to the New York Times: On Friday, “Zealot” was in the No. 8 spot on Amazon.com, the nation’s biggest seller of books; by Sunday, it had hit No. 1. Random House is rushing to meet the surge in demand for the book. On Monday, the publisher ordered 50,000 copies, bringing the total to 150,000 copies in print by the end of the week. *** Cre…

Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

By Laura R. Olson

…stant leaders includes some clergy (such as Rev. Rick Warren) who have embraced a wider array of issue concerns and others (such as Rev. Joel Osteen) who steer clear of the political fray. Nevertheless, evangelicals remain stalwart opponents of abortion, and for many this issue will remain as a litmus test on election day. As a social movement, the religious right remains as a force in American politics. Its primary strength today lies in its soph…