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

By Peter Montgomery

…olic conservative Member of Parliament said that he “feels unable” to receive communion after Bishop Philip Egan said people who vote in favor of same-sex marriage should not take communion. “I think it is a great pity, indeed a tragedy, that this bishop appears not to have noticed that we have a new gentle shepherd preaching a Christ-like message of inclusivity, love tolerance and forgiveness. I look to the guidance of the Holy Father Pope Franci…

A Public Monument to Atheism—In Florida

By Becky Garrison

…wship, to remove it—but the group refused. Rather than incur the expense involved in dismantling this 5-foot, 6-ton stone slab, Bradford County, Florida decided to establish a “Free Speech Forum” outside its courthouse, allowing for private groups like American Atheists to place monuments at their own expense. When asked to comment on the establishment of the first atheist memorial on public property, Tom Flynn, Executive Director of the Council f…

Keep These Satanists Out of Congress!

By Joseph Laycock

…, a conservative congressional candidate from Florida, was outed for his involvement in vampire role-playing games. The story, which was apparently spread by supporters of his opponent, incumbent Ted Yoho, accused Rush of living a “bizarre double life” and dropped plenty of choice words like “ritual,” “occult,” and “Satanic.” Unfortunately for Yoho’s supporters the appeal to moral panic may have backfired. Rush released a statement defending his…

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

By Wil Gafney

…ng the Most Holy Name of God. Interpret that! *This essay first appeared on floodofnoah.com and is published under a Creative Commons license….

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…nge for the better. As Jon O’Brien, head of Catholics for Choice, told The Guardian, Francis isn’t so much “a breath of fresh air as someone who has gone into the Vatican with an oxygen tank strapped to his back. He’s got the church out of a very difficult spot.”…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…ir relationships to be illegal than at the same time last year. The conservative Catholic Family & Human Rights Institution (C-FAM) is celebrating resistance to LGBT equality and reproductive choice that it works to foment and strengthen in Europe and international bodies. The Vatican: Malta, India, Uganda, More to Come Toward the end of 2013, Pope Francis was declared person of the year by both TIME magazine and, more controversially, by the LGB…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…ch terms move from vague to specific: “park with ancient gate in lahore,” evolves into “oldest sweet shop near mochi gate lahore,” evolves into “fazal sweets,” evolves into the momentous, game-changing phone call. Within the commercial, the boyhood friends’ triumphant reunion—everything from pinpointing the location of Fazal Sweets, to warning the grandson that it is raining in Delhi, to tracking the arrival of Yusuf’s flight from Pakistan—is prem…

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

By Jeffrey Scholes

…holar vs. the dilettante; the open-minded vs. the close-minded; the objective vs. the subjective; the facts vs. values. More to the point, the interview presents us with a real shot at projection: we finally get the chance to stick it to Fox News, especially as it shows itself to be less than “Fair and Balanced.” Aslan made it through the looking glass at which many of us have merely thrown our remote. And when he gets there, he says what we’ve al…

Update: Fox News Tries Gotcha Game with Reza Aslan

By The Editors

…ies, bringing the total to 150,000 copies in print by the end of the week. *** Credit must be given to Dr. Aslan for remaining relatively calm in the face of this interview:…

Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

By Laura R. Olson

…is growing oeuvre include leading religious left activist Rev. Jim Wallis’ vividly titled The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America (HarperCollins, 2008), Time journalist Amy Sullivan’s engaging The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap, and former National Council of Churches head Rev. Bob Edgar’s clarion call Middle Church: Reclaiming the Moral Values of the Faithful Majority from…