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Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite

By Joseph Laycock

…new policy regarding who can give prayer invocations. Why do you think the city changed its mind? In Scottsdale, TST claims that it was disparaged as a religion and that that was ultimately what caused the group to be uninvited, though they had originally been placed on the list as any other group. The city claims that it was our lack of ties to the community that led to the removal. Can you explain the argument that Scottsdale’s actions amount to…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

…mong his five accomplishments, “Stopped so-called ‘Satanists’ from mocking City Hall traditions with a ‘prayer.’” TST demanded the city pay their court costs and sought an injunction ensuring prayer invocations are either halted or open to all religions. In Missouri, TST filed a new federal lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman named “Judy Doe.” Their federal case on behalf of Mary Doe (which was separate from their state case) had been thrown out…

Mormon Group Digging for Scriptural City of Zarahemla in Iowa is a Portrait of Religious Nationalism

By Hanna Seariac

…ch has taken to the cornfields of Montrose, Iowa in search of Zarahemla, a city frequently mentioned in the Book of Mormon. From the coverage one might reasonably conclude that a Latter-day Saint group is simply seeking to find corroboration for their scriptures—which is certainly the case—but lurking beneath the surface is something quite a bit darker. The HRG is one of several groups that believes in what’s known as the Heartland model; to them,…

“I Am Gay” Billboard Causes Stir in New York

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…But, Rev. Thompkins wasn’t alone: Daycare provider Pamela Spicer told the City Council […] that her clients read the billboards as she drives them to events in the city. She offers daycare to a 2-year-old, 4-year-old and 8-year-old. “When I’m driving them to the Schenectady Public Library and they say, ‘What does gay mean?’ how do I answer that question?” she said. “How do I expose them to such content?” My suggestion would be to tell the little…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ed chicanery; it was terrifying, and all too human. The wolves outside the city walls threaten the life of the city. The wolves hidden among us may threaten the city even more. These are powerful mythic tropes, both the Greek and Roman ones. But the werewolf appears to be an Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic, rather than a Greco-Roman, myth. And what is most striking about these “werewolves” is that they are even more wolf-like than the wolves are. More pr…

A Pair of Exhibitions Demonstrate How Biases Color the History of Jerusalem

By Gordon Haber

…unning, astounding, gorgeous—exhausting to the eyes and the thesaurus. The city itself is tougher to characterize. We’re dealing with a millennium of history in one city. Was it rich or poor? Filthy or pristine? Christian, Muslim or Jewish? It seems silly to pretend that we can say with any authority what it is and was. Because in their days as in ours, it depends on who’s looking. “Jerusalem 1000-1400” runs until January 8; “Faith and Photography…

Ross Douthat: Trump Is Women’s Fault for Not Having More Babies

By Patricia Miller

…lking Dead” set—and that’s not just because the only viable concern in the city is a special effects monster-make-up school. The city itself is literally rotting. Small trees sprout from crumbling brick buildings that line downtown streets that once thrummed with people. The modest wood-frame houses in the neighborhood that once abutted the Wheeling & Pittsburgh Steel mill are rotting, overgrown with ivy and weeds, and largely abandoned. Just outs…

Holy Spit: Why Do Ultra-Orthodox Jews Spit at Christians?

By Shalom Goldman

…ted for assault. It was only after the highest Christian authorites in the city intervened that the Israeli government rescinded its order that the Armenian seminarians be deported from the country. While Jewish-Christian relations in the city surely are in need of some repair, these problems seem small in the face of deteriorating Jewish-Muslim relations. But while Jewish-Muslim tensions dominate the headlines, most Israeli liberals feel that the…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…u believe – of anti-marriage-equality Catholics and evangelicals to Mexico City, the culmination of weeks of protest organized by the National Front for the Family. Days before, the Supreme Court ruled that adoption by same-sex couples should be considered, like other adoptions, according to the best interest of the child. In preparation for Saturday’s anti-marriage-equality march, Mexico City officials lit the Angel of Independence monument in ra…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…further why even when so few Muslims do resort to violent actions, a good number of their co-religionists are reluctant to entirely dismiss them. Indeed, many more Muslims protested peacefully against “The Innocence of Muslims” than did violently, even though their numbers together were still incredibly small. In his introduction to Sufism for Non-Sufis?, University of Southern California Professor Sherman Jackson notes that we cannot separate Is…