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C’mon Muslim Myth Believers! Just Admit It!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ab a microphone from a woman who claimed that Obama was an Arab. The Texas numbers are unusual because most national polls show that just 5 to 10 percent of Americans still believe Obama is a Muslim—less than half the number of Texans who buy into the debunked theories. “Y’know what,” I told my guitar teacher. “What?” he asked mid sip of his coffee. “I’d respect those people a lot more if they’d just say they can’t bring themselves to vote for a b…

Bryan Fischer Sees Gay Agenda in Lunch Mixer

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…other despite our differences then Fischer is out of a job and the AFA, and other organizations of their ilk, will have to close up shop. And Fischer can’t let that happen….

The ‘Dreher Affair’ Highlights the Right’s International Networks

By Annika Brockschmidt

…Pat Robertson. The Anti-LGBTQ group Alliance Defending Freedom has set up shop outside the US as well, dubbing its coordinating international body Alliance Defending Freedom International. The Polish Ordo Iuris, a right-wing catholic organization which leads a crusade against abortion, is likewise well connected on an international level with German pundit Birgit Kelle, a regular on the anti-abortion circuit, having recently spoken at one of thei…

Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution

By Lauri Lebo

…battles over religion and science. Fundamentalist Fervor According to Ron Numbers, in his book The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, the rise of Christian fundamentalism in America didn’t really start in earnest until the early 1900s. For the most part, Christians were not biblical literalists and accepted science—including the ideas that the earth was very old and that living creatures changed through time. A typic…

Heavenly Bodies Was the Most Popular Exhibit in the History of the Met—Here’s Why That’s a Problem

By Liz Bucar

…uncomfortable, the Met delivered glamor and drama, and made sure the gift shop was stocked with nice tote bags so we can prove to all our friends how cultured we are. In the documentary The First Monday in May, former head curator of the Costume Institute Harold Koda insists that fashion, like fine art, “is laden with concepts, aesthetic principles, and the most refined techniques.” But we didn’t learn much about these topics from the Heavenly Bo…

A Dismayed Democrat Reads the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…se comes at the end of the familiar New Testament, is almost in the middle—number 14 of 27 documents. When the book of Revelation comes at the end of the New Testament, it makes the whole of the New Testament sound as if we’re still looking forward to the second coming of Jesus and what is popularly called ‘the end of the world.’ When the book of Revelation appears more or less in the middle, we see it, hear it and understand it as a document prod…

Why Science and Social Distancing Can’t Replace Healing Supplements and Prayer

By Alan Levinovitz

…ne-boosting formulation, up four times from February. In Texas, a kombucha shop is selling out of elderberry concentrate and elderberry gummies. Across the United States, panicked consumers have cleaned out major retailers, who also report shortages of other “immune-boosting supplements,” among them Vitamin C, zinc, and Vitamin D. It makes sense to see these purchases as irrational and possibly dangerous: a waste of money when money is scarce, and…

Will Texas Really Be Able to Undermine Marriage Equality?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…dged Pavan but noted that the justices also agreed to hear Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a constitutional challenge to LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws. This decision “to hear and consider Masterpiece Cakeshop,” the Texas Supreme Court insisted, “illustrates that neither Obergefell nor Pavan provides the final word on the tangential questions Obergefell’s holdings raise but Obergefell itself did not address.” That argument…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…se in the pursuit of faith and free enterprise. Then there are the Turkish shopkeepers, who we in America might call ‘Joe the Plumbers’. And finally the kind influenced by Sufism. These are impressions of course, with no hard data behind them, but the differences I encountered speak to the diversity of religious identity. In the past these very different folks had come together because of the shared experience of Kemalist oppression, but AKP’s ver…

RDPulpit: Nature Worship: A Primer

By Rex Weyler

…virtually stop consuming certain products, and slow down all consumption. Shop secondhand. Recycle everything. Make global responsibility your fashion statement. * Build community: We cannot solve the global ecological challenge as individuals, but we can as neighborhoods and communities. Grow compassion. * Have courage. Challenging conventional thinking may attract ridicule. Do not be intimidated by the consequences of having a conscience. When…