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Atheists Take Heart (and Office): New Poll Shows Major Support for Nonreligious Candidates

By Jennifer Bardi

…ted in 2014 with 75 percent of the vote and re-elected again in 2016 with around 77 percent.When he was up for re-election again in 2018, a full year after he identified with the religiously unaffiliated community, he retained his seat, again earning around 77 percent of his district’s votes. Being agnostic appears to have had no impact. According to the data, any bias or preference for candidates who believe in God disappears when voters consider…

‘Leaving is Never So Simple as Stepping Over a Line’ — A Conversation with the Author of ‘Rift,’ a New Memoir on Christian Patriarchy

By Audrey Clare Farley

…cape we see today and how it’s been through violent changes. For instance, Lake Superior, a beautiful freshwater lake, was once the site of volcanic activity. I chose “rift” as the overarching metaphor because, while there’s a “before” and an “after,” leaving is never so simple as stepping over a line. In a geological rift, if you dig down deep enough on each side, the underlying materials are the same. In the same way, I feel like I can never com…

Aung San Suu Kyi: The Verdict is Unfair

By Juliane Schober

…o stay and rest. He was arrested when he attempted to swim back across the lake. Suu Kyi and two women in her household were imprisoned and charged with hosting a foreigner without informing the authorities, a crime in Myanmar. The ensuing trial ended in long prison sentences for all of the accused, and has triggered international outrage. Senator John Webb negotiated Yettaw’s release last week. General Than Shwe reduced Aung Than Suu Kyi’s senten…

Purpose Driven Politics: Rick Warren’s Civil Service

By Bill Berkowitz

…chool of Government, TIME’s Global Health Summit, and numerous congresses around the world. In late-May, according to a press release posted on Christian Newswire, “Over 1,700 leading pastors, business and Christian institutional leaders from 39 countries and all 50 states gathered” at Lake Forest’s Saddleback Church for a three day Purpose Driven Network Summit organized, “to create The PEACE Coalition, a new international alliance of churches, b…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…43, took their vows amid a crush of media and supporters outside Mexicali City Hall. “Yes we could, yes we could,” the crowd cheered in Spanish. The impromptu wedding ceremony came as a surprise to the pair, who had come to City Hall on Saturday morning to participate in a gay rights demonstration, said their attorney, Jose Luis Marquez. They had received hints that a wedding might take place, but were doubtful. They had already been rejected thr…

Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…ally inclusive. Not just words. I met with Yvette Flunder in her office at City of Refuge, where we talked about her background as a preacher, as the daughter of preachers, what it means to be bicultural—gay and church—and about how to reach more people with the message of inclusion. RD: I heard you speak earlier this year, in response to a question that was posed to you about homophobia in the black church, and how civil rights language “doesn’t…

I Believe You’re Wrong: The Trouble with Tolerance

By Charles Randall Paul and John W. Morehead

…the attack. The attackers meant to fire a new shot heard round the world, but they misfired. Now, America can carefully do something outrageously good—take that new shot itself that will have the lasting power to be heard round the world, making every good-hearted soul rejoice and the others scratch their bewildered heads. The people of New York City and the larger American citizenry have a difficult but heroic opportunity on their hands….

Birthday Blog

By Amina Wadud

…asion that I would be unlikely to forget. But this is only for those round numbers. There’s nothing that rings out of 58. I’ve got two more years, if I live, before I need to find the next big celebration. I’ve got time to plan still. But, why 5-year increments? Seems a bit arbitrary. Because I accepted Islam in one of those round figures, and spent the first ten years in such constant transition: first the religion itself and learning new things,…

Law Prof: Obama Under No Obligation to Appeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r General, defends acts of Congress that are challenged on constitutional grounds. Defending laws against constitutional challenge makes sense in our constitutional system: Congress thinks a law is constitutional when it enacts it and the President thinks so when he signs it. Defending the statute shows deference to those past decisions and also serves to give a court considering a constitutional challenge the best arguments for why the law is val…

Gays Attacked in Uganda After Mag Publishes Info

By Jody May-Chang

…November 1, Kiyimba learned that Rolling Stone had just published a second round of names under the headline: “More Homos’ Faces Exposed.” Identities were published despite a court injunction, filed days earlier, preventing the paper from outing gays. Kiyimba said the injunctions are meaningless in any case as publishers simply wait for the temporary order to expire. Reading parts of the latest round of outings Kiyimba shouts, “They do not underst…