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Pence’s Religious Freedom Policy Made ‘LGBQ’ Hoosiers Sick—Literally

By Sunnivie Brydum

…bisexual or “unsure” of their sexual orientation. Researchers compared the number of “unhealthy days” reported by residents of each state, using the CDC definition of “the total number of days in the past 30 that people reported that their physical and mental heath were not good,” according to the press release announcing the study’s findings. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System does include a question that allows participants to identi…

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

…3.2 million new adherents and “folk religions” (these tend to be small in number and tied to a particular people group or tribe) are likely to see gains of 2.6 million during the same time period. Such numbers are miniscule compared to the projected 61.5 million expected to switch into the “unaffiliated” category by 2050, nevertheless the 197% projected growth rate should turn more than a few heads. Something is causing people to be attracted to…

Is Evangelicalism Too Nice?

By Eric C. Miller

Responding to Rachel Held Evans recent post on CNN’s Belief Blog, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Daniel Darling dismisses the idea that evangelicalism has a millennial problem. Offering a critique of the “false gospel of nice,” Darling reasserts the strength and stability of orthodox faith, with a confident forecast for future growth. There are reasons to doubt his optimism. But more than that, there are reasons to question his easy conflation…

Gingrich and Hagee, End-Times Buddies

By Sarah Posner

…facts! — why Egypt is not Iran.) Also on February 7, Gingrich appeared on CNN to claim the Obama administration simply doesn’t understand the threat to America. He called the Obama administration “amateurish” and maintained the Muslim Brotherhood is the “mortal enemy of our civilization.” He added, “Their way is jihad, their method is death . . . .This administration, I think, does not have a clue about those realities.” A few days later, at CPAC…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ove” someone’s homosexuality. Morocco: Teenage girls face jail for kissing CNN reported this week that two teenage girls “face up to three years in jail on homosexuality charges after they were caught kissing.” Australia: Queensland approves adoption by same-sex couples The parliament in Queensland passed legislation this week allowing same-sex couples, single people and those undergoing fertility treatments to adopt children. Canada: Lawsuits see…

Piers Morgan, Guns, and the Bible

By Sarah Posner

Right-wing personality Alex Jones’ tirade on Piers Morgan’s CNN radio program, in which he ranted, among other things, “I’m here to tell you—1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms!” has led Glenn Beck to declare his competitor “a crazy person.” Alexander Abad-Santos tries to unpack that one for you at the Atlantic Wire. Meanwhile, Morgan is not letting up on exposing the personalities on the gun-loving right. Tonight, he will ho…

Warren Cancels Forum Obama/Romney Declined to Attend

By Sarah Posner

…n, a creationist, believes that homosexuality disproves evolution; he told CNN’s Larry King in 2005, “If Darwin was right, which is survival of the fittest then homosexuality would be a recessive gene because it doesn’t reproduce and you would think that over thousands of years that homosexuality would work itself out of the gene pool.” Instead, Warren says he’s going to host a forum on “religious freedom,” and invite “the leading Catholic voice i…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…op the Serbs from entering Srebrenica. Earlier, in his 1997 interview with CNN journalist Peter Arnett, bin Laden said the war in Bosnia was a moment of awakening for the Muslim world. Of course, we’ve recently seen quite an awakening, which reveals how irrelevant bin Laden has been to the deeper trajectory of Muslim politics. But the enduring impression of clashing civilizations continues to inform our analyses, something a visit to Turkey and Bo…

Before Oprah, There Was the “Hour of Power”: Crystal Cathedral Pastor Robert H. Schuller Has Died

By Cathleen Falsani

…sen, a professor of Christian thought at Wheaton College in Illinois, told CNN. “And Schuller was a master at that….What he got right is that the gospel is good news and he preached an uplifting message about personal transformation and uplift and hope.” Like that of one of his mentors, Norman Vincent Peale, Schuller’s Gospel message was happy, down-to-earth, and eminently quotable. He is one of the vanguard of American evangelicalism who paved th…

Civility, Thy Name is Brian Brown

By Peter Montgomery

Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage went on CNN after the shooting at the Family Research Council to call for civility in public discourse and to denounce as unacceptable and irresponsible the Southern Poverty Law Center’s designation of FRC as a hate group. Jeremy Hooper at Good as You reports that Brown has followed up with a fundraising letter that decries “the violent and hateful tactics of intimidation being pursued every d…