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The Most Forgotten Queer Folks in the US are Fighting Back Against a Powerful — and Publicly Funded — Group That Discriminates With Impunity

By Chrissy Stroop

…itter account to express vocal support for REAP’s efforts, which include a class action lawsuit against the Department of Education that seeks “to end the sexual, physical and psychological abuses perpetrated under the religious exemption to Title IX at thousands of federally-funded schools, colleges and universities across America.” https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/1504209593139798018?s=20&t=WEnRqUAaWmEAnBbeLaLUbg As Southwick informed me, the…

In Oklahoma, Another Court Against Using Religion as Justification for Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…ument as “impermissibly tied to moral disapproval of same-sex couples as a class of Oklahoma citizens. All of these perceived ‘threats’ are to one view of the marriage institution—a view that is bound up in procreation, one morally ‘ideal’ parenting model, and sexual fidelity.” The claim to be “preserving” the “traditional institution of marriage,” wrote Kern, is just a “kinder way” of expressing the state’s “moral disapproval” of same-sex couple…

Hookers for Jesus: Sex and Salvation on the Strip

By Nicole Greenfield

…ng Prostitution, Sex-Trafficking, Slavery Annie Lobért grew up in a middle class family on a tree-lined street in Minnesota. Her upbringing was strict, and she hated the rules that her mother and her father and the church imposed on her. “So naturally when I hit the age of a teenager,” she told Joy Behar in a television interview, “I just went wild.” Lobért did drugs and she slept around. She was insecure and felt unloved, so she started stripping…

Was a Teacher Disciplined for Refusing to Apologize for Teaching Science?

By Lauri Lebo

…e on the story here. It’s difficult to tell exactly what took place in the classroom and whether Hensley overstepped her boundaries in a discussion of religion. Nonetheless, this all leads me to wonder, if a student argues in class that the bible is life’s literal blueprint, facts be damned, is it wrong for a teacher, in the course of teaching science, to correct the student’s misinformed worldview? Or, in the interest of not offending the child a…

The Internet Is Not Killing Religion, Religion is Killing Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…nows that people like me—“Someone who has taken an introductory statistics class” (But, ha!, some of us had to take it twice! So there!)—“might insist that correlation does not imply causation.” My statistically muddled insistence be damned, however, because Downey doubles down by arguing that “correlation does provide evidence in favor of causation, especially when we can eliminate alternative explanations.” Like pipers, for instance. What is mis…

Pastor David Brooks, Your Sermons Are Growing Stale…

By Peter Laarman

…ust one example, your recent column about disconnected “haphazard” working class men identifies a real problem; there is no doubt on that score. But you place religious practice and affiliation in the category of palliative resources for those being crushed by the new ruthless economy, whereas the religion usually referred to as prophetic—a form of religion we still regard as indispensable—sees faith as much more than a kind of backstop for those…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…o protect these people, Middle Americans of all racial backgrounds—working class and middle class—to protect them against what I think is a hostile and nihilistic elite that is seeking to impose its values onto the working and middle classes to bolster their own power, prestige, status and achievement.” Yet, a closer look at the issues these two figures have championed reveals how Christian nationalism remains an animating force in the GOP’s cultu…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…f Civitavecchia. She represents no crusades against a particular politics, class, or ethnic group. Adele was safely European, white, uneducated, and unassuming, and her Lady has not reappeared in Wisconsin. Above All, Pose No Threat At this moment, Benedict XVI is pursuing European converts and fast-tracking John Paul II for canonization. Meanwhile, the Virgin keeps descending to obscure locations in Rwanda, Korea, Australia, and across Latin Amer…

Inside the American Family Association

By Sarah Posner

…sexuals will become part of an elite class’ and ‘Christians will be second-class citizens at best.’” The most powerful person in Texas and a contender to be the most powerful person in the world is hosting a Christians-only prayer rally with an organization that believes Christians are at serious risk of becoming “second-class citizens.” What’s important to remember, though, is that while religious right elites are lining up to endorse Perry’s pra…

The World is (Always) About to End, No Zombies Required

By Kelly J. Murphy

…institutions across the United States, in literature courses and sociology classes and beyond. Scholars like Kim Paffenroth and Kelly Baker, among others, had already firmly established the relevance and importance of studying zombies and other monsters within the field of religious studies more broadly. Yet between the excellent work of CMU’s media team and the strange world of the internet where sometimes the AP picks up a story about a class be…