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Feisal Abdul-Rauf Still not Providing Leadership on Park51

By Hussein Rashid

…me as support for Park51. The same evening Abdul-Rauf gave an interview on CNN in which he raised the canard of national security when discussing the need to build Park51. The logic of his argument is as follows: we are building a center that has generated controversy because we have not clearly articulated our goals and now if we don’t build it the terrorists will come get us all. There are multiple problems with this line of thinking. It allows…

Left, Behind on Obama’s Warren Strategy

By Nick Street

…rupted; Pat Robertson had high praise for Obama in a recent interview with CNN; and when his antigay remarks began to unsettle religious moderates, Rick Warren felt compelled to make a pilgrimage to West Hollywood for a gays-are-people-too photo-op. When a powerful political ally begins to play your opponents like a fiddle, you’re a fool to complain that he’s not letting you call the tune. And unremarked in the pages of RD thus far is the possible…

When Straight People Tell Gay Stories

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…k I created on my own, reaching out as best I could to interested parties. CNN never called, ABC never called, Christianity Today didn’t even slam me for it. My book may have helped some people in my niche audience, but it was anything but a groundbreaker. I do not recount this to invite anyone to a pity party. I am proud of my little book and its little sales numbers. I have received many letters from grateful readers who were moved and who enjoy…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…nd Afraid While Anti-Gay Bill Awaits Presidential Decision On December 30, CNN broadcast a report on the impact of anti-gay political rhetoric on LGBT people in Uganda, where a long-pending anti-gay bill passed just before Christmas. The story notes that at Christmas mass, Anglican Archbishop Stanley Ntagali thanked parliament for passing the bill. The report cites the United Nations saying that “if signed by the President, this new law would rein…

Will Christian Publishers Stand Behind Mars Hill’s Sketchy Legacy?

By Becky Garrison

…tact. However, even Zakaria was given a one month suspension from Time and CNN, while Mark appears to have emerged from this fracas with the full support of both MHC and his current publisher. On the First Things blog, Carl Trueman recently wrote: the health of the Christian subcultures in our society depends to an important extent upon the freedom of the Christian press; and that in turn depends upon having plenty of public voices and different g…

At National Prayer B’fast Obama Defends His Faith… Again

By Daniel Schultz

…pathetic press coverage of the faith issue along the way—most notably from CNN’s Dan Gilgoff. But here we are again. This morning, Pres. Obama attended the National Prayer Breakfast, the sole public expression of a band of religious creeps, to offer his testimony about Jesus Christ for the first time since September. His aides and surrogates still step around the religion issue softly and tenderly. Administration staff won’t even talk about it on…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…man distributing Comfort’s altered copies of Origin last week explained to CNN, it was important to her because evolution “impacts a person’s eternal destiny.” Banana, Proof of God’s Existence Comfort is a man whose best-known evolutionary criticism is the banana (or “the atheist’s nightmare,” as he calls it), which he says proves God’s existence because of its intelligently-designed appearance. In an unintentionally funny video from 2006, he expo…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…ricans who have spoken on behalf of human rights and equality, including a number of religious figures: Bishop Christopher Senyonjo of Uganda; Cardinal Peter Iodwo Appiah Turkoson of Ghana, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and James Tengatenga, former Anglican Bishop for Southern Malawi. Channel 4 has reported on the challenges facing LGBT Africans seeking asylum in the U.K. Vatican: Is there a Pro-LGBT ‘Francis Effect’…

Liberation Theology is Alive and Well

By Mary E. Hunt

…ople came for the Forum, some travelling a week on the Amazon. Apparently, CNN does not do mosquito nets or endangered rainforests, preferring the picturesque ski runs of Davos for winter holidays. So, news on this remarkable gathering was scarce. You read it first here. Bodies Don’t Lie The religious action was at the World Forum on Theology and Liberation, an international group that provides “an ecumenical space, dialogical and plural, embracin…

Obama’s Wrong Answer on Leno

By Sarah Posner

…f Romney’s support. Not all of them oppose rape exceptions; an August 2012 CNN poll found that overall, only 22% of Republicans still think abortion should be illegal even if the pregnancy was caused by rape. Still, though, based on having interviewed many Republican, anti-abortion, and religious right activists, I think there is a significant portion of them who would be sympathetic to Mourdock’s “gift from God” viewpoint. And there’s probably a…