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Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…recommends—certificates that allow the most worthy and devoted Mormons to participate in the faith’s sacred temple rites. Nor was he all that comfortable with Melanie teaching Sunday School, even though she assured him she had no interest in making waves about the Proposition 8 debate—or any other controversial issue—in the class she taught each week. Facing the prospect of being denied access to the temple and resigning her Sunday School positio…

To: Discovery Institute;
Re: Creationist Tactics Pre-Dating the Exposure of ID as a Fraud

By Lauri Lebo

…te’s disingenuous attacks on evolution education, so I’m not sure why this particular post has gotten them so hot and bothered. First, David Klinghoffer had a bit of a snit on DI’s Evolution News last week over the issue of peer-reviewed intelligent design research—a topic I’ll revisit soon. This week, DI fellow and spokesman John West is upset over the fact that I didn’t appropriately credit those at Discovery for their creationist tactics. West…

Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

By Lauri Lebo

…alistic take on life, I can’t say it didn’t work at least somewhat in my case. But I’m still a sucker for the cross of gaud. Given that Mrs Roach has long ago departed with the angel band, I can confess to having stood around in any number of European cathedrals gawking at some particularly ostentatious representation of the ‘nailin’ boards’. In addition to his two books, Bageant has written numerous poignant essays, which can be read here. Oh, Jo…

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Problem of the Rape Exception

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…t had a “giant loophole.” The loophole, evidently, works like this: If you pass a law which says that only rape victims can procure abortions; and, also, you’re inclined to impart bad motives to women facing unintended pregnancies; then you might be able to imagine a scenario in which a woman gets an abortion by untruthfully claiming that she was raped. Ah, gotcha! But since this Lying Lady Sex-Haver is thus far hypothetical, surely we can overlay…

ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…ones has any brains at all – and I’m not saying he does – he’ll get on the phone to the ACLU right now, begging its attorneys to take his case. What’s so incredibly stupid about all of this is that it seems like the community couldn’t have more bungled the handling of this raging bigot. Now, Jones – who is obviously one of the biggest spotlight-seeking jerks out there – will be made into a martyr and now stands to make a lot of money from the taxp…

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…the largest Hare Krishna communities in the United States). In addition to participating in this event, the Gainesville Muslim Community is promoting a series of events that began on September 8. On September 11, the Gainesville Muslim Initiative will sponsor a free meal and a blood drive in the center of town and then an evening program featuring a variety of religious and community leaders. Muslim leaders are asking their followers to ignore wha…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…Mennonite tradition of Yoder, it is to some extent a withdrawal: we don’t participate in the political process. I understand, you maintain another kind of presence, but yeah. Dan: On a certain level Yoder, of course, would not have been very interested in that question at all. He’d just say, “Well Mennonites do what Mennonites do, whether that’s a withdrawal or an alternative witness doesn’t make any difference.” How do we find that kind of coven…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…g days at work. On Wednesday and Thursday he saw more than twice the usual number of patients at his abortion clinic, Aid For Women, in Kansas City, Kansas. But then, this has been an unusual few weeks. Since mid-June, Dr. Yeomans (and the other abortion providers in Kansas) have found themselves scrambling to see as many patients as possible before today; as of July 1, these facilities will not be able to offer abortion services until they show…

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…onaries of Charity chapters is to place the “spiritual well-being” of poor patients above their physical condition, secretly baptizing dying patients while refusing to use their abundant financial resources to deliver life-saving medical treatment. We wanted to ask Teresa’s organization why they’d flipped the property, and whether they’d ever had the proper medical facilities in place for an orphanage. But when we knocked on the door to the DC Mis…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ysia (Usim) medicine and health science faculty, stepping in to defend the pamphlets. The pamphlet arrives as Malaysian courts have recently ruled on two cases that have a significant impact on the LGBT community. The Putrajaya Court of Appeal ruled last November that a state Sharia (Islamic law) ban on cross-dressing was “degrading, oppressive and inhuman.” Unfortunately, the government has appealed the ruling. The second case involves the recent…