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ESPN Commentator says BYU Not Guilty of “Institutional Racism”

By Joanna Brooks

…ended a recruiting party where alcohol was served. Sikahema also challenged Smith to interview current and former athletes of color who had a positive experience with BYU and the Honor Code: “If Darron Smith wasn’t so hell bent on exposing BYU, the Church and the honor code office as racists, he’d find out that for every Thomas Stancil, Tico Pringle and Ray Hudson, there’s a Brandon Davies, Reno Mahe and Brian McDonald, the latter of which recover…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…that perform deeds when uttered, like promising, declaring or commanding) that enact what McGowan calls “oppressive permissibility facts.” Columbia Law Professor Kent Greenawalt, when addressing the First Amendment protections of racial epithets, has referred to some epithet speech as potentially “situation-altering,” with intentions and consequences far beyond the communication of a social idea in any classically discursive sense. I’d suggest tha…

Pawlenty, Romney Won’t Sign FAMiLY LEADER Pledge

By Sarah Posner

…on outlawing abortion and gay marriage. Bachmann is the whole package: she speaks the language about the Constitution being divinely ordained; that God has sent her on a mission, despite persecution by evil anti-Christian forces; she fights for the “freedom that Christ offers;” and worries that what she believes is “socialism” could “sink civilization.” She speaks the language of Christian rightists of “secular humanism” (and its attendant evils p…

Was Prof Wrong to Ask Students to Not Thank God?

By Hollis Phelps

…, and in what manner to express or not express these rights. It’s when the code that translates these rights for us somehow ceases to function properly in the background that problems result. I want to suggest that often when problems crop up around religious or religiously-motivated speech in the United States, they often have less to do with rights per se than with the unwritten code that determines how these rights are to be taken. At least tha…

Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lawmakers are seeking to make homosexuality a crime in an amended criminal code that might be considered by parliament next year. AP quotes a human rights lawyer calling the 5-4 decision “a big verdict.” The judges in their ruling said it’s not the Constitutional Court’s role to criminalize private behavior or to usurp parliament by imposing laws on it. The court’s decision is final. Judge Saldi Irsa said the petitioners were in effect asking the…

Like the Bible? You’ll Love a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ T-shirt — How AI Marketing Shapes Identity

By Lauren Horn Griffin

…ake decisions about which ads to show to specific users. When he insisted that he’d searched for nothing that would lean rightwing, he bemoaned that “the internet” must think that evangelicalism in America is synonymous with this type of political message. Ads have become a modern day mirror, he said, curated by our demographics. Can we look into this computational mirror to say “beware” or “behold,” assuming that the algorithm knows us better tha…

“Muslim Gospel” Revealing the “Christian Truth” Excites the Da Vinci Code Set

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…liar from the New Testament, but with some major departures. It contended that Jesus denied his divine status; that he had predicted the coming of the prophet Muhammad; and that Judas died in his place on the cross. Combing Christian canon lists and literature, Toland found references to an otherwise unknown “gospel under the name of Barnabas,” and he concluded that this “Gospel of the Mahometans… very probably is in great part that same book.” Fo…

Queer Bloggers Make Homeschooler Christian College President Cranky

By Peter Montgomery

…lly. Homosexuals can’t exist at Patrick Henry College because the students sign an honor code,” Farris claimed. “[Homosexuals] could not sign our honor code,” Farris said, adding that he considers the actions of gay men and women “sinful.” “Part of the honor code is to be sexually pure,” he added. Baratko speaks to a couple of the bloggers, who say they were inspired by other blogs at conservative Christian colleges like Bob Jones University (BJUn…

American Missionary Could Face Genocide Charges, But Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Have a Bigger Problem

By Amy Fallas

…over-extraction of natural resources and contact with indigenous peoples that contributes to their erasure. FUNAI has suffered from budget cuts in recent years that will seemingly continue under the Bolsonaro administration, as its advocacy for indigenous autonomy and sovereignty has put the agency at odds with the new president’s platform. According to Dinama Tuxa, coordinator of Brazil’s Association of Indigenous Peoples, Bolsonero espouses pol…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cation is one of the things that anti-LGBT groups battle because of fears that it promotes such things as homosexuality and promiscuity. Conference organizers in Nairobi have already indicated that Phyllis Kandie, cabinet secretary for Kenya’s Ministry of East African Community, Labour and Social Protection will be in attendance and the conference agenda includes an exclusive closed-door meeting for speakers, dignitaries and members of parliament….