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Sex Miseducation: Prof Fired for Pushing Catholic ‘Natural Law’

By Janine Giordano Drake

…en’s and women’s bodies are complementary in form and function—what his email hastily describes as “REALITY”—the sexual union has an “inherent meaning” to Catholics. That meaning is the Christ-like expression of love that is open to new life. Howell got into the most trouble in his final sentences, where he encouraged students to employ Natural Moral Law (which he abbreviates NML) within their own thinking about sexuality. He probably should have…

Catholic Prof Teaches that Same-Sex Marriage is Violation of ‘Natural Law’

By Mary E. Hunt

…tution he was promoting? Maybe at University of Notre Dame or Loyola, Dr. Hewitt. But at a state school? I think not. I await further word from the courts. Meanwhile, I advise those working this case to follow the money. The theology will take care of itself….

The Heresy of Compromise

By Peter Manseau

…rence of opinion,” Thomas Jefferson said, “is advantageous in religion.” While Jefferson is generally thought to have been a live-and-let-live sort when it came to competing spiritual doctrines, in his Notes on the State of Virginia he took a more radical stance. “The several sects,” he wrote, “perform the office of censor morum over each other.” Conflicting religious positions, in other words, develop in collaboration—in compromise. Like the bish…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…dn’t have been given traction. When I check who’s sending me the most scurrilous email (Obama is the “next Hitler,” he’s the “Antichrist,” etc.), I find a lot of it comes from the evangelical right, now the bedrock of the anti-Obama camp. I’m a religious person, so they are my enemies too; the far-right evangelicals are doing more to destroy the credibility of faith than Hitchens and Dawkins could in a lifetime. Here’s the thing: the C Street gang…

Bishop Jenky’s Last Stand

By Anthea Butler

…for the Romney/Ryan ticket. Leading the charge is Bishop Daniel Jenky, of Peoria, Illinois, who is calling for all priests “by virtue of their vow of obedience to me as your Bishop” to read his letter on the election at each mass they celebrate this weekend. The letter, addressed to Catholic believers, is an appeal to the “threat to religious liberty” because of the HHS mandate. Since Bishop Jenky did not say the priests had to read the letter al…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to meet in real life. And when they arrive, they attack and abuse them, while filming the process for subsequent social media posts. Artemyev claims that the “Heritage” movement’s activity is a non-profit hobby. According to him, since he became a member of the movement, they have ‘spoken’ to 121 people. “I do it to ensure that children grow up in a safer society, where no one would ruin their psyche,” he explained. “They are the future of our co…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…llar annual budget is funded almost exclusively by ticket sales, and these tickets are not cheap (ranging this year, for example, from $210-$300 depending on time of purchase). This pays for the basic infrastructure as well as expenses like a hefty per-person/per-day use fee charged by the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a significant portion of each year’s budget is set aside to fund many of the large-scale art installations various parti…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…waste American money to buy their expensive oil when we could have our own cheap oil?” “Why is he trying to make rich people poor?” “How is it right to punish rich people for working hard and realizing the American Dream?” It was late on a Friday night and I was tired, so I half-heartedly responded by explaining that there are other factors to consider in every charged question she’d been armed with. But I wondered, “Why the hell was the Salvation…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…rs to be the worst architectural xerox copy job in history—the same firm built both buildings, starting right around the same time. Talk about luxury on the cheap; it’s hard to deny a feeling of similarity. (The tower is to the Burj as a certain toupee is to hair: might the Trump Tower inadvertently mimic an Islamic motif?) The regal twin palm trees in the foreground are the world’s tallest, at some 3,500 feet each. Recently a falling coconut cr…

Religious Affiliation, ‘Mankind’: India’s Anti-Corruption Activist Leads Second Freedom Struggle

By April L. Bogle

…ut my phone and check it for messages. Sure enough, I had one from an unfamiliar number. A woman’s voice said Bedi was still sleeping, exhausted from the previous day’s overseas flight, and needed to reschedule our interview for that afternoon. I called the number back, convinced the opportunity was lost. “I’m here at the hotel now, but I’m booked solid this afternoon—” “Hold on, let me check with her,” the woman told me. There was a brief pause….