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Bin Laden’s Death Does Not Prove that Torture Works

By Sarah Sentilles

…our only guide when deciding whether or not to advocate certain actions or policies, we will end up supporting horrible, unethical things. Like child labor. Or slavery. Or dictatorships. Torture is wrong because it is wrong, and its effectiveness would not change that fact. Revenge is Not Justice The prohibition against torture is well-established under international law as jus cogens, which essentially means that some things are so fundamentally…

In Historic Vote, Presbyterians to Allow LGBT Clergy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ys there is more work ahead for More Light. They will now begin to work on policies and procedures needed to implement the new amendment. “More Light churches are more likely to call out LGBT ministers, but others may be reluctant and need encouragement, so we’re creating affirming guidelines to assist churches in this process because changing the law itself won’t have meaning if we don’t get actual LGBT people serving in churches,” Adee said. Man…

Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith

By Peter Montgomery

…e to be all-loving, to support state equality, to stand against any set of policies that would increase violence and division. The Closet is Not a Privilege Harris, of course, has heard the arguments about the LGBT community’s use of “civil rights” language and rejects the claims, mostly from conservative African American religious leaders, that such use amounts to a “hijacking” of the civil rights movement. She says that recognizing the LGBT mov…

High on Drugs: Breaking the Just Say No Addiction

By Gary Laderman

…-based, economically beneficial rules and regulations. It is time to shift policies, attitudes, and responses in the face of a rampant hunger for drugs across all sectors of society. Let’s face facts: despite the vacuous sloganeering for the last few decades, Americans continue to just say yes to drugs; and while they may be dangerous, they can also be positively transformative and, dare I say it, sacred. Scientific evidence may help confirm what…

Coming Out Twice: Sexuality and Gender in Islam

By Susan Henking

…ls but bafflement or hostility toward transgender people… but in Iran, the policies but in place by Ayatollah Khomeini have the opposite effect and often transgender people are accepted if they move toward surgical reassignment while homosexuals are oppressed. There is no ideal place, only contrasting shades of gray. You take up the issue of marriage in Homosexuality in Islam. And, of course this is a big issue in today’s news. I admit I sometime…

Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…by Muslim women. In his blog, Alm describes his resentment that government policies make exceptions to accommodate religious liberties. The apparent goal of his Pastafarian protest is to push the envelope of religious liberty until it becomes either untenable or unreasonable. In America, people have been pushing this envelope since the 1960s, but for the opposite reason: to gain religious exceptions. In 1966, Arthur Kelps created the “Neo-American…

Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…to further their goals, but also as an opportunity to seriously reevaluate policies for immigrant integration in Norway and elsewhere. While there is absolutely no justification for the sort of heinous act perpetrated this weekend in Norway, discontent with multiculturalism’s failure must not be delegitimatized or mistakenly portrayed as an opinion held by only the most extremist elements of the Right. *Large chunks of the manifesto are wholesale…

Openly Gay Mormon Appointed to LDS Church Leadership Position

By Joanna Brooks

…d that it does not represent an innovation but simply an implementation of policies permitting any member who is found worthy by their local priesthood leaders to serve.) “I love my Heavenly Father, and one of the ways I express that love is through being my genuine self, and honoring the way He made me,” Mayne told me. “I now have a unique opportunity to focus on helping other people.” Mayne is particularly committed to reaching out to the many L…

Who Gets Paid to Make America Hate? The Roots of the Islamophobia Network

By Haroon Moghul

…conversations that represent people’s interests and concerns, not partisan policies supersized by imbalances of wealth. Say, $40 million worth, which is what’s been channeled to the “misinformation experts”– five self-anointed specialists who travel the country, speak to state legislatures, address incestuous conferences and self-congratulatory networks, and through their media appearances, access and acolytes, generate a snowball effect. They h…

Church and State in Mexico: A Political Party Wavers on Women’s Rights

By Ruth Samuelson

…ions from teaching in private schools. The new rules eradicated both those policies and broadened many other freedoms. Salinas de Gortari also reestablished state relations with the Vatican. Feminists’ Reasons for Hope The formation of PRI/Church alliances is largely viewed as a political maneuver, not an ideological transformation. Does that mean the new bonds are tenuous? Mexican liberals sure hope that’s the case, and despite the PRI’s gubernat…