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Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…Opponents of the plans argue that inmates in faith based programs enjoy a number of perks and better facilities than other inmates. But whatever the case, Scott’s plan would turn more of the state’s obligation to run the criminal justice system over to religious organizations. According to the St. Petersburg Times Scott’s proposal is part of a “growing national conservative movement known as Right on Crime, which argues that too many prisoners ar…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Musician Bono has endorsed a yes vote, saying that “trying to co-opt the word marriage is like trying to co-opt the word love”. The country’s prime minister Enda Kenny has campaigned for the pro-equality campaign, say he has gay people in his family. But BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reports that some activists fear a significant and “silent” no vote, along with a more robust opposition from church leaders, could lead to a last-minute disappointment. T…

Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics

By Kaya Oakes

…berals,” and referred to other Catholic colleges – mostly run by religious orders like the Jesuits — as “so-called Catholic schools.” At secular campuses, Catholic outreach to students is mostly in the hands of Newman Centers or Newman Clubs, which are often run by members of religious orders, including Dominicans, Jesuits, and the Paulist Fathers. Newman Centers have historically been multi-generational, and many have embraced ecumenism, interfai…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…very person who has LGBT characteristics so they can return to normal,” according to a report in the Jakarta Post. “Based on NU’s evaluation, LGBT activities should be prohibited and categorized as crimes,” the Post quoted the group’s leader as saying. The call for legislation was most strongly taken up by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), a conservative Islamist party that has a small number of seats in the National Assembly. Reuters’ Alisa Tan…

Don’t Misread Russell Moore’s Disavowal of “Christian Nation” and Anti-Trump Stance

By Daniel Schultz

…ive the wrath that is to come in November. We’ll see. Ted Cruz opened door number three on Tuesday: “This man is a pathological liar,” Mr. Cruz said, ticking off Mr. Trump’s distortions, his infidelities, his penchant for conspiracy theories. “The man is utterly amoral.” As I mentioned the other day, the rejectionist route seems to be the one Baptist leaders are taking as well. Any of these options involves some risk, but door number three is a pa…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…for profiling people who “look Muslim” from Islamophobia, the thing about words—especially words put forth by highly visible public intellectuals—is that they have consequences. Unintentional though they may be, such sentiments reinforce and perpetuate the broader cultural climate of Islamophobia. Terry Jones, who garnered worldwide attention for “International Burn a Koran Day,” indicated that he was directly inspired by “Everybody Draw Mohammed…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…d interim final rules or the 2012 final rules.” (emphasis added) In other words, the administration claims it never intended to deprive a religious organization of an exemption if it was operationally connected to a church but served and employed people of different faiths. If that was the case, though, it seems odd that the administration, in the prior iteration of the rule, required organizations wanting an exemption to show that they hired and…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…irst matter, much has already been said about The Hindus. HAF—as well as a number of Doniger’s academic colleagues, including those who are active in AAR—had substantive issues with her scholarship, including her use of psychoanalysis (long considered a pseudoscience), her misinterpretation of key texts, and an unusually high number of factual inaccuracies (by some independent estimates, up to 500 errors). Doniger had every right to publish her bo…

Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…secondary problem was the likely horrified white response to having a huge number of newly-freed blacks living among them in both the North and the South. The alleged “degradation” of black people ruled out normal social intercourse—widespread emancipation without separation of the races was unthinkable Although “degradation” was first used to describe the condition of enslaved Africans, by 1810 the term was also being applied to Native Americans….

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…020, there have been 146 Covid deaths in Sri Lanka with a disproportionate number coming from the Muslim community; despite making up less than 10% of the population, Muslims account for nearly half of the reported deaths. A Muslim leader in Sri Lanka informed the authors that the number is actually higher, and that 82 Muslims have died, with over 70 cremations. The cremation of the victims was carried out by the state without the approval of the…