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Satanic Temple Considers Legal Action Against School Censorship

By Joseph Laycock

…“not even an R-rated word.” RD asked whether there might be an image of a Francisco Goya painting featuring naked witches. “No,” he answered, “Not even that.” The two school districts that received letters were able to unblock TST’s site, but this didn’t solve the problem as far as Jarry was concerned. Lightspeed Systems is active in 35 countries and contracts with 6,500 school districts in the United States alone. The company estimates that 15 m…

Americans Lose Faith, Sinning with Transfats, the Elusive God Particle

By Michael J. Altman

…e comments section makes you want to swear: litany for the conversion of internet thugs. First it was protesters, then it was rain that complicated the pope’s appearance at World Youth Day. Meanwhile, the Spanish government is asking for help from the Vatican to turn dictator Francisco Franco’s grave into a place of reconciliation. Speaking of reconciliation, the Vatican will meet with leaders of the Roman Catholic splinter group the Society of St…

Hope for an End to Mexico’s Narco-Violence: Response to Jennifer Scheper Hughes

By Stephen Andes

…Catholics briefly co-existed with the democratic Revolution of 1910 led by Francisco I. Madero. However, Catholic support for General Victoriano Huerta’s coup d’état, and the anticlerical backlash by the revolutionaries that it provoked, inflamed pre-existing Church-state antagonism. By the early 1920s, Church and state once again promoted similar social reforms, especially in the area of education and labor organization. But anticlericalism had b…

A Pope, a Poet, and a Drug War

By Stephen Andes

…ntiff’s upcoming apostolic visit to Mexico (March 23-26). Hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful are expected to descend on the Mexican heartland city of León, Guanajuato in coming days, where Benedict will hold several large public masses, meet with Mexican bishops, and discuss religious policy issues with President Felipe Calderón. The event marks the first papal visit to Mexico since 2002, led by then-Pope John Paul II. By all accounts, th…

Pope’s Liberal Defenders are Missing the Point

By Jorge A. Aquino

…d family. I want to note that I’m cheered by the change in tone augured by Francisco’s leadership. He’s done much that has moved me personally—sometimes deeply. Francis has made it abundantly clear that he is not going to promote division in the Church by supporting the old politics of thinly-veiled homophobia and misogyny that accompanied so much previous episcopal politicking on matters of sexuality, gender, and the family. That change in tone i…

Election Reporters: Here’s Why Simply Descriptors Like ‘Christians’ Can Have Enormous Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…For a lot of reasons, conservative Christians tend to own the cultural megaphone today. (Most important among them: conservative judges endorsing extremist conservative Christian arguments.) So I don’t expect the average person to understand all the nuances. But journalists covering national politics, especially those on the Trump beat, need to do better. Here’s why. First of all, it’s a matter of accuracy. As Sarah Posner points out on Bluesky, t…

In Latest Round of LGBTQ Discrimination Cases Before SCOTUS, Religion Is ‘The Elephant in the Room’

By Patrick Hornbeck

…uesday at the Supreme Court. Breyer’s exchange with Solicitor General Noel Francisco came as battle between religious exemptions and LGBT rights returned to the Court in the form of three cases involving employees fired for being gay or transgender. These disputes, involving a gay skydiving instructor from New York, a gay county employee from Georgia, and a trans funeral home director from Michigan, turn on the interpretation of a provision of Tit…

What Masterpiece Cakeshop Oral Arguments Suggest About the Future of LGBT Discrimination

By Patrick Hornbeck

…ociety is clearly continuing to wrestle with an issue on which substantial numbers of Americans continue to differ, usually for religious reasons. Masterpiece Cakeshop gets at a number of disputed questions, but regardless of which way the justices rule, others will likely go unanswered. Beginning to thread this needle will likely be the task of Justice Kennedy, who did not tip his hand in today’s arguments about how he intends to reconcile his la…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed the World Meeting of Families, the stage for a reckoning is set. Nicole Santamaría from El Salvador, an intersex woman, born with the physical characteristics of both genders, plans to attend the World Meeting with her mother. She called on the pope to broaden his welcome beyond traditional families. “To families who are different, let him speak out and say that we are beloved human beings, that we are beloved of God,” she said. “I don’t want a…

Cozy Cottage or House on Fire? Thomas Kinkade’s Theo-Aesthetic Legacy

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…nting became one of the great vehicles. Casper David Friedrich in Germany, Francisco Goya in Spain, and William Blake and JMW Turner in England are among the best known. Across the Atlantic the Hudson River School of Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, and Thomas Cole followed their European counterparts as Westward expansion and continental colonization revealed dramatic new visions of nature: the Hudson Valley, the Catskills, the Rockies, and eve…