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Judge Halts “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Discharges

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

A federal judge in California has issued an injunction preventing the military from discharging gay and lesbian military service members under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. US District Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled Tuesday that the policy “infringes the fundamental rights” of military service members and prospective service members and violates their rights to due process and freedom of speech. Her ruling bars the Pentagon from enforcing…

Crowdsourced Catholicism: New iPhone App Lets Users Forgive Sins

By Vincent Gonzalez

…wer if you think you might do it again. Monkey, an untitled confessor from California also responded within the day: At least it wasnt real sex! Then you’d be confessing to the police and not to me. Make sure you don’t. The confessors—no less than us, we eavesdroppers outside the confessional—must labor to fill in the salacious details. Was that the confession of a seventeen-year-old or a fifty-year-old? The age of consent leaves no obvious…

Hajj Journal: Part of the Process

By Amina Wadud

…jabi Monologues the evening before as it made its circuit through Northern California. This stop was at UC Berkeley. I’m sure it would have taken at least two of the other members of the audience to even come close to my approximate age. Clearly I was out of my element, but I looked at it as a kind of anthropological study if nothing else. So here’s my take. In an effort to take up the challenge of negative stereotyping about women who wear an Isl…

Christmas Candy Jesus, Black Magi, Jewish Xmas

By Michael J. Altman

…social networks. Jamaicans are using the first patois version of the Gospel of Luke in this year’s Christmas celebrations. Under continued threat from al-Qaeda, Iraqi Christians leaders have canceled Christmas celebrations. A holiday flash mob in California forced an evacuation when the 5,000 singers and their audience caused the floor and foundation of the food court to move and creak. Finally, Christmas isn’t for everyone. Tablet offers four dif…

Yo, Gays, Stop Bogarting that Rainbow!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sign of God’s covenant with man, and she says proponents of Proposition 8—California’s measure that passed in 2008 to define marriage as between a man and a woman—are the original “rainbow coalition.” “Proposition 8 was passed by a great grassroots coalition that included people from all across the religious traditions, and also people of every race and color,” Morse recognizes. “We are the real rainbow coalition. The gay lobby does not own the r…

Are Mormons Changing Their Stance on Homosexuality?

By John-Charles Duffy

…ian equality. In August, a federal judge delivered a strong ruling against California’s Proposition 8, and this past week Congress finally repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which banned gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. The trend in general appears to be toward greater acceptance of gay and lesbian civil rights—even the LDS Church, the leading proponent and generous funder of Proposition 8, made moves this year that have left…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…d confusing remarks by the Pope about condoms and AIDS. Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that seeks to deny equal marriage rights to same-sex couples, continues to be challenged and will likely make its way to the Supreme Court. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, a policy that has until this point avoided dealing with gays in armed services, appears to be on its way out. Megastar, megachurch leaders like Eddie Long lost some of their credibilit…

Julian Assange Nativity, Castro’s Hanukkah, & a Burger Blessing

By Michael J. Altman

…sell or rent property to non-Jews. Tension is mounting between the FBI and California Muslim communities. A former FBI informant alleges the FBI is sending informants to infiltrate mosques and entrap worshipers. The FBI is also worried about why so many Latinos are converting to Islam and being “radicalized” in the United States. More states are considering bans on sharia law. Cuban President Raul Castro celebrated Hanukkah with his country’s smal…

A Philosopher of Religion Calls it Quits

By Julia Galef

…s John Fischer, another philosopher of religion based at the University of California Riverside, who, like Parsons, is an atheist. Of course, post-hoc rationalization happens in other subfields as well, whether because philosophers are bringing their own personal beliefs to the discussion, or because they have already committed publicly to a particular viewpoint and thus have an incentive not to back down. “For many people, in just about any area…

Why I Won’t Leave the Mormon Church Alone

By Holly Welker

…church was most recently a major player in the 2008 campaign to amend the California State Constitution to ban gay marriage via Proposition 8. That, of course, is one primary reason I cannot and will not leave the church alone: it continues to exert its influence in areas that affect my life and the lives of people I love. Most of what I have written recently about the church deals with gender and sex; as long as the church has opinions that move…