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In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’

By Sarah Posner

…ments on religious freedom, the Bishops’ religious liberty campaign is the latest evidence of the strengthening of the alliance between the Catholic Church and the evangelical right, whose precepts were laid out in the 2009 Manhattan Declaration, which stated: [W]e are especially troubled that in our nation today the lives of the unborn, the disabled, and the elderly are severely threatened; that the institution of marriage, already buffeted by pr…

Making Fun of Mormonism

By Max Mueller

…rmons’ “weird” beliefs is political. Mormons are the last (or at least the latest) religious “other” to confront the heart of American politics, to deem themselves American enough to ascend to the presidency. Mormon scholar Newell Bringhurst told me recently that that the current public debates over Mormonism reminds him very much of the debate over Kennedy’s Catholicism in 1960. “Would Kennedy take orders from the Vatican?” many leaders from the…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…s country. In Tunisia, the Islamists won a plurality of the vote; now, the latest news from Egypt suggests that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, as well as the primary Salafi party, al-Nour, are doing quite well. (Jadaliyya has a great and exhaustive round-up, with all the detail you ever wanted). There will be three rounds of voting for the lower house of the Egyptian Parliament, and these results so far only reflect the first…

Why an Orthodox Anti-Gay Declaration is Actually Good for the Gays

By Jay Michaelson

…abbis urging zero tolerance for homosexuality in Orthodox communities, and promoting reparative therapy (newly rebranded as “gender affirming therapy”!) as the only “kosher” option for Jews “struggling with same-sex attraction.” It’s crucial to understand that this declaration does not represent the views of all, or even most, Orthodox Jews or Orthodox rabbis. It must be understood in the context of last summer’s Statement of Principles, now signe…

Republicans Charge Obama Is Anti-Catholic and Play Politics with Sex Trafficking Victims

By Sarah Posner

…n when Obama is clearly aiming to win over the “people of faith” vote. The latest charge takes aim at the administration because the Department of Health and Human Services did not award a new contract to treat victims of sex trafficking to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The story has been brewing for a week or so, but it’s starting to pick up steam in the form of false outrage over non-existent discrimination—and a possible congressiona…

Watch the New Birth Throne: Eddie Long Declared ‘King’ by ‘Rabbi’

By Anthea Butler

…fPo) it would be laughable. I wish I could say I was surprised by Long’s latest antics, but I’m not. Actually, I am surprised he stayed away from the church this long. After declaring in December that he was taking a hiatus to work on the problems in his marriage, Long has returned with a new lacefront and a defiant attitude. Having a fake rabbi declare him “King” of a fading, dying mega-church is a joke, but what is not are the deluded New Birt…

The Revolujah! Will Be Performed: Reverend Billy’s Reality Joke

By Nathan Schneider

…Then again, such confounding should be no surprise considering much of the latest scholarship in the study of religion. Few know this better than historian Kathryn Lofton, a religious studies professor at Yale and author of Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon, which examines how a television personality reveals to us our best selves, together with the rituals it takes to get us there. She is also a co-creator of Frequencies, a new online “collaborative g…

Romney Betrays Harold Bloom’s Fantasy Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…ism at the Times move beyond Maureen Dowd’s sneering recap of Bill Maher’s latest stand-up routine, it would also be terrific to see the nation’s paper of record solicit its Mormon content from some of the nation’s most knowledgeable interpreters of Mormon political experience, like Penn’s Sally Gordon or Vanderbilt’s Kathleen Flake. For those who tell the Mormon story best know that there is nothing exceptionally peculiar in Mormonism’s transitio…

Senate Committee Votes to Repeal DOMA

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ld get out of committee is a big step for the eventual repeal of DOMA. The latest polls show that a slim majority, 53 percent, of the population now favors marriage equality for gays and lesbians. The political reality is that is often takes time for the people’s will to ever see the light of day in Congress, so DOMA may remain the law of the land for the foreseeable future, but this vote gives it momentum in the right direction. Reaction from the…

Harold Camping Is Not Sorry

By Daniel Silliman

…l-T, the guarantee of an honest God, released one last statement after his latest date for the final coming of Christ passed without incident. The Christian Post ran the text of that statement with a six-paragraph story. The headline: “Family Radio Founder Harold Camping Repents, Apologizes for False Teachings.” The headline was picked up and re-run by several dozen media outlets. The Huffington Post, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and others all ran…