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Obama’s Gay Marriage Support Shocks Black Church

By Anthea Butler

…declaration was welcome news. The National Action network posted a letter signed by Rev. Al Sharpton, Julian Bond, Melanie Campbell, and Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery embracing the decision, while Rev. Jamal Bryant, megachurch prosperity pastor, was vocal in his opposition: Our faith reserves marriage for a man and a woman. President Obama, as a product of the black church, is fully aware of that. Knowing this, the president made this endorsement withou…

Obama Says His Faith Informed His Support for Gay Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…I believe is that is between a man and a woman. What I believe, in my faith, is that a man and a woman, when they get married, are performing something before God, and it’s not simply the two persons who are meeting.” In 2010, he told progressive bloggers, “I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage.” Obama didn’t just endorse same-sex marri…

Welcome to Alabama’s Most Biblical Town

By Sarah Posner

…iff said he “was guilty of sexual misconduct, improprieties and harassment, as well as being in violation of the DeKalb County Commission’s policy on sexual harassment.” Before his firing and resignation, news coverage of the sign controversy noted that “the entire message” of the welcome signs “was sealed with Mayor Mitchell Dendy’s stamp of approval.”…

Killing Love in North Carolina

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r children by forming a contract between themselves and their government designating each other as the guardian of the children they are raising together. Congratulations, North Carolina. Welcome to the 16th century. Take voter Joe Easterling’s twisted and tortured logic for voting in support of the amendment: “I know that some people may argue that the Bible may not necessarily be applicable, or it should not be applicable, on such policy matters…

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

By Beatrice Marovich

…ding the consumption of food in The Laws of Manu. What she finds, in these codes, is not only an attempt to deal with the old, and apparently always agonizing, moral pain of eating animal flesh. She also spoke of references, in these ancient texts, to the “screaming silence” of vegetables. Doniger finds, in other words, a long history of reflection on the basic brutality of eating, rooted in a reflection on this concept of ahimsa. But, interesting…

Government: Little Sisters Have No Case

By Sarah Posner

…igious exercise is not substantially burdened by the requirement that they sign the certification form expressing their religious objection to the contraceptive coverage in order to exempt themselves from the contraceptive-coverage provision. The government’s brief sums up the salient points on the purpose and operation of religious exemptions, and the operation of RFRA (emphasis added): When extending religious accommodations, the government mus…

Evangelical Writer “Struggles” after Chick-fil-A Outing

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o judge our lives on what Jesus said he brings to us, then struggling is a sign that we aren’t in it. Abundance—as in an abundance of joy, compassion, love, peace, justice and all the other things Jesus prattled on about—would mark how our lives are supposed to be going. The moment I gave up “struggling” and stopped seeing my sexual orientation as “baggage” was the moment I experienced abundance, in spades. The struggle stopped. God does not give…

Sikh Temple Shooting: Of Martian Rovers and Terror in Holy Spaces

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…In the way that both children and adults sometimes do, I took the car as a sign that we were not safe because we were different. As Jay Michaelson argues, we can “recognize millennial thinking in our own minds,” and mine seemed to always expect—briefly, quite irrationally—an undoing of the world. I imagined armed men entering the quiet sanctuary, always marking the nearest exit door, just in case. To this day, I’m not sure why that police car was…

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…odox Muslims. 3. Moro Islamic Liberation front and Phillippine government Sign Peace Accord regarding the four-decade conflict, which has cost over 150,000 lives. 4. Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Al-Nahda in Tunisia Claim Victories in post-Arab Spring elections to establish new governments and constitutions. 5. Bahrain Continues to Crack Down on Dissent and peaceful protests, violate human rights, and issue extreme sentences on detainees. 6. Ri…

Death Couture: Not For Halloween Only

By Stephen Andes

…Church teaching mandates a separation between sign (i.e. icons, etc.) and signified (i.e. the divine presence), in practice the two often merge. Both Roman Catholic modernizers and Protestant iconoclasts have for the last four hundred years tried to stress the transcendence of God’s presence—the absolute separation between the material and spiritual in the here and now. But sacred immanence continues to influence Catholic religiosity in Mexico an…