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Attacks on Science: Predictions for the New Year

By Lauri Lebo

…the Texas Board of Education has decided to delay the adoption process of new science textbooks, which had been scheduled for this spring. Lacking new up-to-date textbooks, school districts may instead use supplemental materials. Outgoing board member and young earth creationist Don McLeroy said last year that the provision allowing supplemental materials is one of his proudest achievements. Meanwhile, in Louisiana, creationists, led by members o…

New Hampshire Cuts Off Funding for Contraceptives for Low-Income Women

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…To Pay For. (This is why, for example, public hospital emergency rooms in New Hampshire do not call the good Executive Councilor every time someone shows up, to make sure the would-be patient has moral clearance. “Yes, Councilor Wieczorek? Sorry to bother you again. Boy, when there’s a full moon on a Saturday all you-know-what breaks loose, am I right? Ha ha ha! Annnnyhoo, there’s a guy here who’s been shot, and also a lady who hurt herself bicyc…

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Blames Gays For ISIS; ‘Christian Nationalist’ Sworn In As Guatemala’s President; Vatican Resists Civil Unions in Italy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d “heterosexism,” and which accept the idea that all forms of consensual sexual expression are legitimate. The view of sexuality that they espouse is not Catholic. The Supreme Court held that “to tell a Catholic school how to explain its faith undermines the liberty of the members of its community who have chosen to give effect to the collective dimension of their religious beliefs by participating in a denominational school”, “ìt amounts to requi…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…that Jesus is coming back very very soon creates a sense of urgency, or anxiety or excitement that means there is no time to spare, because the clock is ticking and they’re almost out of time. The standard narrative of white evangelical history is a great withdrawal from culture in the 1920s and then a reengagement in the 1950s, leading to the religious right in 1980s. Do you want to revise that? Yes. That’s one of the historiographical arguments…

Focus on the Family’s New Face?

By Sarah Posner

…me old talking points. Fleece had cited the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad as an example of FOFA’s new approach. At a panel this morning on the pro-life movement’s place in the conservative movement, FOFA’s Carrie Earll elaborated on how the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad represents the future of how FOFA will do anti-abortion advocacy. This year is FOFA’s first appearance at CPAC, and organizers were clearly trying to attach opposition to abortion as a “libert…

Welcome to the Gayborhood: Jason Brown on This New Era

By The Editors

…from the show’s guests that reveal how their worldview has changed in this new era. In 2013, Jason Brown was a queer student at Biola University, a conservative evangelical college that prohibits “homosexual behavior.” For a time, he co-led an anonymous LGBTQ club called the Biola Queer Underground (now Biolans’ Equal Ground). Back then, Deborah interviewed him for her book Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians Reclaimed…

Israel’s New President and Intolerant Judaism

By Sarah Posner

…cated to Israel — evidence that in the face of escalting intolerant orthodoxy non-Orthodox American Jewish organizations feel they must prove that love in order to be critical of said escalating intolerant orthodoxy. Before Rivlin was elected, Emily Hauser wrote that his views are commonplace in Israel: Among the non-Orthodox, there’s an unfortunate, and very powerful, tendency to bow to the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox as the arbiters of “real” Ju…

Robert Bellah’s Powerful Legacy: A Mixed Blessing for Religious Studies?

By Ivan Strenski

…commendations amounted to anything truly new, much less something as perplexing as a “new religious consciousness.” Stranger still is why Bellah would use such tendentious language at all; especially when he must have known how many red flags it would have set off among his political enemies on campus. Thus, when we take such talk of a department of religious studies being the breeding grounds for a “new religious consciousness” together with Bell…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…as just days after declaring at the United Nations in New York, “Those who promote homosexuality want to put an end to human existence. It is becoming an epidemic and we Muslims and Africans will fight to end this behavior…. Homosexuality in all its forms and manifestations which, though very evil, antihuman as well as anti-Allah, is being promoted as a human right by some powers.” Fatou Camara, who briefly served as Jammeh’s communications direct…

Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40

By Robert M. Geraci

…tions and inaugurate new religious visions. Of the book’s Reformation context, the New York Review of Books’ Marina Warner noted that: [T]he new focus on reading the Bible led to a resurgence of interest in stories of direct divine intervention, and Protestant Europe in the sixteenth century saw a “boom” in compendia of miracles… The Monster Manual is likewise a product of its time, an expression of the secular age. One of its accompanying texts,…