Religion Dispatches
…out its absurdity: [T]he presumption that ‘all people in same-sex relationships think alike’ is an unreasonable presumption, and one which has no place in legal reasoning. The presumption that Judge Walker, by virtue of being in a same-sex relationship, had a desire to be married that rendered him incapable of making an impartial decision, is as warrantless as the presumption that a female judge is incapable of being impartial in a case in which w…
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…his coiffed hair and toothy grin filling the enormous television screens behind him. The audience, still aglow and groggy, almost, from a frenzied prayer session devoted to individual repentance had been called upon, through the throb of the praise music, to “lay yourselves bare” for Jesus, your “first love,” and to “repent for putting other things before Jesus.” This was no idle command—in fact “command” and “obedience” were the day’s chief buzzw…
Read More…on which American society rests,” said Ayala, a professor of biology and philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. “Properly understood, they cannot be in contradiction because they deal with different subjects. They are like two windows through with we look at the world.” Nature’s blog points to the controversy the annual award spurs among some members of the science community. Many scientists are comfortable with the idea that people…
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…dence of the millions in anti-gay spending on the organization’s website, which highlights contributions to groups like Habitat for Humanity and the Special Olympics. Buried in the section on service is language about the fact that the family is under “heavy attack” and that the organization can help defend it, but there is no hint of the scope of anti-gay work the group is funding. If a member of the Knights doesn’t live in a state where the grou…
Read More…that’s what the Bible says. It’s impossible to be totally secretive about this… I think we need to try to fly below the radar screen as much as we can, because there are those who would like to squelch what we do. However, This is America we do have freedom, and we need to not be intimidated… it is a spiritual warfare attack, and we need to just take authority over the attacks that would come…sometimes the attack of the enemy is the lethargy among…
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…this revision of law in the first place. Or, perhaps the foxes may really think that this effort to centralize power with even less accountability can take place quietly since so many people will be exercised over the mere suggestion of women priests. Stay tuned, but I think they miss their guess. There is simply no comparison between a theological argument over who is “fit matter” to be ordained and the destruction of a child’s life; not to menti…
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…Speaking to the Times, Senator Reid related that a “lesbian niece” helped him “work [his] way through the issues”—and to a place where conscience compelled him to ensure that most American workplaces had protections for LGBT workers his own Church did not offer its employees. The complexity of Senator Reid’s own position suggests that as it turns out—twentieth-century LDS bureaucratic branding efforts notwithstanding—Mormons are actually subject…
Read More…assage of the state’s same-sex marriage ban. About 750,000 Mormons live in California. The letter being read today in Argentina marks strong continuities in the Church’s articulation of its doctrines worldwide, while marking some departures in the way Church members in different regions of the globe are asked to implement their faith in the political process. More than half of the 13 million members of the Mormon Church live outside the United Sta…
Read More…ia, as of January 26, 2010. Even more tantalizing is the fact that Suzanne Hinn hired Sorell Trope as her divorce attorney. Trope has represented Nicole Kidman, and most recently represented Elin Nordegren, before she decided to let Tiger Woods try to make up ground in rehab. Trope’s presence on this case insures that Hinn will definitely need a big miracle to prevent Trope from taking more than half of their joint assets for Suzanne. If this vide…
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…n small districts will look to the curriculum standards for guidance. And while teaching creationism is illegal, someone would have to be willing to challenge it. “Clearly this is part of an effort to generate a culture war,” Hillis said. Dan Quinn, a spokesman for the watchdog group Texas Freedom Network, points out that Texas in the next 10 years could become like Kansas; in response to Kansas’ board of education’s decision in the late 90s to el…
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