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Lila Rose and the Right Resurrect Malicious Child Predator Myth Putting LGBTQ People in Even Greater Danger

By R.L. Stollar

…. At 15, she founded her non-profit organization Live Action, which became officially incorporated in 2008. (Full disclosure: Rose initially founded Live Action with my sister; my sister was both president of Live Action’s Oregon chapter and co-starred with Rose in Live Action’s sting videos. I grew up with Rose and her siblings as our families were close.) Her big break, however, didn’t come until she was a 19-year-old history undergraduate at UC…

MRI Jesus, Bush’s Reading List, Ahmadinejad & the Pope…

By Michael J. Altman

…en who were charged with “offending public morals” for eating on their job site during Ramadan. By declining to hear an appeal, the US Supreme Court effectively upheld a ban on religious Christmas carols in a New Jersey school district. In Germany, a group of Catholics want to take the Santa out of Christmas. They want to replace the consumerist Claus with the selfless St. Nicholas. Druidry is now recognized as a religion by Great Britain. That on…

Judgment Day is Coming; Wear Clean Underwear

By Lauri Lebo

…ng, a San Francisco-area radio host and the owner of Family Radio. His web site, wecanknow.com, says that Oct. 21 will be the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” Camping’s followers around the country have been promoting the big day by putting up billboards and driving vehicles with placards. But this is not the first time Camping has predicted Judgment Day: On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping’s believers gathered inside…

Is Cardinal Dolan’s Pro-Life Piece More Evidence of Pro-Catholic Bias from RNS Publisher?

By Evan Derkacz

…s part of a pattern, with Gallagher repeatedly attempting to influence the site’s coverage of Catholicism,” wrote Sarah Jones, in her April 27 report in the New Republic on the “Implosion of Religion News Service.” According to the reporting of both Jones and the Columbia Journalism Review’s Stephanie Russell-Kraft, some of the more egregious instances of Gallagher’s editorial meddling, which played a significant role in the firing of respected ed…

Religious Right Starting to Eat its Own

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e working anymore. Elijah Friedman, on the American Family Association Web site, takes Republican leaders to task over their recent moral failures, listing ancient transgressions from former Florida Congressman Mark Foley and Senator Larry Craig, along with the more recent sins of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Nevada Senator John Ensign. Now back to the man of the hour, at least in regards to political sex scandals, Mark Souder. He cert…

When Satire is Redundant

By Holly Welker

Eleven or twelve years ago, I wrote for a website of Mormon satire called the Sugar Beet, modeled on the Onion. Every writer there but me was active and had a temple recommend, so both personal conviction and editorial policy meant that there were a few topics that absolutely couldn’t be mocked, but any other aspect of Mormon culture was fair game. Some of the pieces I wrote had titles like “Vegas Win Attributed to Obedience to Law of Tithing” (…

Indonesia: As Volcano Erupts, a Spiritual Loss

By Mark Woodward

…es across the country. His grave will almost certainly become a pilgrimage site. Mbah Marijan was also eulogized in the Friday sermon at the campus mosque at Gadjah Mada University. He was described as a simple and pious man who tried to do the best that he could for the people and who was, in this respect, very different from local and national politicians. The mayor of the village of Umbulharjo, close to Mbah Marijan’s compound stated: “We have…

Is the Metaverse the Hero We Need to Rescue Us From Suffering and Enchant the World?

By Robert M. Geraci

…vices offer creators and users an opportunity to be present at a religious site or with fellow parishioners (as long as the user isn’t one of the many folks who experience motion sickness while using a VR headset). The virtual worlds of the last decade, including games like World of Warcraft and platforms like SL, seemed to die ignominiously. Yes, they’re still on the market; but commentators prefer to cast shade upon them, heaping insult upon the…

Tea Partiers and Religious Right Court at Values Voter Summit

By Sarah Posner

…That’s where the people who founded America looked.” According to its Web site, “The Scriptures contain a theology of the family, the church, and the state. Principles in God’s written Word that relate to civil government, politics, economics, and education are timeless and universally useful for the benefit of any culture on Earth today.” Through its Biblical Worldview University, Providence aims to ensure that “leaders in the church, education,…

Yom Kippur Prayers for Corporate Atonement at Occupy Wall St.

By Sarah Posner

…Kippur, and a Kol Nidre service is scheduled to be held in Zuccotti Park, site of the Occupy Wall Street protests. RD Senior Editor Sarah Posner spoke with Daniel Sieradski, the organizer of the service, who has been described as “a major figure of the Jewish Internet world and a cultural trailblazer” by the Jewish Daily Forward. Sieradski, the former publisher of Jewschool, is a cause media entrepreneur whose current project is Jew It Yourself:…