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Who’s Scared of Polygamy? A Restrained Case for the “Slippery Slope” Argument

By William E. Smith

…yamory (i.e. consensual, simultaneous sexual relationships with more than one partner) as a sexual orientation. Some of the implications of studies by evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden and psychologist Christopher Ryan and psychiatrist Cacilda Jethá certainly point in that direction, and other studies have found their way into popular media. To use Douthat’s timeline and term, it would be rather interesting to see what the state of polyamory…

How the COVID-19 Pandemic May Permanently Change Our ‘Good Death’ Narrative

By Cody J. Sanders

…ractice stuck―for better or worse (I argue largely worse)―and remains a cornerstone of the funeral industry a century-and-a-half later. When the first modern cremation was conducted in the U.S. in 1876, burning the remains of a loved one was an unintelligible funerary practice. No one at the time could have predicted that the practice of cremation would become the chosen method of body disposition for 54.8% of the U.S. population today. Jessica Mi…

Who Bombed the Boston Marathon?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ocate them and bring them to justice. The manifesto of the Unabomber contained a sufficient number of clues to his identity that eventually someone—his own brother—recognized the familiar writing patterns and revealed his identity to the authorities. But there is another reason for the anonymity: the perpetrators want the acts to speak for themselves. If one regards acts of terrorism as a kind of performance violence, one can accept the notion tha…

Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

By Daniel Schultz

…t their active members. The problem is, membership isn’t alone in its decline—it’s joined by baptisms and weekly worship attendance. Whoops. If anything, the analysis quoted above minimizes the problem. To understand why, you need to know something about geography. In short, they call it the Southern Baptist Convention for a reason. The church is centered in 11 southern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma…

It’s Not About Cake: Anti-Gay Vendors Want a Constitutional Right to Discriminate

By Sunnivie Brydum

…edom (ADF) asked the Supreme Court to review a second case featuring a business-owner who refused to provide wedding-related services to a same-sex couple. The facts at issue there, in a consolidated case out of Washington known as Arlene’s Flowers v. Ingersoll and Arlene’s Flowers v. State of Washington, are substantially similar to another ADF case to which the Supreme Court just granted a writ of certiorari, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civ…

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Overthink the New Pew Data’s Impact on Politics

By Sarah Posner

…ch Center’s new Religious Landscape Survey, its first since 2007: the decline in the number of Americans identifying as Christians (down eight percent in seven years, to 70.6 percent), and the rise in the number of Americans identifying as atheist, agnostic, and otherwise religiously unaffiliated (up six points in seven years, to 22.8 percent). Greg Smith, Associate Director of Research at the Pew Research Center, called the pace of the continued…

Park51 and the Ground Liberals Are Forced to
Fight On

By Sarah Posner

…ng] off” the “Muslim poll,” adding: Don’t get me wrong: the economy is the number one issue for sure but when you start seeing an increase in people thinking the President is a Muslim then that seems pretty significant. Why? Because it’s showing that more people are not trusting him. The trust issue is important. Plus, news flash: the last time I checked America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles so it’s kind of important when you see a pol…

What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vador, Mexico and Uruguay — countered the African Group’s efforts to postpone the new mandate. A petition to protect the position launched by ILGA garnered the support of 850 human rights organizations from 157 countries. Last Monday the human rights committee of the General Assembly narrowly voted down the suspension attempt and then voted 94 to 3 with 80 abstentions to approve the Human Rights Council’s report with the independent expert positio…

Data-Mining Denominations: Same-Sex Marriage Edition

By Daniel Schultz

…people are by intensity, measured with the simple hack of subtracting the number of people Strongly Opposed to same-sex marriage from the number Strongly In Favor. Not surprisingly, since the Unitarian-Universalists only had 6 percent opposed, their position on the chart hardly budged at all. Other groups traveled a little more. Mainline Baptists, for example, strongly disapprove just a little more than they strongly approve. Evangelical Baptists…

Wesolowski Sexual Abuse Case a New Approach or Same Old Same Old?

By Mary E. Hunt

…ages geometrically in exchange for a little titillation. It’s hard to imagine anyone defending the man’s behavior if even a fraction of what’s being reported is true. One victim was a boy with epilepsy, for example; Ms. Goodstein cites, on good authority, that “the nuncio gave him medication for his condition in exchange for sexual acts.” Is there no moral cellar here? This case unfortunately offers many insights into how the Roman world works. Va…