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Give Me That Old-Time Ex-Gay Snake Oil

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…h that calls you abnormal, crazy, “intrinsically disordered,” and asserts that God hates you enough for who you are to send you to an eternal hell creates these kinds of behaviors. At our core, human beings want to fit in. We want to be loved and accepted and when we aren’t, when we’re made to feel like scum and ashamed of who we are, we turn to things that make us feel better—drugs and alcohol perhaps. Being rejected by family, church and society…

Take It Off, Or We’ll Make You: On Sarkozy’s Proposed Burqa Ban

By Shabana Mir

…. Halloween masks should be similarly avoided by Muslims. Select costumes that use make-up rather than masks. Select costumes that do not use any forms of head-covering (e.g. wigs, scarves, nun’s habit, pirate hat). Dressing up as, say, Whoopi Goldberg may be impermissible because it necessitates dreadlocks. Dressing up as, say, Queen Elizabeth also involves head-wear, and should be avoided. The Muslim-Catholic comparison has already become a sore…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…that perform deeds when uttered, like promising, declaring or commanding) that enact what McGowan calls “oppressive permissibility facts.” Columbia Law Professor Kent Greenawalt, when addressing the First Amendment protections of racial epithets, has referred to some epithet speech as potentially “situation-altering,” with intentions and consequences far beyond the communication of a social idea in any classically discursive sense. I’d suggest tha…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…hin this past Wednesday, declaring unconstitutional a provision of the tax code that’s made it possible for clergy to enjoy higher standards of living than their salaries might suggest. At issue is section 107 of the U.S. Tax Code, which contains two subsections pertaining to “the case of a minister of the gospel.” (The term was originally intended to refer only to ordained Christian clergy, but its meaning was later expanded by the Internal Reven…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…t the left, and President Obama in particular, are part of a fifth column that promote, or at the very least, enable it. (Both McCarthy and Woolsey are also affiliated with the FDOD.) Gaffney’s efforts have proven to be quite lucrative for him, despite the fact that he leads a nonprofit organization. According to the Center for Security Policy’s 2008 tax return, Gaffney earned a salary of $288,300. And Gaffney is not alone. In the midst of the upr…

Huckabee Calls For Civil Disobedience, Utterly Misreads MLK, Jr.

By Peter Gathje

…as, Dr. King urges, has several criteria: First, “a just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.” Of course what is specifically disputed within Christian circles is whether or not same sex marriage is moral, whether or not it “squares with the moral law of God.” Huckabee certainly doesn’t speak for all Christians. A number of churches both ordain lesbians an…

Gingrich, Historian, Religionist, Fails Own MLK Weekend Test

By Sarah Posner

…e situations and questions being presented to him. The headline for the Politico story on the campaign stop was “Newt Gingrich battles with crowd at black church.” That, of course, misses the point. Here was Gingrich, who in any other church setting would blather on about God and Jesus and what makes America great. That he could stand in a black church the day before Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, and be questioned about race and economic inj…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the Telegraph, he claims that Britain is being “sanitised” of faith, and that it was “quite extraordinary” that people could be punished for expressing religious beliefs. He says: “I worry that there are attempts to push faith out of the public space. Clearly it happens at a level of local power. “You can watch institutions or organisations do it or watch it happen at a local government level. In my view it’s very undesirable. “Some of the cases…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g ahead generally as planned, though without the official WCF imprimatur. That’s exactly what happened this week, with WCF officials Don Feder and Larry Jacobs in attendance, along with Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage. Miranda Blue reports at Right Wing Watch that the event, whose them was celebrating the role of large families in the preservation of Christian civilization, ended with summit delegates calling for Russian-styl…

His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelical President

By Randall Balmer

…es—but if I can participate in, and contribute to, a larger conversation, that satisfies me. What alternative title would you give the book? I wanted to call it Redeemer President, but the publisher wanted to shorten it to Redeemer. I also considered His Own Received Him Not, a reference to the dramatic reversal of evangelical sentiment toward Carter between 1976 to 1980. How do you feel about the cover? I love the cover. Basic Books did a wonderf…