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“God Created You”: Bishop Supports Gay Ugandans, Defies Death Threats

By Jocelyn Edwards

…ountry, Senyonjo was expelled from the Church of Uganda in 2001 when he first started working with gays and lesbians. In October of last year, the bishop’s picture appeared with Kato’s on the front cover of the local tabloid that many in the LGBT community believe stirred up hatred and led to the activist being bludgeoned to death in his own home. Above their photos in the newspaper, the Rolling Stone, was a headline that amounted to a death threa…

Pro-Gay Marriage Mormon Keeps Faith Despite Church Pressure

By Joanna Brooks

…opposed their church’s stance on Proposition 8. When Mormons for Marriage started posting videos of Mormons sharing their thoughts on the anti-same-sex marriage campaign, Melanie felt compelled to contribute her own. During the 2000 Proposition 22 campaign in California, she had remained silent but feared that her silence signalled her consent. This time, after prayer, she felt directed to do it differently. So she sat down in a friend’s living r…

To: Discovery Institute;
Re: Creationist Tactics Pre-Dating the Exposure of ID as a Fraud

By Lauri Lebo

…based on sample legislation that the Discovery Institute wrote in 2008. West’s post opens with a few recollections of my coverage of the Dover trial commenting that, “it was pretty clear what side of the controversy she was rooting for,” demonstrating just how trapped he is in his own hype. After all, you can’t be on any side of a controversy when there really is no controversy to begin with—not for the roughly 99.95% of scientists with relevant…

Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: 1946-2011

By Lauri Lebo

…e popsicle-stick rendition of Our Savior’s sorrow and the proper use of construction paste in Jesus’ name. I’d attempted to liven up my cross with the tempera paints from the craft-materials shelf. Whereupon I was informed by Mrs Roach that we were not allowed to do this. Me, timidly: ‘Why not?’ Mrs Roach: ‘Because only Catholics worship gaudy crosses.’ Bible School is sort of the gateway drug to getting saved, which ultimately everyone in my fami…

Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t: The Problem of the Rape Exception

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…aps denying her those things is exactly the point. As Amanda Marcotte suggested last year: This unwillingness to extend abortion rights even to rape victims may indicate more than simply a hard line attitude about abortion, but also a negative attitude about a woman’s right to live free from violence… There’s widespread myths that rape victims are either lying about being raped or somehow brought it on themselves, and therefore if they get pregnan…

ACLU and Thomas More Law Center Rush to Terry Jones Defense

By Lauri Lebo

…to keep Jones from inciting a riot, I guess, by outraged Muslims. What’s most disturbing about the case was that Jones was locked up, not because he was suspected of committing a crime, but because he refused to promise that he wouldn’t go near the mosque. (Hey Wayne County, thought crime, much?) The ACLU submitted an amicus curiae brief to the 19th District Court in defense of Jones’ right to protest, which says, “If the First Amendment has any m…

Gay Marriage Bill Totalitarian Says Head Bishop

By Peter Montgomery

…ws of Dolan and NOM are far from universal, particularly in New York, where polls show that marriage equality enjoys the support of a strong majority of the state’s residents….

Pro- and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Gainesville

By Julie Ingersoll

…erent political contexts. Another identified himself as a Christian of a distinct stripe by advocating burning phone books that advertise abortion and then said he doesn’t have a Qur’an but if he did he would “feed it page by page to (his) goat who would be impervious to its lies.” He then admitted he’d not read the Qur’an because he “doesn’t read fiction.” Another who insisted he didn’t “hate other religions or cultures” then argued that the “so-…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…utside the formal worship site. “It’s about, you know, help me to be the best Christian, the best person I can be in my conversations, my communications,” the Rev. Lisa Vaughn explained to a reporter from the Globe and Mail. In this regard, Vaughn has made two important gestures toward religious relevancy for Millennials and Gen-Xers. First, she hands over the goods of the church (the blessing) for the enrichment of the spirituality of daily life….

Presbyterians, Change Hearts & Minds, Begin Ordaining Gays

By MaryAnn McKibben Dana

…the historic confessions of the church. “Submitting to Christ is the highest standard you can imagine,” says Dykers-Koenig. “This is not pushover language. If people take 10A seriously, the exams will be even better than before.” We Take Our Position Not in Spite of Scripture, but Because of It Advocates of 10A point to a multi-pronged approach to religious issues at the heart of the debate. First and foremost, the pro-inclusion argument is grou…