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Creeping Shari’ah… Ahem, Excuse Me… Biblical Law

By Julie Ingersoll

…te about a similar move with regard to public education here). There are a number of dimensions to the Florida plan but those that interest me are the plans to “privatize” the system by turning even more of it over to “faith based” prison ministries and to reshape the system as whole with a model put forth over 40 years ago by none other than RJ Rushdoony, the founder of Christian Reconstructionism. Governor Rick Scott wants to move prisoners from…

Marriage equality and ‘the end of Catholic Ireland’; Gambian Prez vows to slit gays’ throats; Colombian govt affirms support for marriage and adoption; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed the government’s support for marriage equality and adoption rights. “We will not submit rights issues to the will of the majority. Respect for rights is not optional,” said Interior Minister Juan Fernando Cristo, saying that the Government will take the regulations and administrative measures in its orbit competition, “to realize the rights of LGBTI people.” He also reiterated that the government will work to “bring its reasoned argument under…

Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics

By Kaya Oakes

…ch her Catholic faith influences her work. Partially as a response to the dwindling number of young Catholics, the campus ministry group FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students), similarly to Opus Dei, sends missionaries – many of whom are recent college graduates themselves — out to secular college campuses, where they run bible studies and other group activities. A version of the FOCUS handbook on Wikileaks emphasizes adherence to chur…

Don’t Misread Russell Moore’s Disavowal of “Christian Nation” and Anti-Trump Stance

By Daniel Schultz

…per-conservatives and theological hard-asses. That’s the group Moore’s throwing in with, and implying that if Baptists don’t do the same, they’re falling prey to “theological liberalism.” In other words, Moore’s positioning himself against opponents in both the church and secular world by embracing a traditionally liberal idea while decrying theological liberalism. Nixon couldn’t have done it better. This guy’s got a future in politics. *Moore mak…

LGBT Editor In Bangladesh Murdered by Islamists—and More, In this Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…aphics, beliefs about the origins of homosexuals and interpersonal contact with homosexuals.” Among its findings: With respect to religiousness, there was some (albeit weak) evidence that the more involved an individual is in their religion, the more likely they are to support the laws. The probability that an individual who is actively involved in their religion will want the laws maintained is roughly 4.5 percentage points greater than that of p…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…sation that a sizable majority of atheist websites then addressed. RationalWiki, an atheist wiki featuring a newsfeed and articles like “Atheism FAQ for the Newly Deconverted,” contained no mention of the Sikh shooting, but it did list an instance where a Florida door-to-door salesman was shot, and noted the recent mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. PZ Myers, who is among the most visible atheist bloggers in the world, did write about the shooting…

Why Religious Exemptions Matter

By Sarah Posner

…r an outfit to “hold itself out as a religious organization”? For example, will a humanitarian organization with a devoutly religious board of directors that claims it directs the organization based on Biblical principles qualify for exemption? Or are there other qualities included in “holds itself out as a religious organization”? By what standards will HHS determine all of these questions? These questions are not irrelevant merely because it app…

Speaking for Hinduism in the Absence of a Conversation

By Murali Balaji

…hat the study of religion should not be influenced by religious groups, conflating HAF with Dinanath Batra, the retired schoolteacher who sued Penguin India to “ban” the book in the Indian markets. “Similar to Mr. Batra,” Jerryson asserts, “Ms. Shukla considers religious organizations the controllers and arbitrators of academic discussion.” He then goes on to offer a dubious claim that he had been censored from offering comments on Shukla’s blog i…

Forced Cremation of Covid Dead in Sri Lanka Further Marginalizes Muslim Community

By Andrea Malji and Amarnath Amarasingam

…s.” As of December 10, 2020, there have been 146 Covid deaths in Sri Lanka with a disproportionate number coming from the Muslim community; despite making up less than 10% of the population, Muslims account for nearly half of the reported deaths. A Muslim leader in Sri Lanka informed the authors that the number is actually higher, and that 82 Muslims have died, with over 70 cremations. The cremation of the victims was carried out by the state with…

Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

By Michael J. Altman

…al phase of Breivik’s war plan, “All individuals of the Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish or otherwise ‘friendly faiths/ideologies will be regarded as friends/allies/brothers and sisters of all Europeans and may not be subject to the same assimilation demands now or in the future.” The end result for Breivik is a bizarre religious pluralism without a Muslim menace. It’s a COEXIST bumper sticker without the crescent. A global right wing coalition is a figmen…