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Phelps’ Vile Words Test First Amendment

By Lauri Lebo

…ity and for the presence of gays in the US military. The church operates a number of Web sites, including www.godhatesfags.com, on which it disseminates its rabidly anti-homosexual views. The church has gained notoriety for staging protests at the funerals of US soldiers in order to draw attention to its message. Albert Snyder’s son, Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, was a US Marine who was killed on March 3, 2006 during active service in Iraq. His b…

Religious Groups Call On Justice Department to Protect Muslims

By Sarah Posner

In the wake of the arson at a planned Tennesse mosque site and the planned Quran burning at a Florida church on September 11, a coalition religious groups will meet this afternoon with Attorney General Eric Holder, as part of an effort to urge the Obama administration to do more to protect the religious freedom and safety of Muslims in the United States. In a meeting with Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez on August 30, the Bap…

Humanitarian Victims or Christian Martyrs: What’s in a Word?

By Donald Heinz

…was red to honor their shed blood, and churches were commonly built on the site of their executions. Indeed, until well into the 20th century of Roman Catholic Christianity it had been required that a consecrated altar must contain relics of a martyr. A Christian martyr is a disciple and imitator of Christ who holds fast to the reasoned confession of faith and to a kind of life motivated by it, and ends up giving the witness (the meaning of the Gr…

Beck’s “Dream”—Our Nightmare

By Julie Ingersoll

…tion. The Christian Reconstructionist Connection Barton’s Wallbuilders Web site promotes a collection of “resources on African American History.” Much of the material is written by Barton himself but one of the essays is McDowell’s, drawn almost entirely from Rushdoony’s work in the early 1960s. McDowell’s discussion of slavery, written in 2003, comes from Rushdoony’s more familiar Institutes of Biblical Law. He attributes his views to Rushdoony a…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…the gun on himself. As the news spread through the Israeli news media, Web sites and radio call-in shows were deluged with suggestions as to what this case was about. The first reports speculated that the background story was a Haredi gay relationship gone bad. As on astute observer of ultra-Orthodox Judaism said a quarter of a century ago “homosexuality is the dirty little secret of the yeshiva world”—that is, of the single-sex school system in w…

Beinart’s Naivete about the Religious Right

By Sarah Posner

…es being raised now in defense of building the center near the ground zero site. For the religious right, religious freedom is about “defending” Christians against anti-Christian bigotry. That sort of supposed “discrimination” includes letting gay people get married, not allowing prayer in public settings, and the like. In other words, the religious right not getting its way. The right is so dedicated to this narrative that it has succeeded in ref…

Eid on 9/11 Anniversary?

By Haroon Moghul

…town there was too much smoke to go any further. People rushing in the opposite direction, coming from out of the smoke, screamed—maybe at me—where are you going? At a loss for what to do, I thought I should go to the Muslim prayer room on campus, where students, anxious and afraid, might gather for help. The subways were closed, and cell phone service had gone out. I had no other idea how to find my friends, no idea where else to go. At the very…

Evangelicals, Oppose Park51 At Your Own Eschatological Risk

By Stephen V. Anderson

…recent blog post by Chuck Norris on the American Family Association’s Web site summarizes what many evangelical commentators think about the president’s recent foray into all that is Park51. “Obama is not just rebooting America’s image in the Muslim world. He’s deepening and expanding Islamic belief, practice, culture around the world, like a Muslim missionary.” I think not… but if true… it might be exactly what the Creator ordered (cf. The Late,…

The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark

By Jay Michaelson

…and sisters. On the other, many in the Jewish community are doing the opposite: using their political and financial muscle to fight for the Jews against their enemies. Worse, in so doing, we replay our own national trauma, over and over again. My colleague J.J. Goldberg recently related a story told to him by former Israeli UN ambassador Abba Eban. Explaining Israel’s conduct in 1970, Eban said “you must understand, we’re a wounded people.” To wh…

Freedom of Religion Means Freedom for All

By Lauri Lebo

…hing about this because it seemed, well, too obvious. But for a depressing number of people in this country, including folks who really should know better, apparently it isn’t. So here goes: If you don’t support religious freedom for everyone, you don’t support it. Yes. As I said, it’s obvious. Opposing religious freedom for one, takes it away from all of us. Yet, every time somebody lately protests the building of a new mosque—either in New York…