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‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work

By Frederick Clarkson

…tion has been challenged in the way that a workout can be challenging, so that you know that at the end of it, greater health and strength has come of it. We’ve had more visitors than we have in a long time. The youth of the church have engaged in the anti-racism work with the spirit of this is good, but why aren’t we being bolder? Our intention in this has been to invite people into the life-changing, ancient Christian practice of fasting. Fastin…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…e court has ruled about homosexuality, but in this country we will defend what is right and what our faith states,” said Ruto, according to the Standard. Ruto reportedly said “God did not create man and woman for a man to come and marry another man.” “We believe in God,” he said, according to the Standard. “This is a God-fearing nation and we will be firm on what is right.” “We will fight for and defend our country and faith,” added Ruto. “Those w…

What This All-Star Christian Movie Gets Wrong About Christianity

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…person in others’ eyes. I might actually be persecuted for my beliefs and that that is the most important instance of discrimination ever; on the other hand, perhaps I just enjoy thinking that I am. Maybe I find it gratifying. And here’s the kicker: I am probably not in the best position to tell the difference. This isn’t some newfangled liberal fancy, either: since antiquity, Christian thinkers have dwelled on the human propensity to deceive ones…

Layoffs on the Religious Right

By Bill Berkowitz

…ue, members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, said that the language was “a cleverly coded way of granting religious leaders the right to criminalize speech and activities that they deem to insult religion.” Moon’s UN project? Still in the hopper! To gain a better appreciation for Moon’s powerful political, religious, and economic empire, check out John Gorenfeld’s Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Ti…

Pope Praises ‘Complementarity’ & Resists Gay Ambassador; Irish Religious Leaders Spar Over Marriage; Colombian Atty Gen Cites ‘Bogus’ Study Opposing Adoption; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hed opposite conclusions. “Research … has developed a scholarly consensus that shows that children raised by same-sex couples are at no important disadvantage,” wrote Stanford University sociologist Michael Rosenfeld in an email. “There is a noisy fringe of academics who claim that children raised by same-sex couples are in disastrous peril,” a viewpoint which “has little or no credibility within academia.” Green reviews various academic critics o…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…ess up is real.” Baker’s view is more ominous. He told The New York Times that what inspired his bill was events held at public libraries “like Drag Queen Story Hour, and materials that have a clear agenda of grooming our children for the L.G.B.T.Q. community with adult themes and content that fit the description of a [sic] objectionable sexual nature.” Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of the Office of Intellectual Freedom at the Chicago-headq…

Prayer vs. Medicine in the Courts

By Shawn Francis Peters

…ot simply derailed, by the apparent exemption for faith healing practices that remains in place in the state’s child abuse and neglect laws. The couple is likely to claim that this conflict in the laws (spiritual healing practices appear to be protected under one part of the criminal code but not under another) violates their right to due process of law. Wisconsin’s “treatment through prayer” provision is not unique: More than thirty other states…

The Real Story Behind Rick Perry’s Secret Meetings with Pastors

By Sarah Posner

…1980. In fact, the connection is much stronger.” Kaylor reported in June that although Robison denied that his group was supporting a particular candidate—in fact, the group was divided over who to support, as was the religious right leadership in 2008—the televangelist appears to be a prime motivator of Perry’s prayer rally scheduled for August 6. His group did not just participate in a single phone call, as Amy Sullivan reported at TIME, but ga…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…used alongside textbooks in public school science class. It’s interesting that while Discovery Institute earnestly stressed that nothing about the legislation was religiously motivated, the lead sponsor of the LSEA, Senator Ben Nevers, saw it differently. “The Louisiana Family Forum suggested the bill,” Nevers told the Hammond Daily Star at the time. “They believe that scientific data related to creationism should be discussed when dealing with Da…

Finding Nonreligious Happiness at the RNC

By Peter Montgomery

…Church of Scientology of Tampa, but fine print on the back cover insists that the booklet’s content isn’t religious: This may be the first nonreligious moral code based wholly on common sense. It was written by L. Ron Hubbard as an individual work and it not part of any religious doctrine. Any reprinting or individual distribution of it does not infer connection with or sponsorship of any religious organization. It is therefore admissible for gov…