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Marriage Debate in Australia Shifts To Push For Religious Exemptions; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…General Philip Ruddock, who has a long and intense anti-LGBT record. Pink News has more: Ruddock’s appointment is a major concession to anti-LGBT conservatives, and equality activists fear that the review will be used to undermine LGBT rights protections by introducing a religious ‘license to discriminate’ against gay couples. Turnbull said: “The impending legalisation of same-sex marriage has seen a variety of proposals for legislative reform to…

More Religion in Politics? New Poll’s Findings May Be Overhyped

By Diane Winston

…blic life, the citizenry’s wish has been granted. A quick scan of national newspapers shows many religious and moral concerns in today’s news mix: declining marriage rates, civil disobedience, climate change, racial justice in Ferguson and stopping ISIS at the border—just to name a few. But since most of these issues were also in the news the day before the new Pew survey (and the day before that and the day before that too) it’s hard to see the 3…

Oh, For God’s Sake

By Daniel Schultz

…to spread. This is why I think the president needs to start using the “L” word. Call it for what it is: Fox News is lying about his faith to score political points. Make them prove their assertions, correct them, or admit that they’re lying sacks of crap. Dancing around the situation doesn’t do him—or anyone—any favors. While we’re on the subject, allow me to call your attention to this comment left on yesterday’s story: I doubt the public would…

In Praise of Failure: Is Defining Religion Such a Good Idea?

By Ivan Strenski

…as exploratory, experimental. Here’s how it works. We find ourselves in a world where words name things that “stand out” in reality, or which name what we “cut out” from reality. There’s lots of argument about what belongs in either category. But, take it that people think about religion either as “standing out” or as needing to be “cut out.” I am suggesting that we might bridge the gap between Oppenheimer and Linker by thinking more about religi…

Cronus, Chronos, and Christ

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…t continually. There is no belief in progress in Ovid’s topsy-turvy poetic world, the world of continuous-change-in-time. Saturn reigned at the very beginning of all these changes, and thus he was fast becoming the god for whom the word-play between Cronus (Saturn) and Chronos (Time) began to make sense, in a Latin world that did not speak much Greek. This is all important poetic evidence of what Saturn was becoming in the Roman mind after the con…

No-News News From Focus on the Family

By Daniel Schultz

…tian divorce rate goes from 40 percent to 10 percent or 5 percent, and the world’s goes from 50 percent to 80 percent? Now we’re back to the early centuries. They’re looking at us and thinking, “We want more of what they’ve got,” because we’re proving in front of the eyes of the world that marriage in a Christian context works. I think Daly is signaling a repositioning for Focus—not to a “kinder, gentler, skinny jeans-ier” place so much as one mor…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…d cause riots on the streets in big cities across America. According to OneNewsNow, the online news service of Donald Wildmons’ American Family Association, Corbin “contends there is potential for public riots the night of or after the election, if Obama’s lead in the polls does not translate into victory.” “I don’t think that’s something that we’ve looked at very closely, and I think that this could be a powder keg here as we get towards that day…

Puerto Rico Prays for Truth: Reporter David Begnaud’s Sacred Mission

By Spencer Dew

…includes a mass exodus of Puerto Ricans to the mainland) as “so many Fake News stories today….The Fake News Media is out of control!” Faith in Begnaud’s broadcasts—whether fact-checking that, indeed, there was no truck driver strike or documenting how locals in Guayanillas are working to reconnect old pipes to supply water to their communities or providing an update on the bacterial infection Leptospirosis as the probable cause of several recent…

Daily News Corrects JR Smith’s “Fool[ish]” Slavery/Black Friday Post… Incorrectly

By Evan Derkacz

…because nothing like that took place in American history. Still, the Daily News’ Jaime Uribarri drags Smith through the mud by recounting the cruelty of online critics: “You’re a f——— idiot” was one of the the more blunt responses to the head-scratcher of a post, while others, like Twitter user @j_weech1, tried enlightening Smith about the true meaning of the term. “It’s called Black Friday because businesses get into the black (profit) for the ye…

Country of Georgia Considers Constitutional Marriage Ban; Hindu Nationalist Leader Surprises India With Call to Decriminalize Homosexuality; No End to Anti-LGBT Propaganda Campaign in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ation is the first step. We’ll deal with the rest later.” The Court’s 2013 ruling resulted in hundreds of arrests. This February, the Supreme Court essentially agreed to some reconsideration of the 2013 ruling, referring a group of “curative petitions” to a five-judge panel. Those petitioners were publicly opposed by the Apostolic Churches Alliance, which declared that “homosexuality is an abomination in the Bible.” Australia: Government Scales Ba…