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Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…ere was the Republican outing of Barack Obama as a ‘secret Muslim’ and the promotion of this theory to both elderly Jews and conservative Christians. One survey, released in October, showed that at a sizable portion of the Texas voters polled actually believed Obama to be a Muslim. The other glaring example was the McCain campaign’s last-minute attempt to use Barack Obama’s friendship with Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi as evidence o…

A History of the Unaffiliated: How the “Spiritual Not Religious” Gospel Has Spread

By Matthew S. Hedstrom

…hurch walls, and has for some time now. The “rise of the nones” is but the latest phase in the long transformation of religion into what we now commonly call “spirituality.” In my class on “Spirituality in America” at the University of Virginia, we use Leigh Schmidt’s pathbreaking Restless Souls to trace this phenomenon over two centuries, from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s break with New England Unitarianism in the 1830s to the multibillion dollar spirit…

Murder of Bangladeshi Girl Not Example of Shari’ah

By Hussein Rashid

The latest news out of Bangladesh is that a fatwa was issued for the caning of a 14 year-old girl, Mosammet Hena, because she had an affair with a married man. The girl was brutally beaten to death in this horrific crime. I can already see the way the AP is trying to frame the story as one of shari’ah gone wild. Let’s actually look at the facts of the case and how the Bangladeshis are reporting it. So-called shari’ah courts are banned in Banglade…

40% of Americans Still Believe in Creationism

By Lauri Lebo

…right direction, although the numbers remain depressing. According to the latest Gallup Poll, four out of ten Americans still believe that God created man in his image about 10,000 years ago: A small minority of Americans hold the “secular evolution” view that humans evolved with no influence from God—but the number has risen from 9% in 1982 to 16% today. At the same time, the 40% of Americans who hold the “creationist” view that God created huma…

Bishop Among Those “Outed” by Ugandan Tabloid

By Jocelyn Edwards

…erosexual Anglican Bishop Christopher Senyonjo. His inclusion was only the latest example of the persecution that the bishop has faced for speaking out on behalf of the country’s embattled homosexual community. The Ugandan Rolling Stone (no affiliation to the US publication), which has outed almost 30 gays and lesbians over two of its issues, epitomizes the heightened discrimination that gays and lesbians and their allies have faced following the…

Einstein’s Religion, Darwin’s Agnosticism

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…entury phenomenon of “fundamentalism” was built. But that seems merely the latest skirmish in a far longer war. Indeed, one of the most striking features of much contemporary discussion of the battle between religion and science is the way both sides (rest assured, there are really more than two) sound like sandlot adolescents arguing about “who started it.” The scientists have apparently never forgiven the Church for its treatment of Galileo. And…

Will Voters Approve Marriage Equality?

By Sarah Posner

…On the latest bloggingheads, The American Prospect’s E.J. Graff and I discuss whether polling showing 52% support for Maryland’s marriage equality ballot question will hold on election day: We also discussed the marriage referenda in Maine and Washington, and why Graff thinks the three-year campaign by marriage equality advocates in Maine will pay off. You can watch the whole thing here….

Fall to Your Knees for Bigotry

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ncil hopes to have 40,000 churches across the country participating in its latest PR scheme the “Call 2 Fall.” FRC president Tony Perkins says the day is set aside for Christians to “fall on their knees” in prayer for the country: Observances can take several forms, Perkins said, from a three- to five-minute period during a worship service when people would get on their knees and pray to a full day of praying and expressing dependence on God. Cert…

US Names Int’l Envoy for LGBT Rights; Marriage revolution spreads in Mexico; Scott Lively Warns World of Anti-Christ; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…en used to target activists and journalists in Russia. The bill’s sponsors promote it as a measure to “protect children from harmful information.” Member of Parliament Aldan Smayil said the legislation’s intent was ““to protect children from information that kills the feeling of warmth and humanity, which is harmful to the health and psyche, promotes violence and is, in short, spiritually devastating to the younger generation.” Finland: Marriage E…

An Extravagant Welcome For All: Believe Out Loud, a Faith-Based LGBT Campaign, Launches

By Peter Laarman

…to close the gap in social movement organizing in respect to adapting the latest technologies. “BOL will supercharge the faith-based LGBT movement,” predicts Park, “giving it the boost it needs to move into the forefront of the larger social justice movement.” Denominational and other leading LGBT advocates say they welcome the new effort to create shared resources and some common campaign branding. Troy Plummer, director of the Reconciling Minis…