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Conservatives Waiting for Palin Rapture

By Anthea Butler

…Palin have been reeling, some making excuses, others defecting for a rival site, Palin4 America. Palin’s Gideon’s Fleece bus tour of earlier this year did not seem to give her a sign to run, and now the footage resembles highlights from a retirement reel, rather than the fodder for a crop of Palin 2012 commercials. Put this together with the doubling down of conservatives like Ann Coulter, who said this about Palin on the O’Reilly factor: She is “…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…dained at the Historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., and since the Episcopal Church, the U.S.-based branch of the Anglican Communion, accepts priests who have entered into same-sex marriages, she can still practice in the United States. Bearak reports that the South African Anglican Church will be reviewing its position on marriage later this year. Romania: Marriage equality opponents collect 3 million signatures Opponents of marriage equality…

Obama Foe Wants His MTV

By Bill Berkowitz

…ppeal and the plaque hangs now today.” Let Freedom Ring also sponsors a website called “TheirOwnWords.com—Are We In Danger From Radical Jihadists.” According to its website: Our goal is simple and straightforward: to raise awareness among Americans concerning the statements of radical Jihadists. Our goal is not to add to the chorus of those who attempt to describe the Jihadists in our words—but rather, to let the words of the Jihadists speak for t…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…‘prayer walks,’ and prayer was considered best if done geographically ‘on-site,’ within a ‘target area.’ Prayer became the identification of and confrontation with demons… All of this was categorized as ‘Spiritual Mapping’… A team flown in from the New Life Church in Colorado Springs secretively anointed traditional fetish huts and whole villages. A year later in 1997, Alix Spiegel described Ted Haggard’s New Life Church members methodically ‘pra…

Conservatives Accuse Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Misconduct

By Elizabeth Drescher

…rvative religious groups in the years since the election of openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson in 2003. But experts on Episcopal Church history and polity see little likelihood that the AAF complaint will gain any traction within the disciplinary structure of the Episcopal Church. Robert Prichard, a professor of American religion at Virginia Theological Seminary and the editor of the Journal of Episcopal Canon Law, allows, however, that the…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…family in the future destruction of humanity. Zoe’s life is like that web site FMylife, instead on Caprica, it’s frak my life. Imagine: you’re a teenager thinking about blowing up a virtual reality club, your parents find out you are in trouble at school and ground you. In the process of running away from home you “die”. Your dad pretends to love your virtual reality self, but instead, captures you and sticks you into a giant metal body. That’s a…

Spiritual (And Jewish), But Not Religious

By Martin Kavka

…r Jewish institutions that are focused on the state of Israel as the prime site in which they might invest their sense of Jewishness. (And who knows how the Reform Jews without belief understand their religious lives, if at all?) Given the increase of the “nones” among young Jewish Americans, this disconnect can only increase in the decades to come. Jewish leaders who continually wring their hands about the future of this allegedly ever-dying peop…

Would Obama Have Chosen a Racist for Inauguration?

By Debra W. Haffner

…ncest perpetrators. I keep coming back to the fact that the Saddleback web site says that homosexuality is sinful; read it yourselves. I keep coming back to the fact that the Rev. Warren has said these things. And I can’t help but wonder is there any way that the inaugural team would have chosen a minister who held racist or anti-semitic views for this place of honor? Would it have been seen as insignificant if someone who worked on poverty but al…

Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…ganized a rally for him, bringing their Bibles to school in support. A Web site devoted to Freshwater’s cause is called www.bibleonthedesk.com. But Dennis said the issue was never about the Bible on the desk. And nowhere in the lawsuit’s initial complaint is it even mentioned. Rather, she says, it’s because her son was branded. After Freshwater took his side public, Jenifer said she and her husband were worried Freshwater wouldn’t face disciplinar…

God at the Gay Pride Parade

By Peter Montgomery

…of Washington National Cathedral, the seat of the Episcopal Church and the site of many presidential funerals and major national interfaith gatherings. The Episcopal Church, a small but prominent Protestant denomination, has been generally in favor of gay equality for years but the Cathedral leadership has been raising the bar in the last few months. It’s not that religious groups haven’t been part of celebrations before – it’s that gay-affirming…