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RD10Q: Holy Hullabaloos: A Fun Book on Church and State

By Jay Wexler

…small green bunny on his shoulder in the book. But it’s on the book’s Web site if you want to see it, along with various other footnotes and paragraphs that my wise editors made me cut. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? There are so many. One of the biggest ones is that the Supreme Court has banished religion from public life by banning school prayer and the like. This is absolutely not true. Private individuals and or…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…king our bodies through an affluent corridor between Hollywood & Highland (site of the Oscars) and good old West Hollywood, where we can then get slammed as usual. March organizers have compiled a long list of community partners, notably including some major unions and CHIRLA, a leading group defending immigrants here and nationally, but the vast majority of partners are already gay-oriented organizations. The collective self-critique that #Resist…

Satanic Temple’s IRS Recognition Rekindles Fierce Debate Over What Is ‘Really Real’ Church

By Joseph Laycock

…empt status. There were mixed reactions. LifeSiteNews, an anti-choice news site that has long opposed TST, responded immediately with an online petition demanding that the IRS reverse this “horrible decision” that “runs counter to everything America stands for.” Amber Saurus Rex of TST’s National Council wrote, “On days like today, when we learn we’ve been officially recognized as a church by the U.S. government, all the work is worth it, and the…

Wikipedia Rules Censor “The Lord”

By Katie Meier

…orship. Web 2.0, in short, is here masterfully summarized: “It’s a damn website that any schmuck can modify.” A web 2.0 community is only as useful as users make it. Trust is key. User corruption erodes these communities. Revolts ensue. Users flee. Lament is widespread, however not for the vandalism endured by the compromised piece of information but instead for the vandalism of an ideal: collaborative knowledge is pure. Collaborative knowledge sh…

All Your Dead Mormons Are Belong To Us

By Jay Michaelson

…s Are Now Gay. It’s a simple game: enter the name of a dead Mormon, or the site will choose one for you, and with the click of a mouse, the deceased LDS member is instantly converted to homosexuality. Of course, this makes no sense, and is somewhat offensive. But then, so are the views of some (though not all) Mormons that the dead can be posthumously baptized – or at least given the offer of baptism (which, since they now can evaluate their optio…

Texas Textbook Massacre

By Lauri Lebo

…nd voted on May 19-21, are now available at the Texas Education Agency Web site. The Texas Freedom Network has a pretty comprehensive list as well. In no particular order, here is a list of 10 of the most egregious changes to the social studies curriculum: 1. Exceptionally Unjust: Conservative board members spent much time stressing that students need to learn about “American exceptionalism,” even as they removed the concepts of “justice” and “res…

RD Turns Six: What’s New, What’s Next…

By The Editors

…arr says that internet journalism is maturing—and that the technology that sites are built on, and that reporters use to do their work, is not the ‘wingman,’ as he puts it, but The Man. While we’d rather see technology as a multi-armed goddess, we’re with Carr otherwise. Packer’s objections are standard issue: there’s no quality control in new media, no money to pay reporters. And you can practically hear the shudder behind the word “blogger,” as…

The Kids are Religious Right: Punk Rock & Pro-Life

By Justin Philpot

…and has actively petitioned Congress. They also recognize some government officials and politicians as allies. During the 32nd March for Life, held in January 2005, George W. Bush addressed pro-life supporters via telephone, saying: “we are working to promote a culture of life.” The president’s language is certainly in line with Rock for Life’s rhetoric, and the group’s willingness to work within the system runs counter to the militant overtones…

Hagee Hangs On

By Bill Berkowitz

…berg, of San Antonio’s Congregation Rodfei Sholom, who wrote on CUFI’s Web site that it was “ironic and absurd that when Pastor Hagee was lecturing on one of the Jewish perspectives of the Holocaust that his words were twisted and used to attack him for being anti-Semitic.” Scheinberg also called Hagee “a world leader in his support of Israel.” Hagee and Scheinberg go way back. In a story entitled “Our Jewish Roots” published in JHMagazine, Hagee…

Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.

By Daniel Schultz

…eceived a vaccine A nearby religious congregation serving as a vaccination site Religious communities providing vaccine appointment assistance. Responses to the individual approaches might not seem like much at first. Each item on the list makes between 10-13% of hesitant respondents and 2-3% of the resistant say it might shift their thinking. But it adds up quickly, with nearly half of Black Protestants saying one or more approach could change th…