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No Christmas in the Village of Philly

By Anthea Butler

…ht because of the rain. Can’t we just have a sign up with every holiday in December? After Mayor Rizzo, bombings, and the grinchy police, Philadelphia can take a little Christmas. After all, we are the city of Brotherly Love, right? There is room for every religious holiday in this town of immigrants. Besides, I am already taking dibs on how long baby Jesus is going to last in the Nativity Scene at JFK plaza. Bounty out for anyone who takes the st…

The Leadership Failure of Park51

By Hussein Rashid

…icular one. The New York Times ran its first major piece on the project in December 2009, but over the next six months no media strategy was developed. The fact that the organizers of Park51 did not see Islamophobia as a concern when announcing this proposal is disturbing. It reinforces the idea that they have no vision or leadership. Even allowing for rose-tinted glasses about Islamophobia, one would think a major undertaking like this would have…

2012 GOP Candidate Would Reinstate DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ally overturned the 17-year-old policy during their lame duck session last December. The religious right claims the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would jeopardize the religious freedom of chaplains who believe homosexuality is sinful, so I wanted to ask a living, breathing chaplain what he thought about that claim. “Well,” he began, “we serve whoever comes to us. I don’t think it will be a big deal. There may be some who will have a problem with…

Excuses, Excuses: The Polite Regrets of Governors Bailing on Perry’s Prayer Rally

By Sarah Posner

…ent, or didn’t respond to Texas on the Potomac’s inquiries. But here’s Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, according to Texas on the Potomac: “Houston is ‘just not on travel schedule’ and he has a family wedding that day, his office said.” That’s why? Really? Not one governor has had the guts to say anything about the impropriety of a sitting governor hosting a sectarian prayer event where conversion to Christianity is prayed for, or that posits that A…

How Merle Haggard Saved My Soul

By Daniel Schultz

…p hope of the greatest Christmas song ever written, “If We Make It Through December,” with its trusting assertion “I plan to be in a warmer town come summertime.” Haggard rarely name-checked the Lord in his songs, but he didn’t need to. You couldn’t listen to a line like that without knowing the source of his confidence. Haggard laid it all out on the line, like an Old Testament preacher. He spoke about disrespect to disabled veterans in “Me and C…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…al couples and single parents. The news story elaborated further on his explanation: “Father Rodríguez says the past few years have seen an upsurge in the number of baptisms into the Catholic Church in Spain of children who have been born to or adopted by same-sex couples, and that this has posed a new challenge for priests and parish leaders which often leaves them with questions and confusion.” The guide encourages respect, as well as pastoral s…

Harold Camping, Prophet of Apocalypse, Dies at 92

By Daniel Silliman

…ion of an apocalyptic unsealing of “the book,” Camping wrote: It is God’s plan that knowledge of His Word would be on the increase near the end. Therefore, we should not be surprised at what we are learning about the numbers God has placed in the Bible. We should not be surprised at the new insights many believers are receiving, insights that relate to the timing and the details of the end of the world. There were about 80,000 copies of the two bo…

The Subway Sandwich Artist Argument; When “Religious Freedom” Isn’t About Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hornbeck

…s is the first in a series of articles I will be writing in advance of the December 5 oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the first major LGBT rights case the Court has accepted since affirming a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in 2015, as well as the first such case it has taken up since Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the bench. At first blush, it might appear that Masterpiece Cakeshop is about relig…

New Clashes in Portland Confirm that Christian Nationalism Remains a Clear and Present Danger

By Chrissy Stroop

…abuses of [sic.] religious liberty.” He held one of these concerts in Portland on August 8, 2020, exactly a year prior to this past weekend’s event, where violence broke out between Feucht-supporting right-wing extremists and anti-fascist protesters. The date of these concerts alone, 8/8, should give us pause, since the number 88 is, as documented by the Anti-Defamation League, “a white supremacist numerical code for ‘Heil Hitler.’” And this year…

“Who Will Rid Me of This Troublesome Doctor?”: Bill O’Reilly, King Henry II, and George Tiller

By Chip Berlet

…he Tiller murder that “O’Reilly and Fox News will have more right-wing vigilantism to explain,” selected some of O’Reilly’s most egregious statements demonizing Dr. Tiller: “In the state of Kansas, there is a doctor, George Tiller, who will execute babies for $5,000.” “For $5,000, ‘Tiller the Baby Killer’—as some call him—will perform a late-term abortion for just about any reason.” “Tiller has killed thousands, thousands, of late-term fetuses wit…