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The Gaines Brouhaha, BuzzFeed’s Gift to the Religious Right’s Martyr-Making Machinery

By Peter Montgomery

…o is among those who have made a cottage industry out of manufacturing and promoting bogus or wildly exaggerated stories of religious persecution. The Family Research Council and Heritage Foundation are also sounding the alarm. Glenn Beck’s The Blaze called the couple the latest victims of “an anti-Christian witch hunt,” perhaps inevitably comparing them to Jason and David Benham, brothers whose planned HGTV show was dropped after reports from Rig…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…at the chance to celebrate with tens of thousands of people. They carried signs like “Stop the persecution of gays in the Arab world” and “Your life isn’t worth more than mine.” So it felt like a deep betrayal when local officials banned the march at the last minute and police turned tear gas, plastic bullets, and water cannons on participants. (Turkish LGBT activists are not sure why the event was shut down after years without incident, but it f…

Catholic Bishops Throw Cold Water on Ice Bucket Challenge

By Patricia Miller

…cese of Cincinnati, which has been forcing all Catholic school teachers to sign a “morality clause” pledging to abide by all the teachings of the church in their public and private lives, told principals to give money from the challenge—which requires an individual to dump a bucket of ice water on their head or give $100 to the ALS Association—to another charity instead. He recommended the John Paul II Medical Research Institute, which does resear…

End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

By William R. Black

…Weick searches through the flotsam of our postmodern consumerist world for signs of his presence. It is comforting, even pleasurable, to find signs. We love realizing there is an arrow hidden in the FedEx logo, or that the eastern coast of South America fits snugly into the western coast of Africa. We want to know there is order, even if that order is malevolent. Satan, New World Order, Illuminati—any order is better than none. This is why, at the…

Baptist Professors Attack McLaren’s New Kind of Christianity

By Jonathan L. Walton

…of minor doctrinal differences toward the amelioration of human suffering, promoting a pluralist worldview and preserving the environment as stewards of God’s resources. Being Holy Week, one of President Mohler’s criticisms really caught my attention. It involves McLaren’s consideration of the cross in Jesus’ atoning work. “Did Jesus go to the cross as a mere victim?” Mohler asked. “If so, then we have no Gospel, we have no hope of everlasting lif…

Anti-Muslim Group Targets South Carolina With New Wilders Film

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…yer, the group’s [CAN’s] president, said they chose South Carolina for the promotion because the state is home to Holy Islamville, a Muslim village in York founded by Sheikh Mubarik Ali Gilani. Villagers say the settlement is a peaceful place of introspection and worship that welcomes people of all faiths. But Mawyer and other critics suspect the 34-acre village serves as a radical Islamic training ground stocked with weapons and cloaked in secrec…

Creationism Makes Its Mark

By Lauri Lebo

…cuse city school system. Three of the teachers were actively interested in promoting intelligent design. He suspects that the reason that so few cases make it to the public stage is that many parents aren’t always aware of what’s going on in the classroom. Also, children are often unaware that the teacher has crossed a Constitutional line. “A lot of times students just don’t know what their rights are,” Wiles said. Resolution Far Off On that day i…

On Maryland Marriage Equality, It’s Raven vs. Raven [UDPATED]

By Sarah Posner

…ns are partnering with Marylanders for Marriage Equality, and are actively promoting their support for Question 6. What’s striking about the Birk television ad, is how, even though Birk is Catholic, it doesn’t mention religion or religious freedom. Amongst marriage equality opponents, such as at a closed door meeting a few weeks ago in Baltimore, religious freedom is a rallying cry (even though the law contains ample protections for religious obje…

Speaking with Palestinian-American Republican Who Confronted GOP at Debate

By Haroon Moghul

…im to reconsider parties, Hassan said he wouldn’t “turncoat” at the first “sign of adversity.” Good for him. Refusing to go away is the best way to fight bigotry. It would be easier to disappear, and a lot more troublesome to demand that the GOP consider that it could have a bigger tent if it stopped playing to such a narrow base. One day, sooner or later, I’m sure they’ll see the benefit in that. For now, both Romney and Gingrich, and the Republi…

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet

By Christopher James Blythe

…dictably varied response among Latter-day Saints and others who looked for significance in the moment. Some religious critics of the Church of Jesus Christ suggested that Latter-day Saints should consider themselves divinely rebuked. Others drew on an obscure item of folklore (as much about what Latter-day Saints believe as an example of what they really believe) that held the statue would be animated and blow its horns at the Second Coming. This…