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Hicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm

By Timothy King

…we imagine the well-being and future of the place where we are the things that share that place with us that we enter into a state of sympathy. Sympathy ignites a personal concern for the well-being of that place and the things with which you share it that produces affection. But even given such advantages, my personal “return to the land” is done with full knowledge that the hours will be long, the work hard, daily frustrations inevitable, and th…

I Believe You’re Wrong: The Trouble with Tolerance

By Charles Randall Paul and John W. Morehead

…t comes to changing the human heart. In short he would have made the case that religious freedom of expression and practice are more important than trying to avoid offending the feelings of his fellow citizens. He would have carried a sign in front of the mosque: I will die for the freedom of these Muslim citizens to build their church here, and I will work my whole life to engage and persuade them that Christianity is the only true path to salvat…

Vaccine Mandates are Constitutional; Religious Exemptions are Unnecessary and Harmful

By Andrew L. Seidel

…are undoubtedly constitutional. The Supreme Court explained back in 1905 that freedom can be limited, especially when wielded to harm others’ rights: “The liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States does not import an absolute right in each person to be at all times, and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint…” During WWII, the court specifically said that religious freedom is no excuse to shun vaccines: “The right to prac…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…etter to his local paper saying: ‘The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war.’” Silvester says he warned David Cameron that the same-sex marriage bill would lead to natural disasters. “It is his fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicte…

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…fact that no human being can resist doing something for the simple reason that it’s always been done? What I mean is, are there genuine social or intellectual or spiritual reasons for going to church? Yes. Underneath all the nonsense and pomposity, there are some good reasons: community, meaning, connection with the past. But I would like to suggest that, ultimately, people go to church because of mystery. This is not mystery in the sense of Whodu…

New Ordinance to Protect Scientologists

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ict in and around first amendment rights, free exercise of religion versus freedom of speech. Protestors argue that the ordinance limits their right to peaceably assemble and protest. And many view this as simply another example of the church flexing its powerful and well-financed muscle before government officials. Yet this comes across as a very loose interpretation of freedom of speech. We should defend our freedom to protest at all costs. But…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…venly applied set of economic and political policies premised on the idea that free markets secure freedom and flourishing. Within this framework, nation-states ideally serve as subordinate enablers of capitalism as it forges a renewed multicultural village. This is the subtext for advertising campaigns that advance a not-so-subtle message that conspicuous consumption initiates subjects into an avant-garde multicultural global public. In a context…

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ramadan

By Haroon Moghul

…ice as fulfilling and renewing as Ramadan inspires its own subculture (if that’s what you call the habits and norms of well over a billion people), so I’ve adapted a specialized Ramadan dictionary first featured on my incipient Tumblr blog, which can help you understand how Muslims experience this sacred time of year. ‘Tis the season… Anticipatory Iftar Induction Syndrome [AIIS]: Muslims can’t form lines, except for daily prayers, and can’t get a…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…field organizer at the Center For Inquiry, an international organization that promotes “science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values.” As a student, Kaiser was member of the Secular Alliance at the University of Indiana. Her group raised money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society through a “Send An Atheist To Church” tabling event. The atheists put out cups for each of the campus’ religious groups, and whichever cup raised the most m…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…here’s way more tolerance of different types of families,” she told JTA. “What’s most important is that family serve the Zionist value of procreating.” … Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, a prominent moderate among religious Zionists, said most Orthodox rabbis would not support Ben-Ari’s decision to have a baby outside a Jewish marriage. If a woman is worried about not getting married in time to have a baby, the standard advice is to freeze your eggs, he said….