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The Horror Mugabe Doesn’t Want the World to See

By Frederick Clarkson

…ey were quickly dispersed by heavily armed, helmeted riot police (see cell phone photo, top). “If they catch you,” one student matter of factly told Donaghue at the buffet, “you are going to be cut like a goat from head to toe.” The students all knew people who had been beaten or tortured by Mugabe’s agents. Donaghue met one receiving treatment in a hospital, most of which are now closed, partly because even when staff are paid, “it costs more to…

Burning Man: Religious Event or Sheer Hedonism?

By Lee Gilmore

…llar annual budget is funded almost exclusively by ticket sales, and these tickets are not cheap (ranging this year, for example, from $210-$300 depending on time of purchase). This pays for the basic infrastructure as well as expenses like a hefty per-person/per-day use fee charged by the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, a significant portion of each year’s budget is set aside to fund many of the large-scale art installations various parti…

Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong

By Vyckie Garrison

…waste American money to buy their expensive oil when we could have our own cheap oil?” “Why is he trying to make rich people poor?” “How is it right to punish rich people for working hard and realizing the American Dream?” It was late on a Friday night and I was tired, so I half-heartedly responded by explaining that there are other factors to consider in every charged question she’d been armed with. But I wondered, “Why the hell was the Salvation…

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…5, the Supreme Court ruled in Town of Greece v. Galloway that the town of Greece, New York, could use explicitly Christian prayers to open its council meetings. For many the ruling represented an erosion of the establishment clause. Greaves rejoiced at another opportunity for public displays of Satanism and even composed a Satanic prayer for future council meetings. Also in May, The Satanic Temple drew national media attention after they announce…

V-Day: An Arrow in the Heart

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…writers like Plutarch suggested that it originated in Arcadia in southern Greece, where Lykaian Pan was worshiped (lykos is the Greek word for wolf). The Roman poet Virgil would turn that same Arcadia into an ideal image of Paradise, a lost Golden Age of musical shepherds and right religion, in a marvelous cycle of poems called “The Eclogues” (or “The Bucolics”). Some later Christians felt that Virgil had predicted the birth of Christ in one of t…

Lesbians Sue Lesbians, Sodomites to Follow?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ian’ in the organization’s title: “The Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece.” As plaintiff Dimitris Lambrou put it: “Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies with no connection whatsoever to the island of Lesbos.” In other words: this is partly a question of translation. A ‘Lesbian’ is someone from the island of Lesbos; in the 20th century, a ‘lesbian’ has came to connote a woman inclined primarily or exclusively to sa…

Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite

By Joseph Laycock

…. I think a lot of people don’t understand that this case developed out of Greece v. Galloway (2014). Can you explain that connection? The Greece case established a few important rules for government sponsored public prayer meeting openings. First, that these were indeed legal and spanned back to the early beginnings of the United States. Second, that there cannot be discrimination between various denominations. And third, that an invocation need…

Obama in Copenhagen: It’s the Religion, Stupid

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e Games. That’s why cities want them, regardless of the cost. That was why Greece was willing to break every EU regulation, run up its deficits, and commit its citizens to a decade of regressive taxation in order to pay the Olympic bills. Athens is a far lovelier city after 2004, but the cost of that beautification is not yet known. As for Beijing, well it’s simply too early to tell. So much for the politics and economics of the Olympics. Taking a…

The ObamaCare “Abortion Fee” Hoax

By Patricia Miller

…ne. Significantly, the ADF is the legal group that represented the town of Greece, NY, in theTown of Greece v. Galloway Supreme Court case. As with the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood (which ADF also represents) contraception mandate case, this suit brings together high-profile political objections from the Catholic bishops, a well-funded conservative public interest law firm, and a willing and sympathetic plaintiff—Mr. Bracy conveniently is head o…

Mortal Combat: Risk in the Winter Olympics

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…eem a forced connection. The Winter Games seem hardly Greek at all. Modern Greece has never won a medal of any kind at the Winter Olympics; the country scarcely sends any athletes to these Games. The Winter Olympics are too cold, and display athletes who, for all of their virtuosity, are too heavily clad to be Hellenic. ‘Gymnasium’ was a Greek word meaning “the naked place,” and in ancient Greece, athleticism was intimately linked both to eroticis…