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Gay Rights Org Delivers 150,000-Signature Petition to LDS Church

By Joanna Brooks

…secution and marginalization early in our history, when we were too few in numbers to adequately protect ourselves and when society’s leaders often seemed disinclined to help. Our parents, young adults, teens and children should therefore, of all people, be especially sensitive to the vulnerable in society and be willing to speak out against bullying or intimidation whenever it occurs, including unkindness toward those who are attracted to others…

Creationist Theme Park Gets $43 Million in Tax Rebates

By Lauri Lebo

…became carnivores after the Fall. So, where did Noah store all those animals used for dinosaur food? Hey Kentucky, your tax dollars hard at work….

Let’s Make it Legal to Execute Disobedient Children!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…know, because I hope that you will thereby understand what I’m getting at. Dollars for apples, words for comprehension, individuals doing stuff, and common mediums of exchange making the whole system move along. Authority doesn’t really enter into it. My dollar’s as good as yours whether I’m a saint or a charlatan; if I say “ice cube” and you speak English you know what I’m saying even if I’m a stranger or someone you find morally repugnant. But…

American Bishops Pushed Rome on Nun Crackdown

By Sarah Posner

…ut checks just to Rome. In 2010, the organization gave close to $2 million dollars to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. And it donated $25,000 to the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is spearheading the legal challenges to the contraception mandate; and $50,000 to the Federalist Society.” Gallicho concludes: American Catholics have not forgotten how long it took bishops to wake up to the sexual-abuse crisis they created. And now t…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…d this numeric tone scale, and I studied that. Lord knows where he got the numbers from, but 1.0 on the tone scale is fear, 1.1 is covert hostility, which is the tone level of all Suppressive Persons. 1.5 is anger. He said all you have to do to bring someone “uptone”—or put them in a better mood—was to speak half a tone to a full tone above the other person. Any higher, they won’t listen to you. Any lower, they’ll be really bummed out. And I thoug…

Prosperity Preacher Creflo Dollar Arrested for Allegedly Assaulting Daughter

By Anthea Butler

…y disciplining children, though children back in the day did not have cell phones to take pictures and film their whippings, nor did they have 9-1-1 and child protective services on speed dial. I wonder how Creflo and Taffi Dollar will explain this to their congregation. And already, according to the AJC article, one church member wrote on Dollar’s Facebook page: “I [don’t know] the details and I don’t really need to because the glory of God has…

Pledging Virginity to Dad: A New Doc Explores the World of ‘Purity Balls’

By Jessica Valenti

…fe and a mother,” she says, “I would hate to go off and spend thousands of dollars on an education that I wouldn’t use.” She’s also the only one of the older three sisters who isn’t married—a fact that dominates her thoughts, given she believes the most important role she could have is that of a wife. There are often shots of Jordyn wistfully looking off into the distance, watching her married sisters’ wedding videos or staring at her doted-on sis…

Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…same time you’ve still got the fall. People thought they’d make a jillion dollars off of Facebook and it’s down. The thing about human nature is you don’t think your way out of temptation. That’s the value of the recent decade, where we’ve realized that these systemic problems need systemic solutions; they need structures and regulations. We learned that lesson in the Great Depression and put Glass-Steagall into effect. But we believed it couldn’…

Chick-fil-A: Have More Wives?

By Peter Montgomery

…given criticism of Chick-Fil-A by gay-rights advocates for the millions of dollars the company has given to anti-gay organizations like the Family Research Council. Cathy’s intent would have been plenty clear even if he didn’t expound to an Atlanta radio station: “I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,’” said Cathy. “I pray God’s mercy…

Obama Administration Gives Free Pass for Faith-Based Groups to Discriminate

By Sarah Posner

…he Bush Justice Department, of granting faith-based recipients of taxpayer dollars certificates of exemption from federal laws prohibiting religious discrimination in employment by such organizations receiving federal funds. The latest development in a long-simmering standoff between the administration and civil liberties groups is the American Civil Liberties Union’s Freedom of Information Act request, submitted this week to the Department of J…