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Will Answers in Genesis’ New ‘Ark Park’ Comply with Anti-Discrimination Laws?

By Julie Ingersoll

…pportunity to “impact our culture for Christ, as we proclaim the absolute truth and authority of the Bible.” Their current volunteer application requires a “Christian” reference, a church reference and a Christian testimony. The form indicates that submissions without a testimony of salvation and a statement regarding creation will not be considered, so even the vast numbers of Christian believers who don’t understand their tradition in the narrow…

Bibi’s Megillah to Obama

By Sarah Posner

…Lapin. A politically conservative Orthodox rabbi, Lapin is best known for crusading with the Christian right against anti-religion bigotry and, more recently, for his close association with the convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. But he was not invited to a nationwide telecast to discuss such topics as the trumped-up war against religion or the better nature of his fallen friend. He had been asked to explain the significance of Purim to Christ…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…who attempt to offer contrary views, on the other hand, simply cannot be trusted. They’re not to be trusted in treaties because they’re taught, Federer maintains, that when “Muslim armies are weak, they should seek truces and when they are strong, they should fight without mercy.” Even personally, according to Federer, Muslims have a “sacred obligation to lie.” “It’s okay,” he said, “to say you’re not a Muslim to save your skin or to get elected,…

Cornel West, Using His Powers for Good

By Edward J. Blum

…ir main influence, quote him repeatedly, and poignantly address his final crusade with the Poor People’s Campaign. Time and again, Smiley and West encourage Americans and their political leaders to think of themselves as their “brother’s keepers.” They ask how a nation that believes itself to be “one nation under God” can comfortably witness children without homes, veterans without adequate health care, and single moms unable to feed their familie…

From Murderous to ‘MORG’: Mormonism Meets the Press

By Joanna Brooks

…ion scholars alike are expressing hunger for something more. Yesterday, in USA Today, religion scholar and author Steven Prothero lamented Romney’s own failure to engage the “Mormon moment,” blaming the quality of coverage on the general politicization of religion in the public sphere: Not so long ago, Romney would have had to explain Mormon theology to voters in some detail. But now that religion has collapsed almost entirely into morality, all…

The Truth in Transgender: Will the Episcopal Church Amend Its Rules?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…people’s lives day-to-day. Transgender folks, as they walk down the street today, in major cities, in America, are at risk for significant violence. The Episcopal Church has an opportunity to help lift that burden.” If past experience is any indicator, Bishop Gray-Reeves is almost certainly right that the delegates to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church will likely put the brakes on any decisive changes to the Church’s rules for partici…

Presbyterians Make Right Choice on Israel Divestment

By Jay Michaelson

…anced for awhile at the 220th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). At the urging of the denomination’s Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN), a committee of the GA voted 36 to 11 to divest from three companies—Caterpillar, Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard—because, as the IPMN puts it, they “profit from non-peaceful pursuits in the occupied Palestinian territories.” Yesterday, however, the GA rejected that measure, citing concerns that…

Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement

By Sarah Posner

…cause the GOP to abandon him. During his presidential campaign, Rick Santorum said rape survivors who find themselves pregnant should just “accept God’s gift;” Citizens United has produced a film, narrated by Mike Huckabee, which claims that God blesses rape survivors who carry pregnancies to term. Rick Perry, whose presidential campaign imploded not because of his anti-choice beliefs, said that the story of Personhood USA spokesperson Rebecca Ki…

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…the ballot. (Ms. Mason is also the Communications Director for Personhood USA, the Colorado-based umbrella group coordinating the state personhood efforts.) The amendment’s text would make it illegal to intentionally kill “any innocent person”—with “person” defined as “every human being regardless of the method of creation,” and “human being” defined as “a member of the species homo sapien at any stage of development.” But the proposed text doesn…

Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ng to fact checkers at the San Jose Mercury News, the Washington Post, and USA Today, was only slightly less mendacious; the continuing falsehood about cuts to health care providers spun by the Romney campaign as cuts to Medicare beneficiaries noted as among the larger whoppers propagated in the speech. It seems unlikely that the GOP candidate would flat-out lie about investment by the Episcopal Church, but on a convention in which Clint Eastwood…