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Don McLeroy’s Texas Textbooks Would Replace Historical Characters With Fictional Ones

By Lauri Lebo

…of immigrants including Jean Pierre Godet as told in Thomas Kinkade’s The Spirit of America.” Sure, Mr. Godot doesn’t exist, as McLeroy probably figured out after he proposed the change, which may be why he opted against presenting it formally for a vote. But that’s no reason why we can’t quote Mr. Godet to our children not saying things like, “I love America for giving so many of us the right to dream a new dream.” As McLeroy wrote, “Such words …

No Buddhists in Washington?

By Danny Fisher

…gs between scientists and Buddhists. In 2005, for example, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet was invited by the Stanford University School of Medicine to dialogue with a panel of distinguished neuroscientists. In short, Buddhist Americans and their work should not be overlooked. Indeed, how helpful a Buddhist representative might be on something like the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships! One hopes t…

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Catholic ‘Liberal’ Hails Return of Anti-Semitic Group

By Anthea Butler

…. The U.S. nuns, however, who embraced Vatican II and remained true to its spirit while they built schools and hospitals and served the poor, are going to be rewarded for their efforts with years of ‘supervision’ from Rome in order to effect their dependable ‘renewal.’” Put another way, conservative anti-Semites are more valued and welcomed in the Catholic Church than women religious who engage the world through their faith. I think that says ever…

Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

By Joanna Brooks

…ation not only honored our LGBT brothers and sisters, but also honored the spirit of Mormonism at its very best.” Tresa Edmunds, a straight LDS ally and mother, made a 3-hour drive into the city to march with her sign: “Gay kids grow up Mormon, I’m here to keep them safe.” As in Seattle, San Francisco marchers reported tearful parade-route meetings with gay Mormons estranged from the community. In Chicago, a contingent of 15 LDS marchers, organize…

Ryan-DeLauro’s Common Ground on Abortion is in Religious Territory

By Sarah Posner

…contentious issues like abortion and gay rights. It endorsed (at least in spirit) the then-existing version of the Ryan-DeLauro bill, and touted the blessing of evangelical figures who said they were rejecting the single-issue, rancorous politics of their religious right brethren. They would, they pledged, abandon the trench warfare of Roe v. Wade, and instead try to find practical solutions for reducing abortions. Stigmatizing Abortion? The relu…

Ritual Killing v. Factory Farming, or, Are There Roosters in Heaven?

By Meera Subramanian

…imal sacrifice that once infused the world’s religions have fallen away. In 1987, the Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye in Florida’s Dade County banned animal sacrifice after it began plans to build a church where religious rites including animal sacrifice would take place. Six years later, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the city ban violated the church’s religious freedoms. It was the same year that Congress passed the Religious Freedom Resto…

Porn-Again Christians: What Happens When a Biblical Literalist Launches a Sex Site?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ers, he says are simply pictures he found on the web and if “she appears be 18 years or older I will use on the site.” Which means, of course, that we have no way of proving that the couples he encourages his audience of pious men to enjoy are actually engaging in godly, married sex. “My response to them,” he writes, “is that these are images and it is not the same as if this couple were in my living room having sex in front of me and I knew they…

Why I Am a “Cuomosexual”

By Donna Schaper

…gical statement matters more to the deportee, the down-and-out, and the gay 17-year-old who jumps off a bridge than any horse-trading we could ever do. We still want to be smart about the material while being enchanted by the spiritual. We are not going back to the time when we converted people in the soup kitchen so they could eat (are you saved?) so much as we are going forward toward an opening levered by the Holy Spirit and drawing us more dee…

V-Day: An Arrow in the Heart

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Many a Romantic artist has said the same: the self must clear out for the spirit of creativity to enter. Loss of self is perceived as fulfillment of self. Now enter the lover in love, long venerated by poets and rhapsodes of all stripes, starting with the lyrical Lesbian, Sappho herself. The lover who tries to leave reason in control, she warns, does not follow her god to the end. It is the very chaos of love, the swirl of love, that may link our…

A Letter to the Religious Left on the Victory of Obama

By Daniel Schultz

…eir top four reasons to support Obama. Focusing on economic justice in the spirit of fairness and equal access to opportunity is consistent with Old Testament ethics. It is also likely to be a winner for a renewed Religious Left in that it allows you to play at the heart of a broad coalition. A word of caution, however. The economic agenda endorsed by voters is not identical to Jim Wallis-style poverty relief. We may have entered a new period in A…