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Religious Right Reax to SCOTUS: “A Spiritual 9/11”

By Peter Montgomery

…tand for the preservation of religious liberty and conscience, to believe what you are called to believe free from persecution.” And from Jeb Bush: Guided by my faith, I believe in traditional marriage. I believe the Supreme Court should have allowed the states to make this decision. I also believe that we should love our neighbor and respect others, including those making lifetime commitments. In a country as diverse as ours, good people who have…

The Mistaken Assumption Behind Employers’ “Right” to Not Cover Contraception

By Mary Barker

…the implication that it “belongs” to them (the owners), and they are thus free to dispense of what is theirs as they see fit. And if it belongs to them, then it is in some sense an extension of them, and thus whatever appears in the compensation packages of workers, such as birth control, affects them. Framed in this way, the argument makes sense. I mean, we’d understand a Quaker grandmother’s reluctance to help her grandson buy an assault rifle…

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…

Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e a lie for the rest of your life, or you’re going to trust yourself, and that’s what I had to do.” She went on to talk about how her Church of Scotland upbringing and her faith added to her struggle to accept herself, recalling how hard it was to read certain parts of the Bible. “To read Paul’s letter to various churches around the globe talking about ‘homosexual offenders’ – the phrase in the international version…and talking about idolaters and…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…ind a successor to their boy in the White House, George W. Bush, is regrouping in the Senate and Congress and working hard to undo the Obama presidency. The sooner Americans wake up to the fact that what Jeff Sharlet describes in his book is only the tip of the iceberg the better. The right-wing evangelical enterprise is anti-democratic from top to bottom….

You Are More Than Your Brain: A Revolutionary Theory of Consciousness

By John Stoehr

…at the mind is in the brain. Consciousness, he argues, and all the things that that word means (thinking and feeling and the fact that the world shows up for us, to use Noë’s turns of phrase) does not originate from the brain the way digestive acids originate from the stomach, or the way light originates from the lens of a movie projector. Consciousness is the product of a living organism dynamically interacting with the world around it. Noë argue…

Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…is giving the message that Romania is a member of the European countries that share common values, such as the free movement of people together with their families.” She said she was confident that the European court would consider free movement “a fundamental right” and recognize a husband regardless of the sex of his partner. Opposition to same-sex relationships is often fierce in Romania, where homosexuality was only decriminalized in 2002. Re…

American Brokenness: A Lament

By Daniel Schultz

…cratic, or oppressive. In this nation, we stick together—win or lose. But that, I think, leads us to what conservatives have lost. Year upon year, starting with Rush Limbaugh and only accelerating with Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin (among many others), conservatives have been told by their thought leaders that the liberal perspective is illegitimate; that it is wrong and dangerous and un-American and e…

The “Religious Freedom” President is Gutting the Rest of the 1st Amendment

By Sunnivie Brydum

…of the others. The new administration has launched aggressive attacks on a free and fair press, freedom of speech, and the right of the citizenry to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. One could even argue that he’s weakened the free expression of religion (or lack thereof), particularly as it refers to contraception, LGBT rights, and any non-Christian faith practices. Take the freedom of the press and the r…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…tes. “Have not People in former Ages, as well as now,” he asked, “alleged that the Free Masons in their Lodges raise the Devil in a Circle?” Dan Brown takes a welcome leap beyond this tradition of ignorance and malice, giving the Masons a fairly accurate and highly sympathetic treatment in The Lost Symbol. It may be that he instinctively sympathizes with the maligned and the misunderstood, or that he needs to maintain friendly relations with Mason…