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Glenn Beck Attracts 300,000; Pakistan Floods Impact
17 million

By Joanna Brooks

…l Corps, International Relief and Development, and Saba Aslam Welfare and Trust to purchase supplies within Pakistan for redistribution to flood-impacted areas, with additional shipments from the Humanitarian Relief Center in Salt Lake City forthcoming. And I was especially heartened to see the Church teaming with Islamic charities to provide relief, as it did during the Haitian earthquake crisis, when it partnered with Islamic Relief USA to send…

No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…e “the unconstitutional policies of President Bush in his promotion of the USA Patriot Act, warrantless wiretaps and eavesdropping, and the deceptive manner in which he led America into an undeclared, unprovoked, and preemptive war against Iraq;” have protested against abortion, and have publicly resisted “‘Seeker-Friendly,’ and ‘Purpose-Driven,’ and ‘Emerging Church’ church growth movements.” He has, Baldwin told me, some 300 pastors across the c…

Why Do Mormons Side with People Who Don’t Like Mormons?

By Joanna Brooks

…Sharron Angle, whose pastor called Mormonism a “kooky” “cult.” The Deseret News is reporting that some well-connected LDS folks find Angle too “out there,” but I suspect that many of the good LDS people of Nevada (7% of the state’s population) are siding with her over our own Harry Reid. We are, after all, the most politically conservative religious tradition in the US. And the Tea Party kool-aid is really flowing in the job-parched state of Nevad…

Fetus as Person Initiative Approved by Mississippi Judge

By Lauri Lebo

…ling to the Mississippi State Supreme Court. “While we are disappointed by today’s ruling, we remain confident that our legal position is correct and Measure 26 is unconstitutional,” Johnson said. “We have known from the beginning of this litigation that the Mississippi Supreme Court would have the final say in this matter.” Mathew Staver, chairman of the Christian law firm of Liberty Counsel, which represents the Mississippi affiliate of Personho…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…plained. Jumping the gun, or perhaps the shark, writers from the LA Times, USA Today, NY Times, and many other major outlets have already weighed in, well before the finale sinks in. What then am I offering in the midst of the hullabaloo? Why write before it is over? Why write at all? Because the ultimate response to the show’s questions have already been answered. The ending of the finale is (spoiler alert) not important. There are no answers tha…

Obama in India: Missed Opportunities

By Anna Bigelow

…nd particularly noting that the strength of India—like the strength of the USA—lies in diversity, which was on full display during those attacks when we saw “Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, protecting each other, saving each other, living the common truth of all the world’s great religions that we are all children of God.” Obama spoke eloquently of the shared losses of India and America and rightly pointed out that the terrorists att…

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…

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,…

NOM’s Gallagher: “Don’t Call Me a Bigot!”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e parents,” said one researcher, Judith Stacey of New York University told USA Today. But, in Gallagher’s world, only a man and woman will do as parents, even though that “gold standard” of “God’s plan” for families is dwindling as divorce rates grow. What Gallagher fails to get is this: Gay and lesbian people don’t want to change the definition of marriage, or spit in God’s face, or paint their opponents as evil. Gay people simply want the legal…

Catholic Bishops Throw Cold Water on Ice Bucket Challenge

By Patricia Miller

…Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion leanings that the national Girl Scouts USA organization, which takes no position on abortion or contraception, denies. In April, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops completed a one-year “official inquiry” into the Girl Scouts that found many of the charges baseless. The bishops praised the Girl Scouts organization for its transparency and willingness to revise materials and concluded that it should be up to…