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2012 GOP Candidate Would Reinstate DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…young man showed up at one of our services recently and, as part of his assignment, interviewed me on the policies and polity of the UCC after service. Since he was asking a lot of questions, I decided to ask him one. This was before Congress finally overturned the 17-year-old policy during their lame duck session last December. The religious right claims the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would jeopardize the religious freedom of chaplains who…

Hagee and Others See
End Times in North African Revolutions

By Joanna Brooks

…eets of Jerusalem for three days?” a close friend asked me, referring to a sign-of-the-times prophecy popular among LDS people. She smiled, but she was only half-joking. Witness Pastor John Hagee instruct his followers that the Libyan Revolution “proves the absolutely accuracy of Bible Prophecy: Thousands of years ago the prophet Ezekial told us exactly which nations in the Middle East would join forces to start a major war. What you’re seei…

Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

By Joseph Laycock

…appear to be syncretic, combining Christian and pre-Christian symbols. The sign of the cross is ubiquitous in witch rituals and some blessings require candles purchased from a church. However, the summer solstice is considered an important day for working magic and some rituals require the sacrifice of a chicken to faeries and other spirits. These elements suggest that witchcraft was in Romania long before the arrival of Christianity. In 1947, Kin…

Whew!

By Lauri Lebo

…d Kirk Cameron on his show Wednesday night as an “expert” on the religious significance of the recent bird deaths in Arkansas. I’m sure readers will be relieved to know that the fundamentalist Christian, who has created something of a cottage industry with his hysterically clueless attacks on evolution and Charles Darwin, makes it clear that the Second Coming is still a long way off. Watch it here. TV Guide provides analysis here. While we can all…

What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?

By Shalom Goldman

…whose establishment or “rebirth” he and many fellow evangelicals saw as a sign of God’s hand moving in history. Evangelicals and Jews Become Partners Today, it’s commonplace for the Christian Right to invoke the idea of “Judeo-Christian values,” and for America to once again become “one nation under God.” Overlooking the pesky fact that that phrase was only added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, they insist that both the Christian and Jewish…

Was a Teacher Disciplined for Refusing to Apologize for Teaching Science?

By Lauri Lebo

…s.” After the parents met with the school board, Hensley was told she must sign a letter of apology, which she refused, arguing that the presented letter contained factual errors. She was later reassigned to teaching a remedial language arts class. Hensley filed a lawsuit against the district saying that her First and 14th Amendment rights had been violated. According to Hensley’s complaint, the parents demanded she publicly admit she demonstrated…

A Tea Party Leader Hates Christians

By Sarah Posner

…ethodist Building (known to locals as “the God box”) on Capitol Hill had a sign supporting the DREAM Act. (h/t Religion News Service). “After all,” Phillips adds, “what can you say about a church that considers Hillary Clinton to be a member in good standing?” Phillips goes on to call the church “the religious arm of socialism” because it supports “illegal immigration” and “socialist health care;” in sum, “a socialist wish list.” After the Senate…

Yo, Gays, Stop Bogarting that Rainbow!

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…anged its sports teams’ name from “Rainbow Warriors” to “Warriors” and redesigned its logo to eliminate a rainbow from it. Now, according to One News Now, one group on the religious right is demanding that gays and lesbians give up their grip on the rainbow. Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of the San Diego-based Ruth Institute [a project of the National Organization for Marriage] rightly argues that the rainbow is a sign of God’s covenant with man, and…

2010: What Did We Believe In?

By Gary Laderman

…to be reckoned with and has myriad forms of expression, commitment, moral codes, and values—just like global Christianity. In the U.S., Muslims are increasingly part of the social landscape, with mosques, community centers, and public figures (including the first Muslim Miss America and the easy reelection of one of the two Muslim members of Congress) who contribute to the fabulous religious mosaic that characterizes the best of American values….

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…ions are at least as important as sober rationality in making political choices.” Visceral emotions frequently govern the debate over Israel as well. If Palin does run for president in 2012 we can be sure that unequivocal support for Israel will be a significant campaign issue, and that candidate Palin, as a master of appealing to visceral emotions, will be at a significant advantage. *An earlier version of this article incorrectly associated P…