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In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…xpect them to be helpful in reporting on Judaism, Islam, the Baha’i faith, Wicca, or any number of other groups that form the pluralistic religious mosaic in the United States today? No reporter or anchor could be expected to be an expert on the ins and outs of such groups. But as a matter of journalistic practice, I think it is reasonable to train reporters to look at more than meets the eye on religion, just as they are taught to investigate pla…

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…ical literalists look to nature for evidence of a recent creation and worldwide flood as depicted in Genesis. If those biblical events actually took place, they believe, then traces of them should be detectable by scientific tools. Finding those traces could prove the Bible and thus reinforce faith. Religious conversion, not scientific discovery, is their stated goal. Taking the lead on this front, both Henry Morris’ Institute for Creation Researc…

Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ked an outcry among Russian rights activists and in the West. But partly reflecting the influence of the Orthodox church, many Russians back the law or have negative feelings towards gays. A similar event took place undisturbed in Russia’s second city of St Petersburg on Sunday, with activists waving rainbow flags and releasing scores of balloons while police looked on. In the U.S., the White House released a detailed fact sheet on its efforts to…

Refusal of Interracial Couple Shows How Slippery the Slope of LGBTQ Refusal Really Is

By Heron Greenesmith

…n and families, including LGBT people and same-sex couples, if doing so conflicts with their religious belief; it permits state officials to decline to marry couples of whose marriage they disapprove; and it likewise permits medical professionals to decline to serve LGBT clients. Now, federal and state laws that create a distinction based on race are subject to the highest level of interrogation under the Constitution, called “strict scrutiny.” An…

Response to Daniel Philpott: the Politics of Religious Freedom

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…in power, and excludes other ways of being and belonging. While Dan starts with the assumption that “in a country with robust religious freedom, everyone’s religion is protected,” I would encourage him to think further about what exactly is meant by this, and to understand that my book begins from a different premise. I suggest that when governments take up “religious freedom” in the sense that Dan advocates, this requires that they decide which “…

Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think

By Seth Sanders

…God threatens that, if Israel disobeys His teaching, the people of Israel will “flee in defeat before your enemies; you may make a unified stand against them but you will run away in every direction; and you will become a horror to all the states in the world.” (Deut 28:25-26) God is arguably even more “anti-Israel” in his speeches to the Prophet Amos. Addressing the northern kingdom of Israel he says: If they burrow down to Hell, From there My h…

Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

By Randall Balmer, Anthea Butler, Evan Derkacz, Jeff Sharlet, and Diane Winston

…in about, and on this score, they’re correct—the press conflates the right wing with narrowness, rigidity, and obsession, and liberal ideas (but not left ones) with broad-mindedness, flexibility, and growth. Sometimes it gets even dumber than that—Randy’s right about the temptation of the partisan lens (though, for the record, I’m the last person who’d consider the addition of a Democrat to a Family cell as “balance”; rather, that’s the narrative…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…bout Sarah Palin’s religious affiliations, along comes Talk2Action’s Bruce Wilson with another video exposé. Wilson and Ruth, his co-researcher and co-documentarian, have done an extraordinary job trying to bring information about the realities of Sarah Palin’s religious relationships to the spotlight. And while the mainstream media hasn’t picked up on the Palin videos—as they did with Pastor John Hagee’s ‘Hitler was sent by God’ video that went v…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…aim that providers are targeting black and Latino populations, and have leafleted inner-city neighborhoods with denunciations of “Klan Parenthood,” juxtaposing images of lynchings and aborted fetuses with the slogan “lynching is for amateurs.” The argument’s popularity is climbing, spurring numerous rallies, publications, and organizations devoted to spreading word of abortion providers’ supposedly racist motives. Indeed, Rep. Franks, the lead spo…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…I wish it did. But it is utterly empirical. It is a simple matter of borrowing with no intention to repay, of ignoring debt that soars to staggering proportions, of buying and misrepresenting portfolios, then finding creative ways to invent wealth that in fact does not exist. To liken this to a balloon bursting is ludicrous; it makes it sounds like someone took too deep a breath before blowing, or the air inside suddenly got too warm. This bubble…