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When Religion Becomes a Trap Rather Than a Safety Net

By Holly Welker

…ggressive marketing, Hippie Boy ended up on the New York Times Best Seller list for e-book nonfiction in 2012 and was subsequently acquired by Penguin, which released the book under its Berkley imprint earlier this year. I spoke to Ricks recently about the way religion functions in her memoir and how readers respond to her depiction of it. Hippie Boy has been used in high school curricula for troubled youth. How do they respond to the religious as…

Russian Parliament Hosts U.S. Anti-Gay Activist Paul Cameron

By Chrissy Stroop

…lf is most likely no true believer in the law, but rather pragmatically using widespread popular Russian homophobia in pursuit of specific domestic and foreign policy goals—to placate hardline Orthodox believers and to keep the more radical, nationalist right at bay at home, while sending a clear message to the West that Russia won’t be pressured into adopting liberal norms. Like this story? Your tax-deductible $5 or $10 will help us pay writers,…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…indeed apply to yoga. 8. Yogaphobia Fear of Yoga continued to flourish. To list just a few 2014 incidents: Albert Mohler cited Indiana University religious studies scholar Candy Gunther Brown’s expertise—in 2013, Brown testified in a high-profile court case against allowing yoga in Encinitas, California public schools since it, according to Brown, promotes Hinduism—in support of his own argument that yoga is dangerous for Christians. In an op-ed p…

Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

By Paul Harvey

…hey are God’s answers. In his view, regardless of whether you are a “capitalist” or a “socialist,” a conservative or a liberal, self-reliance, not government reliance, is the key, since “when you handle your money God’s ways, it will change your life.” If we follow God’s plan, as explained with liberal quotations from the Book of Proverbs and any number of recent self-help authors, then and only then will we rebuild the wealth of our nation and re…

Rand Paul, Religious Skeptic?

By Sarah Posner

…levision network earlier this week, sitting for an interview with televangelists Marcus and Joni Lamb, to sell not only his faith in God, but his faith in small government. Paul’s most sincerely held religious belief, no surprise, was in minimizing government. People “think somehow there’s salvation in government,” Paul said, but “there isn’t.” In fact, lack of government oversight has been a salvation, at least a financial one, for the Lambs. As…

Close Encounters With Roy Moore

By Sarah Posner

…sure some in government don’t want to destroy our country.” Moore’s enemy list was long that night, particularly when it came to immigration matters. By failing to protect the borders, he said, the government was failing to “to protect against invasions.” Moore added, incredulously, “They’re letting anybody come in!” He called for the impeachment of Supreme Court justices over the 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down Texas anti-s…

Will Getting Rid of Bryan Fischer Get Rid of the AFA’s Problem?

By Sarah Posner

…ay, anti-immigrant views. In Idaho, he worked with Scott Lively, the evangelist known for provoking an anti-gay panic in Uganda that led to the introduction of the Anti Homosexuality Bill there, and who claims a link between Nazism and homosexuality: In an online column, Fischer defended Lively’s preposterous and debunked “history” of a Nazi-gay link, claiming “the masculine homosexual movement in Germany created the Brown Shirts, and the Brown Sh…

Is Refusal to Write Anti-Gay Cake Message a Violation of Religious Freedom?

By Kara Loewentheil

…ternate universe for a lot of reasons, but now we can add a new one to the list. Because in the first such case of which I’m aware, a bakery in Denver has been sued for refusing to bake a homophobic cake. According to the reports, the plaintiff in the suit requested that the baker bake him a cake that said “God hates gays” along with a picture of two men holding hands with an X over them. When the baker—who identifies as Christian herself—refused,…

Republican Jewish Coalition Calls Obama Out for “Donors” Mention

By Evan Derkacz

…k Iran-Israel connection, it does look as though Menendez received more “pro-Israel” money than all but 2 Senators between 2006 and 2014. Number one on that list, incidentally, is his co-sponsor on the current Iran sanctions bill, Mark Kirk. …

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…rn world,”³ while another lumped Muslims together with communists and socialists commenting, bizarrely, that “The greatest fear for a communist, a socialist or a Muslim is Truth.”⁴ Other TTT comments were just plain false: “Islam is spread by the sword while monotheistic religions are not.”⁵ (Try telling that to an Aztec or Inca—not to mention the fact that Islam is a “monotheistic religion.”) Yet despite TTT’s lack of credentials and the obviousl…