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Oedipus Complexity: Is it Enough to Fire Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct?

By Benjamin Dueholm

…actions are beyond the reach of law. And we do not share the kind of moral code that could exact penalties between those of the state and those of the employer or marketplace. This is a strange thing about our moment in history. The story of Oedipus reminds us that banishment and ostracism were once standard practices for protecting a community from the danger and rupture implicit in certain kinds of crimes. Early Christians who lapsed from their…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…f Panama argued against the idea that restricting marriage to a man and a woman is unconstitutional. La Prensa quotes a lawyer for the Panamanian Alliance for Life and the Family saying that marriage equality proponents are trying to “implant” a U.S. theory into Panama. The attorney for the Evangelical Alliance made a similar argument, saying that marriage equality is a “foreign custom.” Ecuador: Activist says Catholic-fundamentalist coalition opp…

What My Christian High School Taught Me About Being a Black Girl

By Carlyn Ferrari

…smart. I never told my mother about this nickname. She is a small, fierce woman, and I know she would have fought for me. But if I didn’t matter, I knew that she, a Black, immigrant woman with a heavy accent, didn’t matter either. I suffered silently while my classmates and teachers laughed at my expense. My peers mocked me by singing, “I can see clearly now / my boobs are gone.” They were always rewarded with a chorus of laughter when I was the p…

Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…y jury are “the subject of an extensive debate” (“Vicinage and the Antecedents of the Jury,” Law and History Review 17:3 (Autumn 1999) : 537). François Quintard-Morénas locates the origins of presumption of innocence in the Code of Hammurabi and ancient Roman law, rather than biblical sources (“The Presumption of Innocence in the French and Anglo-American Legal Traditions,” The American Journal of Comparative Law 58:1 (Winter 2010) : 110-14)….

Abuse in the Name of God? Children and Faith Healing

By Shawn Francis Peters

…arged under it, they are likely to claim that its presence in the criminal code raises a question of “due process of law” (a right guaranteed by the Fifth and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The couple might argue that, in effect, Wisconsin’s laws are too confusing for the average layperson to understand because one part of the criminal code (the child abuse statute) appears to explicitly protect spiritual healing practices while another…

Will Ralph Reed’s New Venture Wed Religious Right to Tea Partiers?

By Sarah Posner

…d went on to claim that not running the country on a Judeo-Christian moral code is actually contrary to democracy. “So really, when you really get right down to it, James,” he said, “democracy doesn’t really work at all unless there is a citizenry animated by a moral code that derives from their faith in God. That’s what makes the whole thing work because otherwise, the government has to tell everybody what to do.” After offering his view on taxes…

Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…with breaking away from what I was anchored in, and trying to find my own code. But it was a code that was birthed from parents who were strong believers in a higher set of ways of living your life. And that’s what they bequeathed to me. So precious. Do you think that some people are just better at religion than others? Christopher Isherwood talks about the idea of the “religious genius.” Do you think that’s possible? Why not? It makes sense. I t…

Televangelist Watchdog May Be Forced to Close Its Doors

By Sarah Posner

…ssisted the Senate Finance Committee with an investigation of possible tax code violations by televangelists, Trinity has seen less media coverage, and hence fewer donations from the public, according to the letter. Trinity’s investigations for the Senate Finance Committee led the Committee to launch an investigation, in 2007, based on revelations that televangelists had used tax-exempt funds for luxury cars, private jets, mansions, and even plast…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f Family Watch International, and Scott Lively, who has traveled the globe promoting anti-gay policies. RD Contributor Jay Michaelson has published a Daily Beast commentary on Rick Warren’s work in Africa, which he says “may well reflect the sense among Christian conservatives that America has already been lost, but Africa may yet be saved. Here, the culture war has been won by Satan; there, it may still be won by God.” Churches, schools, and fait…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…mad said, is charity. But Gaffney et al. portray shari’ah as a fixed legal code that a fifth column of “adherents” seek to implement in place of the Constitution (somehow, they don’t explain how one Muslim in Congress or the less than one percent of the U.S. adult population that is Muslim would accomplish this). Gaffney told the audience for his talk, which was directed at Congressional staffers: [I]n fact we are looking at a mortal threat to the…