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Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…her in heaven: with his many wives, he not only created but procreated the spirit of every person born physically onto this Earth. Proving oneself worthy of the right to do the same thing in another corner of the universe is, in Mormon belief, the goal and purpose of our mortal existence. The film argues that because gay people cannot procreate on their own, they have no place in the LDS Plan of Salvation, so the church works to deny them and thei…

Lou Engle Attempts To Backpedal On Uganda Anti-Gay Bill

By Sarah Posner

…Antichrist legislation” (anything supportive of LGBT rights), against the “spirit of Herod” (health care reform) and in mobilizing younger and minority evangelicals in support of the movement’s agenda. One of Engle’s patrons, the Family Research Council, lobbied against a House resolution condemning the Uganda measure. After that was reported, the organization claimed it did not support the Uganda bill, and only was attempting to make the portraya…

American Supports Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill

By Michael Wilkerson

…start reaching out to the Lord, and to move around the field to start the spirit flowing within them. Engle, who is seldom still, led the way, pacing back and forth on the grass in front of the raised stage. As dark clouds loomed and a light rain began to sprinkle, worshipers were also urged to pray for the rain to clear. It did, after a scare for the unprotected sound system. Though Engle moved continuously, he was outmatched in physical vigor b…

Religious Right Prays To Lift Curse Of Obama, Glenn Beck’s Commencement Speech, And A Cross In The Desert: The Week In Religion, Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

…a religious display in a federally owned park was a clear violation of the spirit of the Establishment Clause, and an insult to citizens of all faiths.” Eric Lee Garner was sentenced to 17 months in prison after threatening a Muslim woman and her child with a knife, saying of her head scarf, “You Muslim people scare people when you wear things like that.” A German Muslim group supported the display of crucifixes in public schools. “Religion needs…

Meet The Liberal Tea Partiers

By Abby Scher

…tes that raised taxes last year targeted the wealthy, and the conservative spirit in the land means that sometimes liberal religious activists take what they can get. The North Carolina Council of Churches is a member of the NC Together coalition that convinced the state legislature last year to raise sales taxes rather than just try to fill the budget hole with service cuts. “It was better to have a regressive tax shared by everyone than lose ser…

The Transfiguration of the Fanboy: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, The Conclusion

By Mark Dery

…n Mick Rock, Blood and Glitter (London, UK: Vision On Publishing, 2001), unnumbered page. [2] Marc Spitz, Bowie: A Biography (New York: Crown, 2009), p. 214. [3] Quoted in Mick Rock, Blood and Glitter (London, UK: Vision On Publishing, 2001), unnumbered page. [4] Ellen Degeneres: Search YouTube. As of this writing, an excerpt from the episode in question could be found here. “Totally credible plastic rock star”: Quoted in the booklet accompanying…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…se on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity, and spiritual enlightenment. We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and we use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit. [emphasis in original] Dancing (dare I say flirting) along the bleeding edge of outrageousness, the 70 or so Sisters, clad in elaborate makeup and habits of…

Niebuhrian Humility and DC Punditry

By Daniel Schultz

…emselves up as dispassionate umpires rising above the partisan fray in the spirit of Niebuhrian humility, when Niebuhr himself would tell them that they were just as prone to error as anyone else. Again, I’ll leave it up to my readers to decide if this is fair to the Villagers or not. I will say that after eight years of George W. Bush’s reign of error, calls for a more technocratic form of government sound welcome. I will also say this much. Rose…

Capricology: Television, Tech, and the Sacred

By Diane Winston

…suggestive intellectual play of the last century has taken place.” In that spirit, we’ve convened a club of media and religion experts (Diane Winston, Henry Jenkins, Salman Hameed, and Anthea Butler) to take the pulse of the show every week, and to share their readings with us. So Say We All. [Warning: Spoilers, spoilers, and more spoilers, follow. If you haven’t yet, you can watch the full-length first episode here.] See here for the full list o…

The Myth of ‘Voodoo’: A Caribbean American Response to Representations of Haiti

By Dianne M. Stewart

At a time when increasing numbers of informed audiences in both scholarly and popular circles have begun to recognize African religious cultures and the rich contributions they have made to African diaspora civilizations, Pat Robertson has made another dubious contribution to America’s fascination with the ‘problem of Haiti.’ As Robertson narrates it, in his latest fiction-disguised-as-revelation, “something happened a long time ago in Haiti,” an…