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Mr. President, Your Papers Please: The Birther Inquisition

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rced to convert in various places in Europe, this did not end either their problems or the problems that non-Jews had with them. It simply upped the political ante. All Jewish conversion did was to create a new level of anxiety. The anxiety of identity categories is unresolvable once they have been asserted in a particular way. What the conversion of the Jews ultimately created was an Inquisition. The reasoning runs like this: force a Jew to conve…

Student Says He’s Ostracized for Objecting to Graduation Prayer

By Lauri Lebo

…s who were atheist, agnostic and other non-Christian religions who “had no problems” with the prayer. “They respected the majority of their classmates and didn’t say anything,” Quinn said. “We’ve never had this come up before. Never.” Throughout her time working with the student, Quinn said they never expressed their personal beliefs or that they had any problems with other students’ Christian faiths. “And what’s even more sad is this is a student…

To Pray or Not to Pray

By Sarah Posner

…nsored event and ask elected officials to work on solutions to substantive problems that face all Americans.” “Calling upon all Americans to embrace Perry’s personal belief system is an insult to the millions of upstanding citizens who practice religions other than evangelical Christianity, as well as the millions of secular Americans who contribute to society without pushing their views on others,” SCA executive director Sean Faircloth said in th…

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

By Paul Harvey

…king and feed directly into the Tea Party’s answers for America’s economic problems. He claims his answers are neither “conservative” nor “liberal”; they 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 liber…

In Which I Explain why Marathon Runners are Depraved and Should Just Have their Knees Fall Off Before I Give them One
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By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ies were not designed by God to run marathons. Just look at all the health problems that come from running marathons: knee problems, plantar fasciitis, collapsed arches. The claim that it’s somehow about health is clearly a lie. 2. It’s hard to talk while you’re running. We all know communication is vitally important for a healthy marriage. 3. There’s a heavy dose of misogyny inherent in marathon-running. The female bosom provides sustenance to a…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…work in Israel was mostly engaged with issues related to “national social problems”—the absorption of immigrants in particular. In the U.S., in contrast, I was inclined to study issues relevant to groups and individuals who confronted “personal problems” of identity and association that separated them from the mainstream’s norms and expectations. Also, you have written about identity in relation to LGBT matters and about migration. Is there a rel…

A Reader Writes: I’m Not Personally LGBTQ Affirming, But I Recognize That Difference is Good — So Can’t We Coexist Amicably?

By Chrissy Stroop

…is not something I can do for you. To clarify, there is absolutely nothing wrong with you, or anyone, participating in a one-man, one-woman marriage, and if it ends up being a reasonably happy lifelong union, great. No one is trying to take that away from you. But the belief that my very identity, and/or that queer relationships, are wrong, is still offensive, and views cannot be proclaimed harmless or immune from criticism simply because they are…

Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism’s Tipping Point

By Cathleen Falsani

…ose people were sincere believers, but most of us now agree that they were wrong. I am afraid we are making the same kind of mistake again, which is why I am speaking out. Quintessential Campolo, ever the straight-shooter. Clockwise from top left: Graham, Campolo, Stewart, Letterman. Images via The Billy Graham Association, TonyCampolo.com, The Peabody Awards, and CBS. Funny, passionate, and emotive, Campolo, who for years was a sociology professo…

Prop 8 Closing Arguments Turn on Tradition

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…Prop 8, made the argument that Cooper, like Naboth before him, was on the wrong side of history, clinging to dead traditions. Again, a paraphrase from the Prop 8 Trial Tracker: “Nice people voted for Prop 8 and not nice people voted for Prop 8. We heard during the trial some awful stuff. Voters voted for Prop 8 because people are uncomfortable with gay people. The people did not see and too bad they could not see what psychiatrists said that thes…

Pope Says Forgive Women Who’ve Had Abortions

By Patricia Miller

…f white Catholics and 64% of Hispanic Catholics consider abortion “morally wrong.” These means that as a whole, just over 40% of Catholics don’t consider abortion a sin, although that number falls to 25% among Catholics who say they go to Mass weekly. And only about 20% of US Catholics consider the pope and the bishops the final moral authority on abortion according to a major poll of American Catholics. And while Francis spoke movingly of encount…