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Intelligent Design Trial Celebrates Fifth Year Reunion

By Lauri Lebo

…ew of the Christian faith) in public school science class by suggesting to students, in contravention of well accepted scientific concepts, that evolution is unfounded or at least questionable as a matter of science, and that students should consider as an alternative scientific explanation the concept that life and living things were created by a supernatural “intelligent designer” that everyone knows to be a reference to God. Harvey went on to c…

Gays to Ex-Gay Movement: “Lift My Luggage”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hat they would no longer sponsor the annual “Day of Truth” that encourages students to “counter the promotion of homosexual behavior” with a Christian message of intolerance. “All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while treating their neighbors as they’d like to be treated, whether they agree with them or not,” said Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International…

Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right

By Dagmar Herzog

…nt 46 of the 50 states took federal funding for abstinence ed) must inform students that sex before marriage could lead to depression and suicide. 3. The religious right plays on the most elemental fears about the relationships (or lack thereof) between bodies and emotions, performance and intimacy, lust and love. A big reason for the success of conservative arguments in the Bush years had to do with the extraordinary panic that was unleashed in t…

Alabama’s Yoga Ban Is Part of the Christian Right’s War on Pluralism

By Manisha Sunil

…g through Alabama’s legislature, I find it tremendously disappointing that students are even being denied instruction on the roots of yoga, which differs significantly from a religious endorsement. As critics have pointed out, the denial of this educational opportunity is in many ways a vestige of colonialism. But these points, at least, can be debated in good faith. Here on RD, for instance, Dr. Candy Gunther Brown wrote on whether Hinduism is in…

Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ccount for it responsibly.) One of my favorite informal fallacies to teach students is called the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. The story goes that a fellow shot a bunch of times at the side of an old barn, then painted bullseyes around each bullet hole and proclaimed himself a marksman. The marksman’s folly is easy to see in the story, but a bit more difficult to recognize in real life when we come across things that seem to happen more than chance…

No, THIS is the Real Christianity…

By Ira Chernus

…ut they’re not real Christians.” I’ve spent a lot of years pointing out to students that no one can have an objectively “true” view of “real Christianity” because there ain’t no such thing. Christianity, like any religious tradition, is constantly changing into whatever its adherents make out of it. Let them all throw the charge of “not a real Christian” at each other, and may the best advocates for their particular view win. But that’s surely not…

Bachmann Weaves Own Salvation Story into Christian Nation Mythology

By Sarah Posner

This morning, in her address to Liberty University students at the mandatory convocation in the school’s basketball arena, Michele Bachmann did something far more explictly than she has on the campaign trail before: weaving her own personal salvation story into the mythology of the Christian nation, freedom, and American exceptionalism. The overarching theme of Bachmann’s speech was “don’t settle” — on its face, a rather pabulum campaign slogan….

Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

By Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt

…in the academic literature that could answer that question. (We were grad students in a social science master’s program at the University of Chicago when we started dating.) When we got around to actually designing the research project we were about to become first-time parents, and we wanted to know if there was anything we needed to be aware of to raise our kids! What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Families that combine Jew…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in Israel for the Masorti movement, and since they were not admitting LGBT students then he went to New York to be ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary that was ordaining openly gay and lesbian students in the Conservative Jewish movement. However, Israel’s Masorti Movement changed its own stance two years ago allowing for Israeli-trained lesbian and gay rabbis to join the Conservative movement in the country and committed itself to support…

Country of Georgia Considers Constitutional Marriage Ban; Hindu Nationalist Leader Surprises India With Call to Decriminalize Homosexuality; No End to Anti-LGBT Propaganda Campaign in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n ensuing riot. Edilashvili reports that some 1,700 priests, teachers, and students have attended briefings and training sessions highlighting the benefits of EU association. The World Congress of Families, which brings together social conservative activists from around the globe, will hold its next summit in Georgia in May. India: Hindu Nationalist Leader Calls for Decriminalization of Gay Sex Dattatreya Hosabale, a top official with a traditiona…