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“I Will Leave BSA if Discriminatory Policy Does Not Change.”

By Joanna Brooks

…rent backgrounds at my school: Piedmont Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina. My school emphasized acceptance of others’ differences as a matter of creating a more productive place to learn and someday work. I had friends of all races and sexual orientations. My school has won many honors because of these policies and the performance of its students. They pride themselves on diversity and excellence. I can’t see any reason an organization s…

God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he ministry has become his full-time job, with an office in Raleigh, North Carolina, and annual conferences that attract hundreds of LGBT Christians from around the world. Lee took time recently to talk with Religion Dispatches’ Candace Chellew-Hodge about his new book and why he thinks his fluency in the language of his Southern Baptist youth can help bridge the divide between anti-gay Christians and the LGBT community. _____________________ What…

Was Blind But Now I See: The Debut of a New Anti-Abortion Strategy

By Kellee Terrell

…tino, there was Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortion provider from North Carolina; Dr. Anthony Caruso, a former in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialist in Chicago; Ruth Yorston, former women’s health clinic receptionist, currently Executive Director of Right to Life in Greater Ohio; and three former Planned Parenthood employees: Sue Thayer from Iowa, Catherine Adair from Massachusetts, and Linda Couri, who also discussed her own abortion. And th…

It’s the Year of the Protester: Would Santa Occupy? How About Mother Teresa?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…You know, most people who’ve ever lived did not (and do not) smell like a Carolina pine forest or fresh mountain springs. (Hear that, Mr. Gingrich? Would you have told Jesus to get a job and take a bath? Hmm, I sense an idea for a future post: Famous historical figures who Newt Gingrich thinks should get a job right after they have a bath. But I digress.) No, I think the decisive question is: Do the Occupiers smell better than twelfth-century Eur…

Huckabee Teams Up with Citizens United to Promote Fetal Personhood

By Sarah Posner

…ervative Catholic activist Robert George during a candidate forum in South Carolina in September. By arguing that fetuses are people, and therefore entitled to the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment, they hope to bypass the more onerous process of amending the Constitution with a long-sought human life amendment. But the basis for such policy is nothing more than a series of emotional, personal vignettes extrapolated into larger cultural narr…

Introducing The Cubit, RD’s New Religion & Science Portal

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…Who we are Andrew Aghapour is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studies religion and the brain. Michael Schulson is a freelance writer in Durham, N.C. He has covered religion, science, and culture for The Daily Beast, Aeon, Salon, and Religion & Politics, among others. Both Andrew and Michael have written about religion-and-science issues for RD, covering robot theology, multiverse theory, Katie Couric’s…

Perry’s Challenge to Bachmann for Religious Right Vote

By Sarah Posner

…ndicated that he’s going to announce his intention to run for president—in South Carolina, as the big Republican event, the Ames straw poll, is taking place in Iowa. Surely he wants to suck all the air out of Michele Bachmann’s air-conditioned tent. With Bachmann generating the most excitement among voters in Iowa, Perry appears to be her primary rival for the coveted conservative Christian vote. And that raises the question: aside from his prayer…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…nd Shariah law in state courts,” was adopted by a large majority; in North Carolina Renee Ellmers won a seat in the House with a campaign that focused on distant New York City, calling the proposed Park51 community center “a victory mosque”; and in Florida, Tea Party candidate Alan West won in a campaign that included frequent “history lessons,” teaching, among other things, that “Islam is a totalitarian theocratic political ideology. It is not a…

Was a Teacher Disciplined for Refusing to Apologize for Teaching Science?

By Lauri Lebo

Last month a North Carolina federal judge threw out a case brought by an eighth grade teacher who says her constitutional rights were violated when her school tried to force her to write a letter of apology for teaching evolution in science class. In 2004, in the Johnston County school district, Pamela Hensley was instructing students on evolution when what she described as a “lively discussion” broke out with students over science and religion….

Why Evolution Should Be Taught in Church

By Paul Wallace

…In January alone, anti-evolution forces first raised their heads in North Carolina. Whack. Then Kentucky. Whack. Then Ohio. Whack. Then Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas. Whackwhackwhack. The fight continues. And I encourage everyone to support those who want our kids to grow up in the real world, which is so beautiful and surprising and rich. Anyway, there’s a nice little piece of snark that has popped up from the more atheistic side of the pro-science…