Religion Dispatches
…ng his favorite historian. On the same day, Barton aired an episode of his online radio show called “Why History Matters,” offering a window into how Barton, and through his admiration, Huckabee, draws closely on R.J. Rushdoony’s theory of history as evidence of God’s plan, rather than the unfolding of human events. Although Barton is frequently lambasted for his historical revisionism about the separation of church and state, this is much bigger…
Read More…d the Arab Spring have dramatically reshaped opportunities for Saudi women’s rights activists to publicize and grow their campaign. One group has even launched a Manal Driving School online to provide education and resources to future Saudi women drivers. As Manal Al-Sharif has said, “A rainstorm starts with a few drops.”…
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…er it,” we will continue to see one Achilles penis after another, probably online in covert caughtness. The women will still bear the letter “A” on their breasts, and the men will just bore us. Imagine, instead, how wonderful it would be if we could all be queer, even the Weiners of the world. Queer? Isn’t that a bad word? Nope. It just means a way of transcending gender, loving sex, enjoying the erotic. Very few Sunday Schools are teaching it yet…
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…ies of public events in support of marriage equality—particularly to those sites around the country that I visited last year during the tour. And I want to go to these sites again, and this time stand up for marriage equality, not against it. And one of those stops was Washington, DC, and so I hope to make it to the Capitol this summer. I’ll also be in New York City on June 11th, I’m going to have an event there as well. So I do intend to be activ…
Read More…plan ahead, don’t we, in life?” adding, “I have spare tire on my car.” His online biography at Shepherds Staff Ministries, where DeGraaf, an Air Force Academy graduate and an ordained pastor, is a “biblical” financial advisor, boasts, “During the Summer of Mercy he served as Executive Director for Hope for the Heartland.” The Summer of Mercy was a six-week abortion clinic blockade, organized by the fringe anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, that…
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…may have been spurred in part by Civitas, a lobby group that, as their website puts it, seeks to make France a “cité Catholique.” The Guardian reports that Civitas “launched an online petition and mobilized other fundamentalist groups” in opposition to the exhibition of Serrano’s photo; Christian protesters numbering about 1,000 commenced a march through Avignon, ending at the gallery. (Lambert and others at the gallery reported that they had bee…
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…d by Ecuador’s constitution for this remarkable document, which I have put online as recent evidence of the emergence of a civil earth religion that is gaining traction globally.) The remarkable language in the Ecuadorian constitution and in Boliva’s new Mother Earth law did not, however, result from indigenous Andean spirituality alone. They were also influenced by a generation of thinking and debate around the world about human responsibilities…
Read More…my daughter-in-law, discovered this because she makes tutus and sells them online to customers around the country. One day, Ayden wanted to model one of her creations and she let him. He looks fabulous in his tutu, and even wore a rainbow colored one for the Pride celebration this year. He rocked that tutu. Fortunately for Ayden, no one has yet to ridicule this beautiful boy in a tutu — but a boy his mom calls “Boo” on her blog was not so lucky. T…
Read More…iments in Guatemala carried out by the US in 1946. The paper was published online on the Wellesley website at 9 a.m. EST, October 2, 2010, while President Obama called Guatemalan President Àlvaro Colom Caballeros to apologize. Sixty-four years ago, as the Nuremburg trials investigating Nazi abuse of people in the name of science were going on in post-WWII Germany, the United States Public Health Service was intentionally exposing Guatemalans to th…
Read More…’s not looking to “fix” gays and lesbians, or make them get married to opposite sex partners—as he has done. Instead Chambers insists his goal is “to point them to Jesus.” And, as he wrote in his 2009 book Leaving Homosexuality: “The opposite of homosexuality isn’t heterosexuality. It’s holiness.” Which is a hefty dose of incitement to self-loathing—homosexuality depicted as unholy, filthy, and wretched. It also completely denies the existence of…
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