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The Exorcist Files, Getting Mad at God, The Obama Prayer…

By Michael J. Altman

A sergeant in Manatee County Florida was suspended for 26 hours after he left a Bible verse circled and labeled the “Obama Prayer” on a colleague’s desk. The verse was from Psalm 109: “Let his days be few, and let another take his office.” A new study shows that everyone gets mad at God, even atheists. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found a war memorial cross in San Diego unconstitutional because it was a government endorsement of religion. The…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…an-born man who massacred dozens of people at a gay night club in Orlando, Florida, reportedly called 911 just before the attack and pledged allegiance to ISIS. CNN reported that the gunman had been interviewed by the FBI in 2013 and 2014 “but was not found to be a threat.” MSNBC reported that the shooter’s father said he had been upset by seeing two men kissing in public. ISIS later claimed responsibility through its news agency, Amaq. As TIME no…

Anti-Gay Activism Falling Victim to Capitalism?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…orado state constitution, similar to other amendments they’re promoting in Florida and North Dakota, among others.” Also, according to karoli’s math, it would appear that CitizenLink funding for the year has dropped by about 50%. Ouch. A perfect storm, of sorts, may be to blame for the drop as the economy wanes and acceptance of gays and lesbians in both church and society continues to grow. Stewart Hoover, director of the Center for Media, Religi…

The Resurrection of Terri Schiavo

By Ann Neumann

…ative state for 15 years, from her husband, Michael Schiavo, who had won a Florida court order to have his wife’s feeding tube removed. The TV blared the Senate’s frenzied speeches as my father told us how, after nine and a half years of living with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, of brutal chemotherapy, hip and knee replacements, lost hair, wavering health and looming death, he had exhausted all avenues of treatment and was ready to die. We cried ourselv…

A Catholic Bishop on sex ed, where Jewish singles mingle, and Queen Antoinette’s cult?: The Week In Religion… Poetically

By Christopher Marchsteiner

… Honoring the separation of church and state, Republican legislators in Florida are sponsoring a measure that would repeal a ban on public dollars going to religious groups and allow teachers to pray with children. Commenting on the Tea Party movement, Jim DeMint gave a quick history lesson, saying, “A lot of our founders believed the American Revolution was won before we ever got into a fight with the British. It was a spiritual renewal.” The…

The Debt Ceiling Crisis and Biblical Economics

By Julie Ingersoll

…group, First Coast Tea Party, for example, is calling members to gather at Florida Senator Bill Nelson’s office today to urge him to vote against a debt ceiling increase. Bachmann’s stance on the debt limit is not unlike Sarah Palin’s opposition to the Federal Reserve that I wrote about here in November 2010. Both are rooted in what I described at a “theocratic reading of the Bible, arising out of the nexus between (Ron) Paul (and now his son, Sen…

Chauvin Verdict isn’t a Turning Point in Equal Justice, But it Does Suggest a New Political Norm

By John Stoehr

…justice” in ruling that a white cop is guilty of murdering a Black man, as Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini did on Twitter following the verdict, might have resonated with a lot of respectable white people if not for the fact that a real mob, incited by a real aspiring fuhrer-king, had sacked and looted the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn the result of a free and fair election. Nearly all the credibility the GOP once had with respecta…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…is to convey the enormity of the loss of life, to make otherwise abstract numbers visible. In the Oak Brook commemoration, each flag has attached to it a brief biography of the person killed, with color-coded ribbons differentiating civilians and flight crews from first responders. Orlando, Florida, on the logic that far more were injured in both visible and “invisible” ways, has opted to erect 250,000 flags. It is not death that is primary here,…

How the “Little Sisters” Won by Losing “Religious Liberty” Case

By Patricia Miller

…Republican Party, from Chuck Norris to rank-and-file party members such as Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis, who said that “the Health and Human Services Department is forcing Catholic nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, to be complicit in abortifacients and other things that really go against core values of religious freedom.” Completely lost to most Republicans is that the Obama administration long ago caved and said that faith-based nonprofits like…

Hands in the Till: When Priests Steal

By Paul Gorrell

…required parishes to hire lay people for parish jobs and to include larger numbers of volunteers within leadership responsibilities. Before the impact of the shortage, Catholic pastors did not have to worry about close financial oversight. In some parishes, the staff of priests even counted the collection themselves. When it came to financial management, there was no transparency—the only audits involved diocesan officials whose focus was on taxin…