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Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…er, speakers were defiant about the possible loss of western aid: Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje, the Mufti of Uganda who delivered remarks on behalf of the IRCU, called for the creation of a trust funded by donations from ordinary Ugandans that would pay for anti-retroviral medications if foreign donors withdrew their support. The Obama administration sent a multi-agency team to Uganda this week to review aid to the country, Buzzfeed reports, but…

A Public Monument to Atheism—In Florida

By Becky Garrison

…ality. This can be achieved with no monuments or with everyone’s, because equality is an all-or-nothing concept. Our only choice is to take them up on their offer of equality.” On the Americans United website, Rob Boston, Senior Policy Analyst, reflects on how this move toward pluralism may end up backfiring on those who wish to establish their version of a Christian America in the public square. Fundamentalists may think they’ve found a clever w…

Keep These Satanists Out of Congress!

By Joseph Laycock

….” Unfortunately for Yoho’s supporters the appeal to moral panic may have backfired. Rush released a statement defending his hobbies and blasting Yoho for creating a distraction from real issues, all of which suggests that the popular fear of Satanic role-playing games may finally be played out. While some of the online dialogue offered by Rush’s more villainous characters is disturbing, Rush is hardly the strangest (or even the most vampiric) GO…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…vie. Their Enochic counterparts, the Watchers, fall from heaven to earth, become encased in soil and rock and become walking, talking piles of rock with glowing, explosive inner cores. – The Watchers supply the bulk of the manual labor to build the ark. – Noah’s sons are not all adult, married men when they enter the ark (Gen 7:7). The lack of wives for the boy on the cusp of manhood and the much younger boy-child are plot devices. – When Noah get…

Debate Heats Up Over “Francis Effect”

By Patricia Miller

…told The Guardian, Francis isn’t so much “a breath of fresh air as someone who has gone into the Vatican with an oxygen tank strapped to his back. He’s got the church out of a very difficult spot.”…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…. The Catholic Church is opposed to the legalisation of gay marriage, but teaches that homosexuals have the same dignity of every human being and condemns all forms of unjust discrimination, harassment or abuse.” New Ways Ministry’s Bob Shine points out that Gracias, in addition to heading up India’s bishops’ conference, “is also a member of the eight member Council of Cardinals formed to advise Pope Francis.” The archdiocese of Delhi stated that…

Google’s Benevolent Interfaith Big Tent

By Lucia Hulsether

…er that transcends individual state sovereignty and which uses its global reach to stitch fragmented communities together in a multicultural tapestry. As Google extends its reach, the commercial suggests, it establishes the conditions for cultural unity, as the whole world embraces under its big tent. Neoliberalism and the benevolent pull of Big Data As we learn from the commercial, this tent is expansive enough to include Muslims, Hindus, and Si…

Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege

By Jeffrey Scholes

…completely unplugged from all forms of media for the last week, you’ve probably seen—or at least have heard or read about—the interview that religion scholar, Reza Aslan, gave on the FoxNews.com webcast, “Spirited Debate”—or as Buzzfeed put it, “The Most Embarrassing Interview Fox News Has Ever Done.” If you haven’t had the chance to see it, or if you aren’t able to watch it now (below, right), here’s what happened, briefly. The interviewer, Laur…

Update: Fox News Tries Gotcha Game with Reza Aslan

By The Editors

…hich went viral thanks to Buzzfeed, has boosted Aslan’s book sales considerably. According to the New York Times: On Friday, “Zealot” was in the No. 8 spot on Amazon.com, the nation’s biggest seller of books; by Sunday, it had hit No. 1. Random House is rushing to meet the surge in demand for the book. On Monday, the publisher ordered 50,000 copies, bringing the total to 150,000 copies in print by the end of the week. *** Credit must be given to…

Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

By Laura R. Olson

…different kind of marriage between religion and politics that emphasizes peace and justice issues instead of socio-moral concerns. In the baffling 2008 presidential primary season, Republican candidates aligned with the religious right failed to make much headway, but Democratic candidates made concerted efforts to reach out to people of faith. Should we interpret all of these facts to mean that the religious right is indeed dying? In his new boo…