Faith and Civil Liberties Groups Pushing Back Against Islamophobia
In church and in court.
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Florida School Prayer Bill Stalls in Committee
Civil liberties groups warn law would lead to lawsuit.
Read MoreAnti-J Street Inquisitor and Palin Israel Guide Close with Christian Zionists
Danny Danon has likened Obama to Pharaoh.
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What Do We Mean By ‘Judeo-Christian’?
With the swing to the Right of the 1950s, conservatives began to deploy “Judeo-Christian” in the fight against “Godless Communism,” contrasting it with “the communist projection of man as a producing, consuming animal to be used and discarded.”
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The Week in Religion: Haggard Would Identify
as Bisexual, Trademarking
the Virgin, Woman Kills
‘Devil Dog’
If RD were 21 it would identify as Bisexual too.
Read MoreAlabama Gov. Claims Only Evangelicals are His Brothers and Sisters
Bentley finds himself behind a pulpit and seems to forget he’s representing people other than evangelical Christians.
Read MorePark 51 and RLUIPA, Or, Conservatives Hoisted On Their Petard
Republican-passed legislation monkey wrenches conservative opposition to Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.
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The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark
There was a fair amount of surprise when ADL went on record opposing the construction of a progressive, moderate, multifaith dialogue-oriented Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan. Wait a minute, my (non-Jewish) boyfriend asked me, did they drop a letter from their name? Are they the Defamation League now?
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No Space for American Islam?
The debate has focused on the new Muslim community center’s location in lower Manhattan, but the opposition (who refer to it as the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’) is driven by a deeper, reflexive antagonism. They stand against what proponents of the center are setting out to create: a space for American Islam.
Read MoreAbe Foxman’s “Irrational Or Bigoted” Positions
Park51 and testing the “limits of religious freedom” or the limits of civil discourse?
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