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Religion
BattleCry; inside the stadium with Ron Luce's Holy War
By Sunsara Taylor
�Do you care more about the pigs around you or
God?� BattleCry leader Ron Luce asked the crowd of more than 17,000 youth
gathered at Wachovia Spectrum Stadium in Philadelphia on Friday, May 12. No,
this wasn't a metaphor. After reading a passage from Luke 15 that mentions
pigs, he actually had a bunch of those big, oinking, pink, farm animals on
stage with him! Get it, you either get with Luce's hateful, hyperpatriotic,
woman-bashing, racist god, or you're a . . . pig?
May 24, 2006, 01:12
Religion
"The Da Vinci Code" sends defenders of the faith into a tizzy
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Even before Ron Howard�s film version of Dan Brown�s The Da Vinci Code hit the theaters, the
Catholic Church and the Christian Right were disparaging and preparing �to Defend Against the
�Code�.� Interesting how those whose dogma forbids independent thought and
embraces only unconscious, unquestioning acceptance and obedience are so
fearful of a movie that just might make people think.
May 23, 2006, 01:29
Religion
The wholly hypocritical Catholic Church
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Monday, this report came
out on the heels of Pope Benedict�s latest tirade against gays: �The Roman
Catholic Church was in the midst of damage control on Sunday following the
firing of a key aide to the Cardinal in London for being gay and the reported
arrest of a top Vatican official in Rome for trying to pick up a gay or transsexual
prostitute.�
May 18, 2006, 10:43
Religion
Freaked-out fundamentalists fear "The Da Vinci Code" for its fierce feminism
By Harvey Wasserman
Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a
daughter?
May 18, 2006, 10:41
Religion
When discrimination is a religious virtue and civil equality an �anti-religious� attack
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Mention �gay� and �civil rights� in the same sentence,
and some people�s hackles go up. Yet most, if not all, of those same people
have no problem acknowledging -- and protecting -- the �civil rights� of every other minority. So what�s the
difference?
May 17, 2006, 11:46
Religion
Battle Cry for theocracy
By Sunsara
Taylor
If you�ve been waiting until the Christian
fascist movement started filling stadiums with young people and hyping them up
to do battle in �God�s army� to get alarmed, wait no longer.
May 12, 2006, 01:26
Religion
Bluegrass bigotry: The case of Gov. Ernie Fletcher (and friends)
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
On Diversity Day 2006, Kentucky Governor Ernie
Fletcher revoked gays� and lesbians� guarantee of �equal treatment� in the
workplace.
May 1, 2006, 01:17
Religion
Junk mail and religious propaganda: What happened to freedom from religion?
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
When I opened my mailbox the other day, along with the
rest of the junk mail was a DVD. I figured it was from some company hawking its
wares. It was . . .
Apr 20, 2006, 01:20
Religion
The triumvirate that muffles the moderate Muslims
By Abukar Arman
The charges have been loud and vociferous, and
sometimes even outlandish. �There is no such thing as moderate Muslims;� �they
are dangerous sleeper cells;� �they are in cahoots with the extremists and as
such are themselves a ticking bomb;� and my personal favorite, �they have the
sudden Jihadist syndrome,� or perhaps the capacity to combust, as in
spontaneous human combustion.
Apr 18, 2006, 01:02
Religion
�Middat Sdom�: Lou Sheldon, Fred Phelps, and George W. Bush
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
America�s two most flaming homophobes � Rev. Lou
Sheldon and Rev. Fred Phelps � now have something else in common: the language
they use to describe those they fear and loathe.
Apr 11, 2006, 01:34
Religion
Are mainstream churches finally standing up to the GOP�s hateful �Christian� blitzkrieg?
By Bob Fitrakis
and Harvey Wasserman
Right-wing church movements have been a staple of
American politics since well before the 1692 witch trials at Salem. But only in
the past few decades has the extremist church served as the grassroots base for
a new breed of corporate totalitarianism. That unholy union has been nowhere
more powerful than here in Ohio, and it has finally provoked a response from
the state�s mainstream churches.
Apr 11, 2006, 01:31
Religion
The truly offensive �S words�: Scarborough, Sheldon, Staver, and Scalia
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Don Wildmon�s
American
Family Association has been raising its
HQ (Hate Quotient) among the radical Christian Right. As Media Matters for
America reported, the
�American Family Association opened its airwaves to advocate for executing
gays, adulterers, abortion doctors.� Those �Christian� suggestions came from
the president of American
Vision, Gary DeMar, whose organization recently hosted �The War on
Christians and the Values Voters in 2006� conference.
Apr 6, 2006, 21:32
Religion
Professorial �termites� and the ongoing prosecution of diversity, equality, and civility
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
�Diversity Day.� Sounds like a good idea, but as
365Gay.com reported
�for the second time Viroqua High School [in Wisconsin] has cancelled Diversity
Day�. Speakers were to have included representatives of the African American,
Latino, Jewish, Muslim, Native American and gay communities,� as well as
speakers from other minority groups such as Hmong (an Asian ethnic group),
Buddhists, the physically disadvantaged and the economically disadvantaged. So
why was it cancelled again this year?
Mar 31, 2006, 20:23
Religion
A snapshot of America: The mayor with principles, the president with a porn star, a proud homophobe, a judge-moralist, and spanking
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
A man of principles: San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom. A life-long Catholic, Mayor Newsom �cancelled a trip to
Rome for the installation of the city�s former archbishop as a cardinal
reportedly after learning the church is considering a ban on gay adoption in
San Francisco. � He was to have attended the ceremony elevating Archbishop
William Levada to cardinal and head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith.�
Mar 21, 2006, 01:01
Religion
Easter Eggs and Equality Riders: The �hypocrisy and intellectual constipation of Bible literalists�
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr.�s article �Time to
stop hiding behind the Bible: Scripture seems to be taken literally only when
it�s convenient -- such as with gay issues� put it bluntly and simply:
�I�ve had it up to here with the moral hypocrisy and intellectual constipation
of Bible literalists.� Mr. Pitts was writing an open letter to Donna Reddick, �a teacher
who condemned homosexuality as part of a broadcast at Miami Sunset Senior High.�
Mar 15, 2006, 00:35
Religion
�Dr. Dino,� Merrill Keiser, Jr., and Thomas S. Monaghan: Religion goes well with ignorance, hate and pizza
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
�Dr. Dino� is Kent Hovind, whose claim to the �Dr.�
and academic credentials is
questionable, at best. Appropriately, he�s the founder of Florida-based Creation Science Evangelism, which, among its
other quaint novelties, offers Dinosaur
Adventure Land:
Mar 10, 2006, 00:34
Religion
Unintelligent Design and the Christian Right�s other wars on reality
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
In his article
�Rebuking the �Clergy Letter Project,�� Rev. Mark H. Creech harshly criticized the 10,200-plus
clergy who �signed a letter stating they rejected a literal interpretation of
the creation story.�
Mar 7, 2006, 01:30
Religion
Pat Robertson: Raked over the coals while raking in the dough
By Bill Berkowitz
While the Rev. Pat Robertson was recently raked over
the coals for suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was
an act of retribution by God for the transfer of land in the Gaza Strip to the
Palestinians, the reverend's charitable organization, Operation Blessing, was
raking in wads of faith-based money from the Bush administration.
Mar 3, 2006, 01:18
Religion
The Christian Right has gone over the edge
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
The Agape Press headline said it all: �Grandmother
Gets Help Asserting Preschooler�s Right to Share His Faith.� The story was even
more bizarre.
Feb 24, 2006, 22:45
Religion
A Christian right catfight over civil rights and another costly Bush initiative to promote discrimination
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
The Montana News Association headline
read �Focus on the Family Founder, James Dobson, Losing Credibility with
Christian Conservatives; Dobson Trying to Cover Up His Support of Gay
Endorsement of S.B. 166 �Reciprocal Beneficiaries� Bill.� So what�s S.B. 166?
Feb 19, 2006, 17:03
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