Uganda’s Radical Anti-Gay Measure and the American Religious Right
A proposed measure in Uganda would make repeated homosexual activity punishable by death. Anti-gay activists in the United States may think that it goes too far, but they laid the groundwork for it.
An experiment in right-wing Christian social thought, Uganda is poised to pass anti-gay legislation. Will the US Senate leverage its weight in opposition?
A recent story in the New Yorker on the execution of an innocent man seldom mentions religion, though the elements are all there.
Megachurch pastor Rod Parsley took issue with a recent article on RD on biblical and ethical challenges to the death penalty. Its author responds...
America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty; Or, If it Was Good Enough for Jesus and Socrates...
The United States is still using the logic of vengeance in enforcing the death penalty, and it is the only Western country within its primary coalitions to do so. When did it start? How can it end? What is wrong with us?
It's Bring Your Gun to Church Day
Christian Security Network; The Rev. Lowery & The Rev. Moon Cross Paths; Economic Crisis May Downsize Death Penalty; Christian Author’s $10,000 Challenge; and Conservatives in Hollywood donate to McCain/Palin.
Death Penalty, Debated (Dedicated to the Memory of Sarah Horowitz)
The tension between an anti-death penalty activist and her conservative father, author David Horowitz, echoes the nation’s tension.
With Kennedy v. Louisiana the highest court in the land has given America a wonderful gift: it has reminded us that life is the highest value there is; the life of humans, of all the species, of nature.
In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press
When Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States for the first time this month, the media will tread lightly.