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November 23, 2009

Michael Kessler on McDonnell's reaction to Robertson's hate

A friend's Facebook link took me to a CNN article that I thought would infuriate me. The headline was "McDonnell won't disavow Robertson's Islam remarks." What CNN failed to articulate was, to my surprise, that Virginia Governor-elect McDonnell sounded more Madisonian than Robertsonian...

November 11, 2009

November 12 Event: The Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities

To improve understandings of religion in the lives of international migrants, this SSRC Project investigates the roles of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism for immigrants settled in Malaysia, South Africa, and Great Britain. The conference offers comparitive research findings.

November 9, 2009

Katherine Marshall Blogs: "And the Opus Goes to . . . "

Aicha Ech Channa, a gutsy Moroccan woman, has worked for five decades with young unmarried mothers, who stand at the very bottom of the social heap in her country. Even if their pregnancy resulted from rape, they are condemned as prostitutes and thrown out by their families, and their babies are stigmatized as bastards...

November 9, 2009

Michael Kessler blogs: "Marriage and discrimination"

This week, Keith Bardwell quit his post as Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. This would hardly be noteworthy except that Bardwell refused to marry couples from different races. Outrageous. But did Maine just sanction discrimination of a different sort?...

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