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Will it matter in November?

Wired reveals stunning details of military leadership training course.

No need to choose between God and gay.

Maurice Sendak lived in the shadow of the Holocaust, yet he refused to claim that identity and chosenness solely for the Jewish people.

A bump in the rocky road to marriage equality for gay and lesbian people.

President uses new religious language on the issue.

Council votes to keep Bible quotes on welcome signs while mayor quits over sexual misconduct.

The discussion surrounding NC’s Amendment 1 has taken the shape of a simplistic ideological battle over homosexuality and religion. “It’s as if some Christians feel like they have permission to discriminate or hate,” Jay Bakker told me. “And they get so obsessed with it that they ignore the fact that it would harm children, it would harm women, it would harm people in domestic partnerships. It’s like they’ve just become blind to that because they’ve built up such resentment towards gays and lesbians. And that’s really, really frightening to me.”

Sadakat Kadri’s Heaven on Earth is the kind of book that can appeal to the curious, as well as the intellectually serious—that strange product which actually leaves you knowing more about Islam than you did before you started.

Most voters didn’t understand how extreme the amendment before them was.