by Wayne Besen
No matter who wins the presidential election, it is quite clear that the big loser in campaign 08 is religion.
By far, the most strident political voices have come from renegade reverends that seem a bit hot under the collar. These cantankerous characters (or caricatures) have transformed their houses of worship into a harbor […]

Ruth and Naomi, Orpah departing, 1902
by Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833-1898)
“Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die — there will […]

In the Iranian Islamic Penal Code homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death. Torture in the form of whipping is also used to punish homosexuals. Ironically, the law provides for a choice of execution — hanging, stoning, being halved by a sword or dropped from a high place — but a judge may also […]