"Currently bound by sexual reproduction, we are a binary species, consisting of females and males."

It's sad that most people do.

Let's see how Creflo Dollar will sermonize his way out of this.

Just gonna leave this here...

Yo, your jealousy is showing...

I don't understand... how is that kid going to help women who need abortions? I thought only doctors could provide them in Mississippi.

It's fucked up, but many of them DO have women/girls close to them about whom they care deeply.

Did they only poll individuals from the Abrahamic faiths? What about Buddhism? Though the gods are downplayed and certainly less important than attaining Buddhahood, there's still are still some pretty visceral depictions of a hellish afterlife with a karma as a well-defined system of reward and punishment.

It's simply not the job of our government to "defend the sanctity" of anything. If that's really how you want to spend your energy, legislators, then you should've gone to yeshiva and become a rabbi. Oh right, because that would mean admitting there ISN'T just one normative Christocentric one-size-fits-all definition…

My deepest sympathies for your loss. I was merely trying to find some words of comfort in light of this tragedy.

"They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies."

For these girls and boys, this is a great start - the beginning of a long road of healing and recovery. Sadly, it's still a drop in the bucket in terms of global child sex trafficking.

Just to play the Devil's Advocate, for every Christian that finds a justification of sexual assault in Judges 19, there are those who utilize the text to respond to the needs of rape and other sexual abuses.

Amazing, no? I would consider that an informed outsider perspective in many circumstances.

The Pew Forum is going to be your best source for information and statistics on religion(s) in the American public sphere.

I like it! A professor of mine would always wink suggestively - the exaggerated, corny style of "you know what I mean" winking - at us when we came came to a line of text that could be interpreted sexually.

Have you read Anita Diamant's novel "The Red Tent"? It reinterprets Genesis from Dinah's perspective in a rather interesting way in spite of taking major liberties with the Biblical text.

Also the Biblical way of "knowing" as in "and he knew her."

What do you expect from the mothers of Ammon and Moab?!?!

I wonder if the search filter will also have the effect of censoring out some of the more "untoward" parts of the Bible. Unless, of course, they consider the gang rape and dismemberment of the Levite's concubine (Judges 19) a family-friendly section.