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Will San Francisco Ban Circumcision?

By Shalom Goldman

…d, a retired credit manager, launched a campaign to outlaw circumcision in San Francisco. He proposed a ballot measure that would make it a misdemeanor to “circumcise, excise, cut, or mutilate the genitals of all minors.” Schofield’s reasoning is that circumcision is mutilation without consent of the patient. He told a local CBS affiliate that “people can practice whatever religion they want, but your religious practice ends with someone else’s bo…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…Catholics, both young and mature adults, at Mary Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. There would be nothing notable about an Archbishop performing a confirmation ceremony except for this: according to the Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco, it was the first confirmation in San Francisco performed in Latin—the “Extraordinary Form” of the Catholic Mass—since the reforms of Vatican II in the 1960s. The San Francisco diocesan newslet…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…spiritual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…ien to sainthood, another figure linked to AIDS and HIV was “canonized” in San Francisco. As the Bay Area Reporter put it: “Where else but San Francisco could Irene Smith, a true pioneer in care for the ill and dying, be sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence?” Who is Smith? Here’s what the Bay Area Reporter said: Smith, who conducts Everflowing educational programs that teach touch skills as an integral component of end of life care, is r…

Protests Force Torch Detour in San Francisco

By Lygia Navarro

…e opening ceremony rumors circulated that the Torch might not be coming to San Francisco after all. By the time the news finally came in, the city had already secreted the Torch down an unpublicized alternate route to avoid the protests completely, closing with a ceremony at the airport before the Torch continued on its “Journey of Harmony.” Unhappy throngs quickly took over nearby restaurants and benches. “The Olympics is a world event. It’s not…

Dog Whistles and Holes in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Arguments?

By Patrick Hornbeck

…mmuniqués in the 1990s and early 2000s, a person might regretfully find him- or herself suffering from “same-sex attraction” and keep that fact within a small circle of loved ones, but to announce that one is “gay” would be to align oneself with a social and political agenda. If Waggoner and Francisco wanted to signal their sympathy with these older understandings of sexual identity, emphasizing that Phillips could not refuse to serve interracial…

The Surprisingly Short History of Popular Yoga

By Andrea R. Jain and Michelle Goldberg

…ng yoga are impoverished or otherwise disenfranchised people, such as inner-city at-risk youth or incarcerated people trapped in dilapidated jails and prisons.” Devi’s conception of reincarnation as something that both explains the world’s injustices and promises to redress them in the next life feeds into this quiescence, since it makes justice in this life less urgent. In her schema, cultivating change in oneself was far more important than cult…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…notions of “human dignity” and “human flourishing,” Catholic natural law—an 800-year-old tradition dating back to Thomas Aquinas—is a lens that offers utter clarity to conservative Catholic jurists, activists, policymakers, and scholars as they observe, describe, and engage the world. The power and sharpness of this lens allow them to confidently snap every human movement—every human desire and motive and act—into its divinely appointed and proper…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…should not be lost in the shuffle. But it’s also important that we get rule-of-law countries where they need to be in order to create human rights momentum that’ll be helpful in moving the world forward. We have to make sure that we win the freedom to marry in countries where we can win and use those victories as building blocks so we can to lift up everyone, everywhere. Taiwan: Religious conservatives call for referendum against court ruling on m…

Aung San Suu Kyi: The Verdict is Unfair

By Juliane Schober

…er from playing a role in national elections scheduled for next year. Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma’s national martyr and founder of the armed forces, Aung San, who was assassinated on the eve of his ascension to prime minister of an independent Burma. For much of her adult life, Aung San Suu Kyi lived and studied at Oxford University, where she raised a family. She entered politics in 1988, during the course of a popular uprising that…