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Pence Defends US Immigration Policy in Guatemala … Using Scripture

By Daniel Schultz

…James has abdicated his throne in Cleveland for a sunnier reign in Los Angeles. Oh, and another: always bet on the Trump administration to take the stupidest possible position. Unlike LeBron, who is after all only human, that’s a gamble you can take to the bank week after week. For example, after all the uproar over Jeff Sessions’ use of Romans 13 to defend the extravagant cruelty of separating migrant families at the US border, you might be temp…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d’s largest and most powerful democracy entirely at the service of this novel religion, promoting sodomy and child-slaughtering domestically and abroad.” All of this, he writes, makes it difficult to “know which camp to choose.” After portraying Putin’s opposition to abortion and gay rights as grounded in political calculation more than religious conviction, Krempach concludes: So whose camp do I choose, Putin’s or Obama’s? Neither. Both have, for…

Egyptian Da Vinci Code Author Angers Coptic Christians

By Joseph Mayton

…gyptian Christians, and the novel she’s referring to is Yussif Zeidan’s novel Azazeel (titled Beelzebub in English), which met with little fanfare in Egypt until it won the Arab world’s version of the Booker Prize. Set in 5th-century Egypt, before Islam spread to the Nile Valley, the story takes place at a time when Christians (Coptic Christians to be exact) dominated Egyptian culture and political life. Boutros is one of many Coptic Christians wh…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on Human Rights to ensure LGBT people in the country are treated equally. El Salvador: Report on vulnerability of LGBT people Human Rights First called attention to the vulnerability of LGBT people to discrimination, marginalization, and murder amidst the “maelstrom of brutality” that the country has become. Israel: Jerusalem’s chief rabbi says homosexuality is an abomination and will disappear Jerusalem’s chief rabbi Shlomo Amar condemned the mu…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…ce he was assassinated in 1980 by agents of the US-supported government of El Salvador. Towards the end of his life, Romero spoke out with increasing vehemence against his government’s abuses of human rights and their murder of Salvadoran citizens, including priests. The Vatican has always maintained that Romero died for his politics, not his faith. Ironically, Adele Brise may someday become a saint for her politics, rather than her visions and th…

A Daily Utopia: Creating Our Moral Values Every Day

By Anna Peterson

…book is a continuation of a decades-long conversation with them about the relations between our moral and political commitments on the one hand, and our personal lives on the other. Of course, I hope that people with Ph.D.s in ethics will read the book too! Are you hoping just to inform readers? Give them pleasure? Piss them off? I hope to make them think differently about ethics and ordinary life. Hopefully that can be both pleasurable and inform…

Catholic Conscience Over a Woman’s Life?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…hy not just add an amendment saying “Nothing in this bill amends EMTALA”? Well, Rep. Lois Capps of California must be a Super Genius Challenge Brain Bonus Puzzler winner, because that’s what she did: offered an amendment that would continue the prohibition against using federal money for abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or threat to the mother’s life; but would simply require hospitals to follow EMTALA if a woman shows up needing emergenc…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…inda-sorta headquartered in Cairo, though it was a purely symbolic and largely irrelevant office, kinda-sorta like his presidency might be turning out to be. Possible plus: His Caliphate would make Umm Kulthum a mainstream singer, popularize melodramatic Egyptian soap operas, make hookahs go viral, and introduce intrusive Egyptian mother-in-laws to the world. The Bad: Morsi lacks a sense of humor, which is seemingly impossible, because if there’s…

Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…ul of Australia,” writes A. Odysseus Patrick in the Washington Post. With religious belief in steady decline, the country’s Christian leaders are saying that the sanctity of marriage as well as the faith itself are under attack by this measure. Although 70 percent of Australians describe themselves as religious, polls suggest a majority also believe same-sex couples should be allowed to marry — a position in direct contradiction to the teachings o…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…er. ____________ Note: Right before beginning this piece, I drove by Ryan Weldon on a highway outside of Bangs, Tex.. Weldon had an enormous American flag strapped to his back, and he was wearing a sign that said he was walking 5,000 miles in order to raise awareness about PTSD. I stopped and walked for a mile with him. A Marine Corps veteran, Weldon had a vivid dream on the night before Christmas, and woke up resolved to walk across the country,…