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New Resource for LDS Families with Gay Children Links Acceptance and Health

By Joanna Brooks

…nality, was because I had to represent the real science—findings show that families matter, families make a profound difference, and that serious health risks are related to common rejecting behaviors. Forty years of research finds three components of human sexual orientation: attraction, behavior, and identity. Conservative perspectives tend to fixate only on the behavior: the sex act. But that’s an inappropriate framework to apply to children an…

The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…at Easter and Passover cannot be combined successfully. In many interfaith families, people manage to do just that. One of the families that I interviewed during my fieldwork had chosen Judaism as their household religion, and they observed Passover from the night it began until they left Hebrew School on Sunday morning to drive to Grandma’s house for Easter dinner. The father, in this particular family, grew up on a hog farm in South Georgia wher…

Blame Series Bonus: How Federal Policy Created America’s Fergusons

By Andrew Aghapour

…a voucher program for low-income families. This is not for moderate-income families, but for low-income families. It provides them with vouchers that permit them to rent apartments that they otherwise couldn’t afford at rents typical for their communities. That program also today predominantly subsidizes families to move to already segregated, low-income communities. We could again prohibit the use of those vouchers, at least for new vouchers that…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rpretations of major religious texts. World Congress of Families The World Congress of Families’ annual global summit of anti-LGBT social conservatives is being held in Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia, this week. The event is likely to have a pro-Putin and anti-European feel, given that many WCF groups have praised the anti-gay policies of Russia under Putin. The WCF website has featured a quote from local sponsor Levan Vasadze say…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…r collaboration with one another and with our partner organizations. World Congress of Families Puts Moscow Summit on Hold The World Congress of Families, which has been an enthusiastic backer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced that it would suspend planning for its September summit in Moscow in the wake of Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea. Just last month, WCF spokespeople were praising Putin as the savior of Christian value…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of hope” in Pope Francis’s downplaying of dogma and focus on mercy. World Congress of Families: Global Gathering of Religious Social Conservatives The World Congress of Families met in Salt Lake City last week, the ninth of these global gatherings of social conservatives and the first held in the United States. Conference sponsors and participants included many American religious conservative groups along with their counterparts from around the w…

World Congress of Families Meets, Seeks a New Dark Ages

By Gillian Kane

…endment.” The Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), one of four World Congress of Families co-conveners, has been extremely active in “defending religious organizations and businesses that refuse to comply with the mandate and abandon their faith.” To date they have filed three lawsuits against the Obama administration, each claiming that the health mandate is unconstitutional based on its violation of the First and Fifth Amendments. The ADF…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…f being “dominated by a ‘relativising liberal ideology that’s an insult to families.’” More from the Guardian: The four-day pro-family extravaganza—which will be attended by 3,000 delegates and will include events at the national parliament and other venues of symbolic importance—is the latest episode in Orban’s quest to position himself as a self-styled defender of “European Christian values”, a role he has used to justify his Fidesz government’s…

New Report Shows Dems are Far More Religiously Diverse Than GOP — Though One (A)religious Group Remains Woefully Underrepresented

By Chrissy Stroop

…. As the Pew Research Center’s write-up on the religious makeup of the new Congress puts it, “the U.S. Congress remains largely untouched by two trends that have long marked religious life in the United States: a decades-long decline in the share of Americans who identify as Christian, and a corresponding increase in the percentage who say they have no religious affiliation.” Specifically, the new Congress’s membership is over 87% Christian, while…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ily Nation criticizing the Ministry of Labour for hosting the recent World Congress of Families regional meeting in Nairobi. From Maina’s op ed for the Daily Nation.: The WCF is an arm of the US religious-right movement focused on exporting conservative, neo-colonialist agendas throughout the Global South. It advances an agenda to roll back women’s rights, as well as deny people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities their basic huma…