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In Marriage Arguments, Scalia Frets Over Clergy Religious Freedom

By Sarah Posner

…constitutional matter, that the State must marry two men.” Justice Elena Kagan pointed out that “there are many rabbis that will not conduct marriages between Jews and non-Jews, notwithstanding that we have a constitutional prohibition against religious discrimination. And those rabbis get all the powers and privileges of the State, even if they have that rule, most many, many, many rabbis won’t do that.” True. And the state hasn’t taken away th…

Fight The New “Hobby Lobby” Religious Order: Get Ordained

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…und an opening in scholar Winifred Fallers Sullivan’s otherwise terrifying analysis of the verdicts at The Immanent Frame. She noted the radical disconnect between the court’s conventional, “churchy” definitions of religion as applied in the Hobby Lobby case, such as “prayer, worship, and the taking of sacraments,” and the much broader, DIY religion that actually happens in America: “Americans have always been incredibly varied, creative, and entr…

Methodist Clergy Pledge to Defy Church in Blessing LGBT Unions

By Pamela R. Lightsey

…eek, 70 United Methodist Clergy in Minnesota pledged to defy church polity against performing such ceremonies. This week, as of Thursday, 134 clergy in the Northern Illinois Conference have pledged the same. If they follow through with their pledge, they face the possibility of losing their clergy orders. It should be noted that losing one’s credentials is not simply losing the ability to continue your called vocation as clergy but with it, takes…

Fake Gay Panic News Fools Christians

By Sarah Posner

…of religious liberty, criminalize Christianity, and demand that Americans abandon Biblical principles of natural marriage.” That panicked advisory itself was widely shared. So when people who themselves believe marriage equality is a threat to their religion, or to their culture, or to their pastor are primed with hysterical scenarios from their leaders, is it surprising that a bit of fake viral news serves as confirmation bias? Stetzer urges his…

The Theological Hijacking of Religious “Freedom”

By Timothy K. Snyder

Since the passage and quick “fix” of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) there has been a robust national conversation about the merits and particularities of the such laws. But noticeably absent from that conversation was any serious dialogue about the relationship between theology and the law. Why should we publicly debate theology? Isn’t that a private concern? Hardly. Theological commitments are not easily limited to the privat…

Body of Work: Remembering Daniel Berrigan, 1921-2016

By Michele Somerville

…2001, the day the towers fell, I went to pray in my church while two miles away my priests were blessing buckets of body parts. On a blisteringly sunny April morning in 2004, after being up all night, I knocked on my pastor’s door asking him to officiate at the funeral of my suddenly-gone 45-year-old Irish twin. I was already in deep, involved in a parish life, active in ministry, when I got a chance to say “hi” and “thanks” to Daniel Berrigan tha…

Seven-in-Heaven Way, Hybrid Pope, & “Chrislam”

By Michael J. Altman

…dral has fallen on hard times, its Spanish language service is booming. A Malaysian reality show searches for the best preaching Muslim woman. In Tajikistan, the parliament is considering a bill to keep kids out of churches and mosques. Secularism is on the way out in Bangladesh. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has expelled a senior member for his plans to run for president. Some Methodist clergy are saying they’ll officiate gay marriages whether…

European Court: Religious Beliefs Do Not Trump Anti-Discrimination Law

By Peter Montgomery

…ndividual right. It is emphatically not a collective right to discriminate against LGBT people, women, or people of another faith or life stance.” “Religious freedom is no ground for exemption from the law. The court showed conclusively that the principle of equality and equal treatment cannot be circumvented with a simple reference to religion.” Michael Cashman MEP, Co-President of the LGBT Intergroup, added: “British law rightly protect LGBT peo…

Southern Baptists Convention’s Embarrassing Poll

By Peter Montgomery

…he Southern Baptists is that even among Americans who call themselves born-again, evangelical, or fundamentalist Christians, only 19 percent believe employers should be allowed to discriminate on the basis of “sexual preference” and only 39 percent believe the same about landlords. The numbers are only slightly more SBC-friendly among people who report going to religious services at least once a week: 22 and 41 percent respectively. Among the publ…

Does Religion Condemn Homosexuality?

By Michael Bronski

…been taken up by contemporary LGBT Muslim groups, such as Toronto-based Salaam and US-based Al-Fatiha, and by a growing number of Muslim scholars in order to push back against the most conservative Islamic voices and open a space for Muslim gender and sexual minorities. The Internet also provides a vital resource for LGBT Muslims seeking to develop and put forward their own religious perspectives about same-sex desires and identities. Where Leviti…