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Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Cry For the Catholic Church

…the ideal (read: the only possible model of family). Marriage equality in Argentina will require new posters depicting the many ways family can look—with or without children. The cardinal lost a lot of the Church’s credibility along with the printing costs. Some leaders of the Lutheran Church distinguished themselves with well-reasoned arguments in favor of the inevitable. The Metropolitan Community Church now has an active ministry in Argentina

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First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

…kowtow to the board and rewrite their social studies textbooks to meet the new standards, what kids could someday learn about health-care reform might sound like watching an hour of Fox News. Kids might be instructed to learn to compare and contrast the landmark legislation to the Black Plague, the 9/11 attacks, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bloody Sunday, or even the Jonestown massacre, as commentator Pat Caddell told Sean Hannity. (Real classy.) R…

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You Can Take The Boy Out of the Crack House: MyPillow CEO’s New Book Promo Has Deep Roots in American Christianity

…end time with our families.” Trump-as-the-chosen-hand-of-God is relatively new theology, to be sure, though no doubt the theology leading Trump to tout Lindell as a Senate candidate in Minnesota. (Lindell wouldn’t be the first Quistian candidate from the Land of 10,000 Lakes.) But Lindell’s remarks point to another extensive thread in American religious history: the belief, contrary to every bit of scriptural evidence, that the Christian God only…

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Driscollpalooza Time… Must Be Book Promo Time

…of Mark Driscoll, which somehow increase the popularity of Mark Driscoll’s new book.  Mark Driscoll has a new book coming out, and with suspiciously good timing, he’s managed to initiate back to back controversies. First, he showed up at John MacArthur’s “Strange Fire” conference uninvited and started a Twitter beef, which I wrote about last week. Then he posted an article alleging that pacifist Christians made Jesus out to be a “pansy” and that s…

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Argentina Considers Gay Marriage Bill

…ationwide protests on July 13, the day before the bill is to be debated in Argentina’s senate. For their part, LDS Church leaders are asking Argentina’s 370,000 Mormons to review the Proclamation on the Family, a 1995 doctrinal statement on gender and family issues. The letter reportedly does not take an official position on the legislation or ask members to donate of their time and means, as did a similar letter read to California Mormon congrega…

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BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

…de, we sounded a note of caution here at RD about the “dark side” of honor code enforcement. After all, the honor code had been created during the 1960s in an effort by ultra-conservative BYU President Ernest Wilkinson to root out liberals, and honor code enforcement (including anonymous referrals) had been used to bait and harrass feminist, liberal, and gay students, shut down campus free speech, and compromise the privacy of pastoral counseling…

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Bergoglio’s “Jesuitical” Reaction to Argentina’s Dirty War

…nterview with RD contributor Mary Hunt, a Catholic theologian who lived in Argentina during the country’s notorious Dirty War. Hunt’s unique insights into Argentinian Catholicism, as well as her knowledge of feminist theology, liberation theology, and efforts to reform to Catholic Church, are challenging to the emerging conventional narrative about the values and history of Pope Francis, and the prospects for reform of the Church under his papacy….

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Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

…tican to discipline Antwerp Bishop Johan Bonny, who, according to LifeSite News, suggests in a new book published Friday that homosexual pairs, divorced, remarried and cohabiting couples should receive a Church blessing as part of a ‘diversity of rituals’ that would recognized the ‘exclusiveness and stability’ of their unions.” Northern Ireland: Court upholds ruling against bakery in gay cake case “Court of Appeal judges in Belfast upheld an origi…

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The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

…d harassment of human rights defenders.” Uganda: Museveni says no need for new anti-gay law Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said publicly that there is no need for a new anti-gay law because the country already bans same-sex sexual behavior. Anti-gay lawmakers have been pushing for re-passage of the Anti Homosexuality Act that was overturned by a court for procedural reasons. Ireland: Marriage equality a reality by year’s end The Belfast Telegra…

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Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

…ay. Omri Lanzet, one of the many new parents who landed in Israel with his newborn son Sunday night told Ynet news that “We had a baby just days old with us, and had no heat. The food and the diapers ran out.” “The babies are the most vulnerable, and some of them were born prematurely. It’s neither the place nor the proper environment for a baby only a few days old.” …The Justice Ministry ruled on Sunday that four Nepalese surrogate mothers carryi…

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