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Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…icy norms back toward faith and family values.” Speaking of U.S. policy, a New York Times commentary by Ernesto Lodoño on May 26 reviewed U.S. policy promoting the idea promulgated by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that “gay rights are human rights.” When President Bill Clinton signed an executive order in 1995 barring the government from denying security clearances solely on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation, the Family Resear…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…ing WWI. Of course, the Ottomans collapsed, the Caliphate was abolished, Jerusalem was conquered by the British, the Saudis took Mecca, and the British and French carved up the Middle East as spoils of war for themselves, which is kind of like saying his family already tried once, and we’re not down with double jeopardy. #NotWinning (IV) Muhammad Morsi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt The Good: As representative of a Muslim Brotherhood gov…

Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, Taking Over the World

By Bruce Wilson

…faith. World Christian Trends lists 280 dichotomies that distinguish denominational from postdenominational Christianity—which, according to the book, has “no connection with historic Christianity.” The Third Wave represents an even more radical break. Erupting within postdenominationalism starting in the 1980s, Third Wave Christianity claimed, by 2000, some 295 million adherents. World Christian Trends calls the Third Wave a “new and disturbingly…

It’s Up to You, New York… To Oppose Islamophobia

By Randall Balmer

…what I find deeply disquieting is a recent poll showing that a majority of New Yorkers oppose the project. Such sentiment is not worthy of New Yorkers, and it violates this city’s long tradition of religious tolerance, dating back to the early decades of the seventeenth century. When Jonas Michaëlius, the first Dutch minister in New Netherland, convened the first religious gathering in New Amsterdam in 1628, he commented on the religious diversity…

The Latest to Botch Mormonism: Garry Wills

By Joanna Brooks

…several minor but glaring inaccuracies in Jodi Kantor’s front-page Sunday New York Times feature on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism. Like the fact that the word “Deseret” is never used as an adjective. And Mormons don’t sing “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” It’s not in the hymnbook. Another friend who works in public radio in Utah alerted me that a New York Times reporter called the “LDS Church” the “LSD Church” in a multimedia presentation that went al…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…here’s one, Ulrich von Gienanth. And I wonder—do these guys show up in the New York Times? [It turns out that] their deportation made banner headlines. They were running the SS operations in the United States, probably participating in far more extensive sabotage within the United States leading up to the war. Then, much more contemporary memory hits: Nazis were blowing shit up in America and recruiting folks. That’s who this organization brought…

Personhood Activists Regroup as “Next Civil Rights Movement”

By Sarah Posner

…rld ignited the actual civil rights movement. Last year, House Republican crusader Chris Smith suggested creating a new protected class entitled to equal protection of the law: immaturity. And at a presidential candidate forum in South Carolina a few months ago, Manhattan Declaration author Robert George stunned even the GOP hopefuls with his question about whether, as president, they would “propose to Congress appropriate legislation pursuant to…

Bishop Says Gay Couples Cannot Be Part of Parish Life; Does Rising Evangelical Political Power in Brazil Contribute to Anti-LGBT Violence?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…: Does religious rhetoric contribute to epidemic of anti-gay violence? The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs reported this week on an “epidemic” of deadly anti-gay violence in Brazil, “one that, by some counts, has earned Brazil the ignominious ranking of the world’s deadliest place for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.” Nearly 1,600 people were reportedly killed in hate-motivated attacks in the past four and a half years in spite of B…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…Corbin, a politics professor at The King’s College, a Christian college in New York City, is sounding the alarm that an Obama loss on Election Day could cause riots on the streets in big cities across America. According to OneNewsNow, the online news service of Donald Wildmons’ American Family Association, Corbin “contends there is potential for public riots the night of or after the election, if Obama’s lead in the polls does not translate into v…

Top Ten Religion & Science Stories of 2009

By Lauri Lebo

…human hand. Accompanied by former child actor Kirk Cameron, Comfort led a crusade at college campuses across the country to distribute altered copies of Origin. Comfort penned an introduction for the new version in which he quotes from Mein Kampf in order to link Darwin to Adolf Hitler, accuses Darwin of being sexist, and argues falsely that there are no transitional fossils in the fossil record. So, in the assessment of the top stories that inter…