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Global Precap: 5 Religion and LGBT Stories to Look For in 2015

By Peter Montgomery

…ociologist and author of “The Global Sexual Revolution: The Destruction of Freedom on the Name of Freedom,” is one of the campaign’s prime movers. Kuby, a Catholic convert, says “gender theory” will lead to tyranny. She says communism protect Eastern European countries from the sexual revolution and hopes they will now “become a stronghold of resistance in the European Union.” Kuby’s daughter Sophia runs the socialconservative group European Digni…

Like Azusa Street Baptized into Bureaucracy: Mexico’s Flourishing LLDM Church Loses its Apostle

By Michael Schulson

…ficant temples throughout Mexico and Central America, as well as in Chile, Colombia, Spain, and, of course, the United States. California alone has around 40 churches, and there are major congregations in Houston, Atlanta, and New York City as well. Along the way, LLDM has been able to take advantage of a broader growth in Latin American Protestantism—a trend that has tended to favor pentecostal movements. According to Pew Research Data, one in fi…

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

…t, the notorious mastermind of the gays-as-threats-to-children ads used to promote Prop 8 and other anti-gay initiatives in the U.S. The conference also included an “emerging leaders” training track, which provided scholarships to about 260 young people from more than 40 countries and 25 states. A conference organizer estimated that they were part of a group of about 500 under-30 participants out of the more than 3300 who joined at least part of t…

The Fusion Friendships of Rev. Barber’s Third Reconstruction

By Daniel José Camacho

…nced status quo. Coalitions are needed, but not the ahistorical kinds that promote erasure of particular struggles. Rev. Barber’s activism is grounded in a rich historical memory, as demonstrated in his new book The Third Reconstruction and the accompanying interview here on RD. His calls for “fusion friendships” are not based on simple idealisms and platitudes of unity and reconciliation but on overlooked precedents. Equally as important, he is q…

Family Planning is Vatican’s Blind Spot on Environment

By Frances Kissling

…amily planning—the less politically charged expression. Jeffery Sachs from Colombia University and Tim Wirth from the UN Foundation, for example, both see a link between the ability of women to decide on the number of children they want and the ability to ensure planetary survival. Recent studies have shown that providing contraception to the 220 million women who want it but don’t have access would reduce carbon emissions by 15%. No coercion, jus…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…quare kilometers, and 9 countries share this great Biome (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, including French Guyana as an overseas territory).” [Section 1] Yet those countries taken together comprise one of the poorest regions on Earth and the ecosystem described is in meltdown. There are many reasons why the Catholic Church focused on the Amazon. Of global significance, the impact of losing the ecological rich…

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities

By Deborah Jian Lee

…stians of color cultivating spiritual communities. An adoptee from Bogotá, Colombia, named after the Spanish mystic St. Teresa of Avila and raised by a white Catholic family in New Jersey, Pasquale Mateus has always felt drawn to mystical spirituality. In her twenties, yoga and meditation became a lifeline as she healed from sexual trauma. But because these traditions didn’t speak her religious language, she turned to the Christian contemplative m…

SCOTUS Seems to Think You Should Be Forced to Pay For Religious Education

By John Stoehr

…majority will continue to ignore the establishment clause and blow up the free exercise clause into a broadly applicable special rights provision. A free ticket for the religious to exempt themselves from federal and state laws—most importantly, public health and anti-discrimination laws. JS: Do these special rights provisions apply equally? The court is on a mission to remake free-exercise law. Not too long ago, it held that religious people and…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…arely delivered) than to allow workers to unionize without interference in free and fair representation elections. By the Numbers The cold, hard facts are these: Polls consistently report that 60 million Americans would join a union tomorrow if they could, which clearly suggests that there’s something wrong with the current system for allowing workers to decide this question. Just going by official National Labor Relations Board numbers (which sur…

Supreme Court to Hear Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Cases

By Sarah Posner

…e free speech cases, the plaintiffs have argued that the separation of the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses by a semicolon requires that the two clauses be interpreted, for these purposes, identically. (Filmmaker Drew Emery calls the upcoming Supreme Court case “the world’s most closely watched semicolonoscopy.”) In Conestoga, though, the Third Circuit rejected those arguments. “We are not persuaded that the use of a semi-colon means that eac…