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Time to Reject the “We’re All Sinners” Defense of Religious Conservatives

By Jonathan Malesic

…rginia, in August, one participant, Peter Cvjetanovic, conceded that white European culture “is not perfect; there are flaws to it, of course.” He said the same about Robert E. Lee, whose statue was the demonstrators’ rallying point: “He wasn’t a perfect man, but I want to honor and respect what he stood for during his time.” Never mind that what made Lee imperfect was that he stood for and fought to uphold large-scale injustice. Most often, peopl…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r mobilizations in Europe. It focuses on national manifestations in eleven European countries, including Russia, from massive street protests to forms of resistance such as email bombarding and street vigils. It examines the intersection of religious politics with rising populism and nationalistic anxieties in contemporary Europe. New York University’s School of Professional Studies is offering an open enrollment non-credit class on Global LGBT Ri…

Australian Church Nixes Straight Couple’s Wedding Over Their Marriage Equality Support; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…andido Portinari and Lygia Clark – of promoting blasphemy, paedophilia and bestiality, charges its curator vigorously denied. “They are passing the limits of tolerance and we are giving them a response,” said Silas Malafia, a leading evangelical pastor. Brazil’s artistic community has attacked the protest as dangerous censorship in a country that lived through 21 years of military dictatorship. “It is an exhibition that deals with issues of identi…

Cardinal Warns Women Against Marrying Muslims: Would Bring “A Pile of Trouble”

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…ven Allah knows where would end.” Policarpo added, “I know that if a young European of Christian background marries a Muslim, as soon as they go to his country, they’ll be subject to the regime of Muslim women. Just imagine it. This is the most offensive utterance of interreligious hate I’ve heard since the Pope’s Orientalist insult to Muslims last year. Painting Muslim men as always foreign, brutally patriarchal, and “trouble” is a nicely-bundled…

Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…isiting Muslim counseling centers for specialized psychotherapy in greater numbers. Far from being an abstract term, intersectionality is necessary for the very survival of minority communities. Above all, though, it’s MASGD’s own community who must take priority, and that entails strengthening LGBT Muslims’ bonds with other progressive movements who seek justice and equality for all Americans. The group is fiscally sponsored by the National Queer…

RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda

By Rosemary Ganley

…sible. Rosemary Ruether’s response to small-mindedness is to write another bestselling book. This time, in late 2008, it is Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican. You bet it doesn’t. In just 142 pages, six chapters, with not a wasted word, Ruether lays out once again her critique of ecclesial patriarchy as life-denying and institution-killing. “When I open her books,” writes Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, president of the Chicago Theological Seminary,…

Catholic Citizenship: Massimo Faggioli on the Role of Public Theologians Today

By Kaya Oakes

…language says nothing of the real access to the idea of coming from that linguistic world. We know that there are almost half or more Catholics [who] are Spanish-speaking. But there’s little exchange between North American theologians and Latin American theologians. European theologians know little about what’s going on in America. This is more urgent right now because you can’t understand Catholicism from one observation point only. If you want t…

Pariah or Charmed Hero: America’s Obsession with Jews and Israel

By Shaul Magid

…emarkable that the United States built a Holocaust Museum, commemorating a European (not American) genocide, on the Washington Mall, a space exclusive to seminal events or persons in American history. While there is a museum commemorating the genocide (albeit not exclusively about the genocide) of Native Americans on the Mall called The National Museum of the American Indian, the museum of American slavery (The United States National Slavery Museu…

A Catholic Turnabout on Abortion or More Sympathy for the Bishops?

By Daniel C. Maguire

…ate chemotherapy which also attacks the fetus. She aborts. In spite of her best contraceptive efforts a woman gets pregnant. She has a heart condition, which would put her at high risk of dying if she stays pregnant. She aborts. Rosita, a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl is raped and impregnated. She cannot bear a child at her age without potentially disastrous effects on her body and mind. An abortion is arranged. A case was once brought to the atte…

Secular End Times & Apocalyptic ‘Roosters’

By Gordon Haber

…ng a time of great societal tension—in this case “the brutal incursions of European imperialism.” Apocalyptic time began with a rooster named Nongqawuse, a fifteen-year-old orphan. In 1856, she prophesied that if the Xhosa slaughtered their own cattle, stopped planting crops, and destroyed their grain stores, the British would leave, and peace and plenty would return to the land. Most readers will not be surprised to learn that the plan was a fail…