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Dispatches from the Workplace: Postville: Ground Zero for the Intersection of Immigrant and Workers’ Rights

By Kim Bobo

…. Local religious leaders scrambled to provide support and assistance to immigrant families. Jewish activists expressed their outrage by organizing a boycott of Agriprocessors, Inc. Within a few weeks, hundreds of rabbis and Jewish organizations signed a letter condemning both the company’s treatment of the workers and the government’s commando-style terrorizing of a community. On Sunday, July 27, hundreds of concerned citizens, led primarily by J…

Mormons Prepare to March in Seven LGBT Parades this Weekend

By Joanna Brooks

…and ‘sustained those called’ as the Church systematically and openly discriminated against ethnic minorities. Abraham’s paradox of being asked by God to sacrifice his son—which resembles the situation of LDS parents with gay kids—begs the question, ‘Why is Abraham put in the position of having to prove what was greater, his love of God vs. his love of his son?’ Fortunately, God intervened. But Abraham had another choice available. He could have re…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…American; our son is brown, he’s Latino. I’m white. We have this modern family. My mom’s coming with us. She’s 84. It’s a multigenerational, multiethnic family.” Osius said he has not seen any negative reaction to his confirmation within Vietnam — a picture of him with Clay and their son went viral within the country. Australia: Member of Parliament Comes Out, Calls for Marriage Equality On Thursday, Liberal MP Don Harwin came out as part of his…

‘Welcome to the War’: What a Creationist Conference Can Teach us About Evangelical Vaccine Resistance

By Caroline Matas

…st likely to indicate outright refusal to take a Covid-19 vaccine, while a number of other studies have also found that number hovering close to 25 percent. Journalists and academics alike have attempted to make sense of this discrepancy, pointing to existential fear, anti-intellectualism, and Christian nationalism as potential influences on American evangelicals’ vaccine antipathy. As a scholar of American evangelicalism and media, I am inclined…

Resurrection of ‘Comstock Laws’ Would Threaten Access to Abortifacients — But Even That Fear Misses Bigger Picture

By Gillian Frank

…ally prescribe contraceptives to married couples. In the 29 states that permitted them in the mid-1930s, birth control clinics might also provide information and tools to married women to control fertility. Such clinics often required referrals from doctors, hospitals or social agencies. But many—especially the poor and the unmarried—weren’t lucky or privileged enough to access these resources. Notably, in states like Massachusetts and Connecticut…

Religious Opposition To LGBT Equality Softening

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…opposition is softening. The UK-based religious think-tank Ekklesia is claiming that a growing number of Christian groups are now identifying as supporting gays and lesbians than in previous years. In a press release, Symon Hill, associate director of Ekklesia, noted that a welcoming religious presence has grown in gay pride parades around the world: The increasing Christian acceptance of same-sex relationships is highlighted by the image of liber…

Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science

By Sammy Feldblum

…y impoverished. So who lives near the factories that have all the toxic chemicals coming out of them? Not really wealthy people, they don’t choose to live there. But people have to live there. So when you start attaching care for environment to care for people, then religious people can really get on board with that. All stripes of religious people can get on board with caring for fellow human beings. I think sometimes you need to reframe things t…

Trump is a Nightmare, Sure, But Can He Actually Do Anything?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…they seem. While I usually embark on reporting projects without a pre-determined outcome, I’ll admit that I expected measured responses from my sources, and assumed they would assuage some of the fear and doomsday predictions that currently cloud my feed. I was wrong. Across the board, experts I spoke with who’ve studied history, dedicated their lives to advancing civil rights, and worked across several administrations pursuing greater equity, sai…

Census Reveals Gay People are Shockingly… Normal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…e way of a good lie and have vowed to continue their efforts to keep discrimination against gay people in place. Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, addressed the same-sex marriage issue during an interview on the CBS program 60 Minutes, urging policymakers not to tamper with the definition of what he termed “authentic marriage.” “I love my mom, but I don’t have the right to marry her,” said the archbishop, whose national public profile as a spokesman fo…

New Research Links Spiritual-Not-Religious to Mental Disorder

By Elizabeth Drescher

…of Texas, Austin) and Meredith Worthen (University of Oklahoma) suggests a number of cautions that might well be applied to studies like that offered by King and colleagues. In their review, Musick and Worthen found no direct causal relationship between religion and health, with service attendance alone showing a meaningful correlation that extends to measured benefits in mortality. Going to church seems to be a good thing healthwise, but it’s not…