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Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…me that Klimova was prosecuted under the now infamous propaganda law. Last year, Klimova was acquitted by the same court for her work with Children-404. Unfortunately, her latest victory may be short-lived. The case will now be presented before a new judge. Turkey: Cartoonists fined, but not jailed, for insinuating president is gay Two cartoonists were fined, but spared the 11-month jail term they could have received, for publishing a cartoon in a…

Women are (Still) Fleeing the Church — And the Cause is (Still) Pretty Clear

By Patricia Miller

…er levels of education correlate with greater church attendance: that same year, 27% of men and 30% of women with a high school degree or less went to church. But in 2012, something interesting happened—for the first time, the level of church attendance more or less evened out for college-educated men and women, with 31% of men and 32% of women going weekly. Notably, while both men and women were less likely to go to church than four years earlier…

The Convergence of Passover and Easter Can Leaven (or Unleaven) the Interfaith Family’s Holiday

By Samira K. Mehta

…ersalist woman committed to raising Jewish children reflected that it took years for her to feel that she was included in that “we.” For more than a decade, she felt left out at her in-laws’ seder table, and even at her own, though she had done half of the cooking. While the historical and theological (or social) tensions are fraught for some, many more experience Easter and Passover as a set of logistical challenges. Unlike Christmas and Hanukkah…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…m James Dobson of Focus on the Family regarding an America under Obama. The 16-page letter is sent from the year 2012 and lists the many ways Obama has brought America to its knees after four years of anti-Christian rule. Clearly, this temporal message-in-a-bottle is another example of the right-wing apocalyptic imagination at work, a politicized Rapture. But perhaps Dobson is also trading upon that other apocalypse prophesied to arrive in 2012, w…

Do Boys in Tutus Break God’s ‘Chain of Command’?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…id he ask to be that?!” I say that he sure did as Halloween is the time of year that you can be whatever it is that you want to be. They continue with their nosy, probing questions as to how that was an option and didn’t I try to talk him out of it. Mom B mostly just stood there in shock and dismay. And then Mom C approaches. She had been in the main room, saw us walk in, and followed us down the hall to let me know her thoughts. And [her thoughts…

LDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19

By Joanna Brooks

…And it takes steps towards neutralizing an uneven age dynamic that made 19-year-old Mormon women and 22- and 23-year-old Mormon men peers in the LDS dating pool, an unevenness that may have shaped LDS marriage dynamics as well. Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women’s Project, said, “This is about creating a future culture of equal scripture scholarship, increased opportunities for cooperative leadership in platonic settings, and reducing the…

May GOP Save Us From Chaos: Mircea Eliade on Election 2010

By Ira Chernus

…ange is always unpredictable, it always portends the threat of chaos. This year, unlike 1994, the Republicans did not even call themselves “the party of change.” They no longer see any advantage in using that word. They want to make themselves the party of resistance to change, which is what most voters seemed to want this year. But let’s remember that most Americans did not vote. The Democrats suffered especially because their strategy of bringin…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…by a court for procedural reasons. Ireland: Marriage equality a reality by year’s end The Belfast Telegraph reports that will legal challenges out of the way, legislation implementing marriage equality, approved in a May referendum, should be passed in the coming weeks, making marriage equality a reality in Ireland before the end of the year El Salvador: Human rights groups call for more action in response to anti-LGBT violence Last week Amnesty I…

Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past

By Samuel Perry and Andrew Whitehead

…3.5 percent) of Americans intending to vote for Trump in 2020 selected the years between 2016 and the present day as America’s greatest year thus far. Source: Public Discourse and Ethics Survey (August 2020) It’s important to note that a large percentage of Americans who plan to vote for Biden chose 2008 and 2012 as America’s greatest years, likely because of Obama’s election and re-election. It’s impossible to tell if this is because those years…

Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?

By Jay Wexler

…ticle in the New York Times, for instance, reported on the case of a three-year-old who suffered mercury poisoning when her family moved into a Rhode Island apartment that had been the site of ritual mercury use by a former tenant many years earlier. ### Excerpted from When God Isn’t Green: A World-Wide Journey to Places Where Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide by Jay Wexler (Beacon Press, 2016). Reprinted with Permission from Beacon…