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Did Mormon Morality Teachings Really Make it Harder for Elizabeth Smart to Run?

By Joanna Brooks

…manuals of the LDS Church. The most current LDS youth manuals (released in January 2013) reflect a steady effort on the part of LDS Church leaders to revise out especially punitive messages about sexuality, especially those that might compound feelings of guilt or shame in abuse or violence survivors. Says one guide for LDS youth, “Victims of rape, incest, or other sexual abuse are not guilty of sin. If you have been a victim of any of these crime…

A Pair of Exhibitions Demonstrate How Biases Color the History of Jerusalem

By Gordon Haber

…as in ours, it depends on who’s looking. “Jerusalem 1000-1400” runs until January 8; “Faith and Photography” until February 5. Salzmann runs until until February 5th. A Christian-themed vase with painted enamel agricultural scenes. Two-handed steel swords. A 1274 marble plaque from the tomb of Abu Hurayra, a companion of Muhammed. An Egyptian-made brass pen box inlaid with gold. A page from a 1232 Bible in Samaritan Hebrew. The show opens with im…

Anti-Gay Campaign In Indonesia Leads to Arrests; Mexico’s Religious Right Wars Against Secular State & LGBT Equality; Muslim Preacher Sparks Controversy in UK Re Death Penalty For Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ntry and the term “LGBT” was barely known outside activist circles, but in January lawmakers began describing the movement as an existential threat to the country. It was a new front in a long-running culture war over the place of Islam in a country that is 87% Muslim but officially enshrines freedom of religion. Anti-LGBT activists portray LGBT presence online as a sinister force: Though Indonesia is home to more Muslims than any other nation on…

Is Buddhism Opposed to Self-Defense?

By M. Sophia Newman

…ate. In large part, they agree with Badri Pandey, father of Jyoti, who in January told the news media, “My daughter didn’t do anything wrong. She died while protecting herself.” But what the Buddhist teachings forbid isn’t self-defense. It’s anger. In the country where Buddhism originated, this, too, is ignored. Protests against violence were volatile enough to injure dozens of people. Epperson says interest in self-defense emerged from frighten…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…dn’t consider yourself Jewish. The key fact, ultimately, was one of blood. January 20th, 2017 As a reminder, the United States government already uses a racially-tinged method for singling out Muslims in security-sensitive places, such as airports. Officially, it’s called random screening. Accurately, it’s called profiling. It has persisted under the Obama administration, and it’s hard to imagine Hillary Clinton scaling it back. In this light, Tru…

UPDATE: Sam Brownback as Religious Freedom Ambassador? His Distinguished Predecessor Hopes for the Best

By Peter Laarman

…ot currently be enforced. Shockingly, in his State of the State address in January 2014, Brownback said that Kansas had been “called to be a national leader on moral issues,” citing the 1991 and and 2001 “Summer of Mercy” anti-abortion protests that ultimately led to the murder⎯in a church, no less⎯of Wichita abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. It’s no surprise Brownback has repeatedly clashed with Equality Kansas, which condemned his appointment…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…roposed amendments follow anunprecedented anti-LGBT campaign that began in January with a series of biased and false statements about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people fromgovernment officials and politicians. The anti-LGBT onslaught provided social sanction for harassment and violence againstLGBT Indonesians, and death threats by militant Islamists. Government institutions, including the National Broadcasting Commission and th…

With Creation of Little Noticed Department, Pope Francis is Securing Liberal Reforms

By Cormac Shine

…step towards putting his stamp on the workings of the Curia itself on 1st January, when the newly formed Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development formally began its work. Announced in August 2016 in his Humanam Progressionem, a document that attracted little attention in secular media outlets, the new department merges the work of four pontifical councils established during the Vatican II era, encompassing the briefs of justice and peac…

‘Catholic Feminist’ Isn’t an Oxymoron, and Other Tales From a Beleaguered Tradition

By Celia Wexler

…articipated in the Key West Literary Seminar’s Writers Workshop Program in January 2013. I shared my chapter in a memoir writing workshop led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais. I knew my husband liked the chapter, but I had no idea what others would think. I had never written anything so personal. I so feared exposure that I came close to bolting before I introduced my chapter to the class. But Maddie and my colleagues in the gr…

Irony Watch: Trump’s Travel Ban Violates Religious Freedom Act According to ACLU Lawsuit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…, marks a new development in the ongoing legal battle over the president’s January 27 order. “The executive order violates two of our most cherished constitutional protections,” the complaint alleges, including the Fifth Amendment’s promise of equal protection under the law, and “the guarantee that government will not establish, favor, discriminate against, or condemn any religion, and the guarantee of equal protection of the laws.” Since the Equa…