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Does Christopher Hitchens Think Mormons are Sinistererer?

By Joanna Brooks

…d void unless welcomed by the souls of the departed. Proxy baptisms are in policy to be limited to ancestors as an expression of a Mormon theological view that the spiritual well-being of souls is connected with the spiritual well-being of their ancestors as well. That’s the policy, but in practice the process has been abused many times, often by well-intentioned but ignorant people who submit names of non-relatives for baptism with no acknowledgm…

Herman Cain Doesn’t Know his Afghan from his Uzbek

By Haroon Moghul

…he war there, inching towards an awkward conclusion, may mean more foreign policy headaches for America in coming years and even decades. We leave Afghanistan and Pakistan with tremendous instability, and ongoing militancy. American predator drones target militants, and often kill civilians, on the borderlands of Pakistan. It is a source of tremendous rage for the people in the region, and has pushed Pakistan’s military to take a more populist and…

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

By Chrissy Stroop

…ith power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” As for historical newness, it only makes sense that with the rise to prominence of Zionism in the late nineteenth century, Christian Zionism, which has roots in the Protestant Reformation, would take new forms in conjunction with the suddenly less improbable possibility of th…

Wearing White is Not Enough: A Conversation with Cherisse Scott of SisterReach

By Anita Little

…es in which they’re situated. The whole idea is to be able to push back on policy, and to educate folks with a different way of understanding biblical scripture. We hope to encourage churches to want to center social justice work—understanding that this, too, is a calling of the church. I think the conservative right has it down when it comes to commitment, so I would like to see progressives also be as enthusiastic when it comes to doing justice…

A Catholic House Divided Over Reproductive Health Care: Bishops Launch a New Campaign

By Frances Kissling

…cooperation and is a far cry from providing an employee with an insurance policy that lets her decide whether to use the provision in it for contraception. Agreeing with the woman and intending by your actions that she engage in contraceptive acts constitutes formal cooperation and would be forbidden, but does issuing an insurance policy mean you agree with all the services it provides? One may not approve of sex outside of marriage, but providin…

Romney Steers Hard Right on Immigration; Huntsman Out After New Hampshire?

By Joanna Brooks

…oft” on immigration. Romney is aiming at Perry’s support for a Texas state policy that permits the young people who came to the United States “illegally” as children to attend public universities paying in-state tuition. It’s not radical policy, but Romney’s criticism is yet another point—like Social Security—he’s using to draw a strong contrast with Perry. But doing so puts him to the right of the LDS Church-sponsored Utah Compact on Immigration…

Anglican Communion Gets Anti-Gay Secretary General; Black Gay Christians Challenge Conservative Evangelicals in Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…le during his April 9 visit to the country. As we have noted, conservative American evangelicals have traveled to the country to defend anti-gay politics there. In the International Business Times, activist Peter Tatchell writes about the efforts of Mista Majah P, a “ground-breaking pro-gay Jamaican reggae singer” and his “two-part stinging video rebuke to the homophobia and murder music commonplace throughout Jamaican reggae and dancehall scene.”…

Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…responded more quickly, securing his resignation within days and issuing a policy statement that claims “we stand with the LGBT community both in spirit, and when necessary, legally and physically, when violence rears it’s head in Uganda, Jamaica or anywhere else in the world.” This is not to say that Exodus can necessarily be trusted to independently take those and other positions in support of the life and liberty of gay people in a responsible…

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

…ee countries, Díez argues that three main key factors explain variation in policy outcomes across these cases: the strength of social movement networks forged by activists in favor of gay marriage; the access to policy making afforded by particular national political institutions; and the resonance of the frames used to demand the expansion of marriage rights to same-sex couples. Europe: Dangers for LGBT refugees from fellow asylum-seekers Gay asy…

Well, It Would Have Been a Good Religion Question…

By Sarah Posner

…tually. But religion and women’s rights are also key issues in any foreign policy debate. Obama touched on them briefly, and Romney only in passing. And in all instances, their comments related to countries other than Israel. Here’s a question that could have been asked: If the United States is keen on protecting both the rights of women and the rights of religious minorities around the world, and given our “unbreakable” bond with Israel, does ei…