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An Extravagant Welcome For All: Believe Out Loud, a Faith-Based LGBT Campaign, Launches

By Peter Laarman

…. Jones identified roughly 40 percent of mainline clergy in the “uncertain middle” who might be willing to demonstrate more leadership on LGBT issues if they that felt their congregants would welcome it. Other research shows that many Mainline Protestant laypeople have been waiting for their clergy leaders to initiate a dialogue. According to Charlie Cardillo, principal and creative director at San Francisco-based Underground Ads (the firm that de…

A Post-Christian America? Not Quite—Though Devoutly to be Wished

By Peter Laarman

…bama has made these views important as a substantial part of the Council’s mission relates to women’s role and sexual and reproductive rights. So what’s this about? I have a theory, and I admit it’s only a theory, that the Obamans continue to overreact to 2004, when Bush and the Republicans retained governing power by vacuuming up the votes of religious conservatives. Since then the Democratic establishment has been trying to cozy up in various wa…

After More Mass Shootings It’s Time to Call Out White Supremacy in the Pews

By Peter Laarman

…civilians have more assault rifles in their possession than does the U.S. military. All well and good. But we have too few leaders who will talk about the deeper roots of these things or attempt to explain why American culture is “exceptional”—exceptional in its toxicity, that is. A growing number of truth telling historians are eager to help us discover these deeper roots if we are willing to listen. Here I’m thinking mainly of scholars like Rox…

Exclusive: Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz, Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s Just Gotten More Secretive

By Frederick Clarkson

…change our model of government into a theocracy” and that the bills don’t “mimic or enact any particular religious code.” However, the inclusion of “The Ten Commandments Display Act” isn’t very convincing on that score. They further insist that the model bills promote “religious tolerance” and that they “do not force any religion on anyone,” yet the “National Motto Display Act” calls for the posting of the Christian religious slogan “In God We Tru…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…ting African LGBTs Alturi profiles Joseph Tolton of the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries whose work in Africa has grown 2009, when news reports about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act began circulating and Tolton traveled to the country. “I fell in love with the people, I fell in love with the land, I fell in love with the possibilities. I felt very connected to their struggle,” he says. “There was this idea of what it meant to participate in reco…

The Abortion Debate, Texas Style

By Dhawn Martin

…uring this called legislative session, I will wear orange—not as a challenge, but as an invitation to generous engagement. And here’s hoping we might alter the dynamics of the abortion debate, Texas-style….

The Fretting About Whether Democrats Are “Friendly” To Religion

By Sarah Posner

…ns describing the Democratic Party as friendly toward religion returned in mid-2009 to levels similar to those seen in 2005 through 2007. About one-in-five say Democrats are unfriendly toward religion (22%), up from 15% who felt that way last year but about the same as in surveys conducted in 2005 and 2006. Views of the Democrats’ stance toward religion have soured sharply among groups that were already inclined to view the Democratic Party negati…

Demonized and Demonizing No More.

By Joanna Brooks

…aluable about Faitheist is that it moves atheism away from the kind of polemic that ends up focusing on truth claims in a very literal way and so mirrors the religious fundamentalisms it would like to dismantle. A few months ago, when we were together at an interfaith conference, I posed to you the question of whether American atheism as a movement could further dislodge itself from a polemic truth claims approach by historicizing itself and narra…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…days, Nutrilite, which the company calls “the world’s leading brand of vitamin, mineral and dietary supplements,” is one of the company’s leading moneymakers. The company’s most important product has always been selling its version of the American Dream: the notion that any person with a fair amount of desire, spunk, and initiative with a get-up-and-go persona and a little bit of up-front money, could shape their futures. They can get rich, and th…

3 Reasons Catholic Bishops Are Holding Their Tongues on GOP Health Care Debacle

By Patricia Miller

…s, under Trump a number of anti-contraception activists have been given prominent roles in the administration. They are moving not just to finalize a rule that would allow any entity to opt-out of the contraceptive mandate for any reason, which has long been on the bishops’ wish list, but have a history of attacking contraception in general. Katy Talento, who is now a White House domestic policy aide, has warned of the (false) health risks of oral…