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Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family

By Mihee Kim-Kort

…causes the death of a fetus—and neglect of a dependent. She received a 30-year-sentence on the felony neglect charge, 10 of which were suspended, but a six-year sentence for feticide to be served concurrently. She was the first woman in the US to be charged, convicted and sentenced on a feticide charge. It was eventually overturned. At the time, Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director for National Advocates for Pregnant Women, predicted: “What this conv…

For LGBTQ People Christian Schools Can Be Traumatizing

By Tris Mamone

…ivity.” “A bunch of girls were kicked out for ‘lesbian activity’ my junior year as well,” she tells Religion Dispatches. “May have been senior year.” It didn’t help that Stringer started realizing she was bisexual around the same time, although she told herself at the time she merely “admired” women’s appearances. “I think it was a coping mechanism for me to view myself as that,” she tells RD, “because if I was out or ‘acted’ on it, then I could b…

Paul Crouch, Architect of Prosperity Gospel Televangelism, Dead at 79

By Sarah Posner

…claiming her family covered up her rape by a TBN employee when she was 13 years old. The Orange County Register reported last year that Koper’s husband, Michael, filed documents in her lawsuit alleging that Jan and her son Matthew were celebrating that the elder Crouch—thought then to be on his deathbed—had signed a letter leaving them, not Paul Jr., in charge of the network. The Register, which closely follows the lawsuit against the network bas…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he court’s action as “a good first step.” As Salerno reported earlier this year, Tomlinson is pursuing a number of legal challenges to anti-LGBT laws in the region, including colonial-era sodomy laws. Salerno wrote that “primarily US-based Evangelical Christian organizations have been active” in the region, “preaching that homosexuals are deviant and dangerous, and fomenting opposition to any expansion of LGBT rights.” The “Queering Paradigms” con…

Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mmunications, confirmed that Estridge is an employee there and has been for 16 years. “At this point we are in deliberations on this matter,” he told Catholic News Agency April 20. Later in the week, he said nothing had changed and that the group would make no further comment. Price also confirmed that Catholic Relief Services does not have a policy regarding the employment of openly LGBT people or on nondiscrimination. Also this week, filmmaker P…

Again, Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

By Patricia Miller

…2 the CDF expelled Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois from the priesthood four years after he took part in the ordination of Sevre-Duszynska and stripped 92-year-old Jesuit Bill Brennan of his faculties as a priest three weeks after he said mass with Sevre-Duszynska at an annual protest at the School of the Americas. Bourgeois founded the School of the Americas Watch, which seeks the closure of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation…

Conservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…er out, to the expected apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis after next year’s synod concludes this process, writing: “At the end of the day, therefore, the only question that really matters is: When this extraordinary two-year process of reflection ends, what will Pope Francis do?” For more on the synod, watch the bloggingheads conversation between RD’s Sarah Posner and Patti Miller. Australia: Mixed Signals from Evangelical With Global Follow…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

…derful to see so many people appreciating the art form. Medina Nights This year was the first year where the festival introduced “Medina Nights.” During one night a variety of acts were held simultaneously in new venues throughout the Medina, or old city. While an excellent idea to get to explore the city, it made it difficult to see more than a couple of performances, and it looked like there were some great acts. One group of note was Gülay Hace…

How the Anti-Abortion Movement Gave us Donald Trump — and Why It Could Bring Worse

By Jonathan Dudley

…pport the killing of defenseless unborn babies—over 14,135,400 so far this year world-wide…. By comparison, Covid-19 has killed 234,000 this year worldwide.” Covid-19 is not a top concern, in this evangelical’s mind, because it has a lower body count than abortion. It’s also easy to understand how the movement could fuel authoritarianism. Harvard Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die, note a central feature…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…7 in Child Development and Research Design. Dr. Dobson served for fourteen years as Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, and simultaneously, for seventeen years on the Attending Staff of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, in the Division of Medical Genetics. He was also Director of Behavioral Research in the Division of Child Development during a portion of this time. More recentl…