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Why Donald Trump’s Love Affair With Evangelicals (Probably) Won’t Last

By Sarah Posner

…ke “Obamacare is the worst thing since slavery; Obama might be planning to cancel elections; Democrats are opening the borders to bring in immigrants who will increase the welfare population and thus keep Democrats in power.” Although, Kilgore adds, “these are not unusual beliefs in the fever swamps of the far right, they are exotic for a major-party presidential candidate.” For a while, Trump’s bombast worked with some evangelicals; witness his c…

Landmark OC Megachurch Declares Bankruptcy

By Joanna Brooks

…and its opulent Easter pageant (which once drew hundreds of thousands) was cancelled. Considering the fact that they still haven’t paid the lady who loaned them the camels for last year’s Christmas pageant, it’s safe to say that the Cathedral may cancel the 2010 Glory of Christmas production as well. Is it any wonder that some of the most progressive, sustainable developments in 21st-century Southern California religion are now happening without c…

Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…homosexuality in the Africa is important to the future of the church for a number of reasons: It may well be that Pope Francis decided that a six-day whistle-stop tour of Africa was not the place to raise an issue of such delicacy. Debate on the place of gays in the church would require time for a more softer, gradualist approach. But the issue is a double impediment for Francis — and one which he should have begun publicly to address. It is a mas…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…m conservative opposition parties said they would call for a referendum to cancel the new legislation. The bill also gives some rights to unmarried heterosexual couples. Catholic Church officials attacked passage of the civil unions legislation, with Archbishop Michele Pennisi warning of “creeping fascism.” Archbishop Bruno Forte said, “It is certainly a defeat and also an impoverishment of democratic life” and said families need to be based on “t…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…society and the concept of family.” The manifesto urged the government to cancel pride celebrations, concluding, “It isn’t too late for the government to decide who it stands with – the new enslavers of Lithuania, those who will destroy our freedom, or with its own Nation, aiming to remain free.” Church of England: Gay clergy plan coming out about their marriages The Times reports that a dozen Church of England clergy are preparing to go public w…

Netanyahu Recovers from Bieber Fever

By Sarah Posner

…on or Haaretz? A report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a scheduled meeting with Justin Bieber over Bieber’s refusal to meet with injured Israeli children: The prime minister was scheduled to host the young singer at his office in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, before Bieber’s Thursday night concert. Taking advantage of the PR opportunity presented by the meeting with Bieber, Netanyahu’s advisers invited a group of chi…

Cardinal Warns Women Against Marrying Muslims: Would Bring “A Pile of Trouble”

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…ries. While the fact that women heads of state and business magnates don’t cancel out violence that women and girls face in the same countries, it degrades the dignity of Muslim women to be a warning to non-Muslim women: “Don’t marry a Muslim man, you’ll end up like them.” (cue scary music) It’s also a blow to interreligious and interracial marriages between Muslims and non-Muslims that have worked. I’m not saying bad things don’t happen (look at…

Polygamy Bus Tour, ‘Spiritual’ Healthcare for Christian Scientists, Baptizing an Alien…

By Michael J. Altman

…hurch-state separation watchdogs are calling for Fort Bragg authorities to cancel a Christian concert scheduled for Saturday. “Rock the Fort” is an evangelical concert staged by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and critics say it has no business on a government run base. Last Sunday, a group of pastors around the country decided to bait the IRS by endorsing political candidates from the pulpit during morning services. The IRS prohibits ta…

The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’

By Daniel Schultz

…faith has something to answer for in that it could bear such fruit in such numbers. That some evangelicals now wish to separate themselves from what their faith tradition has devolved into is well and good, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves about the ways that same tradition fostered the very problems to which critics now object. Second, properly speaking the problem isn’t heresy, it’s idolatry. Heresy has to do with ideas contrary to the received tr…

Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

By Cody Musselman

…sport of fitness. Not only did the global pandemic shut down many gyms and cancel in-person competitions, but scandals surrounding CrossFit’s founder and questions about CrossFit’s lack of racial equity and inclusion also rocked the CrossFit world earlier this year. In June of this year, I watched the CrossFit community implode. For nearly twenty years fanatics of the rogue fitness brand ardently followed the teachings of CrossFit’s founder and CE…