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Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, no less). Keneally cites the furor over comments by former tennis great Margaret Court—who has said among other things that “gay lobbyists” are poisoning the minds of Australia’s youth with Nazi “mind control” techniques–to question Turbull’s assertions that a plebiscite would not be harmful to the LGBT community because Australians “can hold a civil public debate.” Mr Turnbull and co, meet Margaret Court. … Court asserts that Australia is a “Ch…

How Fitbit Helps a Conservative Evangelical College Monitor Students’ Bodies For Christ

By Jonathan Root

…emic honesty, but also that students “practice good health habits and regularly participate in wholesome physical activities.” ORU, like other evangelical universities, does not only enforce negative prohibitions—it also prescribes a positive vision of the “good” student. This prescriptive model—what ORU has called its “whole person” concept since its opening in 1965—is epitomized in the school’s longstanding focus on its sometimes controversial s…

Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…marries they commit one act of adultery, the issue biblically is that they are married to someone else’s spouse, so the nature of their relationship is extra-marital and outside the bounds of holiness. It is precisely analogous to the question of same-sex sexual relationships. So, ongoing adultery is the issue around divorce, but with the rise of the divorce rate the church realized if they applied the teaching in that way it was harmful to people…

Fox News Controversy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion

By Andrea R. Jain

…ation. Gandhi and Wolff, for example, suggest the reasons yoga became popular are tied up with colonialism. Several studies (for example, here and here) confirm this account by documenting the early history of modern yoga as a response to Orientalist stereotypes of India as despotic, unscientific, mystical, effeminate, and in need of Western domination, science, reason, and masculinity. Yoga became a means through which Hindu nationalists could di…

‘It’s a Gay Problem,’ and Other Myths From the Catholic Church’s Sexual Abuse Crisis

By Joelle Casteix

…culture that tolerates them. In reality, the allegedly disproportionately large number of gay priests may be related to the problem, but it isn’t the cause of it. As Robert Mickens wrote in July, and as others have noted for years, the pathologizing of queer sexualities has driven many men to the priesthood, as the vow of celibacy offers what appears to be a safe haven from negotiating a forbidden path. As a result, although he’s careful to point…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…s” and others intent on attacking the president by “execut[ing] political warfare agendas that reflect Cultural Marxist outcomes.” The theory has also been embraced by violent White nationalists, from videos produced by the neo-segregationist Council of Conservative Citizens to the manifestos of the San Diego shooter and the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik. Today, the alt-right movement is structured around the basic idea behind cultural Ma…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…e Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream Leonard Zeskind Farrar, Straus and Giroux May, 2009 I recently had the opportunity to talk with Zeskind, a friend and colleague, about his new book, the role these religious beliefs played in the development of a host of organizations, and where things stand as we inhabit the Age of Obama. How did you get started monitoring and investigating these movements? I came to the age of social cons…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…to decide this question. Just going by official National Labor Relations Board numbers (which surely underestimate the magnitude of violation), 27,000 workers had their workplace rights violated in 2006; many of these were fired outright for union activity. 44% of workers who do win union representation never get to a first contract because of employer stalling and other chicanery. According to a Cornell University study, 92 percent of private-sec…

The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church

By Paul Gorrell

…morality that is limited, exclusive, and onerous. Drawn together by this shared narrative, the church community is small, insular, and rigid in its political commitments and ethical expectations. Hauerwas’ church engages with the world by transforming its members, not by seeking to transform the ethics of its non-members. This is where the resemblance between Benedict and Hauerwas ends. While Benedict is leading his church into a period of contrac…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…years—appropriating traditionally liberal anti-racist rhetoric to accuse Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, of being a eugenicist motivated by a desire for racial fitness through breeding; or citing past instances of abuses in population control as condemnation of all family planning and reproductive health programs today. Complicating the response of abortion rights advocates to the charges is the partial—though very limited—truth t…