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‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning

By Chrissy Stroop

…essing abortion care. This newly passed bill, which Stitt will most likely sign, retains the cruel and bizarre “bounty hunter” enforcement mechanism pioneered in Texas while banning abortion from conception except to save the life of the mother. The bill does not include exceptions for rape or incest. As The New York Times reports, the law’s enforcement language also extends to those who help pay for abortions, a provision that’s likely to have a…

The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Eric C. Miller

…e inherent to evangelicalism? Or southern evangelicalism? Or was it just a sign of the times? It’s indicative of the times, in a way, because that kind of racist rhetoric about rock and roll also appeared in national newspapers and magazines. But what I found in the case of the American South was that there was often this funny discourse about the missionary enterprise of these organizations—the experiences that their missionaries had had in the f…

Becoming the Common: Why I Got Arrested in North Carolina

By Willie James Jennings

…the word of God with boldness. This shaking of the Spirit is not simply a sign of power, but of pleasure. God’s excitement is evident here. Here and now God’s people are one—calling on the faith and boldness of Jesus to do the divine will. Here and now the new order confronts the old order and God sees the unfolding of divine desire in and among God’s creatures. This is the Spirit’s quivering joy exposed in the impartation of holy power. Yet what…

Conservative Christians Get in Touch with Feminist Side in Islamophobia

By Julie Ingersoll

…, not the devaluation itself. Women, and concern for women, are just pawns for the Islamophobes and for the fundamentalist Christian patriarchalists in their efforts to promote their agendas. In fact, both promote the devaluing of women that leads to the very examples they decry….

Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the league to drop its support for marriage equality gathered thousands of signatures. The effort appeared to backfire, reports Stuff, as “Same Love” shot to the top of Australian iTunes charts. Macklemore said he would donate a portion of Australian sales to the vote yes campaign. Abbott’s daughter Frances, meanwhile, has appeared in an ad for the “yes” campaign. Germany: Same-Sex Couples Begin Marrying Same-sex couples began getting married on S…

Carson’s Lead Shows Evangelicals Care More About Politics Than Religion

By Sarah Posner

…l worldview,” and that they testify to their own salvation. (Notably, in a sign of possible reasons for Trump’s decline, Bloomberg reports that likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers “remain uncertain about Trump’s Christian credentials. Only about a third consider him a committed Christian, while 28 percent say he isn’t and 40 percent say they’re not sure.”) Ben Carson has spent years burnishing his credentials as a religious right ideologue, and ha…

Masturbation & Porn Bigger Priority Than Planet & Poverty for US Bishops

By Patricia Miller

…’s worth noting that at their recently concluded fall plenary, the bishops signaled strongly about what’s on their radar when the only formal pastoral statement they issued was about what they consider a pressing pastoral crisis—pornography. The bishops couldn’t be bothered to add either the environment or the plight of distressed peoples—whether they be refugees and immigrants or the poor—to their list of key priorities, despite the fact that the…

Conservative Rep Grills Oklahoma Personhood Sponsors

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…r a floor vote, and despite the likelihood that Governor Mary Fallin would sign it into law, I think SB-1433 is in danger of becoming a political hot potato. The die-hard “personhood” position—which holds that not just life, but legal rights, begin at some poorly-understood “moment of fertilization”—is not a position all pro-life people are comfortable with. And it’s not hard to understand why: What of women with life-threatening pregnancies? Does…

The Gaines Brouhaha, BuzzFeed’s Gift to the Religious Right’s Martyr-Making Machinery

By Peter Montgomery

…o is among those who have made a cottage industry out of manufacturing and promoting bogus or wildly exaggerated stories of religious persecution. The Family Research Council and Heritage Foundation are also sounding the alarm. Glenn Beck’s The Blaze called the couple the latest victims of “an anti-Christian witch hunt,” perhaps inevitably comparing them to Jason and David Benham, brothers whose planned HGTV show was dropped after reports from Rig…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ncluding LGBT community in the event.” The report says that LGBT flags and signs were part of the parade contingent of Unifor, a Candadian private-sector union. According to Pall Singh Beesla, who was the in-charge for floats that participated in the parade under the aegis of Khalsa Diwan Society, the oldest Sikh religious body in Canada, this was the first time that LGBT community not only joined the Baisakhi parade, but got an opportunity to par…