Religion Dispatches
…ill view this amendment for what it is, state-sanctioned discrimination and a bible-based prohibition against exogamy, which is reminiscent of previous state bans on interracial marriage that defined America’s not too distant past. This is why I pray that a solid number of black and brown voters embrace Jesus’ ethic of reciprocity on Tuesday. In other words, the Golden Rule: “Do unto others, as you would have them to do unto you!”…
Read More…uston, Seattle, Cleveland, Twin Cities, and Santiago, Chile. More than 140 Mormons are expected to march in Santiago alone. It is striking to think that it was four years ago this month that the LDS Church issued a letter to be read to California congregations urging members to full engagement in support of Proposition 8, setting into motion a headline-grabbing Mormon campaign to end civil same-sex marriage in California. Since then, Mormons for M…
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…often cooperates with major institutional investors in the responsible investor movement such as the AFL-CIO, the New York City Pension Fund, and others. In explaining the role of the broader, and evolving, company profiles related to climate risk, ICCR points to the company profile of the Illinois-based pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories, which has a high “carbon footprint” relative to other companies in the pharmaceutical sector. But it ha…
Read More…Vietnam after his fight was shot down.” Obama videos include “Obama is the most liberal Senator in the US Senate”; “Sen. Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergarten children”; “Sen. Obama’s strange assortment of friends.” ++++++++++ More on Sarah Palin’s Religious Affiliations Just when you thought that there was nothing else to discover about Sarah Palin’s religious affiliations, along comes Talk2Action’s Bruce Wilson with another video ex…
Read More…y. In 1995, two members of the Ku Klux Klan burnt Mt. Zion to the ground almo*]}*st exactly 20 years ago to the day of last month’s blaze. Once again Mt. Zion has been reduced to ashes, but the FBI says the likely cause of last month’s fire there was a lightning strike, not hatred. Intuitively, the smoke smells like a hate crime, a violent act meant to intimidate the African-American population. But is it? At the outset, the obvious needs to be stated…
Read More…nced recently that they were hiring Christiane Amanpour to front This Week most sane, intelligent people thought this was a good idea. She has a degree in journalism, traveled throughout most of the world, met with a fair number of international leaders, and covered some of the most challenging stories of the last decade with fairness and accuracy. There was a sense that perhaps ABC was treating the news like a serious business again, as opposed t…
Read More…while the disciples were undoubtedly giggling! Warren, possibly America’s most influential evangelical, clearly views his sense of humor as a crucial part of his pastor persona (his defensiveness even echoes comedian Daniel Tosh’s in the wake of an incredibly insensitive rape “joke” last year). At any rate, Warren, who is on the cusp of opening an international branch of Saddleback Church in Hong Kong (as well as one in Berlin and one in Buenos A…
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…n again, I spent most of those 18 formative years hiding from Topeka’s foremo*]}*st biblical authority, the infamous anti-gay funeral picketer, Reverend Fred Phelps. As a child I had a secret buried deep within and was convinced if what Rev. Phelps said was true—that “God Hates Fags”—then I must be the Antichrist. The fact that the US Postal Service assigned “666” as Topeka’s zip code prefix the year I was born underscored my destiny as ultimate evil;…
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…cs every year are moving here to be a part of a form of Catholic life that most of the Church left behind half a century ago.” Along just 35 miles of U.S. Highway 90, between Spokane and the well-kept, lakeside tourist town of Coeur d’Alene, there are more than 3,000 people attending Latin Mass each week. Among them we can see the full spectrum of lasting reactions to the modernizing reforms of Vatican II, including the new Mass. Father Gordon and…
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…professionals “describe crushing schedules with 10 or more patients a day, most struggling with devastating trauma or mutilated bodies that are the product of war and the highly advanced care that kept them alive.” Islam Responsible? Even with all this background information readily available and a call from Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) “that we take the time to gather all the facts, as it would be irresponsible to be the source of rumors or inaccurate…
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