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Stupak Forming Fault Lines in Left-Leaning Faith Groups?

By Sarah Posner

…press conference with Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Joe Pitts (R-PA), two of the most vociferous opponents of abortion rights in the House. On the Monday before the vote, DFLA participated in a STAM conference call with an array of religious right groups and the USCCB, who all called on supporters to push for nothing short of the restrictions Stupak was proposing. Day called Stupak a “hero” and pledged that pro-life Democrats would vote against the bill…

How to Make Nones and Lose Money: Study Shows Cost of Catholic Sex Abuse Scandals

By Kaya Oakes

…in 2003, “none of them were freaked out by the priest abuse scandal. They mostly liked and trusted their own priests, and recognized that in any organization there will always be some bad people. We saw zero evidence then that the scandal was turning teenagers away from Church.” David Clohessy, the Executive Director of SNAP (Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests), disagrees with Smith. “Generations of Catholics have been raised to respec…

“Split at the Root”: Adrienne Rich and (Religious) Identity

By Ryan Harper

…e I thought it was a pretty cool dream (especially for a napping Baptist), mostly because the woman was Adrienne Rich. With her recent death, newspapers and journals are blossoming with tributes to Adrienne Rich. They are noting that she inspired generations of women, writers and non-writers alike. They are noting her contributions to LGBT communities. These accounts are correct. Less named is Rich’s profound sense of religiosity. By a number of c…

Even After an Obama Victory Reports of the Death of the Religious Right are Greatly Exaggerated

By Bill Berkowitz

…yst, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and author of The Most Dangerous Man in America?: Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition. He went on to say that: “The depths of the religious right’s loathing of Obama can be hard for some people to grasp. I got a taste of it during the ‘Values Voter Summit’ in September. Religious right groups will use an Obama presidency to raise more funds and spur activism. They will say…

Swiftboating Obama’s Health Care Reform?

By Bill Berkowitz

…alifornia Attorney General Jerry Brown to major media. “The letter, signed mostly by former staffers at IndyMac’s now-shuttered mortgage operation, asks Brown to investigate Schumer and to prosecute him under a state law making it a misdemeanor to spread false and damaging statements or rumors about a bank,” the Los Angeles Times reported. Over the past few years, CRC, ranked the fiftieth largest independent PR agency in the U.S. in 2008: created…

Hold Your Applause: Potential Changes to Roles of Catholic Women and LGBTQ+ People May Just Be Vatican Breadcrumbing

By Mary E. Hunt

…iving generations. Incrementalism in Catholicism is measured in centuries. Most of us live less than a hundred years. The damage to women and queer people is going on right now. I shared my unease with my Australian colleague in the study of religion, Tracy McEwan, who gave words to my concerns. McEwan, along with Kathleen McPhillips and Miriam Pepper, co-authored the landmark study of 17,200 plus Catholic women that was fed into the Synod convers…

Conservative Republican Muslim Condemns Fox Report on Congressional Staffers as “Anti-Muslim Bigotry”

By Sarah Posner

…e profits from a cottage industry of peddling fear of Islam were exposed last month by the Tennessean’s religion reporter Bob Smietana. “Ninety-nine point nine percent of honest reporters toss it into the garbage can,” said Khan. “They know a smear when they see it.” He added, “I know the cast of characters and their highly dubious reputations and complete lack of expertise when it comes to Islam, Muslims, and national security.” “What I would ass…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…President Chad Griffin urged President Obama to take stronger action to demonstrate to Ugandan officials that there will “continuing and long term political and economic consequences to state-driven homophobia.” Paraguay: Activists Clash with Police at OAS Meeting In 2013, the Organization for American States adopted an anti-discrimination resolution that includes sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. This week, activists protest…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ort that at least 226 trans people were murdered in the past year, which almo*]}*st certainly under-reports the actual figure. In the US, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported earlier this year that, based on data collected from 13 states and Puerto Rico, almo*]}*st three-quarters of LGBTQ homicides in 2013 were transgender women, more than two-thirds trans women of color. In Wales, Liberal Democrats marked Transgender Awareness Week b…

The Internet Is Not Killing Religion, Religion is Killing Religion

By Elizabeth Drescher

…versity), has once again fanned the flames of this mythology by showing a “statistical association” between religious affiliation, level of college education, and internet use. This latter phenomenon Downey claims accounts for about 25% of the decline in religious affiliation. It should be noted that Downey kind of, sort of makes clear that the statistical association between internet use and affiliation “does not prove causation,” because he know…