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Gay Marriage Supporters Rally People of Faith for Washington’s November Vote

By Nicole Neroulias

…communities are not monolithic, and we have a huge swatch of Christian denominations working with us now.” Discussions during the phone bank covered the Golden Rule, whether the Leviticus view of homosexuality as an abomination also extended to eating shrimp, and how civil marriage licenses are distinct from religious weddings. Most of the calls lasted mere seconds, with people not home or not interested. After an hour working the phones, Scott Ho…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…y) that would leave for the camps at Mina. The first bus was scheduled for midnight. Mina is only about five miles from Makkah. Give or take two hours for complication, I thought this meant that bus number two would be leaving around 2 a.m. He arbitrarily divided the group by floors: floors 6 and below would go at midnight and the rest of us would go sometime later, on the second bus. Because this is what I came for, the hajj that is, I was way of…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…inted out. International pilgrimages are much easier now, at least for the middle class that can afford plane tickets to Medjugorje and Civitavecchia. Pilgrims learn from major apparition sites exactly how to watch for the Virgin and what to do when someone spots her. And it’s much easier for the news of an apparition to reach reporters, now that visionaries and their witnesses use video cameras and the World Wide Web. President Obama made the new…

Grasping At Straws: The Problem with Common Ground on Abortion

By Frances Kissling

…ormer Archbishop of Milwaukee Rembert Weakland did this and it changed his mind about number of things, including suggesting adoption so glibly. After really dialoging on the matter, they may find that the ground has shifted. After all, it was Thich Nhat Han who pointed out there is no reason to dialogue if you are not willing to change your mind. We’d be happy to meet any time. * * * [See also Fred Clarkson’s Four Canards about Abortion Reduction…

From Shofars to Hammers: The Spiritual Warriors of MAGA are ‘ReAwakening’ to Political Violence

By Mark Clatterbuck

…the stage for two long days. While there’s good reason to worry about the number of high-ranking military officers who used the ReAwaken rally to declare war on their political opponents—while attacking US elections and a free press—it was the voices of civilian preachers like Pastor Burns who delivered the most bellicose speeches of the event, unfailingly leaning into violent religious rhetoric. One by one, they warned that the time for battle i…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…coverage of the march does wax and wane. A march in the first year of an administration that promised to take a strong stance against abortion is likely to get more coverage than one that happens in the seventh year of a pro-choice administration when there’s no major abortion issue on the national agenda. But it’s also true that the mainstream media has bent over backwards to cover what at best is an annual act of political theater designed to cr…

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

…ions made in Pink Smoke. Early on in the film, Fresen narrates how, as a seminary professor, she was allowed to teach preaching to seminarians but was forbidden to preach herself during the Catholic liturgy. She then revisits her realization that the passage in canon law that excludes women from the priesthood is “the same as the apartheid laws…” That Church law, she tells viewers, is “just the same as saying only white people can live in the citi…

Dutch Treat: Betsy DeVos and the Christian Schools Movement

By Peter Laarman

…rter schools and her lavish spending to promote low-performing charters in Michigan and in Detroit in particular. While billionaire fascination with charters (and here the interventions of the Waltons and the Broads make the DeVos family look like pikers) is well worth exploring and exposing, the steady advance of state-level schemes to fund religious education using taxpayer funds barely breaks the surface of media attention. State support for re…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tion urges Nepalese lawmakers to “make necessary changes” to address discriminatory criminal and civil laws. “Make the family law inclusive to protect the family members who are sexual and gender minorities as the heterosexual family members are protected,” it reads, according to Pant…. Media reports indicate the committee formally submitted its recommendations to Nepalese Chief Secretary Lila Mani Poudyal in Kathmandu, the country’s capital, on M…

After Mumbai: Winning the Global War on Terror

By Mark Woodward

…ngs of Islam.” To those who do not understand Islam, the language may seem mild, but in Islamic terms, it is one step short of declaring the attackers kafir—something that moderates will not do, because using this language would be resorting to the tactics of the extremists. However, there is a Hadith (tradition of the Prophet Muhammad) according to which a Muslim who denounces a fellow Muslim as a kafir becomes one himself. Wars, including the Gl…