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As New Poll Finds “Increased Xenophobic Streak,” Republicans Heighten Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

By Sarah Posner

…didates and governors pronounce Muslims and Syrian refugees personae non grata after the horrific massacres in Paris on Friday, a major new poll about Americans’ religious and cultural attitudes provides an ominous look at Americans’ views on immigrants and Islam in particular. The Public Religion Research Institute’s 2015 Religious Landscape Survey, released today in a new report, “Anxiety, Nostalgia, and Mistrust,” finds “Americans’ perceptions…

UPDATED: Oklahoma Personhood Bill Not Dead…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…klahoma bill SB-1433—the so-called personhood bill, backed by Personhood USA and Oklahomans for Life—is dead. According to a press release sent out minutes ago by Speaker Kris Steele’s office, the bill will not come up for a vote: The House Republican Caucus voted today not to hear the personhood bill on the House floor. This decision was not made unilaterally, but as a caucus collectively. I accept the will of our caucus. The fact is this bill s…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e the vote, anti-LGBT activist Austin Ruse had warned supporters: A major catastrophe is about to happen at UN Headquarters in Geneva. The sexual revolutionaries are about to defeat the forces of truth and goodness. It has been the long-term project of the sexual revolutionaries to undermine the teachings of the Church and to impose a new sexual orthodoxy on the whole world. The new sexual orthodoxy is nothing more than a new religion celebrating…

Pope Francis Praised for ‘Civil Unions’ Comment, But Justice Begins at Home—In the Vatican

By Mary E. Hunt

…vil unions must be read. The whole statement took about thirty seconds (of a 117 minute film). It was connected to a vignette of a man who handed the Pope a letter after Mass explaining that he and his male partner weren’t sure about taking their three adopted children to church for fear of how their family would be treated. Francis called him and explained that they should go to church, that the children would benefit more from going than not goi…

Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

By Peter Montgomery

…with Bishop David Zubik to tell him that his rhetoric—Zubik accused the Obama administration of telling Catholics “To Hell with you!”—was angering parishioners. Fr. Neil McCaulley spoke with National Catholic Reporter: McCaulley, who is retired after serving 46 years as a parish priest in the Pittsburgh area, said the idea for the meeting with Zubik first came as members of his group talked with others and decided “we owed it to the people… of th…

Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…US who has written extensively about LGBT rights in the Arab world, sees Maalouf’s January 26 ruling as “critical to the ongoing agitations of activists in Lebanon to decriminalise homosexuality”. “The contest, however, is going to be over the legislative system’s willingness to enshrine anti-discrimination laws explicitly. There is tremendous resistance against this, it is seen as a threat,” she told Fairfax Media. The verdict has caused uproar…

New Poll: Evangelicals Backing Trump

By Daniel Schultz

…ere is no surprise. Not much, anyway. What we have here is a case of Lucy managing to pull the football out from under poor old Charlie Brown, again. We go through this every four years: there’s a flurry of articles wondering Is This The End Of The Religious Right?, pointing to the emergence of a new liberal wing of the evangelical movement, or declaring that this is the year evangelicals are going to totes break up with the GOP nominee. And then…

Did North Carolinians Vote Against their Own Beliefs?

By Peter Montgomery

…position to the amendment by Rev. Dr. William Barber, head of the state’s NAACP chapter, who vigorously opposed the effort to write discrimination into the constitution even thought the NAACP does not have an official position on marriage equality. In spite of the big loss at the polls, equality advocates are not going to curl up in a ball. Tomorrow morning, more than 40 couples taking part in the WE DO campaign are reportedly planning to apply fo…

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

By Ryan Harper

…counts are correct. Less named is Rich’s profound sense of religiosity. By a number of criteria, she was not a religious poet or a religious person. Those who believe religious identity reduces to unqualified assent to the right doctrines, possession of the right genes, or endorsement of the right state will find little religious in Rich’s life and work. But Rich has something to offer any person who wrestles with a tradition, and all of its tangl…

The Role of Faith in the Lives of Abortion Providers

By Sarah Posner

…not to continue her work as an escort. Her activism, however, continues unabated, including recently organizing an event, “Contraception Is Not Controversial” in Chicago with Democratic Representatives Mike Quigley and Jan Schakowsky. The doctor said she is worried about the increasing number of restrictions on abortion states are implementing. (To get a sense how women’s access to abortion is shrinking across the country, take a look at this map…