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Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ition) Act, enacted in 2014, outlaws any kind of same-sex relationship with 14 years’ imprisonment. The law also punishes establishing, supporting, and participating in gay organisations, clubs and public displays of affection with 10 years in prison. Human Rights Watch has reported that the law has led to an increase in extortion and violence against LGBT people and has also imposed restrictions on nongovernmental organisations providing essentia…

Baptist Resolutions Signal More Culture War

By Paul Harvey

…te capitalizing on the language of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (itself a response, ironically, to the words of Antonin Scalia in the Smith “peyote” case of 1988). Certainly convention leaders have made some notable moves: dissing Donald Trump on Twitter, expressing dismay at the support of Trump by evangelical writers such as Eric Metaxas (author of a recent, deeply flawed book that “explores the forgotten connections between fai…

Women Have Abortions Whatever Their Religion

By Dennis S. Ross

…es her destiny; and, in another surprise to many, she may in fact have the support of her clergy. Religious leaders approach abortion in different ways. First are clergy, including myself and others from a wide array of denominations (Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians, Presbyterians, Lutherans, as well as clergy from the United Church of Christ, Judaism and more) who believe it is morally proper to provide access to all the medical services: pre-…

Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

By Ben Lorber

…oncealed desire for intimacy persists. One telling meme features the iconic 1818 painting “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” by German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich, which was once admired by Nazi leaders for its ubermensch overtones. “Wanderer” shows a solitary White man, dressed in 19th-century aristocratic garb, poised atop a jagged rock face, surveying the crashing, foggy seas below. In meme form, it’s especially common in White national…

Huckabee in the Holy Land: A Christian Zionist Campaign

By Shalom Goldman

…ligious beliefs have, as far back as 1948, played a significant part in US support for Israel. In the period from 1948 to the mid ’70s, when both the United States and Israel were led by governments with secular democratic agendas, the ‘Cyrus idea’ was present, if somewhat muted. The confluence of the George W. Bush presidency and a rightward shift in the Israeli government meant that visions of the Third Temple were no longer thought of as metaph…

New Report: More Sex in the Pulpit

By Jeanne Carstensen

…congregations welcome gays and lesbians, and same-sex marriage is gaining support and is now legal in five states. Even as the Religious Institute is at odds with the religious right on many issues, particularly LGBT and reproductive rights, Haffner sees important common ground between progressives and more moderate and even conservative faith communities on many sexuality issues, including the need for marriage counseling, clergy education on se…

Did Uganda’s President Really Veto the Anti-Gay Bill?

By Kapya Kaoma

…d be treated accordingly. At least superficially, Museveni may appear more supportive of LGBT persons, yet his position has changed little. He made a similar argument during the installation of the new Archbishop of Anglican Church of Uganda, Most. Rev. Stanley Ntagali, in Kampala, on December 17, 2012. Before Europeans reached Uganda, Museveni told the audience, “I knew of two kings and one chief who practiced homosexuality. They were not persecu…

What ‘Faith Groups Do X’ Journalism Reveals About the Press’s Priorities

By Chrissy Stroop

…ng value and intellectual assumption that drives the “How Can Evangelicals Support Trump?” subgenre. Christian cultural hegemony—which in the United States goes hand in hand with support for capitalism—is at stake. Even now, after a right-wing Christian insurrection, exvangelical voices still just barely register in the press. “Faith groups,” however, which major media outlets mostly reduce to a vague Christianity, still regularly get good press i…

Evangelical Church of Torture and Jack Bauer

By Jonathan L. Walton

…torture. The more one attends religious service, the greater the level of support. And white evangelical Protestants offered the greatest amount of support for torture with a majority (62%) of respondents believing that torture can at least sometimes be justified. I am sickened but not terribly shocked. This glib view of the brutality and inhumanity of torture is bound up in a particular strand of American Christian theology that’s been a growing…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…l and to reach out in compassion to those who need conversion, repentance, support, and hope. The Bible says in Luke 6:36-37 ‘Be merciful just as your Father is merciful. Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. New Ways Ministry is asking readers to write to Pope Francis and Archbishop Blume and encourage them to publicly oppose the legislation in Uganda. Though the U…