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Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…e a handful of other candidates over the next few weeks to fill some of the 17 vacancies on the appeals courts, which are just below the level of the Supreme Court. On most of the 12 regional appeals courts, including on the Seventh Circuit for which Judge Hamilton has been nominated, a majority of the sitting judges were appointed by Republican presidents.” The paper reported that “A senior administration official said Judge Hamilton would have t…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…arriage equality or those who had not declared their positions were won by supporters of marriage equality, reports BuzzFeed. That gives supporters of marriage equality a clear majority if ruling party leaders would allow members to vote their conscience rather than stick with the party line. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is still insisting on holding a national plebiscite on the issue, which equality advocates have dismissed as expensive, divis…

10 Noteworthy Yoga Developments to Recall in 2015

By Andrea R. Jain

…ssembly on September 27, 2014, Narendra Modi called for June 21 to serve as International Yoga Day. Nearly two hundred countries, including the United States, Canada, and China, expressed their support for the proposition, and, on December 11, 2014, the General Assembly approved by consensus a resolution establishing June 21 as International Day of Yoga….

The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…s of pronouncements that contradict everything the Convention continues to support. If they were to fully and meaningfully implement this policy, I doubt that the Convention would be left with any churches as members, for they all remain complicit with racist and sexist structures that rob many of us of our very humanity. The constitutional amendment is meaningless as long as the SBC continues to advocate for the very politicians who support racis…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g up’ and when we had some difficult times in our family’s life, when I was 12, 13 the Church became this very important thing that wrapped around us and supported us.” She said her study of medieval English at university and figures like Julian of Norwich had fascinated her and reaffirmed her Faith. “I never felt the need break away,” she said. “In the past, when I didn’t go I found I missed it, it provides community and creates a space that is v…

Israeli Right Demonizes Israeli Left, With American Money

By Diane Winston

…ose of the groups that have received grants from the NIF. “We really don’t support every single thing these organizations say, but we support their right to say it,” she told Ha’aretz. “The only thing that unites them is a demand for an independent investigation, and this is totally mainstream.” But NIF, a progressive philanthropy “committed to democratic change in Israel,” has enflamed some conservative Israelis who see it as a fifth column suppo…

Do Polls Show American Public Favoring Bishops’ Position on Contraceptive Coverage?

By Sarah Posner

…, I’d want to see more data before concluding that a majority of Americans support the failed Blunt Amendment or its House counterpart, the Fortenberry bill, which the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports. If its overbreadth was explained to respondents—such as how it would permit any employer to raise religious or moral objections to any sort of coverage (think drug treatment or HIV drugs)—perhaps respondents would see things differently….

Gay Rights a Go in Chattanooga

By Michael Schulson

…African-American support for gay rights, that should be especially true of support for gay rights in Chattanooga. I grew up in Chattanooga, leaving for college in 2008. As a kid, I didn’t know a single adult who was out—although I certainly knew plenty of people who were, to varying degrees, in the closet. As recently as 2006, Chattanooga voters overwhelmingly supported an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as strictly between…

The Biggest Lesson Learned From the US War in Afghanistan is How Little We’ve Learned

By Sara Kamali

…ive values, like women’s rights, and institutions, like a free press. This support by Afghans was never met with like-minded support from Americans or allies. A generation of Americans has grown up never knowing life before September 11, 2001. So, too, has a generation of Afghans grown up under the specter of war and drones overhead. There are certainly casualties of the decades-long war on all sides. Tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers and polic…

Christian Nationalism is Authentically Christian — And According to a New Poll Most White Evangelicals are Supporters

By Chrissy Stroop

…ntified as either adherents (29%) or sympathizers (35%), compared with only 10% adherents and 19% sympathizers among the general population. Jewish and religiously unaffiliated Americans tie for the least Christian nationalist demographic, with 61% rejecters in each group. Meanwhile, PRRI’s survey finds that, at 54%, a majority of Republicans are also Christian nationalist adherents (21%) or sympathizers (33%). Also among PRRI’s findings is that “…