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Catholics Across the Globe Reject Vatican’s LGBTQ Cruelty — Others Blame the Sock

By Mary E. Hunt

…n many countries, notably Germany, Belgium, and Austria, have voiced their support for LGBTQ+ people against what former Irish president Mary McAleese called a decision that is “gratuitously cruel in the extreme.” Theologians in large numbers have expressed their disdain. Protestant pastors have stepped forth and welcomed same-sex couples to their churches, offering blessings. I bet many would offer legal marriage as well, hardly poaching adherent…

Paul Ryan’s Bible, Jim Wallis’, Or None of the Above?

By Sarah Posner

…. He’s obsessed with Harry Bridges, the great union organizer. One night in 1935, after the great strike of 1934, Vereide says God gave him a vision that Christianity has spent 2,000 years looking in the wrong direction. SP: Helping the poor, you mean? JS: Yes. The down and out, the suffering, the weak, and the poor. God doesn’t want to have soup kitchens or social welfare programs, God doesn’t like what FDR is doing. What about the up-and-out? Do…

Religious Leaders Urge Obama to Allow Abortion Funding in Foreign Aid

By Frances Kissling

…should be made available and accessible, and US foreign assistance should support such access.” While the usual progressive suspects are signers, the letter has garnered remarkable support from mainstream denominational leaders including The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church and Rev. Geoffrey A. Black, General Minister and President, United Church of Christ. The Catholic community is represent…

UK Church Leader Resigns Over Planned Removal of Occupy Protesters (Updated)

By Daniel Schultz

…said it was their duty to stand up for peaceful protest in the absence of support from St Paul’s. One Christian protester, Tanya Paton, said: “We represent peace, unity and love. A ring of prayer is a wonderful symbol.” … Christian groups that have publicly sided with the protesters include one of the oldest Christian charities, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the oldest national student organisation, the Student Christian Movement, Christi…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ll released at the end of last week brought bad news for marriage equality supporters, saying that support for marriage equality has “crashed” and reporting that fewer than 60 percent of young voters said they planned to vote. Marriage equality supporters responded with “the biggest demonstration for LGBTIQ people in Australia’s history” in Sydney on Sunday. At a rally in Brisbane, some marchers sang Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” in response to…

Meddling Bishops Accuse Clinton of Meddling

By Patricia Miller

…n crushes it at the dinner and at the following debate and wins reelection. 1996: President Bill Clinton isn’t invited after clashing with the Catholic hierarchy over his veto of a bill to ban the mythical “partial-birth” abortion. 2004: In the middle of a polarizing fight with John Kerry over his pro-choice stance, the hierarchy declines to invite either Kerry or George W. Bush because it could “provoke division and disagreement.” Kerry goes on t…

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Mitt Romney, the Public Face of Mormonism, Reckons with His Alienation From a Radicalized GOP and His Role in Enabling it

By Benjamin E. Park

…our decades that followed George’s campaign. (He had lost the nomination in 1968 not due to his faith, but because he said he’d been “brainwashed” into supporting the war in Vietnam as well as the party’s turn to Nixonesque extremism.) The rise of the Christian Right threatened the cultural gains Mormons had won through assimilation, because evangelicals were wont to highlight their alleged “heresies.” But it also offered an opportunity for the La…

The Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Ted Cruz Endorsement Edition

By Sarah Posner

…and spiritual commitment. Heidi and I are grateful to have his prayers and support. With the support of Mike and many other people of faith, we will fight the good fight, finish the course, and keep the faith.” While Cruz presents Bickle as the leader of an “evangelical missions organization based on prayer,” former followers tell a very different story. As I reported for Talking Points Memo in late 2014 (note: the full piece is behind a paywall),…

Democratic Egypt Tests a Divided Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ted that the Brotherhood does not advocate a theocratic state, nor does it support rule by the clerics as in Iran. It has a particular Islamist agenda but supports a democratic process. In any case, what this does show is that this is not an Islamist revolution, as Haroon Moghul argues in his must-read essay, “4 Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Islamic.”) But of all countries, Israel knows that radical, even terrorist, organizations can be tr…

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

By Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky

…is all along, meaning that it’s never been much of a secret why they would support Trump. Just before the inauguration, James Dobson wrote that evangelicals supported Trump for three main reasons: “the sanctity of human life, the Constitutional guarantees of religious liberty that are being shredded, and the promise by Mr. Trump to appoint pro-life Justices to the Supreme Court.” Thus, unlike their liberal religious counterparts, who tend to focus…