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Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ton, head of the Australian Christian Lobby, generated harsh criticism for comments comparing the marriage equality movement to the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s: Shelton warned: “Changing the definition of marriage to entrench motherless and fatherlessness in public policy and teaching our kids their gender is fluid should be opposed. “The cowardice and weakness of Australia’s ‘gatekeepers’ is causing unthinkable things to happen, jus…

Women’s Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism Is Born

By Kathryn Joyce

…o, like those men of old, know what to do.” DeMoss has collaborated with a number of her fellow speakers before. In 2002, she edited a compilation of essays on submission and headship entitled Biblical Womanhood in the Home, which drew contributions from Kassian, Hunt, and other complementarian matriarchs, such as Dorothy Kelley Patterson, who with her husband, Paige Patterson, created the homemaking degree and curriculum introduced at Southwester…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…leading brand of vitamin, mineral and dietary supplements,” is one of the company’s leading moneymakers. The company’s most important product has always been selling its version of the American Dream: the notion that any person with a fair amount of desire, spunk, and initiative with a get-up-and-go persona and a little bit of up-front money, could shape their futures. They can get rich, and their futures would include a fair amount of well-deser…

The War Within: Religion and Our Tangled Relationship with Our Bodies

By Michelle Lelwica

…ew thousand words over their original word limit, but I still had to cut a number of compelling stories of people who have struggled with body shame because of internalized cultural/religious norms and narratives about weight, disability, chronic pain or illness. I also had to omit some of my analyses of examples of the culture of physical improvement. For instance, in the chapter on aging, I nixed a rather lengthy critique I’d developed of Deepak…

Restoring Dignity: The Employee Free Choice Act

By Peter Laarman

…es; 75% hire outside consultants (union-prevention specialists) who set up command centers within the company to wage all-out war on the union; 50% threaten to shut down operations to scare workers; and 25% illegally fire union supporters. These aren’t just economic issues or labor abuses; they are human rights issues, and they were recognized as such in a Human Rights Watch report issued in 2000. In the years since that report came out, the odds…

The Incredible Shrinking Catholic Church

By Paul Gorrell

…ally, at a time when many earnest believers are being turned away from the communion rail, the Pope recently un-excommunicated Bishop Richard Williamson, who a few days before his reconciliation with the church reaffirmed his belief that the Holocaust did not happen (as Louis Ruprecht has reported on these pages). Unfazed by the possibility of public outrage, the Pope has embraced a figure who is a lightning rod when it comes to the Church’s relat…

No Conspiracy Theories Needed: Abortion Foes Cry Racism

By Kathryn Joyce

…to further an “abortion as slavery” analogy—akin to the controversial but commonplace language of an “abortion Holocaust”—comparing their fight to the struggle for civil rights or abolition. Lynching is for Amateurs Lately, however, anti-abortion groups don’t simply seize the mantle of abolitionism, but argue directly that abortion is a concerted attack on people of color. Black and brown populations are, according to the new rhetoric, allegedly…

‘Murder Among the Mormons,’ Latest True Crime Doc From Netflix, Highlights Issues of Faith, Skepticism, and Authenticity

By Benjamin E. Park

…nch opposition to the ERA resulted in tremendous backlash from progressive communities; their excommunication of Sonia Johnson, a public proponent of the amendment, received national attention. Mormonism faced new pressure from all sides. The Hofmann story, then, fed into this growing trajectory of exoticizing the faith tradition just after it seemed to be on the verge of cultural assimilation. Ironically, the episode also fit into the larger stor…

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…he, another popular authority on ID, challenges Darwinist explanations for complex organic processes by reviving arguments for design based on evidence of nature’s irreducible complexity. Like Johnson, Behe does not argue for young-earth creationism, but he does assert that intelligent design is apparent in nature. Yet the bedrock for anti-evolutionism in the United States remains the biblical literalism of the Protestant fundamentalist church, wh…

Religious Practices on Trial in Arizona: The Problem With “Experts”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…in the Lakota style, not Navajo, which is the tribal affiliation of a good number of inmates in the Arizona prison system (an amazing fact that is a story for another time). So, even though a non-Indian might be compelled to be put on trial for killing people with his “ceremony,” it is Native American religion which will be the defendant in this case. Consider. James Ray’s defense might be compelled to bring in experts to argue that he did the cer…