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Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sformation” of the Catholic Church that is under way, “a decisive shift in numbers towards the Global South—to Asia, Africa and Latin America.” A century ago, he says, two-thirds of the world’s Catholics were in Europe, but by the middle of this century that number will fall “to perhaps a sixth.” Geography is not destiny, but it is only natural that prelates from one part of the world will tend to speak for the traditions with which they are most…

Netanyahu’s Speech, Lane’s Trip, and the Impossibility of Boycotts

By Sarah Posner

…J Street has called for is a delay of the speech until after Israel’s March 17 elections (on the grounds that the March 3 speech damages U.S.-Israel relations), and even that has moved only a small number of Democrats. As Greg Sargent observes: Among them are Reps. Steve Cohen, Keith Ellison, Maxine Waters, Earl Blumenauer, Jared Huffman, and Senator Chris Coons. Others have criticized the “protocol” of the speech — which isn’t that hard, given th…

What Do Christians Think About the Netanyahu Speech?

By Sarah Posner

…i Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming address to Congress. So far, 18 members of Congress (15 House members and 3 Senators, all Democrats except for Bernie Sanders, an independent) have confirmed they are skipping the speech. Vice President Joe Biden will be out of the country. Yesterday, the Emergency Committee for Israel and Christians United for Israel, which claims to be “the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States” and “…

Is Wheaton’s Decision to End Student Insurance a Religious Liberty Ruse?

By Patricia Miller

…tudent insurance plan, which was only started a few years ago. That’s about 16 percent of the student body. It seems that if Wheaton really wanted to make a principled statement about its inability to comply with the mandate, it would cancel coverage for its employees. But that would create some real blowback for the school and serious legal challenges, both because employers with more than 50 employees are required to provide insurance under the…

Archbishop Boots LGBT Catholics from Philly Church

By Patricia Miller

…Perspectives” scheduled for September 25 which reportedly caused Chaput to cancel the group’s permission to use the space. “Unfortunately, this is yet another instance of the kind of exclusion LGBT Catholics and supporters have endured for decades. Bishops have refused to allow us to meet in our own Churches, retreat centers and colleges,” Equally Blessed said in a statement. “There is a lack of information in the Catholic Church about gender iden…

Why Donald Trump’s Love Affair With Evangelicals (Probably) Won’t Last

By Sarah Posner

…gelicals Ben Carson has long been someone whose faith was not in doubt. His 1996 book, Gifted Hands, details his difficult childhood and rise from inner city Detroit to become a prominent neurosurgeon. It is packaged as a morality tale of the role of faith in overcoming life’s obstacles. It was published by Zondervan, a leading evangelical publishing house which has gone on to publish other Carson books. Evangelicals have long seen the book in Chr…

Gimme That Old Spice Religion

By Frederick Clarkson

…Jennifer writes, “in the upper Nile. My husband, cool as a cucumber in the 120-degree heat, demonstrates that it is possible to be well-dressed even in the far reaches of Africa.” RD contributor Kathryn Joyce, author of the forthcoming Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Beacon Press, March 2009), calls it “pretty savvy marketing” in our e-mail interview: One of Vision Forum’s strongest suits is in finding and developing charism…

No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

By Johnny P. Flynn

…original people—and millions of people are turning to those traditions for spiritual sustenance in the modern world. Preservation of native languages, the key to understanding our philosophy, should be paramount to all universities and museums. While academics are assisting living traditions to preserve our languages and cultures, they need to release the dead and their last offerings they now hold captive. If the Pilgrims could do it in order to…

Pope Un-Excommunicates Four Bad Apples, Including Holocaust Denier

By Kate Childs Graham

…ad a visit scheduled to Israel for this year but it looks as if it will be cancelled. There was much controversy around the visit in relation to the Holocaust as Catholic officials demanded that a photograph caption at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial be removed as it criticizes Pope Pius XII’s conduct during World War II. Many maintain that Pius XII was not quick enough to denounce the Holocaust, while others believe that Pius XII should be made…

North America Has a Hindu Nationalist Problem, and Scholars are On the Frontlines of These Right-Wing Attacks

By Manan Ahmed, Rohit Chopra, and Audrey Truschke

…ing Indian pasts. The political ideology of Hindu nationalism is only about 100 years old, being originally inspired by fascist movements in early 20th-century Europe. Hindu nationalists, led by the paramilitary political association, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (of which the current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a member), imagine the Indian past as an era of Hindu glory that was destroyed by despotic Muslim conquerors. This vision trade…