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The Boa Has Been Passed to New Generation

By Mary E. Hunt

…t yet will be when my daughter and her friends can’t even imagine what people were worried about way back then since love and families come in countless packages. Until then, we’ll don our boas and wave our rainbow flags faithfully….

The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights

By Alan Michael Williams

…des in Salt Lake City, Boise, and other cities for the first time in large numbers, carrying banners that read “Mormons Building Bridges” (MBB). Donning Sunday attire and holding signs with messages of love, MBB forbade signs that criticized Church teachings—namely the notion that same-sex intimacy is a sin. Erika Munson, the founder of MBB, has assured me that the marches were a grassroots affair not in any way directed by Church leaders, but giv…

God is My Co-Belligerent: Avatar Priests, Hijacked Theologians, and Other Figures of Right-Wing Revolt

By Frederick Clarkson

…oposed federal regulations on contraception coverage in employer insurance packages. But he is unique in employing his status as a Bonhoeffer scholar to claim parallels between the regulations and early Nazi-era legislation, as he did, for example, in an appearance on MSNBC. The Bonhoeffer book itself has drawn praise, but also scathing commentary, especially in the community of Bonhoeffer scholars. Clifford Green wrote in Christian Century that M…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…il, stalking, suspicious and/or harassing calls, suspicious encounters and packages, theft, vandalism, trespass, IT hacking, bomb threats, death threats, residential picketing, and more. “We can’t get distracted by fear tactics and intimidation,” McCafferty said. “It’s a daily way of life for us and we can’t make a media frenzy every time we’re attacked. We have an important job to do and that means ensuring people have affordable health care.” “T…

The Woody Allen Problem: How Do We Read Pacifist Theologian (and Sexual Abuser) John Howard Yoder?

By Stephanie Krehbiel

…do. But you can look at this body of evidence. “You” meaning everybody who cares. What changes if we care? What changes if we make respect for the humanity of survivors our first priority? Protective Gossip The reemergence of Yoder’s case is a powerful reminder of the consequences of ignoring or dismissing survivors. Linda Gehman Peachey, a writer and survivor’s advocate involved with the Yoder case, told Oppenheimer, “Physically he died, but his…

Better Gay at Work Than Gay in Church

By Paul Gorrell

…argess through targeted advertising and promotions. For instance, American Airlines started an LGBT-focused campaign at the turn of the millennium and increased its Pink Dollar revenue from $20 million to over $190 million in just five years. Businesses also realize that LGBT consumers are loyal to companies that have pro-gay policies for their employees. At the same time, LGBT consumers are unwilling to use services from companies which oppose LG…

Clarion Fund Claims Times Square Bombing Attempt Proof of “Coordinated Jihad Against Western Values”

By Sarah Posner

…rious issue, and a serious threat — that of Islamism — and makes it into a cartoon.” At the web site Jews On First, which follows the religious right, a number of analysts contributed to Rebutting Obsession, which as the name suggests, cuts through the film’s ahistorical, conspiratorial, and propagandistic claims. Writing around the same time in the London Review of Books, Adam Shatz described the Clarion Fund as: a front for neoconservative and I…

The Good Bishop Is Right—The Time for Church Debates on Homosexuality is Past

By David Gillespie

…ast, vast majority of them are “guys”) ain’t gonna give up those $100,000+ packages. “Church unity,” Spong writes, “can never be a virtue that is preserved by allowing injustice, oppression, and psychological tyranny to go unchallenged.” He goes on, “I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize, and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the…

Glamour, Nostalgia, and Coming of Age: The Prom As Sacred

By Kelly J. Baker

…prom serves as the entrance into adulthood. As a coming of age ritual, it packages adult “experience” for ready consumption. It serves as one of the few cultural markers by which American teens embrace their adulthood. American life can feel devoid of rites of passage, and the prom fills this space as a symbol of this transformation. The prom combines the pleasure of material consumption with an invitation to recreate ourselves. In popular cultur…

Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity

By Shaul Magid

…izing the latter. For example, Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer said, of gift packages comprised of products manufactured in Israeli settlements, “This year I decided to send a gift for the holiday that would also help combat BDS.” Defending his gift Dermer continued, regardless of why they support BDS, the fanatics and fools are simply promoting a new anti-Semitism. Once Jews were singled out and held to a different standard than other peoples. Toda…