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Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…seeking permits for opposing events at the same time and place But on June 16, a court ruled that the police denial of a parade permit violated LGBT organizers’ freedom of assembly. BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder reported, “When the Queer Cultural Festival opened on June 9, participants were outnumbered by protestors holding signs with slogans like ‘Stop Same-Sex Marriage’ and ‘Gays Out: Homosexuals have no human rights.’” Israel: Islamic leader stirs o…

Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past

By Benjamin E. Park

…minant political message. Once settled in the far western territories after 1850, the LDS Church chafed under federal control, and when Utah became financially stable in the twentieth century LDS culture embraced mainstream economic beliefs. Joseph Smith’s political protest became a remnant of a foreign past. But the artifacts are there to be discovered, perhaps to be organized into a new political display that has relevancy in the twenty-first ce…

Critical Race Theory is Just the Latest Battle — ‘The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy’

By Christopher D. Cantwell

…higher ups within the Southern Baptist Convention expressed at least tacit support for integration, many Southern white Christians turned to their faith in order to justify their support of segregation. Of particular concern to these segregationists was interracial relationships. The integration of public spaces like schools and businesses, they believed, would inevitably lead to the integration of private places like churches and homes, which wou…

Will Christian Publishers Stand Behind Mars Hill’s Sketchy Legacy?

By Becky Garrison

…evidence that material from Driscoll’s study guide Trial: 8 Witnesses From 1 & 2 Peter (Mars Hill Church, 2009, out of print) contained material from the New Bible Commentary (InterVarsity Press, 1994) that was also used without proper citation. After Mefferd accused Driscoll of plagiarism during her interview with him on November 21, 2013, the documentation disappeared from her website though she remained unapologetic about the substance of her…

Flagship Biblical Studies Group Faces Bitter Divide Over Statements on Israel/Palestine

By Seth Sanders

…expectation of some in the guild was that every other person in it would be 100% on board with anything Israel was doing or might do. And in fact I would advise students that this makes it clear that there are serious potential career consequences for speaking up. Anything else would feel dishonest. But those of us who can worry less about that have to try to be visible to make sure [students] know that there are also plenty of people who don’t ag…

What Netanyahu Learned from Texas

By Sarah Posner

…solidarity and history, but on the idea that Israel and the United States share common democratic values.” If democratic-minded, anti-theocratic American Jews do walk away, who would be left to support Israel in the U.S., apart from the most ardent right-wing Jewish supporters of Israel? The Christian Zionists who think that America is a Christian nation….

Female Breadwinners=Death of Civilization, Says Fox Panel

By Melissa Weininger

…to the naturalness of the system of women as sole breadwinners. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a group of reformers calling themselves maskilim, or enlighteners, came along. They insisted that that Jewish society was abnormal and unnatural and needed to be brought in line with Western bourgeois values in which women remained in the household while men earned. Contemporary ultra-Orthodox communities, still vehemently rejecting the bourg…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…ubsumed and sacrificed every day to self-interest, be that oil or domestic support for Israel. Realpolitik ideologues fear the unleashing of Arab democracy, because in the battle for resources, for alliances and for fraternity, they have largely sided against Muslims. Muslims, and Arabs in particular, have been conditioned by decades of realpolitik, by decades of Western support for their oppressors, by images from Afghanistan and Iraq, by const…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…force, special Sharia police arrested two “suspected lesbians” – women aged 18 and 19 – who were spotted hugging in public. Police detained the women for four days, and released them into a government-run, week-long religious “rehabilitation” center. Kumolo needs to recognize that cancelling laws that discriminate against women and LGBT people should be a greater priority than regulations “about investments.” Until the Indonesian government revoke…

Opposition to Marriage Equality is Not the Only Scriptural Position for Christians

By George Branch-Trevathan, Daniel Eppley, Audra Franley, and Brian Riddle

…ences that are potentially relevant to modern debates (Leviticus 18, Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Timothy 1) are anomalous and/or ambiguous and/or part of mythologies or discourses that few contemporary readers recognize and fewer would endorse. Indeed, biblical writers offer little moral guidance concerning marriage at all. When they do, argues biblical scholar David Balch, they typically stress how married people can be virtuous according to the…