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The True Meaning of ‘Law and Order’ Became Painfully Clear on January 6

By Jemar Tisby

…e United States.” Even the laws are different when it comes to protests in support of Black civil rights. In 1967, a state representative from California named Don Mulford proposed a bill to outlaw the open carrying of loaded firearms. He proposed this bill in direct response to the Black Panther Party which had been conducting armed patrols to monitor police interactions with local Black residents to help prevent incidents of police brutality. On…

Tainted Love: The Cost of Sojourners’ Refusal to Take Sides on LGBT Issues

By Jamie L. Manson

…violence. They know these LGBT people, love them, and, at least privately, support them. But I’m not sure they realize the spiritually damaging results of their unwillingness to be more forthright and prophetic about their support of gays and lesbians. So many religious gays and lesbians have to operate “under the radar,” and keep silent about their personal lives in order to answer God’s calling. (Check out the list of bloggers on Wallis’ “God’…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s’ proposal, couples entering into civil partnerships would have to be over 18, compared to 16 for married couples, and would be banned from solemnizing their relationships in religious places of worship. According to Latvian news agency Diena.lv, Spolitis announced on Thursday that he had submitted his bill to the Latvian Parliament’s Legal Committee in the hope that it can be voted on in the Parliament before the end of the year. However opponen…

Surprising New Poll on Evangelicals and Religious Exceptions

By Peter Laarman

…hile six out of ten Americans would not vote for an accused candidate, the number drops to 41% of GOP women and 28% of GOP men. Worse, 56% of the Republicans polled said they would consider supporting a candidate facing multiple accusations of harassment. Ditto for the partisan split in regard to women serving in public office. Dems not only tend to support the idea that we’re better off with women in leadership, but they show a clear preference f…

Compare the Midterms to Presidential Elections and an Interesting Story Emerges

By Daniel Schultz

…iously unaffiliated voters were 11 percent of total voters. In 2014, it was 12 percent. This year, it’s 17 percent. Over the same period, percentages of white evangelical voters have remained relatively stable between 24 percent and 26 percent. Protestants are no longer the majority of the electorate, for the first time in American history. No doubt this year’s increase in the unaffiliated vote overlaps with a jump in youth participation, but that…

I Created the Hashtag #EmptythePews Because It’s Time for Evangelicals To Walk Out of Toxic Churches

By Chrissy Stroop

…s a greater moral compass. So so sad. — Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) August 16, 2017 Meanwhile, prominent evangelical Trump supporters were either praising Trump or tweeting about anything and everything that had nothing to do with Nazis in Charlottesville and how the president’s Tuesday news conference made white nationalist and former KKK grand wizard David Duke very happy. Today, President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Fr…

Are Mormons Changing Their Stance on Homosexuality?

By John-Charles Duffy

…ould be able to do so in the afterlife.) Over the past decade and a half, support has grown at LDS headquarters for the idea that homosexuality may be inborn and immutable. Those who hold this view—no one’s named it, but I’ll call it the “inborn/celibacy” view—still regard acting on homosexual tendencies as sinful, but celibacy rather than reparative therapy becomes the logical response. The editing of Boyd K. Packer’s address and the revised Chu…

Conservatives Stand Together for Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Sarah Posner

…that the hate group designation doesn’t mean the SPLC thinks everyone who supports the FRC “has a full understanding of what they’re up to.” Many who support the FRC may do so because of the group’s very public ties to evangelical Christianity, and Beirich stressed that the SPLC designation has nothing to do with an “attack on the churchly world.” I asked her if a Republican choosing to address the FRC convention next year would be making the sam…

Religious Freedom Historian John Ragosta on “Religious Freedom”

By Frederick Clarkson

…nstitution, and in 1789, as the principal author of the First Amendment. In 1992 Congress designated January 16th as Religious Freedom Day to celebrate enactment of the Virginia Statute, stipulating only that it be commemorated by a presidential proclamation. Religious Freedom Day hasn’t exactly caught on, and there’s no official web site (although an evangelical education outfit managed to purchase the web address for Religious Freedom Day and ma…

Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation

By Neil J. Young

…verty and wealth were played up, played down, or reinterpreted as biblical support for “reaping what you sow” through work and personal accountability. Nothing about this was new in the 20th century. But it did have a certain saliency and overlap with evangelical anti-New Dealism, anti-communism, colonialism and activism. The variety of approaches to the Bible is what I want readers to consider. There was some agreement between businessmen regardi…