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Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…s, reports Agence France Presse, even though most of the country’s bishops supported the proposal. Norway was among the first countries in Europe to grant homosexuals full rights, including marriage and adoption in 2009, but the Church does not marry same-sex couples. Eight of Norway’s 12 bishops said in October they favoured such a move, but on Tuesday the Church’s highest decision-making body the synod rejected the proposal…. Delegates at the…

Christian Pollsters Find “Homosexual Behavior” Gaining Moral Ground

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ow even more in the “No” column as those “undecided” on the issue grew from 13% to 17% since their last poll. Evidence of growth within the “moveable middle” and Louis Giglio’s swift withdrawal from Pres. Barack Obama’s inauguration after an anti-gay sermon surfaced (and much prevarication after its discovery from Giglio), is certainly a sign that homosexuality, for the large portion of the population, will soon be a non-issue. David Cole gives a…

The Real Mormon Moment

By Joanna Brooks

…after a wave of excommunications directed at high profile feminists in the 1990s, there were no such courts for more than a decade. We used the internet to regroup and grow in numbers. The Church even developed its own web-based resources to acknowledge and address its own controversies—historic and contemporary. This, we thought, was a good sign. A sign that might not need to fear losing our membership, our place, in a cherished tradition, just…

Will Sisters Save the Catholic Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…t and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, a nearly 100-year-old coalition of more than 1000 non-profit hospitals, spoke knowledgeably and honestly about the contents of the bill. Her organization reasoned that any lingering doubts on the abortion question (and there were few if any among well-informed people on both sides of the question) were more than outweighed by the thirty million uninsured people who would be covered…

New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country

By David R. Brockman

…f it does not become law, it can still provide the basis to shore up later support for other governmental entities to support religious displays.’” In short, if Texas is any indicator, the rise to power of Christian Americanists may not mean an immediate shift to conservative Christian theocracy. Instead, church-state separation and religious freedom may die a death of a thousand cuts. As I argue in the report, Christian Americanism “poses a clear…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rospection on the nature of marriage, and the evolving nature of society. “Supporting civil partnerships, and supporting same sex marriage has not been an easy journey for me,’’ Mr Bleijie said. “I have gone from being the attorney-general responsible for abolishing same sex civil partnerships in Queensland, to intending to vote in favour in the forthcoming federal plebiscite.’’ Bleijie’s shift was also not easy for the Australian Christian Lobby…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f 116 to 22 in August 2011, which came shortly after PCUSA passed Amendment 10-A — preceding Amendment 14-F by nearly four years. “The Mexican delegates also voted not to re-establish any relationship with the PC(USA) until 10-A is rescinded,”Presbyterian Outlook’s Leslie Scanton reported. “The PC(USA) representatives were hopeful that the Mexican Presbyterians might give the relationship more time ― but that was not to be.” Mexico, Brazil and Per…

A Short Goodbye

By Lauri Lebo

…cks against education are coming in the form of drastic budget cuts and in support for unconstitutional voucher programs that would allow private and religious schools to discriminate against students with taxpayer dollars. I had meant to write a goodbye post thanking both readers and the wonderful people at Religion Dispatches for all the support. But, I spent some time playing with the granddaughters, took a few days off kayaking with good frien…

Liberal Intolerance, Or, an Occasion for Public Theology

By Byron Williams

…application has been on the wrong side of human suffering and inequality. Support for slavery, segregation, denying women the right to vote, the Holocaust, Apartheid, as well as opposing marriage equality have depended on the less-than-adequate arms of biblical orthodoxy for support. This not only requires an ahistorical relationship to the human condition but an idolatrous one to the rule that has been embraced. But the unhealthy adherence to o…

Why Feminism’s Big Tent Isn’t Big Enough for the Anti-Abortion Movement

By Patricia Miller

…t to “fight against the modern popular feminist paradigm that says that to support women’s rights, we must support the violent act that is abortion. We will fight against a culture that understands pregnancy as a disease and sees children not for their inherent dignity, but for how wanted and able they are.” That doesn’t sound like anti-abortion feminists want to join some kind of big tent feminism; it sounds like they want to knock the tent down…