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A Note To Churches During Pride: If You’re Not LGBTQ-Affirming, Keep Your Water

By Chrissy Stroop

…lear how widespread such evangelical initiatives are at Pride events these days, but the practice certainly hasn’t died out. And last month, Christopher Smith, a Washington, DC-based Jesuit scholastic* who’s fully on board with the Catholic teaching that “homogenital” acts and transgender identities are sinful, took to Twitter to suggest that Catholics should do the same thing: https://twitter.com/Chris_SmithsJ/status/1397528844748345348?s=20 Chri…

Cruz Backs Bishops on Religious Liberty Claims

By Patricia Miller

…other key conservative leadership constituency: the Catholic bishops. Just days before announcing his presidential bid, Cruz and Oklahoma Senator James Lankford introduced two joint resolutions seeking to overturn a pair of local DC measures vigorously opposed by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act (RHNDA) would protect individuals from discrimination by their employers based on their reproductive…

How Prince Set Fire to My Catholic Girlhood

By Anthea Butler

…s like that for me. The chasm is real. Yet in grief, Prince songs can still make me smile, get from behind my desk to shake off death, and imagine better days. Rest well, dear Prince. I can’t wait to hear the music you’ve left behind. …

No Henpecked Men Here:
The Black-Robed Regiment Before Beck

By Sarah Posner

…hts — he told me that he’s undergone an evolution since his Moral Majority days. If we don’t return to what Baldwin calls “bedrock principles” of state sovereignty, he contends, “it really doesn’t matter at that point if you’re pro-life or not or if you’re against homosexual marriage.” If the country loses what he calls “the fundamental tenets of freedom,” then “then all of our arguing and debating on these issues isn’t going to matter to a tinker…

Why Virginia Governor’s ‘God is Everywhere’ Statement isn’t a Simple Answer to Those Who Want to Worship Together

By Karen E. Park

…e deceased person find its way back to the spirit world, often take 4 full days. Soul-calling and string-tying ceremonies are essential to mental and physical health, and these ceremonies involve the community and the shaman as well. In other words, it’s impossible to be a traditionally religious Hmong person “in one’s heart.” That formulation makes no sense. The differences between Hmong shamanism and evangelical Protestantism are obvious. But th…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…as well. In the US, as has been reported numerous times over the past few days, prominent media figures like Tucker Carlson have promoted the combination of the two narratives, also known as “White Replacement,” publicly for years. In 2021, Carlson said on his show: “I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace t…

Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…sts who view all these events through the prism of prophecy and the end of days. The two camps, through the work of Hagee and others, have long been friends of convenience, to no good end for the Israelis and Palestinians, or, for that matter, the world. Hagee is probably the world’s best known, most politically connected Christian Zionist. (He recently signed on to Rick Perry’s “solemn assembly” coming up in August, an event sandwiched between CU…

Mitt Romney, Frontrunner: Deal With It

By Joanna Brooks

Mitt Romney is finally getting a little respect these days as the clear Republican frontrunner. He won Monday night’s debate in New Hampshire, where his most credible competitor, Tim Pawlenty, haltingly pulled his punches after tossing out the threatening (and unwieldy) neologism “Obamneycare.” He previewed his 2012 message this week—jobs, jobs, jobs—with a surprisingly effective ad depicting long-term unemployed Nevadans, including women of colo…

Women2Drive in Saudi Arabia

By Joanna Brooks

…royalty. Manal Al-Sharif, the 32-year-old computer consultant who spent 10 days in jail in May after publishing a YouTube video of herself at the wheel filmed by Saudi feminist Wajida Al-Huwaider, did not drive. Nor was she able to talk to the media about driving. But her Twitter account (@manal-alsharif) was busy today with brief replies to supporters of the campaign. The Women2Drive campaign resumes the push for the right to drive—the basic righ…

Feeding the Hungry vs. Antigay Activism: A Double Standard for Religious Freedom?

By Hollis Phelps, Ryne Beddard

…lf.’” Under the new ordinance, Abbot and his co-conspirators face up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. Although the city has received much deserved criticism we also wonder why the ordinance, and Abbot’s arrest for allegedly violating it, haven’t been portrayed in terms of religious freedom. The whole situation has been labeled as silly at best and coldhearted at worst. Nicki Grossman, who runs the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors B…