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By the Numbers: Same-Sex Marriage Gaining Acceptance

By The Editors

Here’s the graph to accompany Sarah Posner’s post from the end of last week about the latest survey from the Public Religion Research Institute on public sentiment regarding same sex marriage. As Sarah reminded us, last year marked first time more Americans supported same-sex marriage than opposed it. White evangelicals have a way to go to catch up with the Christian mainline—as indicated above—not to mention those radical “unaffiliateds.” – Th…

New Poll Shows Strong Catholic Support for Gay Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…. It’s the possible swing group for both sides on this issue.” Even if the numbers are read as Catholics leaning against full marriage equality, the report still contains good news for gays and lesbians. An overwhelming majority of Catholics (69 percent) believe that sexual orientation is fixed and cannot be changed by “ex-gay” therapies. When asked if sexual activity between people of the same sex is sinful, 56 percent said no. That compares to 4…

Biblical Patriarchy Advocates Celebrate Titanic 100th with “Women and Children First” Theme

By Julie Ingersoll

…y three times the survival rate of those in third. One would only use “raw numbers” if one was trying to make a point not supported by the numbers. In biblical patriarchy, the refrain of “women and children first” hides an agenda whereby the women are “first” only insofar as they keep their place which is subordinate to men. I wrote about the fallout when they don’t in my book, Evangelical Christian Women. And in Quiverfull, RD’s Kathryn Joyce sho…

Distortions Aside, Clergy Support Gay Rights in Surprising Numbers

By Peter Montgomery

In a recent ad by the National Organization for Marriage, a scary storm of homosexuality threatens to rain gays into people’s lives and churches. That campaign, widely mocked by Stephen Colbert and numerous others, was just the most recent example of the religious right’s ongoing effort to portray the gay rights movement as an enemy of religious liberty and faith itself. Progressive religious leaders have been working hard to make it clear that r…

By the Numbers: Most Say No Rejoicing in Bin Laden’s Death

By The Editors

A new PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey finds that while media focused on the spontaneous street celebrations following news of OBL’s death, most Americans don’t think celebration of anyone’s death is justified—no matter how villainous the person. Other findings of note: Catholics are least likely to support the use of torture, more than 8 in 10 Americans believe that bin Laden distorted the teachings of Islam in his campaign to defeat the west, and…

Even Conservative Pollsters Find Growing Support for Gay Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…) and Hispanics (66 percent in favor). Broken out by religious belief, the numbers again echo mainstream polls. More religiously conservative millennials are dead set against same-sex marriage with 69 percent strongly or somewhat opposed to it. Those who are not religious or never attend church are in strong support—85 percent and 74 percent respectively. Given these numbers, what are anti-gay Christians to do? Apparently, they must yell louder ab…

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

…content with a randomly ordered list. I’m confident that such a scheme of numbers would find a large and appreciative audience. After all, something like it is already quite popular. We deploy the more or less arbitrary system for numbering biblical verses in order to invoke whole arguments. Very often in public “discussions” of homosexuality, someone will stand up and begin to call out numbers. “But what about Genesis 19!” “Leviticus 18!” “Roman…

Are (White) Evangelicals Really Dwindling? A Debate Heats Up

By Sarah Posner

…iously, on a range of complex factors that are not explained solely by the numbers, even the declining numbers, of white evangelicals in the South, or even of declining numbers of conservative Protestants, whether defined as evangelical or mainline. As I noted in my earlier post, intensity and turnout will drive the outcome of these races. Regardless of the outcome, though, one thing is certain: there is going to be an ongoing dissection and discu…

Vatican Reverses Anti-Liberation Policies in Mexico

By Ruth Chojnacki and Jennifer Scheper Hughes

…ate, an ancient institution revived by Vatican II. In 2000, 341 of Mexico’s 800 deacons served the Diocese of San Cristobal, the largest number of deacons in any Catholic diocese in the world. Vatican suspicion of Bishop Ruiz’s liberationist pastoral strategy resulted in a failed attempt to remove him in 1993. The deacon program came under particular scrutiny after the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, with reports that Maya catechists defied th…

Boy Scout “Perversion Files” Raise Questions about Abuse in Mormon Contexts

By Joanna Brooks

Yesterday’s release of previously confidential files on child sexual abuse perpetrators maintained by the Boy Scouts of America from 1959 to 1985 are raising new questions about the relationship between the LDS Church and the BSA. Since 1918, the Church has partnered with the BSA, hosting scout troops in most of its United States congregations. (The New York Times profiled the LDS-BSA relationship—including the experience of gay LDS Boy Scouts im…