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London’s ‘Big Gay Iftar’ And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…fi Islam and Putinism. The authorities have banned alcohol, enforced dress codes and “moral behavior” for women, supported honor killings and blood feuds, and even closed orphanages as being alien to Chechen culture. Russian police reportedly arrested about 20 protesters in St. Petersburg on May 1. The BBC reported on psychological and religious “cures” that gay people in Russia are being subjected to: Some Russian families turn to religious insti…

Trump Was Right About Outlawing Abortion: It Would Punish Women

By Patricia Miller

…, with its laws requiring abortion clinics to conform to hospital building codes or women to view sonograms during an extensive waiting period, relies on portraying women as ill-informed, “desperate and frightened” victims of abortion who are being coerced. George is backing Ted Cruz, who replied to Trump’s comments with his own pandering, pro-motherhood formulation: “Of course we shouldn’t be talking about punishing women; we should affirm their…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…uctive technology than the Torah, Talmud, or our medieval and early modern codes could have imagined! Certainly, some things possible in our world had been sufficiently anticipated by earlier Jews that we have a basis for discussion; there were forms of birth control mentioned in the Talmud, for example. And there are even intimations of the questions raised by, say, in vitro fertilization. One ancient text asks about the status of a baby conceive…

Pope Francis’ Love Letter is an Opportunity Lost

By Mary E. Hunt

…pled next door neighbors despite the fact that state and federal laws, tax codes, and neighborhood children do not notice any difference. Apparently nothing that was spoken by lay Catholics at the Synods (who merit nary a mention in the text) seeped into the writers’ consciousness—only what was uttered by the “Synod Fathers.” Whole swathes of new research on sex and gender are rejected without discussion. Outmoded notions remain about children nee…

Good Hair, Good God! The Divine Politics of African-American Hair

By Anthea Butler

…C) from the very beginnings of the denomination: their holiness and purity codes in the early 20th century forbade the processing or pressing of hair (like Madam C.J. Walker’s revolutionary hair-straightening process.) As the denomination grew in cities during the 1940s, straight hair became the currency of charismatic authority and power for the church mothers and pastors’ wives. Lighter skin, straighter hair, and European features became a preci…

And the Violent Bear It Away? Disciplined Nonviolence and the Coming Election Emergency

By Peter Laarman

…f racist domination following the official overthrow of slavery: the Black Codes, convict leasing, widespread lynching and white terrorism, Jim Crow segregation, and ostensibly “race neutral” 20th century approaches to policing and mass incarceration that are, in fact, saturated with anti-Black racism from top to bottom. Every decent person understands how today’s challenges to every expression of white supremacy mark a long-delayed and long-suppr…

What was Pants to Church Sunday Really About?

By Joanna Brooks

…tly gender-segregated customs of Mormonism are—like unwritten Sunday dress codes—traditional rather than doctrinal and human rather than inspired. It was also an opportunity to start a conversation about traditional gender inequalities in a community where feminism has been unnecessarily stigmatized as an excommunicable offense. (And for the record, it is not.) Because really, it’s not pants or the right to wear pants that tops the list of Mormon…

Dangerous Religion

By Gary Laderman

…ing death and destruction to innocent people, that disregards our laws and codes of conduct, and that is prone to acts of violence beyond the pale of civilized society. At least this is the message we are hearing more and more frequently in the news, especially in the wake of President Obama’s recent statements; views espoused by religious and political leaders as well as average American citizens fearful of Muslims abroad and at home. Hatred of I…

Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…lows its own members to divorce and remarry. The church has strict dietary codes, prohibiting coffee, tobacco, and alcohol, which presumably will not be available in heaven, but sees no need to legislate against their sale, even in Utah. There is the assumption that however wicked or wrong a certain behavior might be, it need not overwhelm the efforts of the Latter-day Saints to be righteous, and that, furthermore, God can adequately judge and pun…

Father Does Not Know Best: How To Fix the Catholic Church

By Mary E. Hunt

…ps with the spiritually vulnerable are monitored. Helping professions have codes of conduct, professional associations, and other means of making sure their practitioners are on the up and up. Roman Catholicism needs the same. It will never happen without structural changes. Here’s How it Works… The clerical culture that arises from and permeates the Roman Catholic Church is a key part of the noxious mix in which hundreds of thousands of people ar…