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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…

Heterosexual Martyrs and Gay Saints: Did AIDS Coverage Clear the Way for LGBT Equality?

By Diane Winston

…as a “mental illness,” the change was widely reported as were the growing number of cities that added “sexual orientation” to anti-discrimination laws. By the end of the decade, reporters were filing profiles about a “hip” community with its own bars, clubs, music, and fashion as well as a distinctively uninhibited sexual scene. Journalists also covered an emerging religious backlash, coalescing in the 1977 “Save Our Children” campaign to rescind…

Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

By Patrick Hornbeck

…strations (the litigation spanned the presidential transition, and the incoming administration maintained the position of its predecessor), Crabb concluded that the housing allowance exemption fails the Lemon test. The exemption for church-provided housing, which excludes from taxation the cost of housing provided directly by a religious employer, has secular analogues and can be construed as falling within the longstanding tax exemptions for hous…

Milquetoast Liberal Religion Won’t Challenge Conservative Values: A History Lesson

By Sheila D. Collins

…of the country and provided a lasting legacy. Workers built and repaired 1 million miles of roads and 200,000 public facilities—including schools, playgrounds, courthouses, parks and athletic fields, swimming pools, dams, bridges, and airports—drained malarial swamps, eradicated malaria, and exterminated rats in slums. They planted over 3 billion trees, essentially reforesting a country whose original forest cover had been decimated, taught farmer…

6 Overlooked Takeaways From a Reviewer of Controversial Texas Textbooks

By David R. Brockman

…harlemagne,” Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005), 1556-1557. Gale Virtual Reference Library. 13 McGraw-Hill Education, World History, Texas, Ch. 8 (Byzantine/Emerging Europe), Lesson 4, p. 3. 14 Ibid., Ch. 8 (Byzantine/Emerging Europe), Lesson 4, Resources. 15 Ibid., Ch. 19 (Muslim Empires), Lesson 3, p. 3: Mogul Dynasty. 16 Holy Qur’an, trans. by M.H. Shakir (Elmhurst, NY: Tahrike…

Are You Rapture Ready?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…like Detroit, Little Rock, Omaha, and Kansas City announcing the second coming. The cheesy billboards remind me of signs teasing a television series or the opening of a Broadway show. Jesus is about to make his big entrance only his final number will feature the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Tom Evans, spokesman for Family Radio said their math for setting the return date came from a verse in Luke 17: “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall i…

Evangelical Pastor Argues for Full LGBT Inclusion: “I Think It’s Inevitable”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ept them it’s like the original Gentiles coming to faith. There’s so much God-activity in all of this and pastors who aren’t welcoming these people are missing out….

NPR “Ex-Gay” Report Neither “Fair” Nor “Balanced”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…people for “therapies” that can destroy them psychologically, while buying tickets to Toscano’s shows might result in some good belly laughs, but no pressure to convert. What makes this story so shameful, though, is how the true message is completely glossed over in the pursuit of finding out who is “right” and who is “wrong.” Both Wyler and Toscano are Christian men who were given the message early on in their lives that being gay or lesbian was…

I Miss Tina Fey

By Julie Ingersoll

…am a life…” and “I want to be a doctor,” and even “I want to end global warming.” Particularly, the noting of global warming is significant in pulling apart these two distinct cultures that make up this movement as the wing of it tied to Sarah Palin still does not even believe in global warming. And Palin and the political leaders present were more clearly interested in focusing on politics, creating even more tension . . . a point to which I’ll…

Constitutional Attorney Changes into Drag During Talk on Cancelation of West Texas A&M Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…l tells the story of the drag show cancelation at West Texas A&M (clip=5.5 minutes): Much of the moralizing communique was couched in a faux-feminist argument that drag shows “denigrate and demean women,” but Wendler also cited his personal faith, basing part of his reasoning on the notion that “every human being is created in the image of God.” He even admitted that he was probably breaking the law, writing that he would not allow an event that o…