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Romney Stands Up to Bryan Fischer at Values Voters Summit

By Joanna Brooks

…share in common Protestant views of the divinity and significance of Jesus, we aren’t lying. And what Robertson says matters. Then, there was an inspired blog post in which Christian author Nish Weiseth reflects on the hurt dished out to Mormon girls at her high school and her own reservations about LDS people. “I’m starting to wonder what I’ve been so afraid of,” Weiseth writes. The post has gone viral among Mormon readers. It certainly touched…

The Quiet Part is Very Much Out Loud: Conservative Publication Calls For Embrace of Totalitarianism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…f control over our borders, a fundamental distinction between men and women, and, especially of late, the basic rule of law.” One might wonder, why even pay attention to an article that’s so clearly not rooted in reality? After all, had Davidson published his piece on a QAnon message board or in a Reddit comment section we’d ignore it as another hysterical rant from a right-wing nutjob. But this article was published in The Federalist—an online ma…

Gay Chutzpah: An LGBT Synagogue Thrives

By Susan Henking

…ided between the Israeli field of research (that also made me adopt my name, Shokeid, years ago) and the more recent involvement with the LGBT field that started with my work on CBST. However, I am ready to pay the price—becoming somewhat marginal in both professional circles. In the more recent edition of the book, you note that there is a “growing interest in issues of homosexuality, spirituality, and Judaism.” What do you see as relation of sc…

What Passover Taught Me About Being Black

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…nts in the urban centers of America, favelas of Brazil, shanties of Jamaica, and reservations of the American West. For years, I would anticipate the arrival of spring and Passover season. Meticulously cleaning my house of leaven as I awaited this celebration of freedom. Now when I watched The Ten Commandments I was once again rooting for Moses (albeit a white one) and the Hebrews as they dueled with Ramses and the Egyptians. But then something un…

Exodus “Ex-Gay” Ministry Closes Up Shop

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s opening remarks at the ex-gay ministry’s 38th annual convention in Irvine, Calif., Wednesday night. To the ears of most gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, that sounds like nails on a chalkboard. Church has in fact been the very last place for LGBT people to seek help—a claim validated by the Pew Research Center who recently found that nearly half of LGBT people claim no religion at all. Not a surprise considering that many LGBT fo…

ABC’s Good Christian Bitches Makes Feminists of Religious Right

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…and “bitch,” right next to each other like that. The literary juxtaposition, O, it dazzles. It’s like saying… I don’t know… “four weddings and a vasectomy” or “love in the time of booger-eaters” or “the unbearable lightness of being a redacted expletive.” Perhaps I should back up. Good Christian Bitches is evidently about some mean rich church ladies in Texas who find each other’s lives endlessly fascinating. And in this religious community, the r…

Exploiting Health Care Debate to Restrict Abortion?

By Evan Derkacz

…plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortion.” It was infuriating, however, that before the morning cock could crow following the speech Jim Wallis of the antiabortion organization Sojourners was claiming that the president’s remarks on abortion were just what “a broad coalition of the faith community had asked for — no federal funding for abortions.” I had been prepared for Obama to close the door on a health care reform package that wo…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sia for trying to “export to the UN its domestic hostility to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights.” Northern Ireland: Supporters rally for bakery in ‘religious liberty’ case In a case similar to the “religious liberty” debates raging in the U.S., where Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed such legislation into law this week, a baking company went to court this week defending “its right to refuse to ice a cake with the words, ‘support gay m…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…the street to the sparkling new LDS Church-owned City Creek Mall, a 23-acre, 700,000-square foot shopping center, opened in March. The Temple Square-end of the City Creek Mall features luxury high-rise condominiums and upscale shops like Tiffany’sand Nordstrom’s. Many LDS people view the City Creek Mall as an emblem of savvy financial stewardship, a sure-to-be-profitable $1.5 billion investment designed to revitalize Salt Lake City’s downtown—yet…

Fusion Politics: A Way Forward for Bernie Sanders?

By Daniel Schultz

…. God knows it’s not like our nation isn’t in need of reform. At the moment, though, I’m less concerned with the pros and cons of any one issue than wondering what things might look like if Bernie tapped into what Rev. William Barber has named “fusion politics.” In the Christian Century, Jeremy Borden describes this as “an attempt to reframe the politics of morality in America, seizing it from conservative evangelism and arguing that care and comp…