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Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

…al. This is lavender fascism. If a person can not choose someone of an opposite sex for procreation – this is a overt sign of mental abnormality, so they should be denied of voting rights.” Okhlobystin also said promoting gay rights is a “betrayal of God” and serves the devil. “Plus the existence of official organizations which sodomites have in all their forms, from homosexuals to pedophiles – it is a direct insult to the feelings of believers in…

Will IRS Crack Down on Church Politicking?

By Sarah Posner

…“it would be detrimental for our country and the democratic process to go through another election cycle with the ‘no-politicking’ rule unenforced.” But ADF appears determined for a showdown. Its website notes that Pulpit Freedom Sunday grew from 33 participants in 2008 to 1,621 in 2012. And ADF has offered to represent any pastor investigated by the IRS free of charge….

Gay Rights a Go in Chattanooga

By Michael Schulson

…oga has Tennessee’s first openly gay city council member, and some kind of official recognition of same-sex relationships. Again, it’s worth noting that some of the earliest, strongest support for the measure came from two of the City Council’s three black members. The other striking element here is that, at least explicitly, religion has played such a small role in the opposition to the measure. At least among City Council members, the main scrip…

Just Your Average Teenage Muslim (Shapeshifter) Girl From Jersey

By Saadia Faruqi

It’s official: Muslims are cool. The latest Muslim superhero in town, Kamala Khan, promises to get people talking about Islam—and not in a bad way. Khan, aka ‘Ms. Marvel,’ isn’t faster than a speeding bullet, but she’s got some pretty nifty powers, including shape shifting, which is something I wish I could do on almost a daily basis. Like all superheroes (and all Muslims these days), Kamala has her share of problems. But instead of a villain or…

The “Prophetic” Voice of Jim Wallis Jumps on Marriage Equality Bandwagon

By Sarah Posner

…nd it was Sojourners who yanked out the tent poles. Someone needs to alert official Washington that Jim Wallis and his minions no longer speak for us—if they ever did.” The following year, Wallis took a sabbatical, and now he’s back—with another book to sell, On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good. In an interview with the Huffington Post’s Jaweed Kaleem last week, Wallis described what motiv…

Who Says The “Partly Jewish” Are Bad For The Jews?

By Susan Katz Miller

…r interfaith families community. Our Jewish practice is both religious and spiritual, not simply cultural. But we also celebrated the Blessing of the Animals, inspired by Saint Francis. In the Pew study, researchers noted that interfaith children view their religious identity as “uncertain.” In my book, I give voice to these children, based on years of surveying, interviewing, and observing teens and young adults educated in interfaith programs. …

Why the Women’s Ordination Question Will Shape the Future of Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…” and that Mormon women once exercised a fuller range of institutional and spiritual powers than they do now. Historians have also shown that the now frequently cited rationale of “complementarity”—priesthood for men, motherhood for women–only entered LDS discourse in the 1930s and without basis in Mormon history, liturgy, ritual, or scripture. Nor does the still-cited rationale of gender-segregated “complementarity” reflect the increasingly div…

Egypt and the Problem of Religion

By Asma Afsaruddin

…e military takeover (a position he subsequently denied having taken on his official website). The governments of conservative Muslim countries, such as Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf countries, have supported the coup as well, anxious as they are about the democratic “contagion” spreading to their realms. The Gulf countries’ embrace of the avowedly secular Egyptian military and the Azhar elite’s support of the military coup unhinges the usual a…

Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End

By Jason C. Bivins

…mption But the common experience is in the existence of a really real that official discourse is obscuring, and that the intrepid blogger or diligent exegete can tell us what’s really going on. And so the endless apocalyptic rears up once again, on self-recorded Youtube uploads, on niche cable programming, in a hyperlinked world of insistence: Damascus is, we are reminded, geographically central to the projected Second Coming of Christ. This mode…

Jerry Brown’s Cynical, Unethical Prison Plan

By Peter Laarman

…aw enforcement types who predict, against all evidence, that taking another 10,000 people out of their cages will unleash a massive crime wave. And he is willing to spend over $1 billion of the Golden State’s always-fragile budget surplus to keep every single current inmate locked up, albeit not in the 33 official state prisons. Never mind that California voters passed Prop 30 to restore cuts to schools and colleges, not to fund yet more incarcera…