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The True Meaning of ‘Law and Order’ Became Painfully Clear on January 6

By Jemar Tisby

…hall have order in the United States.” Even the laws are different when it comes to protests in support of Black civil rights. In 1967, a state representative from California named Don Mulford proposed a bill to outlaw the open carrying of loaded firearms. He proposed this bill in direct response to the Black Panther Party which had been conducting armed patrols to monitor police interactions with local Black residents to help prevent incidents of…

Was it the Russians or God? Evangelical Leaders Working Out the Kinks with Trump’s Transition Picks

By Chrissy Stroop

…s, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and FBI Director James Comey, knew that Russia had hacked both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee but only leaked Democratic documents, and that they suppressed this information, apparently for purely partisan reasons. However, with the exception of a handful of Republican leaders such as Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, this has not stopped Republican…

The Far-Right Embrace of the Knights Templar isn’t Just About Faith, Tradition or History — It’s About Hate

By Thomas Lecaque

…cks, some online shenanigans, and a fringe Islamophobic US military officer-to-holy warrior pipeline. This holy war fetishism extends across national, and—perhaps more importantly—denominational boundaries. The rhetoric, clothing, weaponry and other paraphernalia of holy war has been adopted by the Christian far-right. In his Sunday sermon on September 25th, the Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and a long time proponent of hol…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…ata Party has called for the arrest of gay American diplomats. Chile: Pro-Equality Bachelet Returns as President In a race that gave voters a choice between two women vying for the presidency, Chilean voters on December 15 overwhelmingly elected former President Michelle Bachelet, a supporter of marriage equality, stronger anti-discrimination and anti-hate crime laws, as well as laws important to transgender Chileans. Her opponent had cited the…

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

By Beatrice Marovich

…ut philosopher Michael Marder, writing recently for the Times, points to research on pea plant communication as evidence of a kind of plant subjectivity. The title of his column begs the incendiary question: “If peas can talk, should we eat them?” There are, perhaps, some practitioners of the Jain tradition who would give a resounding “no.” Strict ascetic practices in Jainism disavow not only the consumption of meat, but the practice of farming—be…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…that. Besides, all of these platforms invite engagement outside of the face-to-face community. They extend the community into the day-to-day lives of believers, so they’re important for ongoing connection, but they’re not necessarily going to invite people in. (Indeed, I’m aware of a number of churches whose social networking site pages are closed to outsiders. Hmmm?) A modestly tech-savvy minister will eventually come to the conclusion that engag…

New Report: More Sex in the Pulpit

By Jeanne Carstensen

…y study. Martin E. Marty, historian of religion and author of the National Book Award-winning Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America, said at a press conference releasing the report, “it usually takes the Christian Church about 200 years to settle things.” That was the time frame for resolution or consensus on questions about the Trinity, the nature of Christ, human nature and the Protestant Reformation. “Now they are all fighting…

Landmark Survey of LGBTQ Mormons Launched

By Joanna Brooks

…rd to sexual orientation. We think this will help us inform both the LGBTQ community and the LDS church community about ways they can best support and nurture their loved ones.” To LGBTQ folks who feel like they have been “surveyed out,” Dehlin says: “We are hoping for this to be a landmark study, to generate enough data to have real impact in changing hearts and minds. We are also very committed to sharing and speaking publicly about the results…

LDS Proxy Marriage Rites Bind Slaves to Slavemasters for Eternity, including Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings

By Joanna Brooks

…udge which is more troubling. But I do know that Mueller’s thoughtful, well-researched, carefully composed essay not only hits hot button issues like Mormons’ historic racial discrimination and contemporary racial insensitivity and the doctrinal persistence of polygamy—after all temple sealing policies permitted a polygamous sealing of Jefferson to Martha Jefferson and Sally Hemmings—but also gestures towards profound ethical and religious questio…

New Study Shows 1.7%, 4%, or 10% of Americans are Gay

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s questions about sexual orientation and gender identity has allowed us to highlight the diversity of the community in ways that we’ve just not been able to do in the past. Getting sound information about the LGBT community is dependent on the willingness of surveys to ask sexual orientation and gender identity questions (and perhaps show that only about 4% of the population identifies as LGBT). On the whole, I see that as a net positive and absol…