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Catholic ‘Soul-Searching’ as Ireland Votes on Marriage; Churches, American Activists Join Kenyan Anti-Gay Group’s ‘Family’ Confab; Indian Mom Seeks Spouse For Gay Son; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…as the Parliamentary Counsel in the Ministry of Justice are just two of many prominent political figures who are also members of the conservative Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship. In July 2014, in the midst of the review of the Sexual Offenses Act, an estimated 25,000 Jamaicans came together in support of the sodomy law in a protest organized by CAUSE (Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation). The report also says that “some religious figur…

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…make a theological statement,” and that exceeds the bounds of science. The New York Times called it, “A startling about face.” To Dawkins, it represented “a cowardly flabbiness of the intellect,” while Johnson dismissed it as rank hypocrisy. If they agree on nothing else, Dawkins and Johnson the ID guru both assert that Darwinism and Christianity are at war and urge Americans to choose sides. Responding to the rise of young-earth creationism and I…

In the Papal Pocket: Benedict XVI and the Press

By Mary E. Hunt

…to be helpful in reporting on Judaism, Islam, the Baha’i faith, Wicca, or any number of other groups that form the pluralistic religious mosaic in the United States today? No reporter or anchor could be expected to be an expert on the ins and outs of such groups. But as a matter of journalistic practice, I think it is reasonable to train reporters to look at more than meets the eye on religion, just as they are taught to investigate plane crashes…

Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

By Laura R. Olson

…and former National Council of Churches head Rev. Bob Edgar’s clarion call Middle Church: Reclaiming the Moral Values of the Faithful Majority from the Religious Right (Simon & Schuster, 2006). The publication of these books (and others in the genre) demonstrates that even if theirs is wishful thinking, a critical mass of elites agree that the religious right’s days of political dominance are over. Backing this view, and endorsing many of these bo…

Trump the Totem: Like Other Fascist Leaders, Trump has Turned from Man to Symbol — And That’s the Danger

By Robert P. Jones

…ght back against that corruption, the deep state and all the rest.” Given any number of other statements by Johnson, this comment may seem unremarkable. But the transformation of Trump from a person to a symbol is the key to understanding the power of the MAGA movement and the internal logic of the upside-down world where a unanimous guilty verdict in a fair trial results in solidified support, record fundraising, and desperate Christian defenses…

The Story Behind the Catholic Church’s Stunning Contraception Reversal

By Patricia Miller

…ng a contraceptive that used hormones already present in a woman’s body to mimic the natural infertility of a pregnant woman, he hoped the Vatican would find a theological basis to approve the method. In 1958, when the Pill was already being tested on human populations, Pius XII said its use would be acceptable “as a necessary remedy because of a disease of the uterus or the organism” even if it had the secondary effect of causing sterility. This…

Resurrection of ‘Comstock Laws’ Would Threaten Access to Abortifacients — But Even That Fear Misses Bigger Picture

By Gillian Frank

…ves from public view. We therefore have to read between the lines of the many newspaper articles about injuries caused by Lysol and similar products. In 1934, for example, a short news item in the Hammond Indiana Times reported how two unmarried eighteen-year-old “Chicago girls are in St. Margaret’s hospital today, severely burned about their legs from lysol disinfectant.” The two women “received their burns in a washroom in Johnny Nichols’ beer t…

Islamic Intellectual Leadership at a Crossroads

By Amina Wadud

…tial contributions to the growth of Islam as a system of ideas without assuming or wanting to assume any form of political leadership. There is sometimes an unnecessary rift between leading ideas and leading people politically such that intellectuals who are also activists sometimes have to make tough choices regarding their self-representations, their modes and circumstances of operation, and even the projects they put their energies into. In US…

RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism

By Kathryn Joyce

…ts for and against these roles, the politicking of Germany’s versions of Phyllis Schlafly, angling for power with male leaders as they built up armies of submissive women. What’s your next book? I’m not sure yet……

A Jewish Perspective on Reparations

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher

…ency between Jewish history in Germany and black history in America, or to minimize the uniqueness of either. My aim is to enter into conversation with two black American writers—James Baldwin, who wrote and lived through the time of the Holocaust and American segregation, and contemporary writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic—about the profound and extant points of synthesis between our peoples’ respective stories, and what ca…