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Sydney’s Anglican Diocese Gives $1 Million To ‘No’ Campaign on Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…itself had recommended to the government earlier in the year. “In case of non-heterosexual marriages, the fact that the religious or customary practices do not permit such marriage or prohibit such marriage, will not be a bar and the registrar of marriages will have all such powers to ensure solemnisation of such marriage,” says the draft. … “All married couple and couples in partnership entitled to adopt a child. Sexual orientation of the marrie…

Colorado Springs Massacre Captures the Christian Nationalist ‘Monster In The Mirror’

By Lucas Kwong

…ining covert actions, feverish reinterpretations of news clippings (á la QAnon on an 8chan message board), and occasional graverobbing, the heroes act on the assumption that, in a modern age manipulated by Satanic forces, the servants of God must conduct their crusade behind closed doors. Their efforts culminate in a thrilling chase, doubtlessly responsible for a huge part of the book’s success, in which hero Jonathan Harker executes God’s vengean…

Endangered Speeches: Why It Matters (For All of Us) That Conservative Seminaries Are Firing Professors Over Theology

By Steve A. Wiggins

…ent a decade and a half at a conservative seminary before facing a similar non-negotiable non-tenured option, I’ve devoted a lot of time to thinking about this. Ten years, in fact, and counting. It’s not just the fate of conservatives being weighed here—it is the very nature of higher education. Higher education is a complex conglomeration of colleges (two and four-year), professional schools, graduate institutions, and research universities. Amer…

What Does Shari’ah Mean?

By Hussein Rashid

…ns as to why the idea of shari’ah, as it is being used by both Muslims and non-Muslims, is problematic and not representative of the tradition. In fact, the shari’ah that so-called security experts fear is a figment of their, and Muslim extremists’, imaginations. It’s a vision that thankfully can never come to pass. Sarah quotes a recent interview with Intisar Rabb on the nature of shari’ah. Rabb says, “Sharia is the ideal law of God according to…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…th the capacity to shut down unionized workplaces and ship the work to the non-union American South or to the Global South, took their predictable devastating toll on private-sector unionism. Surging public sector unionism during this same period saved the American labor movement from complete collapse. But now these public sector unions are also under the gun in a big way. So my question persists: Where were the vast majority of American religiou…

Not All Muslims Are Terrorists, But All Terrorists Are Muslim

By Haroon Moghul

…o blow up churches, posted pictures of bombs on his Facebook page, and was stopped in the nick of time by law enforcement? He got—get this—ninety days in jail, minus time already served. Did you hear about the Muslim guy who stabbed and shot to death a sitting Member of Parliament in the UK, a clear and obvious instance of terrorism, given that his target, Jo Cox, was a political leader? It was an assassination. Did you hear about the young Muslim…

BYU Skinny Jean Controversy: Sexism, Sizeism, or Standards?

By Joanna Brooks

…new prominence as a boundary marker for Mormons, separating observant from non-LDS and less observant LDS people. The Word of Wisdom—the Mormon dietary code that prohibits consumption of tea, coffee, alcohol, and tobacco—was upgraded from recommendation to commandment in the early twentieth-century, at a time when formerly isolated LDS communities in Utah were experiencing increased interaction with non-Mormons through travel, commerce, and media….

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…important hallmark of an inclusive and tolerant society. The principle of non-discrimination embedded in Kosovo’s constitution needs to be filled with relevant laws and implementation strategies in order to improve the lives of LGBTI people in the country.” Lithuania: Anti-Gay Legislation Moves Forward Back in August, American anti-gay activist Scott Lively penned a gushy fan letter to Vladimir Putin praising his anti-gay efforts and saying “Alre…

The Religious “Right” to Denounce Homosexuality

By Sarah Posner

…They have made that argument in opposing same-sex marriage, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and hate crimes legislation. And even when these advocacy groups don’t prevail in court or in the legislature — as when they failed to stop repeal of DADT — they make a proverbial federal case out of it anyway. In a September 2010 letter [PDF] to President Obama opposing DADT repeal, a group of retired military chaplains cited the loss of the Hasting…

Israeli Conservative Movement Will Ordain Gay Rabbis

By Jay Michaelson

…social contexts, and crises of legitimacy. First, and least interesting to non-insiders, a very small handful of individuals have personally stood in the way of this progress for years. (As a semi-insider myself, I know who they are, and who the activists are, and who the folks in the movable middle are.) One person really can make a difference—especially when he or she is resistant to change. More interestingly, though, are the different social c…