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Will “Church Militants” Be Marching for Trump?

By Patricia Miller

As I’ve noted here on RD, conservative interpretations of Catholic theology are often more influential on the religious and political right than they’re often given credit for, largely because of the misperception that the (protestant) Christian right is the religious right. While it’s true that it’s the protestant right that’s traditionally been the electoral powerhouse of the Republican Party, much of the intellectual underpinning of cultural d…

Watching 81% of My White Brothers and Sisters Vote For Trump Has Broken Something in Me

By Yolanda Pierce

After several years of teaching at a large state school, where my academic work had always focused on race, racism, and religion, I entered into the theological academy. I was making a personal decision, a vocational decision. Nearly ten years ago, I prayed: “God, make me an instrument of your peace.” God answered with a new assignment. Too often we have demanded that men and women of color teach us both about their own history and about white ra…

Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

October 30 marked the 30th anniversary of the Vatican’s “Letter to the Bishops on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons,” which New Ways Ministry calls “probably the most influential piece of church teaching on the topic of homosexuality.” Read more for Francis DeBarnardo’s analysis of the letter’s continuing impact. The Obama administration adopted a new rule banning US Agency for International Development contractors from discriminating aga…

Green Candidate Jill Stein Maintains Anti-Vaxxer Cred

By Michael Schulson

Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential candidate, would like you to know that she believes vaccines are beneficial, unless they’re not. In addition, she believes that she has not seen any evidence for a link between vaccinations and autism—which isn’t to say that the link does not exist, per se, just that she hasn’t personally witnessed it. If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Stein’s immunization equivocation started last week,…

WATCH: RD’s Neil Young Discusses How Trump Is Dividing the Religious Vote

By The Editors

…Rev. Welton Gaddy, host of State of Belief radio, interviewed RD’s Neil J. Young on his most recent post, Leave it To Trump to Split a Catholic-Evangelical Bloc That’s Generations Old. Watch the interview below (just under 20 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=AQgtTjiEujE…

Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications

By Mary Barker

In the era of WikiLeaks, the recent “Mormon Leaks” videos of the Church hierarchy being briefed come across as spectacularly boring—like an endless business meeting, complete with lackluster PowerPoints and stultifying statistics. Yet, these dull discussions of otherwise vital and riveting topics, like same-sex marriage, the economy, and science and morality, become fascinating when viewed from the perspective of Mormon history. They portend the…

Why the Lewd Trump Tapes Won’t Matter (As Much As You Think) in White Christian America

By Paul Harvey

Standing in solidarity with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and most of the Republican establishment (with some notable exceptions in Utah and a few other places), evangelical leaders have made their stand on the Trump tapes: sure, the comments were “inappropriate,” but they don’t rank high on the “hierarchy of concerns” of evangelicals. And anyway, that was 11 years ago, when he wasn’t a Christian and was a young man of 59, and now that he’s a ba…

Confession is Not Conversion: Giuliani’s Bizarre Comparison of Trump to St. Augustine

By Candace E. West

Amid last week’s pearl-clutching in the wake of the release of the recording of Trump’s so-called “lewd” (why not “violent”?) banter with Billy Bush, Trump issued a rare apology—of sorts. The candidate’s statement, which devolved quickly from apology to attack, was enough for Rudy Giuliani and other Trump surrogates, who were quick put forward the idea that Trump is contrite and changed. He is a good man, they argue, who, in the long-distant past…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

As a Christian pastor and professor, I make my living with words. When Donald Trump dismisses his own violent and regressive speech with the slogan “it’s just words,” as he did during last night’s depressing civic spectacle, my own concern about the deterioration of our public conversation deepens. This week’s revelations of Trump’s self-described “locker-room talk” (in fact, a conversation conducted in his workplace) come after months of mean-sp…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

Wikileaks came under fire for releasing documents that included personally sensitive information, including the name of a man arrested for homosexuality in Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is still a capital offense. In the International Journal of Human Rights, Po-Han Lee examines LGBT rights and Asian values. From the abstract: Drawing upon LGBT rights in Taiwan, as well as Hong Kong and Singapore, this article – through an application of K.H….