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“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?

By Marcia Pally

…lding tool. The theology here is that God, as the basis or ground for all existence, “inheres” so to speak in all things in order for them to exist at all. “In all things,” Thomas Aquinas wrote, “God himself is properly the cause of universal being… in all things God works intimately.” By studying “all things”–the world, ourselves, and the effects of biblical principles on both–we can come to grasp something of what these principles mean. We err,…

International reax to US Marriage Ruling; Official violence at Turkey’s Pride; Marriage Advances in Mexico Over Church Objections; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…urch officials responded harshly. According to a June 29 story from Interfax: The Russian Orthodox Church has appealed to all Russian advocates of the American model of governance, asking them to think twice about the consequences of the United States’ decision to legalize same-sex “marriages”. “The people who are into ‘democracy the American way’ and trying to reconcile it with traditional values need to think hard after this decision,” the head…

Anti-Gay Violence Rages in Gambia; Conservative ‘Complementarity’ Confab; Coming Out in Iraq Can Be Death Sentence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that it was charging journalist Elena Klimova, the group’s founder, with ‘promoting homosexuality to minors.’” Among the “evidence” in the brief against Klimova was the group’s online suicide prevention efforts. The Barents Observer reports that for the LGBT community in Arctic Russia, “the danger is everywhere and it’s everyday.” It profiled young LGBT activists in Murmansk and the harsh challenges they face in Putin’s Russia, which began in 200…

‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa Receives Threats; ‘Blood Test’ for ‘Degeneratism’: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…an dignity, Troubled by the misuse of religion to further marginalize and exclude sexual minorities from society and faith communities, Noting the recommendations on human sexuality from the World Council of Churches 10th Assembly to the Central Committee, and the subsequent approval of the Terms of Reference for the Human Sexuality Reference Group to walk together in a pilgrimage of Justice and Peace from 2014-2021, Observing the resolution on vi…

War Is Not “Hell” It’s “Sin”: Jews and Muslims Hunger Strike Against Violence

By Shaul Magid

…of Mohammad’s prophecy. It also falls at a time when Israel and Hamas are exchanging bombs and rockets aimed at killing the other side. In response, Jews and Muslims have taken the coincidence of the two fasts to establish a “Hunger Strike against Violence.” While Jewish public fast days are generally established for two reasons: either as a day of repentance and atonement such as Yom Kippur, or as a response to collective tragedy, the great legal…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…country’s Council of Ministers. A vote is scheduled for next week. Same-sex sexual activity is already punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Chile: Bachelet Administration Says It Will Send Marriage Bill to Parliament Recently inaugurated president Michelle Bachelet campaigned on a pro-equality platform. Her Justice Minister José Antonio Gómez announced that the government will send a marriage equality bill to parliament. Gibraltar: Parliament…

Will IRS Crack Down on Church Politicking?

By Sarah Posner

…here was no partisan motive. Churches and other houses of worship, whose tax exempt status is under section (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, risk their tax-exempt status if they use tax-exempt resources to endorse political candidates. Although the law is clear, no audits have been initiated since 2009, after a federal court ordered the agency to issue regulations clarifying requirements that audits of churches be authorized by an “appropriate…

Televangelist Watchdog May Be Forced to Close Its Doors

By Sarah Posner

…assisted the Senate Finance Committee with an investigation of possible tax code violations by televangelists, Trinity has seen less media coverage, and hence fewer donations from the public, according to the letter. Trinity’s investigations for the Senate Finance Committee led the Committee to launch an investigation, in 2007, based on revelations that televangelists had used tax-exempt funds for luxury cars, private jets, mansions, and even pla…

Mitt’s Jesus, Barack’s Jesus, and Why Christ’s Color Matters

By Joanna Brooks

…Jesus. Perhaps this is because he fears looking particularly at Jesus may expose tensions and differences between his Mormonism (and the Book of Mormon as “another testament” of Jesus Christ) and conservative evangelicals who battle all the time over their Bible, how to read it, and its importance. For various reasons (of course neither one could say this publicly) but I think Obama would go with the “Wales Window” at Sixteenth Street Baptist Chur…

Do Not Attack the Writer

By Peter Montgomery

…dismay turned to laughter when I saw immediately below Winters’ screed the code of conduct for comments on National Catholic Reporter. His post is a primer on violating NCR’s own rules for respectful conversation. Maybe someone at NCR can give him a much-needed tutorial. NCR Comment code: Be respectful. Do not attack the writer. Take on the idea, not the messenger. Use appropriate language. Avoid vulgarities and slurs. Keep to the point. Deliberat…