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Science of Little Help with Personhood Issues

By Paul Wallace

…n this week in Mississippi were clothed in the language of science. Science, that is, which is uniquely unqualified to define the term “person.” Writes Weiss, “Both sides claimed that science was on their side, when there is really very little that science can offer about the question that voters were asked to decide. Personhood, for better or worse, is not an attribute that can be identified in a blood test. It is a quality that is utterly a matt…

Hoax Underscores Urgency for LGBT People in Uganda

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…countability when we get it wrong. The more profound damage, Burroway fears, however, is that this hoax will damage the fight for LGBT rights in Uganda. This hoax can provide ammunition to our opponents who would try to use it as proof that LGBT people are deliberately spreading rumors and falsehoods. It can be used as a “crying wolf” case to dismiss future reports in which LGBT people are really attacked and killed. The hoax can be used as an exc…

Right Wing Morality is Costing the Church of England Dearly

By Linda Woodhead

…ms of religion do better than liberal forms, even in liberal societies. I don’t believe it’s that clear-cut. It’s true that religious authorities have taken a “post-liberal” turn since the 1970s, but the growing rise of “no religion,” first in Europe and then the USA, is in part a reaction against this. The idea that your average Anglican in Britain yearns for “stricter” religion is demonstrably false. They would, however, have preferred a church…

Survey Says: Mainline Clergy Lean Liberal

By Robert P. Jones

…Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, American Baptist Churches USA, Presbyterian Church USA, Episcopal Church, United Church of Christ, and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). This isn’t a homogenous group, and there are some significant differences across denominational lines, but support for an activist, justice-seeking government that works for the common good cuts across all of them. These Christian clergy also bring a fresh vo…

A Religion Scholar Gets It Wrong on Indiana’s RFRA

By Danny Fisher

…ition, less than a week after SB 101’s passage, Memories Pizza in Walkerton, IN, publicly announced its intention to refuse service to same-sex couples. The ink on the bill wasn’t even dry before it began raising serious questions about public accommodations and the civil liberties of LGBTQI people in Indiana – “rarely do these cases concern gay rights,” indeed! As Slate’s Micah Schwartzman, Nelson Tebbe, and Robert Tuttle put it, of course “India…

Archbishop Boots LGBT Catholics from Philly Church

By Patricia Miller

…er came from Chaput,” Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director, of Dignity USA, told RD. The Equally Blessed Coalition, which consists of New Ways Ministry, Dignity USA, Fortunate Families and Call to Action, had a program called “TransForming Love: Exploring Gender Identity From Catholic Perspectives” scheduled for September 25 which reportedly caused Chaput to cancel the group’s permission to use the space. “Unfortunately, this is yet another in…

Who is Mat Staver, Counsel for Anti-Gay Activist Against Suit from Uganda?

By Sarah Posner

…ormative” one, and that civil disobedience has consequences, including jail, and, for a lawyer who advises a client to disobey a court order, possible loss of their license to practice law. That semester’s midterm exam, obtained by RD [see excerpts of the actual exam here], included a question based on Miller’s case asking students to describe what advice they would give her “as a friend who is a Christian lawyer.” After laying out a slanted histo…

What American Flag-Worship Looks Like to a New Citizen

By Rosalind C. Hughes

…ll H. Mebane, Jr., Interim Dean at St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Buffalo, NY, grew up in the South in a fairly conservative religious household. He encountered the Flag at school and at church, at Boy Scouts – “there was a whole lot of saluting of the flag,” he told me. In high school, where he and his friends were among the first African Americans to integrate a previously all-white school, the Pledge was recited before football games; then th…

Election Reporters: Here’s Why Simply Descriptors Like ‘Christians’ Can Have Enormous Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…threats. That same protection, complete with bloody, strong-arm repression, is, according to historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, what Trump explicitly promises his Christian nationalist base. Given what could be done in the name of all Christians, it’s critical to refuse to allow any candidate to claim by default the legitimacy of speaking for the group as a whole. I know how difficult it is for journalists steeped in the ethic of neutrality to question a…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…etworks stirring outrage and receiving all kinds of comments.” Fátima Taleb, 39, is the first ever Muslim woman to be elected councilor in Guanyem Badalona, in eastern Catalonia, Spain, according to Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia. Some Twitter users have described the wedding as an “incredible example” of the “spirit of tolerance,” democracy and respect, while others have criticized Taleb’s actions as a “disgrace for a Muslim.” The report says Ta…