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After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

By Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky

…e of which amount to an all-out ban in actual practice. For instance, last week, Governor Brian Kemp signed Georgia’s “fetal heartbeat” law, which prohibits abortion after six weeks, a time when many women aren’t even aware that they’re pregnant. The law also allows for the imprisonment of those who break it. Just this week, Alabama’s governor signed a bill that makes performing an abortion a Class A felony, punishable by up to 99 years in prison….

Civil Rights and Soul: Memphis 2010

By Lauri Lebo

…he next night, King was killed from the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel. Two weeks later, the city agreed to recognize the union and a 10-cents-an-hour raise. On my visit, I also visited the museum of Stax Records, which was the grittier, edgier Memphis soul sister to the hit machine of Detroit’s Motown Records. An exhibit there paid tribute to the soul’s gospel roots. It also made a point that I admit I had never considered before about why so many…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…esident Michelle Bachelet introduced marriage equality legislation last Monday, which ABC notes was a week after the Constitutional Court upheld a loosening of restrictions on abortion. Civil unions were approved in 2015. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights rapporteur for Chile Luis Ernesto Vargas said that the commitment of the government of President Michelle Bachelet to pursue marriage equality is a commitment of the state, not just the c…

The Racial Dimension of Trusting in Police Violence

By Eric C. Miller

…wer. Listening to conservative Christian friends defend Darren Wilson this week, I could only marvel at the unblinking trust they placed in a government agent—trust that seems to fly in the face of their otherwise skeptical view of government. Later, on Twitter, one popular user observed, “It seems as if all you have to do to make some conservatives trust the government is shoot an unarmed black teenager.” Though I am not inclined to attribute suc…

Could The “Grand Old Party” Now Be The “Gay Old Party”?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ve got to be kidding me,’” state Sen. John Brueggeman, R-Polson, said last week. “Should it get taken out? Absolutely. Does anybody think we should be arresting homosexual people? If you take that stand, you really probably shouldn’t be in the Republican Party.” For the Republicans, Barron and Mehlman are the wave of the future—conservatives who are also gay, and not concerned with what the religious right has to say about it. Which could make one…

The Year in Mormons: Top 7 Stories of 2012

By Joanna Brooks

…ion to play for Duke in 2013–2014. Here at RD, we were too absorbed in the week-by-week of the long election season to cover Fredette, Te’o, and Parker—a pity, really. 4. Mormon feminists and allies organize worldwide “Pants to Church” Sunday to raise awareness and start dialogue about women’s issues in the LDS Church. With thousands of women and men (wearing purple in solidarity) participating worldwide, the event is the largest concerted feminis…

Sex and the (Hipster) Church—Just a Gimmick?

By Nicole Greenfield

…Your Spouse, in which they challenge husbands and wives to have sex every day for a week straight. They are the latest in a line of pastors—Mark Driscoll perhaps the most well-known among them—who claim that society has taken sex too far, and that the church hasn’t taken it far enough; that culture has hijacked sex, and that God has been left out of the discussion for too long. By openly promoting sex—among married heterosexual couples—they are t…

Texas Board of Education Sets Sights on Islam

By Lauri Lebo

…ian rewrite on American history. Now, a proposed resolution submitted this week would warn publishers not to include too much information about Islam in their textbooks and warns of a “pro-Islam anti-Christian bias.” According to the Dallas Morning News: Members of the board’s social conservative bloc asked for the resolution after an unsuccessful candidate for a board seat called on the panel to head off any bias against Christians in new social…

Pennsylvania Anti-Immigration Law Unconstitutional

By Lauri Lebo

…the ACLU of Pennsylvania and consider Walczak a friend.) I left Arizona Monday after spending a week there. I witnessed exactly what Walczak describes. There is a fearfulness that seems to be hanging over the state. People are afraid to talk out of fear that they will be harassed or create harassment for someone else. On Monday, a minister kicked me off a church parking lot for trying to talk to day laborers. Three years ago, U.S. District Judge J…

Should We Accept The Apology of an Ex-Gay Ministry?

By John Blevins

…o measure whether we were truly being led by God or by the emotions of the week. What are Alan Chambers’ convictions? How long will they last? What will he and the supporters of this “new thing”—a thing called “Reduce Fear,” the organization supplanting Exodus International—preach? Time will tell. By their fruits we shall know them. One thing I do know. Unlike John Shore, I really don’t need Alan Chambers to change his convictions that the only ki…