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Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

By Peter Montgomery

…and lesbians”—he quips about their marriage campaign messaging, “it’s the hate that dare not speak its name.” It’s a strategy that makes sense given polls that show most Christians support marriage equality, he writes. But that doesn’t mean church leaders haven’t been active in opposition: But in August, Shelton brought a dozen faiths and factions of faiths together in the Coalition for Marriage to fight reform. They were an odd bunch from very d…

The Dark Side of BYU’s Honor Code

By Joanna Brooks

…Matters podcast, Ashley Sanders, a former BYU student activist, recalled that BYU’s Honor Code took its current form as part of a quest during the 1960s by ultra-conservative BYU President Ernest Wilkinson to preserve the campus against liberalism. Wilkinson wanted to “make BYU a national resource for patriotic anti-communism” and to “root out problem students,” recall historians Bryan Waterman and Brian Kagel. In 1967, he removed the Honor Code…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ll at least have to contort themselves into a pretzel doing it. In a clear sign that it expected the case to end up at SCOTUS, the Colorado Court directly quoted Neil Gorsuch and even made an originalist argument—the conservative supermajority’s preferred Constitutional framework. Ruling in Trump’s favor would further de-legitimize the Court in the public’s eyes. A warning for the GOP In December, Kevin McCarthy’s declaration that he will resign f…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…goals: “love, fidelity, equality, and Justice.” Precept fifteen declares that the KTM promote democratic freedoms: expression, conscience, and religion. Precept sixteen states that Knights need to understand “how others get close to God.” Credo sixteen extols the virtue of patriotism. Number nineteen advises humility and nobility, while twenty-two announces that no woman should fear a Knight, but, rather, should feel protected by him. Twenty-nine…

How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…leeping in the same bed or criminals profiting from criminal activity, the code was designed to emphasize that “the church, the government, and the family were cornerstones of an orderly society; that success and happiness resulting from working within this system,” says Black. The Legion of Decency was created as a counterpart to the code to make sure that the threat of a Catholic boycott of indecent movies keep Hollywood on the straight and narr…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d: “Those who want to campaign for gay rights should find another country that allows those things. If we establish that any organisation registered in our country is campaigning for gay rights, I will deregister that organisation. If a Tanzanian national is doing that campaign, we will arrest him and take him to court and if it is a foreigner, we will immediately order him to leave the country.” Homosexuality carries a maximum sentence of 30 year…

Vatican Pitbulls Make Cardinal

By Mary E. Hunt

…o to become a cardinal. He finessed the question by saying, with humility that would choke a horse, that the honor was really for the city of Washington DC, the nation’s capital, and not so much for him personally. Since the rest of us in DC won’t actually have any cause to run out and pick up a new red hat, I would have preferred that he answer the question honestly. The honest answer, to all appearances, is that to become a cardinal you have to…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…al to PK’s message back in the 1990s. The genius of PK, in one sense, was that it tapped into that decade’s multicultural zeitgeist, giving it a spiritual spin. The stadium rallies provided tableaux of white, Latino, Asian, Native American, and African American men, singing, holding hands, and praying together in a show of Christian male bonding. True, Promise Keepers provided no theological or political critique of structural racism in the United…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…es this country has ever had. Choctaw Indian Ben Carnes wrote on his blog that he felt that Custer or Columbus would have been a more appropriate code name for bin Laden, and that the use of Geronimo was just another example of how “We’ve been reduced to caricatures as mascots and entertainment in sports and media.” In fact, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee held hearings recently on American Indians and racist stereotypes, and one of the first…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…spirituality. Another indication of his involvement in this milieu is the sign he held at a protest in Phoenix that references his (now removed) YouTube channel “Starseed Academy,” which shares its name with another channel run by Jenny, a Galactic Shepherdess, who has since put up a video disavowing any connection with Angeli. In the interview with the Arizona Republic, he calls himself a “multidimensional being,” whose third eye is open. His in…