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Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…they are planning, over the next three years, to open offices in Chile and Costa Rica. ADF’s work with the OAS is bifurcated between the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights and their Washington, D.C., office, where the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is housed. ADF quickly established themselves in the system, even managing to meet with the new OAS secretary general the month before he was elected. It should be…

The Dark Side of BYU’s Honor Code

By Joanna Brooks

…reating serious backlash among BYU students and faculty. Since then, Honor Code enforcement has been conducted through referrals—even third party referrals—of suspect students to a campus Honor Code office, a system of enforcement that has created significant opportunities for abuse. (When I was a BYU student, it was possible to make an anonymous third-party referral.) Honor Code enforcement on campus has been used to bait and target gays and libe…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iage, due in part to Honduras’s nature as a nation with Christian values.” Costa Rica: Conservatives challenge political party support for marriage equality La Republica reported this week, “The conservative wing of the Citizen Action Party (PAC) demanded that its candidate, Carlos Alvarado, remove from the government program its support for equal marriage and gender ideology.” (Translation by Google.) The paper reports that more than 150 people h…

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

By Diane Winston

…y entered the Central American market, drawing together existing chains in Costa Rica and Guatemala that had employed Walton graduates.” What amazes me is that even as we dreamed of a progressive, cosmopolitan, egalitarian, and cooperative counterculture, the Waltons of the world created one that now spans the globe. Equally striking is that their world looks to them the same way we would see ours: grassroots, anti-establishment, humane, and compa…

Gambling with God: Ryan Bell’s Atheist Bet

By Linn Marie Tonstad

…to act as if he did not believe. Yet his understanding of the relationship between belief and practice suggests something about how we have come to think of religion in the marketplace approach of contemporary spirituality. Bell treats atheism as a religious practice in which one attends services and reads devotional literature, the “sacred texts” of atheism, as he calls them. The conclusion he hopes for is just what Pascal thought was impossible,…

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

By Annika Brockschmidt

…g billionaires), they decided this year to cover up the crisis with a rhetorical fig leaf. In November, the Court revealed the “ethics code” they’d drafted themselves which, not only isn’t being enforced by anyone except SCOTUS itself, but also has the fingerprints of the Federalist Society and its allies all over it. And, while this attempt to confront a crisis of confidence in one of the nation’s most critical institutions amounts to little more…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…e, 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 reiterates…

How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…llywood Censored. The code they designed became the Motion Picture Conduct Code, popularly know as the Hays Code after it was adopted by William Hays, a Presbyterian elder who was hired by the major studios to help clean up the industry’s image after it was rocked by a series of scandals. The code, says Black, “was a fascinating combination of Catholic theology, conservative politics and pop psychology—an amalgam that would control the content of…

Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…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 States—racism was deemed a personal sin to be confessed. These attitudes about race found their iconic moment at the 1997 DC rally. When white evangelist John Dawson knelt…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…me was chosen. Geronimo was the name given by Mexicans to Goyalthlay, a Chiricahua Apache religious leader (1829–1909), while Americans who lived in the Arizona territory used his name to invoke “terror” in the hearts of white settlers to justify military actions against Indians—including the Apache. Goyalthlay’s early life was undistinguished in Apache society. As a young adult his few attempts to lead military expeditions against the Mexican go…