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The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…to dismantle the secular liberal foundations of American law and jurisprudence in place since the New Deal. Ultimately, we need to ask how it’s been so easy for the Federalist Society to gull the nation for so long and with such ease. The answer probably lies in the “historical innocence” of Americans about which Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America. With no feudal past to constrain us, with Protestantism and the Enlightenment the b…

American Muslim Community Must Search its Soul After Orlando Massacre

By Omar Sarwar

…focus on his psychology or we focus on his religion; Qadhi would have us concentrate solely on the former. Islam’s stance on same-sex love is therefore “irrelevant” to Mateen’s heinous behavior. How could he have been a religious homophobe, Qadhi asks, and a homosexual at the same time? The trouble with this line of reasoning, however, is that it ignores the trauma that results from loathing oneself for having the “wrong” sexual orientation. This…

Why Even Progressive Christianity Must Own Its Complicity in Anti-LGBT Violence

By Layton E. Williams

…t always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” While many moderate and progressive Christian churches cling to the middle ground in an attempt to keep everyone happy, queer people are dying—devastatingly convinced that God hates them. We bear some of the weight of responsibility for those deaths, but we don’t have to keep being complicit. We can take a side. Two days a…

Orlando Tragedy and the Tangled History of Jihad and Homosexuality

By Ali Olomi

…the faithful to make peace. That Omar Mateen abused his ex-wife is not coincidental. Violence against sexual minorities goes hand-in-hand with violence against women. If gay individuals became a sign of moral and societal decay that needed to be purified, then women became a symbol of vulnerability that needed to be protected. The forced veiling of women is a testament to the endeavor of jihadist militant groups to supposedly preserve society. As…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

…c—established the “Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life,” financed by the Protestant church. They published a new version of the New Testament, purged of positive references to Jews and Judaism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan Galilean, and downplayed the role of the Jewish apostle Paul. In addition to their New Testament they distributed a dejudaized hymnal and catechism to churches throughout the Nazi Rei…

What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ely the phenomenon is not limited to Springfield. For example, the City Council of Charlotte, NC also considered a nondiscrimination ordinance this year. At the public meeting where it was debated and ultimately voted down, pastor Flip Benham accosted a transgender woman who had gone into the women’s restroom. According to the woman, Benham called her “young man,” “punk,” and “pervert.” Flip Benham, if you’re unfamiliar, is a prominent pastor and…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…r or sister, and then come and offer your gift.” In other words, to be reconciled to God, we must also be reconciled to one another. Salvation may be personal, but it is not private. Love for God and love for one another are connected. 1 John 4:20 puts it this way “Those who say, ‘I love God,’ and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.”…

UN Human Rights Council Creates LGBT Watchdog; Orthodox Council Affirms Traditional Teaching on Family; Pope Francis Says Church Should Apologize to Gays; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…over how to engage the gay community,” tensions he says have intensified since the Orlando massacre. The Pope’s remarks were welcomed by some LGBT advocates, and dismissed by others, like Adele Stan, who wrote: So, Pope Francis, keep your apology, I don’t need it. Until you issue a bull condemning attacks on queer folk by your own bishops, until you tell the U.S. bishops to stop their hate-mongering against us, until you condemn anti-gay laws dest…

Beyond Alarmism and Denial in the Dominionism Debate

By Anthea Butler

…as a Master’s student at Fuller working the switchboard part-time, and the number one phone call that came through went something like this: “Can you connect me to C. Peter Wagner’s Church Growth Institute? I’d like to buy some materials.” No one was happier than I was when he retired from Fuller and moved to Colorado Springs! I felt like I worked at a catalog call-in center. Seriously. I would never have expected to be talking about Wagner in con…

Episcopal Church Assault Data Reveals the Dark Side of Inclusive Christianity

By Charlotte Dalwood

…o have a full and equal claim with all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral concern and care of the Church.” Indeed, in 2004, the denomination became the first in the Anglican Communion to consecrate an openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson. Last year, however, Bishop Robinson inexplicably told LGBTQ+ Episcopalians, incensed that the denomination had invited noted-homophobe Max Lucado to preach from the Episcopal-run National Cathedral…