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Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots

By Max Zahn

…my politics than it is about Buddhism.” The Buddha wasn’t mindfully coding apps—but he wasn’t scrawling lefty placards, either. Loncke acknowledges that concerns over cultural appropriation in engaged Buddhism are “hella real,” adding that “it’s not very helpful” when practitioners “look back to the life of the Buddha or his teachings for . . . guidelines about what policy choices to make.” Such appeals risk the same willful neglect of the traditi…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…support came in at 25%. The results are slightly higher than a Centre for Applied Political Psychology (Capp) poll in June, which found 40.4% supported a plebiscite. Canada: BC will amend human rights law to include trans Attorney General and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton said that British Columbia’s Human Rights Code will be amended to make it explicitly clear that transgender people are covered, reports Kim Pemberton at the Vancouver Sun. …

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…esence through denying it, that’s not a positive representation of what’s happening here. It’s really about going back and claiming our roots. This idea of the black woman as divine, how does it intersect with social justice movements like #SayHerName and social media trends like #BlackGirlMagic and #CarefreeBlackGirl? I think it’s just timing in some ways. The best way to talk about it is in terms of the reception we held. The reception was on Ju…

Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…too afraid of the powerful gay lobby to speak about it. Lively eventually appears on camera to rail against the LGBT-friendly “Queen James Bible,” which he calls “an abomination before God.” “There is no sacred ground for the homosexuals,” Lively says. “There is nothing that they will not do to promote their agenda. There is no opposition that they will accept at any level. They must conquer every opponent and the spirit that has produced this bo…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r celebrates pride in Montreal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued his appearances at pride celebrations, adding Montreal to earlier appearances in Toronto and Vancouver. Sri Lanka: Challenges for gender-nonconforming people Human Rights Watch issued a report on discrimination and abuse faced by people who challenge gender norms. Myanmar: Activists urge inclusion of LGBT people under legislation on violence against women The Myanmar Times exam…

Holey Holey Holey: The Problem with a New Study Valuing Religion at $1.2 Trillion Per Year

By Michael Schulson

…Deseret News included Trijicon in the list because the company “inscribed coded biblical references on high-powered rifle sights used by the U.S. military.” That’s it. Other than the founder’s purported religious beliefs, its inclusion is arbitrary. Why not include Ebay, whose founder Pierre Omidyar is a Buddhist, or any of Sheldon Adelson’s businesses? Trying to draw a line between “business with religious roots” and “everything else in global c…

From “It’s Just Words” to Just Words: Speech Ethics in the Time of Trump

By Brad R. Braxton

…ature. The philosopher Iris Murdoch suggested that love is the “nonviolent apprehension of difference.” We approach different perspectives not to do violence, but to honor difference as a moral demonstration that something other than our perspective is also real. Rule #2: Show Compassion The word “passion”—a significant part of the word “compassion—is related to the Greek verb paschō, which means “to suffer” or “to endure.” Compassion involves a w…

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…y groups on the religious right have latched onto “religious liberty” as a code for this particular sensibility. To be sure, these groups also routinely appeal to religious freedom. But, as recent linguistic shifts have shown, the word liberty brings something extra to the table. “When people talk about religious freedom, they may be talking about the right of everybody to practice their religion, or the right to refuse service to people whose sex…

Does “Religious Freedom” Deserve Scare Quotes?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…made clear that they were seeking civil marriage licenses, not faith-based approval of their unions (although some faith communities readily provide that approval). While Liberty Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Becket Fund continue to shriek about the disintegration of the rights of Christians in the public sphere, no marriage equality law anywhere in this country has ever forced a clergy member to perform a wedding that contradicts t…

Thoughts from the “Bad Hombre” Debate

By Candace E. West

…ause it’s the very definition of voter intimidation, which is illegal. The Code of Laws of the United States of America states that: “Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President,…