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

By Michael Schulson

…“20 companies with religious roots.” 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 roo…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tion, have announced plans to seek a referendum. According to the Shanghai List: The Chinese Regional Bishops Conference, which oversees affairs related to the Roman Catholic church in Taiwan, expressed opposition to the ruling in a statement. “We urge believers in every parish to perform eucharistic adoration, to enter into a period of fasting, and to perform acts of penance,” the statement added. “Pray for the sacred union of one man one woman,…

“Symbolic” Personhood Bill Could Kill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…d, by law, to carry that pregnancy to term.” And then I would like them to list, in detail, the public spending measures that they support which would go directly to her physical and psychological care, her removal from the abuse, the detention of her rapist, and the education and healthcare and nourishment of her child. 5. I would like to know why, when there are really awesome custom t-shirt companies in Oklahoma like Boomtown Tees, our politici…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…ta Cedeño was forced to withdraw proposed changes to the country’s “Family Code” which would have “championed ‘traditional Catholic family models’” in legislation. “The bill drew withering criticism from left and right with newspaper 7 Dias calling it “a Trojan horse launched by the most extreme wing of conservative Dominican ideology.” The paper said the proposed language championed heterosexual marriages above all mentioning single parent househ…

Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…the norms of her Pashtun culture. Sharbat Gula is a Pashtun with a fierce code of respect, honor, and modesty. The notion that women and girls should not share space with a man without her or her parent’s consent is intertwined with the Pashtun code of conduct, as is the lack of direct eye contact between men and women. In 1984, as McCurry recounted to NPR, Sharbat Gula initially covered her face when he took her photo. It was her teacher who ins…

Life After ‘Roe’: Clergy Consider Handing Out Morning-After Pill in Church

By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

…ng them so people don’t need abortions, and/or smuggling the drugs in from Mexico and Canada. There are already very interesting groups of women my age feeling we could take the risk of loading up our vans to take road trips and give them out at churches. We’d see what kind of legal trouble one could get into because the drugs would be given away and are legal in Mexico and Canada. This kind of civil action, I don’t even know if it’s civil disobed…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…use I like to know what people who are not me think. I spend a lot of time listening to Glenn Beck. I spend a lot of time listening to Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly. There are actually these right-wing media sources making fun of the theory that terrorism and climate change are linked. But that is absolute truth. The loss of farmlands in the Indus River valley in Pakistan and India have led to the displacement of entire generations of young men who…

A Church With a Hole In Its Heart: An Excerpt from Peter Manseau’s “One Nation Under Gods”

By Peter Manseau

In the dry red soil of Chimayo, New Mexico, there is a hole in the ground that some call holy. They intend no pun, no play on words. The hole is a serious matter; the locals who tend to it would no more joke about their humble opening in the earth than they would a hole in the head, or the heart. An arm’s length in diameter and just deep enough that the temperature seems to drop when you lean in for a closer look, the hole has been here for centu…

Air Kissing the Mezuzah: Religion and Science Collide in Fight Against Virus

By Shalom Goldman

…ypical British understatement: “that, however did not sit well with either Mexico’s ambassador to Israel nor the Jewish state’s envoy to Mexico.” Now that an international consensus has emerged that refers to the virus as A(H1N1), Ministry of Health director Litzman and his rabbinical colleagues give their attention to the real problem: how to protect the Israeli population. In controlling the spread of the virus, however, religious considerations…

International ‘Pro-Family’ Summit Calls for New Anti-Gay Laws: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Blade’s Michael Lavers, who reports that attendees included activists from Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Spain and the U.S. Lavers recaps the regional context of change and continuing problems for LGBTs: Same-sex couples are able to legally marry in 19 sta…