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In Crisis, Catholic Church Plays ‘The Jew’

By Benjamin Weiner

…Committee, felt obliged to declare the remarks: “entirely contrary to the official line and mainstream thought of the Catholic Church.” This comes, however, precisely at a time when “the official line and mainstream thought of the Catholic Church,” particularly with regard to the Jewish people, is a matter of some ambiguity. Since the late 1960s, until quite recently, the mainstream of the Church had been undergoing a radical reconfiguration of i…

Transforming America’s Israel Lobby

By Dan Fleshler

…r this state of affairs is obvious and well-known. Politicians and elected officials don’t want to antagonize people who devote their lives to searching out and then attacking public figures who so much as hint that Israel bears some responsibility for the Palestinians’ plight or the Middle East’s problems. The power of these people to clamp down on those who lambaste Israel or its American supporters is often greatly exaggerated, but there is no…

Christian Lawyers Claim Religious Persecution

By Sarah Posner

…lilities, the decision meant CLS could not make use of benefits offered to official school clubs, including limited funding from student activity fees. CLS sued in October 2004, lost both at the trial and appellate court levels, and then appealed to the Supreme Court. CLS’s mission, according to its Web site, is “to inspire, encourage, and equip lawyers and law students, both individually and in community, to proclaim, love and serve Jesus Christ…

Catholic Universities Facing a Fork in the Road on Gender & Sexuality: The Church or the Culture

By Patricia Miller

…s impossible that Georgetown could sanction an organization for supporting official church teaching. Other high-profile Catholic universities have also come down on the side of Catholic teaching. Catholic University, which is the only officially Vatican-affiliated Catholic university in the United States, has repeatedly denied certification to CUAllies, an LGBT-rights student organization. When pressed for a reason, Catholic University President J…

Mad About Secularism: Turkey and the Global Politics of Religion

By Linell Cady

…y. Over the years they have coercively ensured that secularism remains the official ideology through various court rulings and even, on occasion, military coups. Another religiously inspired party, for example, emerged in the early 1980s and was shut down fifteen years later for violating the secular principles of the republic. This history now threatens to repeat itself. Although very much a national crisis, the global echoes are unmistakable. Th…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…publishing images that “violate public decency.” According to the MEMRI website, Egyptian TV host Tamer Amin explained the official Egyptian position on homosexuality: “We are all sinners. We all make mistakes and commit sins. However, the best among sinners are those who repent, and ultimately, we will all face our Lord. The issue is not whether I make a mistake. The catastrophe is when someone boasts in public about his mistakes, his depravity,…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…activists were arrested for participating in pride events in Moscow, where officials had withdrawn permission for the event. Among them were a woman arrested for having a beard resembling that of Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst drawn on her face. A Moscow official had said permission was denied “to respect morality in the education of the younger generation”, but also due to “concerns [the march] would provoke clashes between gays and their oppon…

All You Had to Do Was Express Regret: Pope Benedict XVI’s Rocky Visit to Yad Vashem

By Adam Gregerman

…termination of a whole people.” This theme, repeated in papal speeches and official documents, seeks to establish beyond a doubt that the Church itself cannot be implicated in anti-Jewish violence. In the words of “We Remember,” its fundamental teachings affirm “the unity of the human race” and “equal dignity of all races and peoples.” Despite obvious differences between John Paul II and Benedict XVI, this firm refusal to accept any linkage remain…

Bill to Stone Gays to Death Introduced in Kenya

By Peter Montgomery

…cly in the city of Shiraz (Southern Iran) today August 6. According to the official website of the Iranian Judiciary in Fars province two of the prisoners were sentenced to death charged with sodomy. These prisoners were identified as “Abdollah Gh. Ch.” and “Soleiman Gh. Ch.” . Since there was no mention of rape in the report there is possibility that these men were sentenced to death for sexual relationship with the same sex…. Iran Human Rights (…

What Irish Marriage Vote Means for Catholic Church; The Lonely Fight for Equality in Belize; Progress and Backlash in Tunisia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f the former Tunisian society.” In the statement, published on the Mufti’s official website, he called on government authorities to “review the authorization granted to this type of deviant behavior,” warning that “extremism and terrorism” could soon follow. Ben Jebara did say that the public conversation, which he called “an earthquake,” has also brought an outpouring of support in response to the ugly backlash. After this week, he said, “no one…