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Gingrich Claims Obama Violates Catholics’ Right to Worship

By Sarah Posner

…aign stop, Gingrich, who has been fond of listing executive orders he will sign within hours of becoming president, added a new one to the list. He pledged that he would sign an executive order that would “repeal every aspect of Obama’s anti-religious bias,” a promise which, in true Gingrichian fashion, is sweeping, ridiculous, and impossible. But at his last stand in Florida, the idea of Obama as not only a destroyer of American exceptionalism, b…

Women are (Still) Fleeing the Church — And the Cause is (Still) Pretty Clear

By Patricia Miller

…f the Catholic Church. As Ruth Graham reported in the New York Times, this signals that evangelicals are “increasingly open to arguments that equate embryos with human life,” and may push for “fetal personhood” laws that ban all abortions. And while Pope Francis has taken baby steps toward including women in the decision making of the Catholic Church, few in the pews have probably taken note, especially since bigger steps like allowing women to be…

LGBT in Africa: Persecution and Persistence

By Peter Montgomery

…been active in Nigeria for years where the group has, among other things, promoted its anti-abortion and anti-gay values under the guise of “character education.” Okafor appeared at the 2013 World Congress of Families where she repeated the current conservative talking point that the push for LGBT equality is a sign of cultural imperialism and moral decay in the West. According to one report: Ms Okafor described the family basis in Africa in comp…

For Conservatives, the Future Looks Dim… and Gay

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ieve it not to be sinful, which is an encouraging sign. A less encouraging sign for who oppose equality for LGBT people is that 60% of those polled now believe homosexuality should be accepted rather than condemned, as compared to 31% ten years ago. Additionally, 72% see marriage equality for LGBT people as “inevitable,” with even 70% of white Evangelical Christians agreeing, even though only 22% are in favor of marriage equality. That 22% is sign…

Even Amid Controversy, ‘My Soul Still Sings,’ Says UMC’s First Lesbian Bishop

By Sunnivie Brydum

…body of Christ, can’t show that difference is not a bad thing, and it’s a sign of God’s divinity, if we can’t show what it’s like to live in the tension of those differences, and find unity, what hope is there for the rest of the world?” Nevertheless, Oliveto is optimistic about the future of the church that still makes her soul sing. “I really believe there’s a love revolution going on,” she said of the response to her election. Even those who r…

Can Democrats Question Amy Coney Barrett’s Faith? Yes! Should They? Well…

By Daniel Schultz

…ut I also incline toward E.J. Dionne’s observation that, “far from being a sign of “bigotry,” invitations to public figures to explain how their faith influences their ethical and political views is a sign of respect and of taking faith seriously.” The idea that faith is somehow exempt from evaluation or pushback in fact empties it of its value and renders it meaningless. Look, it even says in the good book that Christians ought to be ready “to gi…

Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

By Susannah Crockford

…and enlightenment that’s the animus of new age spirituality. There’s also significant overlap with libertarianism, a shared space of socially progressive, fiscally conservative, anti-government politics. Those overlaps would naturally include nudity activism because personal freedom is paramount. The unifying theme that “I can do what I want, so can everyone else” forms a naive (at best) understanding of how harm occurs in society. The peace, lig…

Capricology: Big Ideas, Lack of Humanity

By Diane Winston

See here for the full list of discussions so far, or sign up here for the RSS feed. Diane Winston_____________ Watching this week with my mother and daughter (“Why is she shooting at that man? Which reality is this? So are we the bad guys?”), I didn’t need much convincing to see the episode in terms of familial relations: mixed, missed, and mordant. That many of the relationships played out between the poles of opposition and differentiation ma…

Beyond Retribution: Bin Laden’s Death in its Cosmic Context

By Eric Reitan

…ur crime, you will not experience remorse. In this sense real remorse is a sign of coming into alignment with the good, of coming to care about the true and the right. In short, it is a sign of moral redemption. Hungering for Redemption And so my theory is this: at the root of our desire for retribution is the wish that those who have wronged us feel the full weight of what they have done, suffering remorse proportionate in severity to the gravity…

Leaving Empire: The Risks of American Insularity

By Ryann Croken

…ing. I could not imagine a more offensively appropriate way to be welcomed home to the self-proclaimed center of the universe. Last week, in what was for me a remarkably profound coincidence, Mr. Dobbs was pressured to resign from CNN. Let us hope and pray that his resignation is part of a broader movement to break all the borders that divide us, and to understand that aliens simply do not exist on this small, shared planet of ours….