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‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r a referendum putting a marriage ban in the constitution, an effort being promoted by the Orthodox Church.) “It’s the only cause in the world that American money and Russian Money are given for the same cause, which is anti-LGBT policies,” says Sandu. “That’s just insane.” India: Author urged Hindus to explore pre-colonial history on LGBT relationships Raj Rao, author of “Criminal Love? Queer Theory, Culture, and Politics in India,” writes that h…

Dear President Bush

By Jimmy McCarty

…that plane on it with “Mission Accomplished” emblazoned behind you. You’re welcome.) I remember when 9/11 happened. I was driving to another day at work fixing our ships and submarines when I heard about it on the radio. It was eerie. At first they said a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Sad, but to an eighteen-year-old it was an interruption to my morning music (it was the same day Jay-Z’s The Blueprint came out and I was hyped!). A few…

Op-Ed: Bishops vs. Catholic Politicians

By Daniel C. Maguire

…hildren and many of them pregnant women. Those who vote for that are still welcome at the communion rail. Saints Thomas Aquinas and Augustine both held that a Catholic legislator could vote to legalize prostitution if they foresaw greater evils coming from banning it. Augustine said, and Aquinas agreed, that if this outlet for aberrant sexual energy were closed, greater evils could ensue. Thus, they said, the good legislator should imitate God who…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…the bishops heard from a Catholic married couple who said parishes should welcome gay couples the way a family welcomes a gay child and partner at Christmas. Reflecting on that story, Nigerian Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama told The Tablet, “If the son is part of the family it is only natural that the family should be together. You cannot exclude a family member from a feast, from a meal. Our arms should be open.” But that is the same Archbishop Kai…

After Westboro: The Trouble With “Tolerance”

By Cody J. Sanders

…the soul-destroying practice of theologized tolerance that says, “You are welcome to exist among us, but we cannot affirm the goodness, value, or worth of your life(style).” This is a particularly popular discourse among “moderates” who rest proud that they aren’t like Westboro and for whom tolerance seems virtuous. Secondly, free speech does not necessarily lead to greater freedom for the marginalized. Free speech and a tolerance for all views p…

Overture To Catholics, From an Episcopal Priest

By Randall Balmer

…2009, the Vatican announced a special “Apostolic Constitution” that would welcome these restive Episcopalians and Anglicans into the Catholic Church, allowing them to bring with them some of the glorious liturgies and music of the Anglican tradition. While I’ve seen no evidence of Anglicans and Episcopalians “swimming the Tiber” en masse (pardon the pun) to Rome, the Vatican’s overture struck me at the time as opportunistic, even cynical. Ignorin…

Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…which result in too few communal spaces in which Jews feel comfortable or welcome voicing criticisms of Israel. Rabbi Brian Walt, the founding executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, and now part-time rabbi for Congregation Tikkun v’Or, a Reform synagogue in Ithaca, New York, sits on both the JVP Rabbinic Council and the J Street Rabbinic Cabinet. While the emergence of JVP has “widened the discourse of rabbis,” he claims tha…

Adult Realism and the State of This Union

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…that made the President’s speech seem flatter than most was the altogether welcome, and altogether adult, decision by the leadership of the two main parties to weave themselves together, thereby working against the endless intrusion of partisan shouting and handclapping on two sides of the chamber that tended to double the length of such speeches in the past decades. This was the very sort of thing that led Chief Justice Roberts to suggest last ye…

Pope Francis’ Love Letter is an Opportunity Lost

By Mary E. Hunt

…n ethical also-ran. There are some feeble efforts to make such people feel welcome in the Roman Catholic Church, but just as long as they realize they are on moral thin ice. In postmodernity, families come in all sizes and shapes. Either you acknowledge that and enter into the much touted and Jesuit-tinged process of ‘discernment’ about the many ways there are to live morally or you don’t. There is lip service to enculturation, the idea that gener…

Rejecting the Stranger: Why Rod Dreher’s Vision of Communal Christian Life Is Not So Benedictine After All

By Kaya Oakes

…neglects to understand that the guests arriving right now most in need of welcome are mostly not Christians. Nor does Dreher seem to write about progressive Christian communities that are, in fact, living out their own version of the Benedict Option, although their ideas about community are perhaps more open to female leadership of LGBTQ members. Evangelicals, who largely lean and vote conservative, might seem to be a natural audience for Dreher’…