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Women and Children First: Syria’s Day of Dignity

By Mohja Kahf

…ick up that song in twenty-nine Syrian cities on Dignity Friday, March 18. Tuesday, March 15 was supposed to be the big date: Organizers of Facebook’s Syrian Revolution page called on Syrians to protest on that day. Who plans a revolution on a Tuesday? The day saw flutters of activity and arrests. Then, the next day, a dozen and a half women were arrested for saying, “release our prisoners!” And that tipped the bucket. On March 16, family members…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…rday, that conventional story was on view: voters for whom abortion is the number one motivating issue, trying to send that message to both candidates and observers. There, on the statehouse steps, another kind of conservative evangelicalism was on view: that of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting fame, who have endorsed Santorum. That these icons of the contraception-eschewing wing of evangelicalism marched behind the Knights of C…

LDS Church Response to Prop. 8 Begs Question of Polygamy

By Joanna Brooks

On Tuesday, Mormons—the religious group that invested most heavily in the 2008 California Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage—responded to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision finding the measure unconstitutional. The first LDS response to the court’s opinion came from a member of the 9th Circuit Court panel that heard the appeal: Judge N. Randy Smith, a native of Logan, Utah and graduate of Brigham Young University and the BYU…

United Methodist Church Votes Against Israel Divestment

By Shalom Goldman

…the call for the church to divest from firms doing business in Israel. On Tuesday the conference voted against a motion that the church divest from three international firms that have business interests related to Israel’s military rule in the Palestinian territories: Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard. Two thirds of the delegates voted against the motion. On Monday May 1st, the day before the vote on Israeli divestment was expe…

Romney Lets his Inner Mormon Out Just in Time for Tampa

By Joanna Brooks

…as pan again and again to the few people of color in attendance. [UPDATE: Tuesday morning, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that Love will speak at the Convention.] Whatever Mormon Republican is tapped to give the prayer (Bay Buchanan? Jason Chaffetz?)—[ADDITIONAL UPDATE: As of mid-morning Tuesday, sources are saying that Ken Hutchins, a lifelong friend of Mitt Romney who served with Romney in Boston-area LDS Church leadership positions, will del…

God Invoked by Both Sides in Rhode Island Marriage Campaign

By Peter Montgomery

…rganization for Marriage and MassResistance joined a press conference held Tuesday afternoon held by the Faith Alliance to Preserve the Sanctity of Marriage as Established by God. One of the group’s founders declares, “Marriage has been established and defined by God as a spiritual union between a man and a woman, and it is not to be altered by mankind or its government.” Marriage equality advocates aren’t ceding God to NOM and its allies. Religio…

Religious Leaders: Time to End Silence on Reproductive Justice

By Harry F. Knox

…resident Obama can alter that dynamic in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night by calling upon Congress to end the ban on public funding of abortion and instructing the Justice Department to challenge the constitutionality of state laws the impede women’s access to reproductive health care. This is a critical moment for the conversation about reproductive health, yet there is surprising ignorance about several key facts. At current rates…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…l and Religious Groups Join for Anti-Gay Rally A report in Horn Affairs on Tuesday says that a youth group affiliated with Ethiopia’s ruling party is teaming up with a religious group to organize an anti-gay rally in the country’s capital at an unspecified date. It says the Addis Ababa Youth Forum and Weyneye Abune Teklehaimanot, described as an association of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, are planning “to hold a mass demonstration in the capital…

Using ‘a Little Bad History’ The Supreme Court Just Gutted Church-State Separation in 38 States

By Steven K. Green

…, at the time the state adopted its no-aid provision Catholic adherents outnumbered Protestants by a 3-to-1 margin, and several of the state’s leading public officials were Catholic. The situations in other states also varied widely. More broadly, the opinions in Espinoza raise questions about the Court’s use of history, particularly when it becomes a rule of constitutional law. History is “complex,” as Chief Justice Roberts acknowledged and Justi…

Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…urt to reconsider the ruling in a petition now under consideration. Before Tuesday’s ruling, the Supreme Court basically would have to say that two of its judges committed a gross miscarriage of justice in order to overturn the sodomy law ruling, with very little foundation in Supreme Court jurisprudence. But with the new ruling on the table — which directly contradicted the sodomy ruling on several key points— it is instead being asked to reconci…