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Death With Dignity: Combatting Religious Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

By Krista Kapralos

…doctrinal statements from Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists and a good number of other traditions, but individuals may not feel those are binding, or they may feel their circumstances are exceptional,” he said. The Catholic Church hasn’t shifted its policies regarding end-of-life care, said Dierdre McQuade, and she explained that the difference between palliative sedation and physician-assisted death is intent. Even in the case of increasing m…

New Anti-Gay Snake Oil for Religious Right

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…arried to each other; nor were the gay fathers. No, they were often in opposite-sex relationships that broke down.” In short, Regnerus used ﬂawed research to reach his conclusion, while Gartrell went to the source — same-sex parents raising children, to reach her conclusions. It’s no shock that the religious right would be touting a ﬂawed study to shore up their battle against granting even the basic of human rights to LGBT people. A Gallup poll,…

U.S. Bishops Reject Pope Francis’ Priorities

By Patricia Miller

…anasia), vocations and ongoing formation (shoring up the rapidly declining number of priests and nuns) and, of course, religious freedom (Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who arranged Kim Davis’ meeting with Pope Francis, received two standing ovations from the bishops.). Then the debate turned to the USCCB’s quadrennial “Faithful Citizenship” voting guide. The bishops had voted earlier to revise the 2007 edition prepared for the 2008 election, whic…

Renovating Marriage, One Gay Couple at a Time

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…mes and neighborhoods. The turnaround was so astounding that one year, the best sign at Atlanta’s gay pride read: “We can rehab marriage and sell it back to you at twice the price.” Seems that sign was a bit prescient. As more and more states accept same-sex marriage, researchers are showing that gays and lesbians have much to teach their straight counterparts about the institution they have been bogarting for the last few centuries. As Liz Mundy…

Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95

By Andrea R. Jain

…to much of Western Europe and the United States, resulting in an influx of Indian gurus ready and eager to deliver yoga to a counterculture grasping for something radically opposed to what they perceived as the puritanical, body-negating Protestantism of their upbringing. Iyengar was a part of a much larger movement of Indian gurus—including Muktananda of Siddha Yoga, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of Transcendental Meditation, Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada of…

Will Iowa’s Abortion Ban Respect Religious Freedom?

By Christine Ryan

…gion Project at Columbia Law School, recently filed an amicus brief in the Indiana case mentioned by Judge Christensen to correct this record. Drawing on data collected by the Abortion & Religion Project and first-hand testimony, we demonstrated the many ways that religious beliefs can motivate abortion. In their own words, individuals described the religious and spiritual reasoning behind their abortion decisions. Some consulted religious doctrin…

Mormon Rejection of Trump Embarrassing for Evangelicals?

By Neil J. Young

…hts, evangelical leaders also cranked out a slew of anti-Mormon materials, books, and the inflammatory “documentary,” The God Makers, because they worried lay evangelicals might wrongly see Mormon conservatism as evidence of it as a “true” Christian faith. All of this worked to educate evangelicals to see Mormons not as likeminded political partners at the Religious Right’s highpoint, but rather as members of a heretical and unchristian faith. For…

Can Expelled Teach Us a Thing or Two?

By Arri Eisen

…es as ‘battles’ (evolution vs. creationism, science vs. religion) may sell books and tickets for both ‘sides,’ productive engagement and nuance is sacrificed. Expelled, on the positive side does show us some interviews with balanced, thoughtful scientist/religion scholars like John Polkinghorne and Alister McGrath. They discuss the value of science and religion and other ways of thinking, and how productive dialogues among them, rather than battle…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…ongregation of the Universal Inquisition. So perhaps this might not be the best place to work on sexual abuse cases. After all, it’s about protecting doctrine, not protecting the physical being of children, unless they are being taught teachings heretical to the Church. Which is what Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, has been noted for, and why he does not have any other language from which to address this avalanche of deservingly bad press. This Pope…

“One of Us”: Rick Santorum and the Politics of (Very Big) Family

By Kathryn Joyce

…now that they need to have more children, because their death rates are outnumbering their births rates, and they’re in crisis,” Michelle Duggar told Christian news network CBN last week. “My Body is Not My Own” It’s not only on the campaign trail that the Quiverfull playbook is enjoying a wider audience. Amid all the discussion in recent months about the new fight over contraception—a development that seemed to take much of the mainstream media…