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Global LGBT Recap: Adventists Talk About, Not To, LGBT People; British Muslim Group Welcomes Gay-Rights Activist; Homophobia Exports Continue

By Peter Montgomery

…hist Nuns On Sunday, Christian churches held a “Happy Family” rally by “to promote the idea of a family as consisting of one father, one mother and their children.” One participant held a homemade sign praising anti-gay laws in Uganda and urging the government to “be courageous” and follow Kampala’s example. The event was crashed by about 100 pro-marriage-equality activists shouting, “Let us in, we also support faily values, we also want to have a…

#TeachAcceptance and the Fight for the Soul of SF’s Catholic Schools

By Patricia Miller

…end less time worrying about rules regarding sex—trying to force people to sign on to judgmental rules regarding sex. On the other, Francis has signaled that he has no intention of revising any core teachings on sexuality, especially where homosexuality and contraception are concerned, and has spoken out in favor of schools associated with the church affirming their Catholic identity and refuting secularization. Writing in Slate about the controve…

The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages

By Kathryn Lofton

…r a partnership registration, we must have the name of the person who will sign the official certificate,” advises the online instructions for announcement submission, “For an interfaith event, please include the names and affiliations of any other officiants who will participate.” Religion here is a first-paragraph shibboleth, the entry code to the subsequent curriculum vitae. Over the course of the announcements, the so-called “Episcopacy” has b…

What the Lost Finale is Really About

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…iche of world religions, a mash-up of myths—which doesn’t make it any less significant to its receivers. Myths are always mash-ups. The audience of Lost moves from a state of disbelief and objectivity into a realm of complicity. In a recent New York Times interview, co-writer Damon Lindelhof suggests, One of the things that we completely own is that in many ways Lost is a mash-up/remix of our favorite stories, whether that’s Bible stories from Sun…

Spiritual But Not Religious? Come Talk to Me

By Kate Blanchard

…l’s frustration with people who might use “spiritual but not religious” as code for “I don’t really think about religion at all because it’s boring or difficult or irrelevant to my pursuit of self-interest.” One statistician of religion suggests that America is well on its way to becoming a nation of “310 million people with 310 million religions,” each tailor-made to suit themselves. As someone who has made a career out of the life of the mind, a…

Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

By Peter Laarman

…within the Religion-Industrial Complex (see below), there is absolutely no sign that white evangelicals are ready to switch their allegiance in any significant way to Democratic principles or to Democratic candidates. Unless, of course, Democrats are willing to pander in classic Republican fashion to the particular prejudices of these religious voters. It is particularly dismaying to have to note that white evangelicals these days don’t even seem…

American Brokenness: A Lament

By Daniel Schultz

…rtsmouth, New Hampshire, showed up with a pistol strapped to his leg and a sign calling for the refreshment of the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. That was a patriotic sentiment in revolutionary times. Now it’s just a vile form of sour grapes. That an election went against the conservative movement does not mean that it was unfair, or undemocratic, or oppressive. In this nation, we stick together—win or lose. But that, I think, leads us…

Obamunism? The Traditional Values Coalition Coins a Term

By Bill Berkowitz

…“to secure the 41 votes necessary to sustain a filibuster against measures promoting federal taxpayer funding of abortion.” The Susan B. Anthony List, “a nationwide network” of over 150,000 Americans “dedicated to mobilizing, advancing, and representing pro-life women in politics,” played a prominent role opposing Barack Obama’s election. ++++++++++ Obama Should “Bring America Together” by Appointing Bush-Nominated Judges, says the Family Research…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…in the college handbook. Does Crook see a connection between the worldview promoted at Central Baptist and the violence and rejection LGBT people often face? “There’s a lot of talk about religious bigotry,” he says. “About Christians hating other people for the way they act. I don’t think that’s true. We don’t hate them—we love them like we love anybody else. We just happen to disagree with them. That gets turned around into they hate us, and it m…

Raising Children the Right Way

By Jeffrey Feldman

…n feminine behavior in boyhood and adult homosexuality. There are telltale signs of discomfort with . . . Boys and deep-seated and disturbing feelings that they [are] different and somehow inferior. And yet parents often miss the warning signs and wait too long to seek help for their children. One reason for this is that they are not being told the truth about their children’s gender confusion, and they have no idea what to do about it. Homosexual…