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Manslaughter Conviction of Brittney Poolaw Represents Pattern of White Christian Policing of Black and Brown Women’s Bodies

By Chrissy Stroop

…tly charismatic evangelicals that can be counted on to support reactionary politics. The country also has one of the world’s most draconian abortion bans, passed in 1997, and an extremely troubling record of arresting and convicting women who miscarry. If white evangelicals and their traditionalist Catholic allies get their way, the United States will eventually have a similar ban in place—or at least a patchwork of state-level bans, many of which…

Gay Rights a Go in Chattanooga

By Michael Schulson

…. Still, it’s always valuable to be reminded that, while the Bible Belt may appear as a solid red bloc come election season, the region’s blend of faith and politics can be less predictable, and sometimes more progressive, than it first appears….

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…te and co-opt other important symbols, to suggest that they represent the true family, the true America – even the true feminism. CWA’s ability to deploy strong, emotional symbols in such a way that they can transform themselves into whatever image is powerful at the moment is, in my mind, the group’s greatest distinction. In particular, though, its claim to the term “feminism” was one of the more surprising elements of my research, and it really…

Women Are Leaving Church, And the Reason Seems Clear

By Patricia Miller

…are slightly more likely than men to say that churches should keep out of politics (55 percent vs. 53 percent), and overall 60 percent of Catholics say church should keep out of politics. Women’s church attendance did recover somewhat in the early 1990s, but then began a long slide in the mid-1990s that continued to 2012, when the GSS data end. While the GSS numbers don’t break out attendance by religion, church attendance for both men and women…

Adult Realism and the State of This Union

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…made for a good line—though one might wish he’d said “bigger than partisan politics.” Politics, after all, is what we do to deliberate about such big problems. The line was offered in the spirit of can-do American industriousness, the notion that when we put our minds to a thing, we achieve it beyond the wildest expectations of a witnessing world. Such a line is neither Niebuhrian, nor necessarily very realistic. The vast majority of the President…

Marriage Equality: Race, Family Values, and the 99%

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…le housing as a privilege, some LGBT homeless youth of color resort to destructive behaviors like survival sex and drug abuse. Demographic patterns have long shifted to make whites a minority in the United States. Yet mainstream media is still in the segregationist Ozzie and Harriet era when it comes to the realities of families of color, buttressing bankrupt social welfare policies that expose the sham of the Christian Right’s American “family” v…

Liberals Agree, Israel is Greatest Thing Since Sliced Challah

By Shalom Goldman

… review of Gershom Gorenberg’s The Unmaking of Israel in last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review section with this list of “the many things… Israel is not.” He does so, he writes, “in recognition of the fact that mere mention of Israel can send its critics into paroxysms of rhetorical excess seldom heard outside ESPN.” One wonders why there’s no mention of the paroxysms of rhetorical excess voiced by Israel’s apologists when any criticism of Isra…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…eiled in a ceremony on Friday, January 10 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, reports the Jerusalem Post (h/t Bilerico’s John Becker). The new monument will be mounted outside the Municipal LGBT Community Center in Meir Park (Gan Meir) which serves as the city’s main hub of activity for the LGBT community. The monument will be shaped in the form of a pink triangle, reminiscent of the pink triangles LGBT community members were required to attach to their clothes in…

New Report: More Sex in the Pulpit

By Jeanne Carstensen

…tion. The Institute’s Rachel Sabbath campaign to reduce maternal mortality worldwide is drawing a broad spectrum of support. But the road to consensus on other sexual justice issues, including reproductive rights, will be longer. While conservative clergy and politicians dig their heels in on birth control and abortion rights, it’s young women, and the poor, who suffer the most when they are denied safe, affordable methods to prevent unwanted preg…

Before Oprah, There Was the “Hour of Power”: Crystal Cathedral Pastor Robert H. Schuller Has Died

By Cathleen Falsani

…ith its 10,000 panes of glass, seating for more than 2,700, and one of the world’s largest instruments — the Hazel Wright organ —was completed at a cost of $18 million and dedicated in 1980. In 2011, after mounting financial problems and infighting among church staff — including a rift between Schuller and his son (and heir apparent) the Rev. Robert Schuller, Jr., over the direction of church ministry — the Crystal Cathedral filed for bankruptcy,…