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Historical Revisionism Jujitsu: Religious Right Celebrates End of Interracial Marriage Ban

By Evan Derkacz

…e Republican party, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family and even Blackwater USA (the military contractor whose malfeasance is fast becoming the stuff of legend). Their e-mail alerts, which I receive daily, can be distressingly cloying, deploying middle-age dad puns and witticisms worthy of the uniquely middle-American craft of crochet-art. Recent subject headings read: “Ligers, Tigons, and Zonkeys, Oh My!” (warning against the dangers of genetic en…

Occupy Francis Lewis Boulevard

By Haroon Moghul

…read the day when I walk in and announce, I’d like to redeem my tens of thousands of points, and force them out of business. I am their Lehman Brothers. But of course I wouldn’t do that, because then where would I eat? (Surprisingly, that logic also captures the bond market and the Eurozone crisis.) At the Subway, the man ahead of me was having a conversation with the cashier, something about Occupy Wall Street and the 99%. I expected it would be…

Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…e sex.” As Marianne Duddy-Burke of the LGBTQ Catholic organization Dignity USA commented in a press release, “The Knights are deeply invested in advancing a particular brand of Catholicism, and I am concerned that Crux’s coverage of the diversity and breadth of our Church will be diminished.” Presidents Nixon, Reagan, H.W. Bush and George W. Bush all spoke at the Knights’ Supreme Convention; Presidents Clinton and Obama sent written messages to th…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e is also uniquely focused on gay rights, because Wilders has framed his crusade against Islam in part as a defense of national values in the country proud to have adopted the world’s first marriage equality law and has remained a leader on LGBT rights in the years since. And several more moderate politicians have echoed the message that Muslim immigrants threaten gay people… Wilders’ professed support of gay rights once put him out of step with o…

Americans Are Overtreated to Death

By Daniel Schultz

So says the headline of a USA Today health piece: More than 80% of people who die in the United States have a long, progressive illness such as cancer, heart failure or Alzheimer’s disease. More than 80% of such patients say they want to avoid hospitalization and intensive care when they are dying, according to the Dartmouth Atlas Project, which tracks health care trends. Yet the numbers show that’s not what is happening: •The average time spent…

Fun with Facts, or, Yes Virginia, The UCC is still a Trinitarian Denomination

By Daniel Schultz

When Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA Today—perhaps the gentlest religion journalist working at a major publication today—dope-slaps you for an egregious error, you’re doing it wrong: Contrary to Internet rumors, the tiny, liberal United Church of Christ denomination did not saw off one leg of Christianity’s Holy Trinity when it tweaked the language in its bylaws this week. You might not have known from the furious headlines on Christian websites procl…

Expelled Ugandan Bishop Ministers to LGBT

By Richard A. Lindsay

…United States and Europe, sponsored by the Episcopal LGBT group Integrity USA (among other organizations) to raise awareness about the draconian law being considered by the Ugandan parliament, which would make homosexuality illegal, in some cases punishable by death. The law has been the result, in part, of lobbying by American evangelical groups, and has the partial support of Bishop Henry Orombi, Anglican Primate of Uganda. Having already faced…

Presbyterians to Propose Historic Resolution for Religious Freedom and Against LGBTQ Discrimination

By Frederick Clarkson

…and sexuality. For us, this principle is part of religious freedom.” The PCUSA is one of the largest denominations of mainline Protestantism. Like other Christian denominations, and for that matter, most membership organizations in the U.S., the church is losing members. But the PCUSA brings an institutional legacy and gravitas matched by few in American and global Christianity. That’s why it matters when its elected governing body states: “We bel…

Transforming America’s Israel Lobby

By Dan Fleshler

…themselves to deal with injustice to the Palestinians,” said Reverend Dr. Susan Andrews, a former moderator of Presbyterian Church USA who dealt extensively with the American Jewish community during the divestment controversy. “I just never understood it… Part of what needs to happen is a conversation about what justice means. We need a conversation with the Jewish community, to get some specificity about what they mean by ‘justice’ and what we me…

Colorado’s Personhood Initiative Fails—For Now

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…the ballot. (Ms. Mason is also the Communications Director for Personhood USA, the Colorado-based umbrella group coordinating the state personhood efforts.) The amendment’s text would make it illegal to intentionally kill “any innocent person”—with “person” defined as “every human being regardless of the method of creation,” and “human being” defined as “a member of the species homo sapien at any stage of development.” But the proposed text doesn…