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Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…less of what we look like or how we pray or who we love,” he said. Obama’s comments come against the backdrop of rampant anti-LGBT discrimination and violence in country that includes reports of a gay teenager who was recently stoned to death. Jamaica is among the Caribbean nations in which consensual same-sex sexual acts remain criminalized. As we have noted previously, American evangelicals have traveled to Jamaica repeatedly to shore up support…

Anti-Gay, Anti Catholic Evangelical Sworn In As Mayor of Rio; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…icle about showing compassion to those whom he said had been given the “burden” of identifying with a sexuality outside of the norm. “When I wrote that article, I was viciously attacked (by scholars who study Islam),” he said. Since then, Jahangir has been passionate about using Islamic scripture, modern logic, and genuine goodness as a means of pushing back against the homophobia that exists within some Muslim communities. “We have a whole lot of…

Dehumanizing Huckabee Tweet Another Echo of Dangerous Tribalism

By Bradley Onishi

…d not on conformity to common standards of evidence or correspondence to a common understanding of the world, but on whether it supports the tribe’s values and goals and is vouchsafed by tribal leaders. ‘Good for our side’ and ‘true’ begin to blur into one.” As a scholar of religion, I am interested in how humans create in-groups and out-groups through language, ritual, symbols, and group practice. During the 2016 election season, tribal epistemol…

Pro-Gay Christians Breaking Out

By Peter Montgomery

…gay. “It is how people are built,” he says, adding that he considers it a “completely ill-founded view” to think of homosexuality as abnormal. But things get really interesting when the moderator asks the pastor, “What is it that you believe Christians in particular are upset about?” The pastor responds by quoting the Bible and saying, “I just believe in what the Bible says, and I’m just curious, for you Kevin, if you call yourself a Christian,…

True or False: Less Religion Means Greater Diversity?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…of diversity among the unaffiliated as well. It is here that the visually-compelling data-blending may become more obfuscating than just confusing. Among the affiliated, race is distinguished. So, you can see that older religiously affiliated are more white. But there’s no comparable distinction within the unaffiliated, who are mostly white as well (71%). The way the data is presented—mixing affiliation and race—can make it appear that the unaffi…

Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…to NAR-ers like Chuck Pierce and Dutch Sheets. But when I asked one of the WWW founders, Vicky Mpofu, who were her greatest spiritual influences she named not the NAR, but Word of Faith godfather Kenneth Hagin. That’s not to say that the NAR isn’t important, just that it’s a movement in a stream of intertwining movements, which have become intertwined in our politics, that borrow and play off of each other. As I’ve written before, events like The…

Catholic Bishops to Use Mass to Lobby Against Health Care?

By Frances Kissling

…ge parishioners to pray for this effort as well. More information can be found at www.usccb.org/healthcare. To be announced at all Masses on the weekend when the Bulletin Insert is distributed: Congress is preparing to debate health care reform legislation. The Catholic bishops of the United States strongly support genuine health care reform that protects the life and dignity of all, from the moment of conception until natural death. However, al…

Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…lt status. Some images, once shown on national media, are now displaced to underground channels of distribution. They become “cult” images rather than mainstream, and Faces of Death continues to sell as a cult classic, even restored and set in HD. Fake images and real images. Is this all sensationalism? Perhaps so. But we are missing something much deeper if we merely end there. Why do millions of people pay to see such images? What is it, at he…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…oad conclusions about a billion people without having a consultant with credentials in that community.” The Third Jihad expanded on Obsession by making the claim that radical Islamists had infiltrated the United States with the aim of instituting shari’ah law. On its website, the Clarion Fund claims, among other things, that “Shari’ah is an intolerant system that threatens the Western ideals of ‘liberty and justice for all,’” “prescribes cruel and…

America No Longer a Christian Nation: And Other Critical Data from 2015

By Daniel Cox and Joanna Piacenza

…gly in favor. 6) Americans’ double standard on religious violence. When it comes to those who commit acts of violence in the name of religion, Americans are more likely to reject perpetrators who claim a Christian identity than those who say they are Muslims. Three-quarters (75%) of Americans say that self-identified Christians who commit acts of violence in the name of Christianity are not really Christian. In contrast, only half (50%) say that s…