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Religious Freedom Org Sticking By Trump Clinging to SCOTUS Nominations

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ond) suspension for faith-related judicial ethics violations, Liberty Counsel’s livelihood relies on playing the victim. If that particular battle hymn sounds familiar, it may be because the Alliance Defending Freedom runs a strikingly similar operation. Although ADF is less prone to primetime TV showboating than Liberty Counsel, both groups exist in a murky world of legal nonprofits that claim to be faith-based, while actively working to influenc…

Why Aqua Buddha Ad Failed to Harm Rand Paul

By Joanna Brooks

…e no reason to talk about them in public. Is it really so shocking that rebellious young white men at Baptist Baylor University smoked pot and tied up women for fun? That sounds like standard weekend behavior for the young white conservatives I grew up around. (Never mind America’s long national history with sexualized bondage in the form of slavery.) And what about secret paganistic societies with odd behind-closed-doors rituals? That too is clas…

How Many Ways to be Mormon and Gay?

By Joanna Brooks

…ese paths entail profound risks, costs, and consequences. All require a level of conscious deliberation on matters of sexuality and spirituality that heterosexual Mormons take for granted. Saturday, Wilcox will convene a panel of representatives from three different organizations that serve LGBT/SGA Mormons to explore different approaches to LDS homosexuality: Affirmation, the nation’s oldest organization of gay Mormons, North Star and Family Fell…

Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…science clause” bill that would “effectively exempt people with ‘strongly held’ religious convictions from equality laws – allowing them to discriminate against gay people.” John O’Doherty of The Rainbow Project told UTV: “We believe this conscience clause will create a licence to discriminate for those who oppose the LGBT people here in Northern Ireland. “We don’t believe we should be treated as second-class citizens. We want to ensure equality f…

Do Not Have Sex with This Man

By Sarah Sentilles

…climate change. Make more people! And if you don’t, shame on you. You’re selfish. You’re “decadent.” Who can help us out of this decline? The government, obviously, which Douthat calls on to “exercise its power over fertility.” “America has no real family policy to speak of at the moment,” Douthat writes, and he’s not talking about Head Start or a living wage or any other social program that might help support families in concrete ways. He’s talk…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sure that they will not remain the only ones to indulge in such grotesque self-delusion. Canada: Meeting health care needs for people with diverse gender identities, expressions Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights is tracking the way sexual and reproductive health and rights and being addressed during the 2015 election campaign and has published a set of policy papers, including one that addresses the issues of health care for people of div…

Showdown Over Shari’ah at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

By Sarah Posner

…his audience, and its fears.) The composition of the Faith and Freedom panel led me to believe he might have been attempting if not a rapprochement, then at least some balance. Ironically enough, the panel followed one on alleged anti-evangelical bigotry, though few if any seemed to grasp that irony, with the possible exception of Breger. He led off, reiterating his position that shari’ah is not the threat some of his fellow conservatives assert….

Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…country. They were intimately connected through overlapping donors, personnel, and relationships. Regnery was an early sponsor of the Manion Forum. Manion sat on the board of National Weekly, which oversaw National Review. Editors at Human Events and National Review appeared on the Manion Forum and wrote for Regnery. These conservative media activists didn’t agree on everything—in fact, they often fought over which politicians to support, what pol…

Rebuilding the Wall of Separation: A Progressive Discussion on Church & State

By Bruce Ledewitz

…us speech on political matters. Candidate Barack Obama in 2006 really did tell religious believers that “democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns” into secular language when debating public issues. Richard Rorty really did call religious arguments in the public square “conversation stoppers” and urge their exclusion. John Rawls really did call religion a comprehensive doctrine at odds with liberal argument (but not…

Pentecostal Prayer Gangs: New Film Documents Religion in a Brazilian Prison

By Nick Street

…ork who was a freelance photographer was willing to come to Rio, work for well below his usually daily rate and sleep on the floor of my apartment in order to help with the project. At that point I had built trust with the inmates over about seven months, and I knew who I wanted to interview for the film and that they would be willing to speak into a camera if I was involved. So we just started to film the interviews as well as worship services in…