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At National Prayer B’fast Obama Defends His Faith… Again

By Daniel Schultz

…. It is a fraud to pass on a “misunderstanding” known to be just that. Likewise when people “raise questions” that have been answered more than once, it is a form of prevarication, not honest wonderment. All of this is done with the intention of damaging the public view of the president, as he and his staff surely know. People lie about his faith to make others fear and distrust him. So why didn’t the president say so? Instead of coming to the Nat…

Even Amid Controversy, ‘My Soul Still Sings,’ Says UMC’s First Lesbian Bishop

By Sunnivie Brydum

…have told her. “And we’re going to have to risk being comfortable.” That’s a good sign, said Oliveto. “Because if I’m comfortable in my walk with Jesus, I’m probably not following really closely.”…

(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the book about not being able to tell “success stories” from Exodus’ work with those who “struggle” with same-sex attraction, but it seems to me there would be no struggle if the church didn’t tell LGBT people that they were an abomination to God. I look at Exodus and I think the success of it was that it was the only thing for Christians at the time. For me, well into the 90s and even into the early part of 2000, there weren’t reconciling moveme…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…recruited boys from the local high schools for sex. Roehm himself once briefly fled Germany for South America over a scandal involving a young male prostitute. This bodes ill for the young men who will be our future draftees. The scenario I see unfolding if we allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military is an initial period of turmoil in which members of the services would attempt to show their opposition through the limited means available…

US Catholic Bishops Jump on Anti-Trans Bandwagon With Gratuitous Vote to Amend Healthcare Directives

By Chrissy Stroop

…went further by voting, at its plenary assembly meeting in (appropriately) Orlando, Florida, to greenlight the Committee on Doctrine to amend the ERDs so that they explicitly ban the provision of gender-affirming care in Catholic medical systems. As Brian Fraga tersely puts it in National Catholic Reporter, “It’s unclear how many Catholic health facilities currently provide gender-confirming medical treatment.” However, he did add that according t…

Gingrich Claims Obama Violates Catholics’ Right to Worship

By Sarah Posner

…campaign stop, Gingrich, who has been fond of listing executive orders he will sign within hours of becoming president, added a new one to the list. He pledged that he would sign an executive order that would “repeal every aspect of Obama’s anti-religious bias,” a promise which, in true Gingrichian fashion, is sweeping, ridiculous, and impossible. But at his last stand in Florida, the idea of Obama as not only a destroyer of American exceptionali…

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…d in a family with close ties to the local mosque. But she also feels a growing sense of frustration with the Muslim community. “I signed that letter because it’s a step forward,” Aly said. “But the letter just focuses on Muslim issues, and at this point, we don’t need to have 400 people sign one letter. We need 400 letters—you know what I mean? We are not one voice, we are not a monolith.” Given the demographics of American Muslims, the most dive…

Romney Steers Hard Right on Immigration; Huntsman Out After New Hampshire?

By Joanna Brooks

…October 18 debate. Huntsman’s headquarters had previously been located in Orlando, Florida. The move to New Hampshire may signal that Huntsman has given his campaign a shorter horizon and that Team Huntsman is devising an exit strategy that will salvage the candidate’s credibility. But why did he enter the race at all? That’s the question Mo-politicos are asking this week. Is he, like Mitt Romney, another Mormon son trying to fill his father’s…

Prayer vigil for Las Vegas shooting victim Sonny Melton (WBBJ TV)

No Way Out But The Ballot Box: Why Partisanship Trumps Morality In Gun Control Debate

By Daniel Schultz

…in Las Vegas, with more dead, more people hospitalized, more deep trauma inflicted, but with the same shitty debate over prayer-vs-action and same despair over the potential for action being recycled. There are some differences, of course. Rather than the NRA paying $3 million to elect a senator from Iowa, we now have a president elected with $30 million NRA dollars, and who perhaps not coincidentally “feels closer to the NRA than just about any o…

Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment, LGBT Activists Defend Secular Government; Cash From Qatar Funds ‘Traditional’ Family Activism Worldwide; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, where a husband can divorce a wife simply by saying so three times but a wife who wishes to divorce her husband must go to court. The story examines the board and actions of Doha International Family Institute, established by Sheikha Moza, one of the former Emir’s wives, and was originally run by the late Richard Wilkins, an American Mormon. Besides Wilkins, the institute had a board of governors drawn from the Middle East, Europe, Africa and La…