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What Did Pope Benedict Know and When Did He Know It?

By Patricia Miller

…rtion, contraception and homosexuality. That same year, Ratzinger stripped Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of much of his authority after he allowed gay Catholics to celebrate mass at St. James Cathedral and allowed Catholic hospitals in his diocese to perform contraceptive sterilizations. Shortly thereafter, Ratzinger declared homosexuality an “intrinsic moral evil.” At the same time, as Alexander Stille noted in The New Yorker, “As the sec…

3 Takeaways from #Easter2015

By Michael Schulson

…ross the top of church’s Easter-themed webpage: Christian Faith Center, in Seattle, used #RememberFriday and #CelebrateSunday, while Hillsong, the Australian-turned-global megachurch musical phenomenon, ran an entire branded campaign around #crossequalslove. Other churches used Easter as a verb (perhaps in reference to the final stanza of this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, or simply because our culture verbs almost everything online). “#EasterWithUs…

Marriage Equality in WA Already Under Attack

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…nothing will take this moment in history away from us,” Sen. Ed Murray, a Seattle Democrat who is gay and has sponsored gay rights legislation for years, told the cheering crowd. Joining in the glowering, however, was GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum who campaigned in the state just hours before the bill was signed. He met with a group of anti-marriage equality campaigners at a church in Olympia, Wash., telling them “to keep up the ﬁght, th…

We Are All Nuns

By Mary E. Hunt

…a cardinal soon) we can predict that Archbishop Delegate Peter Sartain of Seattle who is doing this work on behalf of Rome has already had his head measured for a new hat. Catholics schooled in the ways of justice—largely by the nuns—recoil at the power play this mandate represents. Three things are especially repugnant. First, there is no real discussion. The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal William Levada asser…

Scopes Redux DOA Pending Expert Input

By Lauri Lebo

…ould include, “Biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.” Scientists say the wording is a ploy to sneak creationism into science class. Once again, the bill’s language is based on sample legislation proposed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute. The bill is not yet officially dead, however. According to the Sentinel, “the Senate Education Committee wound up adjourning Wednesday night with some other…

Enjoy this Original “Mazel Tov” Cocktail Recipe at Your Election Night Party

By The Editors

…al. So, in order to honor Hughes’ malapropism, RD consulted with a pair of Seattle bartenders to produce this original cocktail recipe (such a cocktail in fact already existed, but ours is designed especially with the Trump campaign in mind). You can make it for your election night viewing party, feature it at your next Jewish event, or sip it alone while contemplating the ambient anti-Semitism that has surrounded the Trump campaign. L’chaim! Maze…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…As a result, creationist and pro-intelligent design organizations like the Seattle-based Discovery Institute are now claiming victory “for science education.” But science watchdogs say the board actually created a road map to pressure publishers into putting false arguments into their textbooks attacking the validity of evolution. In what was a confusing and convoluted flurry of back-and-forth motions—during which science experts who had testified…

Sex and the (Hipster) Church—Just a Gimmick?

By Nicole Greenfield

…scoll has had a corner on shock-value pastoring since the emergence of his Seattle-based Mars Hill Church, and his latest book, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together, co-authored with his wife Grace, is the most recent example of his penchant for the dramatic. The book sparked immediate outrage among Christians, who labeled it too sexy—but the heaviest criticism came from those, Christians and non-Christians alike, who…

The Curious Case of Mormons and LGBT Rights

By Alan Michael Williams

…des in Salt Lake City, Boise, and other cities for the first time in large numbers, carrying banners that read “Mormons Building Bridges” (MBB). Donning Sunday attire and holding signs with messages of love, MBB forbade signs that criticized Church teachings—namely the notion that same-sex intimacy is a sin. Erika Munson, the founder of MBB, has assured me that the marches were a grassroots affair not in any way directed by Church leaders, but giv…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…ce between the Kitzmiller trial and what we’e witnessing today is that the Seattle-based Discovery Institute (intelligent design’s chief champion) at least pretended it had developed a legitimate scientific theory—even though, to this day, there remains not one peer reviewed-scientific paper on the concept and no one has produced any research into its legitimacy. Brown University cellular biologist Ken Miller writes in Only a Theory that at the he…