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The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…row, now seems decidedly tone-deaf, in addition to being intentionally out-of-step with the modern world. On the other side we have the Vatican Library and the Vatican Museums, eminently modern institutions that have drunk deeply from the well of modern ideas. Museums, and the libraries that birthed them, are modern institutions, after all. These places—the Church, versus the Library or Museums—can seem like entirely different worlds, these days….

High School Senior Leads Effort to Repeal Louisiana Anti-Evolution Law

By Lauri Lebo

…ouse voted against the original law. State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, has announced that she will sponsor the repeal legislation. Kopplin’s web site repealcreationism.com provides more information about the campaign. So far, Louisiana is the only state to take the bait, but similar anti-evolution bills have been submitted in Tennessee, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kentucky. So Kopplin’s latest efforts are important not onl…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ksim Square; a reported clash between LGBT activists and right-wing counter-protesters led to 10 arrests. US News reported that police “used tear gas to disperse crowds and activists say plastic bullets were used.” Before the recent bans, the celebration had attracted “tens of thousands of people,” according to the European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBTI Rights. This year an ultra-nationalist youth group leader vowed to prevent the march, chargi…

How Did the Buddha Become a Medieval Saint?

By Peter Manseau

…ough languages and across cultures, to become something at once new and not-new. “Our task,” the authors write, “will be to ask not how stories circulate among religions, but how religions circulate among stories.” This is a humble enough declaration, but its implications are profound. What if we have our textual understanding of how religion works precisely backwards, in thinking that religions make use of stories to convey moral lessons? What if…

The Most Forgotten Queer Folks in the US are Fighting Back Against a Powerful — and Publicly Funded — Group That Discriminates With Impunity

By Chrissy Stroop

…C-designated anti-LGBTQ hate group. After all, ADF plays a visible role in highly-watched litigation related to culture war concerns, representing, for example, the defendant in the infamous Masterpiece Cakeshop case. By contrast, the introduction of the CCCU acronym above will likely have left many of you scratching your heads. But the two are intimately connected—not just ideologically, but also in terms of donor and advocacy networks. So, what…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…’s article. But she rejected requests that the article be deleted from the newspaper’s website and that Arun Gandhi be removed from the panel of commentators. Howell noted that “it is the policy of washingtonpost.com editors not to remove articles; they equate that with trying to change history.” Arun Gandhi resigned three weeks after posting his essay. He told the Rochester City Newspaper that he resigned in order to protect the institute, which…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…plate for transgender rights advocates in many other countries. In the post-communist world, LGBT citizens have not fared as well. In Russia, the 2013 law banning so-called “propaganda” for LGBT rights has fomented widespread harassment, discrimination, and violence against LGBT Russians, and as Vladimir Putin’s government has worked to organize an anti-Western bloc, it has encouraged other former Soviet republics to adopt similar legislation. In…

Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…ional Amendment Fails in Legislature Last Friday, an effort to push an anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment through the parliament failed, with only 19 of its 84 members supporting the amendment, according to Reuters. The amendment, which would ban recognition of marriages legalized in other countries and the adoption of children by gay people, was approved in 2012. Reuters reports that under Salvadoran law, a constitutional amendment must p…

WA Supreme Court: LGBT Discrimination No More About Flowers Than Civil Rights Were About Sandwiches

By Elizabeth Reiner Platt

…imination laws to religious objectors using the rigorous “strict scrutiny” test. This test, used to evaluate government actions that specifically disadvantage religion, requires a law to be the least restrictive (to the religious objector) means of achieving a “compelling” government interest. In this latest opinion, State of Washington v. Arlene’s Flowers, the court did subject Washington’s antidiscrimination law to the strict scrutiny test. They…

Israel Will be a 2016 Evangelical Litmus Test

By Sarah Posner

…d Christians). For the religious right, religious liberty succeeds as a get-out-the-vote motivator because it taps into dual passionate beliefs and fears: first, that America is not just a nation of Christians, but a nation guided and governed by conservative Christian imperatives; and second, that forces working against America’s status as a “shining city on a hill” endanger that Christian identity and America’s future. Of course Israel has alway…