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LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística and Fundacao Getulio Vargas. Televangelists and religious leaders vocal about their opposition to gay-rights legislation are also commanding some political influence, with ties to politicians who filled more than 60 Congressional seats in 2012, according to a report in Americas Quarterly. [Researcher Sonia] Correa notes that people belonging to right-wing groups have made troubling comments commending t…

I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?

By Megan Sweas

…r-married adults say it’s important to them to find a partner with shared religious and moral beliefs. Most secular dating sites allow you to list yourself and search others by religion, but there are dating services that cater specifically to Christians, Jews, or Muslims. And, of course, there are many shades of “Catholic.” St. Monica parishioner Molly Harrington, who isn’t involved in YMA’s dating scene, signed up for CatholicMatch.com during Le…

The Dark Horse ‘Stop the Steal’ Scenario: NAR Leaders Sought ‘Trojan Horse’ in Election Offices Filled with ‘Christian Patriots’

By Frederick Clarkson

…cant religious movement of the 21st century, to train people to infiltrate election offices as election workers. NAR connected organization Lion of Judah came to national attention last summer at an event in Wisconsin when its leader, Jacob Caleb Standifer, told the crowd that when the polls closed, they wanted Christians to be among those counting the votes: You are actually going to be a paid election worker. You’re going to be trained by your l…

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…a biological component to gender identity that goes deeper than any “sincerely held belief.”) When asked if he has ever spoken directly with an out transgender person, Mero pauses, then explains that he has not engaged with an openly trans person in his three decades of work advising and collaborating with policymakers, activists, and attorneys. He adds that he does not consider another person’s gender to be his “beeswax,” and admits that such a c…

Condemnation, Condolences in Wake of Orlando Massacre and More

By Peter Montgomery

…onstitutional reform to recognize gay marriage throughout the country, as well as amendments to the Federal Civil Code to allow homosexual adoption, more than 1,000 organizations joined together to form the National Front for the Family (FNF). Heading up this front are the National Union of Parents, Family Network, ConFamilia, CitizenGo, HazteOir, Dilo Bien, and Mexico is One for the Children, among others. “Yesterday was a historic day in Mexico,…

Jack Ryan Uses Bible to Exonerate Wall Street, CIA

By Erin Runions

…onerating Wall Street is a chief outcome, the film’s sexual politics also help fictively prop up national defenses in the face of transnational market threats and to absolve the military industrial complex. The film works to reimagine the CIA as husband-protector of the nation. Of course, it must first verbally distance the CIA from practices like waterboarding. As Ryan’s recruiter Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner) tells him, their unit doesn’t do suc…

“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ractice their own religion to the maximum possible extent,” explained Michael McConnell, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. Steven Green, a law professor at Willamette University and the author of Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding said that liberty suggests a “defensive response.” “I think you could say we are all free, but what does free mean? It’s such a general concept,” said Green,…

The Facts About ‘Sharia’ May Surprise You

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali

…ed in response to the Industrial Revolution, Muslims couldn’t similarly develop their religious tradition because they were subjugated. After colonialism in the mid-twentieth century, newly drawn, aggressively secular, Muslim-majority countries inherited the colonial state apparatus and adopted new legal systems, usually based on the French civil-law system. Because these repressive post-colonial Muslim governments were secular, opposition to them…

There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle

By Chrissy Stroop

…schattwill/status/1234252762055090176?s=20 However, if you’re a white evangelical or evangelical-adjacent commentator or pastor with pretensions to respectability, your response might instead be to put out a tone-deaf take in defense of the picture. And then to take umbrage, naturally couched in the rhetoric of holier-than-thouness, when people inevitably point out that your tone-deaf take is tone-deaf. It is precisely this scene that’s been playi…

‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists

By Austin Dacey

…public debate is about how to balance freedom of speech with respect for religious belief. But Alexander Aan’s case, playing out in the world’s most populous Muslim country, represents a much different global reality. Here the value at stake is not just freedom of speech, but freedom of conscience. The real contest is not between atheists and believers, but between those who affirm the equality of all persons of conscience and those who deny it….