Religion Dispatches
…sually astute observation that Palin is “running as kind of like the other partner, somewhere between a VP and a First Lady.” Here was McCain, the angry old warrior, deploying sex as a central political weapon to recharge his potency, his party’s fortunes and the cultural oomph of the right. Not gender. The Republicans didn’t need just any woman to compete with Obama for the Wow factor, the Mmm factor, the stable, loving family factor. It is a cal…
Read More…s and lesbians can legally adopt the biological children of their same-sex partners if they meet certain requirements. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2012 ruled in favor of lesbian Chilean Judge Karen Atala who lost custody of her three daughters to her ex-husband because of her sexual orientation. Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in 2012 signed what many advocates describe as the world’s most progressive transgender…
Read More…n “a romantic relationship with someone of the same sex” and that same-sex partner. Instead, Regnerus categorized children as raised by a parent in a same-sex romantic relationship regardless of whether they were in fact raised by the parent and the parent’s same-sex romantic partner and regardless of the amount of time that they spent under the parent’s care. As a result, so long as an adult child believed that he or she had had a parent who had…
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…y is tracked by journalist Rex Wockner. Brazil: Gay mayor marries longtime partner Edgar de Souza, mayor of the city of Lins, married his longtime partner, businessman Alexsandro Luciano Trindade, after “a 13-year courtship.” CNN reports: “It’s the first time in Brazil that a mayor has starred in his own same-sex marriage!” Souza said with a laugh. “We want to give visibility to gay marriage and encourage others to take advantage of their rights.”…
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…. Many don’t know or agree with church teaching, she says, and quite a few partner with non-Catholics. It’s the church’s open-mindedness that appeals to Jessica Davis, a self-described “thinking Catholic” with a non-Catholic boyfriend. A note in the bulletin about St. Monica’s Gay Lesbian Outreach convinced Davis, who wanted “to make a community for myself,” that the church could be a welcoming, non-judgmental place for her, too. “When you’re not…
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…arms of Wommack’s political and educational empire—and their out-of-state partner, the Texas-based Wallbuilders organization. ‘Approved for use in churches’ As RD reported in October, this initiative targeted 17 school boards. Their visible source of support for their candidates came in the form of voter guides in English and Spanish intended for use with churches. Consistent with the culture warring themes of the Christian Right in the past year…
Read More…e story of a gay couple (comprised, of course, of a flamboyant, effeminate partner paired with his straight-laced, macho boyfriend-turned-husband) who adopt a child. “Over the course of 100 minutes, [the film] attempts to pin the family’s unhappiness on the couple’s queerness,” writes Remezcla‘s Adriana Cataño. “It even goes as far as suggesting that the men have indoctrinated the young boy.” After many took to social media to call out the many wa…
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…e living in Texas who has decided it’s time to make it legal. You and your partner, and maybe some close friends or family, trek down to the county clerk’s office with all the necessary documentation and fees in hand. But when you arrive, the clerk who is supposed to serve you says her faith won’t allow her to do so. (And she’s signed the paperwork SB 522 requires to claim such a religious exemption from the scope of her job.) So you and your part…
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…es across racial divides with those who have demonstrated, in overwhelming numbers, that they will partner with a person endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan? Or with those who affirm someone who continues to insist, after eight years, that our current president is not a citizen and is therefore illegally occupying office? How do I continue to be in Christian fellowship with those who embrace a man still calling for the deaths of five innocent African-Ame…
Read More…n the Anglican Communions. Italy: Court makes adoption easier for same-sex partner; Catholic school found guilty of discrimination The country’s highest court “has made it easier for gays to adopt a partner’s biological child,” reports ABC News, “but the decision does not give long-sought automatic recognition to the families of same-sex couples.” Intense opposition from the Catholic Church and other opponents of adoption by same-sex couples had r…
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