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Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Haiver Esneider Perilla Caballero, both members of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church, an Anglican denomination that is not formally affiliated with the U.S. Episcopal Church, work with poor, homeless and displaced young gay people. They consider their work an integral part of supporting human rights for all. “It is a vocation of service to everyone,” said the monsignor. Ireland: Marriage equality vote ‘transforms’ gay Ireland, no longer ‘most C…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…trans hate, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that this will lead to a change in policy. This is a party dedicated to minority rule—the very fact that they’re unwilling to change unpopular policy positions is what led them to this point. A genocide rehearsal The Lemkin Institute for Genocide prevention issued a very poignant warning in late November 2022 regarding the genocidal nature of the anti-trans hate machine: “The Lemkin Institute for G…

New Poll Reveals Jews May Be Open to Change in Israel Policy

By Benjamin Weiner

…, has been best described by observers as “enigmatic”? How well will these numbers hold up if Israel’s “most favored nation” status is truly challenged by an American administration? Despite some American Jewish alienation from Israeli policy, backing for a bold new direction in the peace process is not entirely solid, a fact reflected in the same survey. 40% of respondents continue to support West Bank settlements, which, no matter how J Street c…

Obama’s “Other Worldly” Gaffe

By Ira Chernus

…“other world” we yearn to live in, with its fantasy of keeping us forever “number one” and thus immune to change. Republicans have traded successfully on that fantasy ever since Richard Nixon’s victory in 1968. McCain is merely walking a well-worn path. And why shouldn’t he? It’s a path that has led to seven GOP victories in the last ten presidential elections. From an academic religious studies viewpoint, Obama did make several mistakes. All of t…

Applaud If You Must, But Let’s Not Forget the Reason Bethany Christian Agreed to LGBTQ Adoption

By Chrissy Stroop

…ppened in this case. Gay activists marched, protested, gave their lives to change the laws, and the culture subsequently began to change, and now, even the evangelicals are compelled to progress.” That “even” is important. White evangelicals remain America’s most right-wing demographic, and they don’t take steps toward inclusion and equity without being dragged kicking and screaming. So, celebrate Bethany’s baby-steps if you will. But in so doing,…

Burning Man in the Age of Rick Perry: Revelation, Pluralism, and Moral Imperative

By Jay Michaelson

…nge, not because it is wrong in its current state necessarily, but because change is growth, change is life. This is how I understand revelation, whether religious or secular: one encounters the numinous, and one senses an imperative to act in accordance with it. This conception is not my own; it is the foundation of the theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the great religious/spiritual progressives of the past century. For Heschel, while…

Change, Not Charity: What Ails the New Left-Right Coalition Against Poverty

By Peter Laarman

…ho wade into the public policy arena. It is so easy to call for behavioral changes, including sanctions for the noncompliant, when those in need of redemption are poor and powerless; much harder to demand behavioral changes when those whose ways need the most serious mending are the wealthy and powerful. So while it is perpetually depressing to see the Democrats drinking the Kool-Aid of No Enemies Among The Privileged, it actually turns the stomac…

Keeping the “Southern” in Southern Baptist Convention

By Paul Harvey

…rn.’ We want to do everything we can to encourage those who do feel a name change would be beneficial without recommending a legal name change for the convention.” In allowing for informal use of the name Great Commission Baptists, he said, “we believe we have found a way to do that.” But it is precisely in “theology, morality, and ethics” that the official name—Southern Baptist Convention—matches the key role of the SBC in guiding the white South…

Will Women Priests Change the Church?

By Mary E. Hunt

…se many colleagues who love the Catholic community enough to challenge and change it. Otherwise, despite their admirable intentions and their determination to change a sexist system, I worry that women priests risk being reduced to the 21st-century answer to a shortage of male priests (as their fore-sister was in Czechoslovakia). I fear they will be co-opted by the same officials who now denounce them. Already the churchmen use them. Instead of ig…

55% of Utah Mormons Believe LGBT People can “Change”

By Joanna Brooks

…eported being “unsure,” and 15% believed gay people could not voluntarily “change” their own sexual orientation. Among non-Mormon Utahns surveyed, 66% believed it was not possible for gay people to “change” their sexual orientation, while 20% thought it possible, and 14% were unsure. Which confirms what those of us who live within the culture know: many, many LDS people live in a parallel universe when it comes to the reality of LGBT experience. J…