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Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hoped for more inclusive language towards gays. Wrote Laurie Goodstein and Elisabetta Povoledo in the New York Times, The church doors opened just a crack for Catholics who divorced and remarried without receiving an annulment of their first marriages, and for those living together without being married. They remained firmly shut to same-sex marriage, even as the document said gay people should be treated with respect… The next steps are now with…

Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…ution is based on “biblically-derived principles.” While biblical ideas likely influenced the development of Western democracy, the assertion that democracy has “its beginnings” in the Judeo-Christian tradition flies in the face of current scholarship on democracy’s origins, which may well lie prior to ancient Israel, Greece, and Rome. Noting that a related rubric already includes the Jewish Ten Commandments and Justinian’s Code of Laws as influen…

Abuse in the Name of God? Children and Faith Healing

By Shawn Francis Peters

…iceberg” of a surprisingly pervasive problem. Assessing whether forms of religion-related child abuse pose a greater risk to children than more widely publicized threats, such as ritual satanic abuse, a wide-ranging study funded by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect concluded that “there are more children actually being abused in the name of God than in the name of Satan.” Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of such instances…

Men Without Guns: A Tribute to Larry McMurtry

By Amy Laura Hall

…live buzzards by jet 1,000 miles from Laredo to Amarillo and wire them for electronic release on cue. “As soon as they were wired to the tree they all began to try and fly away. The wires prevented that, of course, but did not prevent them from falling off the limbs, where they dangled upside down, wings flapping, nether parts exposed . . .” This was “unaesthetic,” and unlikely “to beguile a movie-going audience.” Finally [the buzzards] abandoned…

“Symbolic” Personhood Bill Could Kill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ative pro-life state—we are proud to stand up for what we know is right.” Well, yes, it feels very good to be proud of things, doesn’t it? Might I suggest that not everything one is proud of needs to be enshrined in a badly-worded and vague law which, if enforced, could kill someone? Accordingly, as a resident of Oklahoma, an Oklahoma voter, and a Tulsan who likes my city a lot, I have a few questions for the bill’s supporters: 1. I would like to…

Godly Game or Godless Satire? Countering Biblical Ignorance with Heretical Humor

By Betsy Shirley

…othing to do with a game that ridicules and makes fun of personal, deeply held beliefs, no matter how much the game’s designer claims ‘it’s all in fun.’” But not everyone had scruples. George Juillerat found out about the game six months before its release and was immediately smitten. “Pretty much anything blasphemous or satirical about religion is going to catch my attention,” he explained. Juillerat, who is a board member of Seattle Atheists, co…

Talking About Religion Will Not Help Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…“planets”—a cartoonish mockery of what is actually a rather innovative and elegant Mormon belief about the soul’s capacity for eternal progress. Facing down ridicule is the cost of trying to use religion as an advantage in electoral politics. But given how comfortable he seems to be in pivoting on strategy and dealing with sticky issues, Mitt should just hold steady to his muted approach to the religion issue and hope that the Gingrich surge peak…

Why Trump’s Evangelicals Won’t Care About Those Budget Cuts

By Julie Ingersoll

…charity, is not economic justice. The degree to which Trump seems an unlikely evangelical standard bearer has been widely explored. (See Sarah Posner and Christopher Stroop for insightful analyses.) Certainly the “alt right” and authoritarian threads are important. Also critical is the argument that some aspects of the Trump agenda are merely tolerated by evangelicals because they care more about fighting abortion/LGBTQ rights and “preserving” th…

Dinos and Demons and Swedes, Oh My! It May Be Cartoonish, but Evangelical Radicalism Isn’t Just a Sideshow

By Chrissy Stroop

…ating between competing worldviews using human reason, but that our safest bet is to rely on the Holy Spirit and an essentially literal reading of the Bible for our understanding of truth. Christian presuppositionalists also argue that there can be no neutrality among competing worldviews, which is what allows them to so casually denounce points of view to which they are ideologically opposed, like environmentalism, as another “religion.” And they…

Of Personhood and the Pill: What’s at Stake?

By Atlee Parks Breland

…e same logic? If the amendment as written will protect embryos from being deliberately and knowingly killed, this must derive from their being people with the right not to be murdered. However, do these “embryonic people” also have the right not to be handled in a manner which, if applied to newborn infants, would be considered negligent manslaughter or child endangerment? 21 Not-So-Simple Words Unfortunately, IVF just doesn’t really work all that…