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The “Shrinking Influence” of Social Conservatives at the United Nations

By Sarah Posner

…egarding the IGLHRC’s support for the internationally recognized rights to freedom of religion and freedom of expression.” Because, for them and their allies in the religious right, LGBT rights mean restrictions on religious freedom — that’s been their principal, and losing, argument against everything from same-sex marriage to hate crimes legislation to the Employment Nondiscrimination Act. (The Family Research Council’s fundraising appeal this w…

Funding of Religious Education is ‘6-Lane Highway’ Through Church-State Wall

By Peter Laarman

…and state. Not just another crack in Jefferson’s “wall” but more like a six-lane highway right through it. Here’s why. Steadily advancing deference to religion, whether through “conscience” clauses or “religious exemptions,” already opens the door to fairly blatant employment discrimination. Trump and his enablers have pushed hard in the direction of such deference, as part of their fervid ongoing courtship of the white evangelical vote. Meanwhile…

Why Creationists Aren’t Wrong

By Davidson Loehr

…f a religion born within an ancient and naive picture of the universe as a completely local affair. In what’s called the “three-story universe,” Earth was flat like a pizza. Heaven was “up” above the firmament, which was made of rock; the Greeks had their strongest god holding it up. Hell was “down,” and was a place of hellfire and brimstone, as anyone could see just by watching the awful stuff shooting out of volcanoes. This is the worldview with…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…historical, focusing on the last ten to twenty years; the chapters draw on open-ended interviews, participant observation, and some archival research. The researchers wisely divided the history of democracy in Africa into three “revolutionary” phases: first, the anti-colonial revolution that led to independence but resulted into autocracy for most of Africa; next, the struggle against one-partyism and military rule in the late eighties and the nin…

LDS Church Rescinds Hurtful Marriage Policy Without Apology

By Holly Welker

…ut our feelings; there was no judgment about anything that we said.” The researcher had a four-page interview protocol that “targeted any issue people might have that would keep them from attending the temple,” including LGBT+ and feminist issues, as well as “[temple] garments, comfort with ritual, accessibility and comfort of the buildings, length of the ceremony, temple recommend ritual interviews.” The church’s willingness to solicit and hear c…

In Historic Vote, Presbyterians to Allow LGBT Clergy

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ordained as ministers, many churches pulled out of the denomination in protest. Fox News reports that “about 100 of the 11,000 [Presbyterian] congregations had already broken away ahead of the vote.” Adee doesn’t expect there to be a large exodus from the denomination after this ratification, mainly because of polity differences between the Presbyterians and the Lutherans. The ELCA made the change at a national meeting – but the Presbyterians wer…

Women are (Still) Fleeing the Church — And the Cause is (Still) Pretty Clear

By Patricia Miller

…efuse to provide contraception, bakers the right to refuse services to same-sex couples, and anti-abortion pregnancy counseling centers the right to mislead women about the nature of their services. It sure seems like the more churches talk about denying women and others bodily autonomy, stressing culture-war issues like abortion, LGBTQ rights, and contraception, and backing political actors who make it happen, the more that educated women, especi…

Why Immigration is Such a Key Motivator of Nationalist Aggression and Hostility

By Willie Young

…ropes create the image of a single national body politic: independent, self-contained, free of shame or disgust. This image of the body, often figured as “Mother India,” plays a central role in Hindutva ideology. While such a body is easy to imagine, it is much more difficult to constitute. To maintain purity requires the expulsion of anything perceived to be other or different; to maintain unity and self-control requires the denigration and destr…

When Bad Weeks Happen to Good People

By Kate Blanchard

…e not to make it even a tiny bit harder for Americans to buy guns. So much high-profile violence in rapid succession prompted The Onion to cry, “Jesus, this week” (while Jezebel went even further). Such events bring to mind age-old questions of “theological anthropology,” which religions have sought to answer since time immemorial: Is there such a thing as universal human nature, and if so, is it ineluctably violent? Is all this violence necessary…

C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…ly. What is C Street currently up to? How do they connect with people’s day-to-day concerns, like health care, the economic crisis, Afghanistan and other issues, and how do they affect policy? The Family would say that it doesn’t do policy, and in the strictest sense, that’s correct. For years, the confidential memos the Family prepared for members of Congress involved with the group emphasized that the “prayer cells” were not to take action as p…