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Is Cardinal Dolan’s Pro-Life Piece More Evidence of Pro-Catholic Bias from RNS Publisher?

By Evan Derkacz

…one agrees with him or not is beside the point. Anti-choice Catholics are free to argue goals and strategies, and a religion publication is free to host parts of that conversation. This is about context and consistency. It’s about the fact that Dolan’s piece is, in more than one way, suggestive of the very favoritism that Jones and Russell-Kraft document. First off, there’s history here between Rev. Reese and the Catholic hierarchy. Reese was onc…

The Penis+Vagina Monologues

By Sarah Posner

…reporters don’t really care about religious liberty like they care about a free press and free speech. In fact, she writes, “we have a press that loathes and works actively to suppress this religious liberty.”* She claims that reporters “are ignorant of natural rights, history, religion and basic civility.”* That, she maintains, is why they cavalierly dispensed with journalistic integrity as they reported on SB 1062. Hemingway insists that SB 10…

Céad Mile Fáilte: Open Hearts, Shifting Power Paradigms, and the Irish Same-Sex Referendum

By Gareth Higgins

…to meet the needs or answer the questions most of us have. Religion in the Republic of Ireland cannot avoid this any more, and even the Archbishop of Dublin says that he knows the Church needs a “reality check.” In the North, however, where space to talk about these things was squeezed out for so long by the Troubles, we’ve only just begun to have a public conversation about pluralism, and hardly even started to talk about the possibility that LGB…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ke in Bahrain earlier this month, where he again insisted that marriage is between a man and a woman. Czech Republic: Marriage equality campaign launched by NGOs Five NGOs have launched a campaign to promote marriage equality, where same-sex couples have been able to register as partners since 2006. Mexico: Gay soccer team hurt by US visa denials The Set Pieces, a sports site, features the Zorros Club de Futbol, an amateur soccer team from Mexico…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to “submit to the teachings of Scripture that God designed marriage to be between man and woman.” At General Conference so far, delegates rejected a proposed Rule 44, designed to provide an alternative to Robert’s Rules of Order for group discernment on complex issues, providing for small group discussion to allow more voices to be heard. This has been described as the debate about how to debate sexuality. From the Methodist News Service: Last…

Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?

By Peter Laarman

…elf has said about the newsletters, uncovered several years ago by The New Republic, is that he personally didn’t write or read the vile stuff.* Right now, with Paul still in the race, the editors at TNR simply urge us to shut our ears to everything he has to say. In their view he’s just a really, really bad actor, guilty of unspeakable bigotry and thus unworthy of any serious attention. To their credit, TNR’s editors allow that, in addition to t…

What the USCCB’s New “Religious Liberty” Initiative Took from Evangelicals

By Sarah Posner

…and even some Eastern Orthodox Christians joined hands in protecting their freedom from the scourges of LGBT rights, reproductive freedom, feminism, and secularism. At the time, a handful of Catholic bishops signed the document. Now the USCCB seems to have been motivated by its success: it is, after all, touted widely at conservative and religious right gatherings and now claims nearly half a million signers. Religious liberty, the document procla…

Contraception Isn’t Meat

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…agency) issues a rule that requires any organization that offers the poor free meals to include meat on its menu, with the single exception of religious organizations that offer only coreligionists free meals. In the statement announcing the new requirement, the government points out that most people do eat meat, and that most doctors believe meat is good for you in the right amounts, since it provides important nutrients that are difficult to fi…

Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

By Anna Bigelow

…pulation traumatized by the upheavals of partition, “You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State.” Would that Jinnah had survived longer (he died in 1948) to secure that principle in Pakistani society. Instead, the now over sixty-year struggle to…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…that scholarly publishers in all countries should defend the principles of freedom of speech and academic freedom by all legal means. While Doniger was supported by the AAS, her body guards that escorted her around the conference reflected the continued presence of the polemic arena. Some of the negative reactions were openly hostile, whereas others were cloaked in political and legal rhetoric that echoed Mr. Batra’s suit. Prior to the conference,…