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House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…by having the House of Representatives intervene in this litigation which will consume 18 months or longer. As we noted, the constitutionality of this statute will be determined by the Courts, regardless of whether the House chooses to intervene.” If the Senate doesn’t approve the reallocation, and Pres. Obama rejects it, Boehner might not get the money he’s looking for—so much of Boehner’s moves to placate the anti-marriage equality crowd remain…

An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…st of the Black Church, and the waters of respectability cannot put it out. For it was a queer son of the black holiness church—James Baldwin—who reminded us that God gave Moses a rainbow sign: no more water but fire now. May this season be greeted with your willingness to come to the streets; taste and see the new things that God is doing in the Earth. As it was then, so it is now: wise men bring gifts of reverence to poor children born to nothin…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lack either a mommy or a daddy and that is morally wrong.” But, using your wife’s death to score a few cheap political points against a group of people you hate isn’t “morally wrong”? But wait, there’s more! Garlow also uses his dead wife to point out just how fake the relationships between living, loving gay and lesbian partners really are. He talks about the delight he experienced being married to his wife, something gay and lesbian people cert…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

…found among British TERFs to call me a man speaking over a woman. https://twitter.com/William_E_Wolfe/status/1496947849589841928?s=20&t=WLumh8kVuyoIoBJFx4iEjg Andrew T. Walker, a professor of ethics and public theology at the Southern Baptist Convention’s flagship seminary and a managing editor of World magazine, a highly influential evangelical publication, got in on the guilt-by-association dunking: https://twitter.com/andrewtwalk/status/1496482…

On the 40th Anniversary of Hyde, A Theological Defense of Reproductive Justice

By Anita Little

…ou to do in church, trust in God and give sacrificially to the church, you will be blessed with financial prosperity. It is rooted in the idea that if you aren’t financially prosperous, there is something wrong with your faith or something wrong with your gift. Let’s say I’m sitting in church and they go, “If you have $500, come lay it on the altar—if you have $200, come lay it on the altar,” and they get all the way down to one dollar. If I liter…

Note for Today

By Amina Wadud

…ot to the planning stage. But she wasn’t the only person I wish I could go with. I wish I could afford to have one of my sons with me. That would take care of the technicality of the mahram, since they are both adults now, but also, they would give me the intimate company of someone male. It would be nice to have one of my daughters, but then they would not bring something I could not get from myself, as females. The sheer numbers of people leaves…

Gas For Two Bucks a Gallon? Bachmann Taps a Pipeline to the American Sacred

By Rosamond C. Rodman

…entered in the American imaginary. Armageddon theology has had a decided influence on American foreign policy. Michele Bachmann’s promise, to return Americans to the time of $2 per gallon gasoline, echoes within an ongoing discursive effort of centering and sacralizing American exceptionalism, isolationism, and superiority. It is something of a marvel, the way humans engage their sacred signifiers, however dimly understood, and in so doing keep th…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…them to believe it for a while. Then we expect them to question Christianity in their own ways, as they should. They may embrace it, owning it finally. They may reject it. That would sadden us. But if they do, they will at least have the singular pleasure of knowing exactly what it is they are rejecting. You’d think Richard Dawkins—of all people—would wish the same pleasure for the graduates of his would-be academy….

Dispatches from the Election: Around the Moon, Safely

By Glenn W. Smith

…comfort there, a sense of community. As Americans’ hope diminished, the growing right-wing churches provided answers. It seems to me that America faces a moment of truth not unlike the Apollo 8 astronauts faced on their first trip around the Moon. If we get it right, we might emerge from a 30-plus year shadowland of selfishness, corruption and authoritarian rule. Good evidence of the possibility might be found in the liberalizing spirit among some…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…our coarsest stereotypes of the priggish preacherman and the conventional wisdom among today’s self-styled progressive religious leaders that finding “common ground” with uncompromising opponents is the best path to change. In addition to Moody’s work detailed above—most notable perhaps for the way in which he showed great leadership by following and learning from women, and not by lecturing and telling them what to do—the Reverend ran support gr…