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The Heart of Texas Ain’t Hateful: An Open Letter to Lawmakers From a Texan Trans Queer Latinx

By Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

…s beliefs,” according to Equality Texas. The bill applies to child-welfare services, employment, housing, marriage licensing, ceremonies, and services, health care (including gender-affirming clinical care, psychological, counseling, and fertility services). HB 2795 would allow county clerks and their deputies to abdicate their duty by declining to provide marriage licenses to all eligible applicants, if they have a “sincerely held religious belie…

Former Employees: Racism & Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org.

By Sarah Posner

…o plan, strategize, and mobilize to advance shared core values to preserve freedom and promote justice.” Many of the prominent members of the Freedom Federation, including the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and Liberty Counsel, have expressed support for immigration reform. Blessed by Americanized Christianity? Zeskind told RD, “even though the FAIR staff would tell you they are not white nationalists, t…

Global LGBT Recap: Culture War Claims More Victims

By Peter Montgomery

…dds with a bishops’ report issued last year, which said priests “should be free to mark the formation of a permanent same-sex relationship in a public service,” although they would not be obligated to do so. The Saturday posting states that an “informal kind of prayer, at the request of the couple, might be appropriate,” with “the assumption that any prayer will be accompanied by pastoral discussion of the church’s teaching and their reasons for d…

How 95% of Jewish Israelis Support a ‘Plausible’ Genocide

By Zachary Foster

…s far beyond adolescence. Many Jews serve beyond their 3 years of required service, and many continue compulsory reserve duty until middle age. But I would suggest there’s an even deeper problem here. Deeper than the propaganda and the compulsory military service. The problem lies at the core of the idea of the Jewish state, which is that the state of Israel and its army, being a Jewish state and a Jewish army, are meant to protect Jews, to serve…

Jeb Bush Is Confused About Religious Freedom

By Sarah Posner

…ue we’re talking about here is, should someone who provides a professional service be punished by the law because they refuse to provide that professional service to a ceremony that they believe is in violation to their faith. I think people have a right to live out their religious faith in their own lives. They can’t impose it on you and your life, but they have a right to live it out in their own lives. And when you’re asking someone who provide…

Is Eddie Long Preparing For a Confession?

By Anthea Butler

…e, Agnes Rathlagame, had been flown into Atlanta from Johannesburg for the service. It was not clear if this was planned or not, but it certainly seemed to enhance the stature of Bishop Long’s and New Birth’s generosity. To round out the early card, Bernice King announced the offering, adept at inviting the visitors to contribute so they could “prosper” as well. All of that, however, was the preliminary to the Main Event: Bishop Long and New Birth…

The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…hink pieces abound pointing out that King’s legacy has been whitewashed in service to neo-liberalism. Those on the left emphasize King’s turn toward economic justice in addition to political enfranchisement. As such King is often cited as supporting any number of causes such as reparations and guaranteed basic income, as part and parcel of his Dream. King’s legacy seems so malleable in the hands of American politicians and others, as his speeches…

Religion at the Moral March

By Peter Montgomery

…pel at Shaw University, near the staging area for the march, for a Shabbat service sponsored by Temple Beth Or. The service, led by Rabbis Lucy Dinner and Ari Margolis, included a special blessing for people who had participated in civil disobedience during last year’s Moral Mondays protests. It also included references to scriptural exhortations not to oppress the stranger, and to love your neighbor as yourself. Dinner’s message was a call for t…

No to Church, Yes to Jesus?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…the spiritual heart of most churches as they present themselves in worship services, websites, and other public platforms. An “atheist most days” from Virginia who had been raised in a progressive Episcopalian church talked warmly about annual youth group service trips to Haiti, Mexico, New Orleans, and other “areas in need.” He insisted that these trips had been incredibly important in his personal and spiritual development. But, he said, they we…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…bly London we are going to try to go weekly in 2014, and we are adding the services that you get at church. Pastoral care will first come in the form of small groups, with more serious problems being passed on to relevant service providers. However, we want to take care of the whole person. Since launching the first Sunday Assembly in New York City () on June 30, 2013, this group experienced some growing pains with some the board of directors choo…