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Equally Blessed: Wear a Rainbow Ribbon to Mass

By Alex McNeill

…n change policies from there. What are the biggest obstacles in the way of policy change in the Catholic church? With LGBT issues, the greatest obstacle is silence, though the obstacles run the gamut from silence to violence. By breaking the silence, even in small ways, we are planting the seeds of change. What’s next? The ultimate goal is to have a Catholic church that accepts and respects all of its members. LGBT people and youth are definitely…

DADT Repeal and DREAM Defeat: A Failure of Evangelical Influence?

By Sarah Posner

…AM Act, and voted, finally, to repeal the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy on gays and lesbians in the military. Viewing today as a microcosm of religious political activism, these two votes caused me to wonder: do elected officials give a damn what religious activists have to say? Let’s take DREAM first: there was a pretty wide coalition of religious activists who supported DREAM and brought their message to the Hill. The activists include…

Confronting “Dangerous Memory,” Heeding the Power of the Moral Imagination

By Charlene Sinclair

…ng primer on moral movement building. We progressives tend to generate our policy prescriptions on the grounds of their “rightness.” If we were honest with each other, we would acknowledge that we engage each other too much from the head and not enough from the heart, too much from policy particulars and not enough from the depth and despair of lived experience. Rev. Barber breaks that unhelpful mold. He deeply understands what too few people do:…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…last year, Islamophobic agitator Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy put on a panel of speakers, including Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), who urged Congress to investigate how shari’ah law poses a dire threat to the Constitution. Gaffney’s “Team B” report on shari’ah law, released earlier last fall, found favor with Republicans like Rep. Trent Franks (AZ), Rep. Pete Hoekstra (MI), and Rep. Michelle Bachmann (MN). As Matt Duss reported at t…

In the Lewinsky Redux, a Religious Message

By Sarah Posner

…rody File. “Even though ‘Kristi the congresswoman’ pushes for conservative policy,” host David Brody tells us, “as a believer in Jesus Christ, she’s got something even bigger on her mind.” “You know He placed me there, yes, to work on policy,” Noem tells Brody, “but maybe my biggest job was to minister to individuals . . . . The way that He’s going to fix this country may be by changing people’s hearts and getting them more geared toward Him,” sh…

When Bad Weeks Happen to Good People

By Kate Blanchard

…for both good and evil depending on context and circumstances? If so, then policy can be designed to bring out the good and minimize the bad. This kind of mindset often leaves proponents vulnerable to charges of “social engineering.” Other folks seem to trend in the other direction: humans (or at least the ones with Y chromosomes) are basically and ineluctably violent. War, murder, and rape are just part and parcel of being a (hu)man. This, too, h…

2012 GOP Candidate Would Reinstate DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…o ask him one. This was before Congress finally overturned the 17-year-old policy during their lame duck session last December. The religious right claims the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would jeopardize the religious freedom of chaplains who believe homosexuality is sinful, so I wanted to ask a living, breathing chaplain what he thought about that claim. “Well,” he began, “we serve whoever comes to us. I don’t think it will be a big deal. The…

DeMint Stymies Obama’s Religious Diplomacy Nominee

By Sarah Posner

…a wrote at the time: Dr. Sujay’s resumé, with no discernible international policy experience, her close ties to the Clinton administration, and several ill-defined business ventures, suggest that President Obama cares little about supporting religious freedom around the world. As Mark Silk put it succinctly, “This is the Religion Ambassador?” The Washington Post is carefully tiptoeing around the question of Rev. Cook’s appointment, quoting the fir…

Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?

By Brie Loskota

…ng factors that are important to understand, so that we can begin to craft policy solutions to problems too often ignored or treated reductively by the policy community as simply religious, tribal or cultural.” Read as part of a larger in-house movement to reassert the soul of Islam and push back against the forces of extremism, this bumper sticker had new meaning for me. And I realized that I had cynically underestimated its power. Photo credit:…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ervative congressman polled in fourth place in April, according to Foreign Policy. A congressional bench known as the “BBB” faction — so called because the conservative legislators are primarily concerned with “beef, bullets and the Bible” — is made up of increasingly powerful politicians representing interests from pro-firearms groups, the farm lobby and evangelical Christians. Evangelical movements are on a steady rise in Brazil, accounting for…