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On the “Shunning” of Marriage Equality Opponent Ryan T. Anderson: A Reply to Damon Linker

By Eric C. Miller

…RD on the deployment of certain liberal values in the service of illiberal policies. At the top of this list was civility. I argued that some speakers have used the charge of incivility to silence or otherwise inhibit their critics. For my case study I used Ryan T. Anderson, who had written: The principal strategy of the forces that have worked for 20 years to redefine marriage to include same-sex unions has been cultural intimidation – bullying o…

For White Christians ‘Anti-Christian Bias’ Reflects ‘Anti-White Bias’ According to New Research

By Daniel Schultz

…judiced toward immigrants, or more likely to favor restrictive immigration policies,” for example. Al-Kire says some research has suggested that people with these beliefs might be more prone to “even anti-democratic attitudes and behaviors or support for political violence.” “Just like racial shifts lead to racial threat” to social status, “religious shifts lead to religious threat,” Pasek adds. In other words, demographic changes can lead to the…

Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Convergence of White Supremacy and Hindu Supremacy — And He May Well Be Trump’s Running Mate

By Usha Kumar

…theories online, or digested far-right hysteria around affirmative action policies and “wokeness,” their relationship to domestic politics transformed too. Many Modi Democrats have been waiting for a figure like Vivek Ramaswamy to provide a new container for their political beliefs. Ramaswamy, like Trump—and indeed most successful far-right populists today—is known for making a range of bellicose, contradictory and media-baiting statements. But R…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ples The Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that Bermuda’s immigration policies promoted discrimination on the grounds of marital status or sexual orientation in violation of its Human Rights Act. The case was brought by a group of Bermudians who are part of binational couples whose partners were not permitted to live and work in Bermuda. Cook Islands: Traditional leaders block ceremony A lesbian couple that hoped to renew their vows on a beac…

How Christian Theology Created the Need to Assert that Black Lives Matter

By Beatrice Marovich

…, a rural school district will be forced to reform its anti-discrimination policies after a federal Department of Justice investigation has uncovered “serious and widespread racial harassment” in the school system, targeting Black and multiracial students who live in the county. Denial about the White supremacy at the heart of American culture and politics has become so deeply integral to conservative politics, it’s essentially become a kind of sp…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…ich also incudes us. It is what can be done within a secular state because policies are not dictated by the beliefs of who governs, but rather by what the law says.” The Blade notes, “Lima Archbishop Juan Luís Cipriani and other leading Peruvian religious figures are among those who oppose Bruce’s measure.” RD has previously reported on trips to Peru by American religious right figures Mat Staver and Michael Brown, who urged legislators during the…

The Real Reason For “Vagina-gate”

By Jerry Faught

…to the Southern Baptist “statement of faith” that he said guided Lifeway’s policies. In other words, Lifeway, with creed in hand, will only publish material that toes the party line. And female writers are scrutinized more carefully than male writers. A female writer will only be acceptable if she recites SBC rhetoric, fully supports SBC leaders, and knows her place at home and at church. As long as a woman is “Southern Baptist politically correct…

‘Faith’ in the Political Process

By Ira Chernus

…rocess whose outcome should never be predictable, a process without end. A claim to absolute truth—any absolute truth—stops that process. In itself, faith in politics poses no great danger to democracy as long as the debates are really about policies. And religious values are translated into political values, articulated in ways that can be rationally debated by people who don’t share them. The challenge is not to get religion out of politics. It’…

The Truth in Transgender: Will the Episcopal Church Amend Its Rules?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s, we have to address the impact these misunderstandings and institutional policies and biases have on people’s lives day-to-day. Transgender folks, as they walk down the street today, in major cities, in America, are at risk for significant violence. The Episcopal Church has an opportunity to help lift that burden.” If past experience is any indicator, Bishop Gray-Reeves is almost certainly right that the delegates to the General Convention of th…

Religious Right “Compassion” and Other Lies

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ended up not changing the gay or lesbian person – but their institutional policies of bullying gays and lesbians into submission. In actually “suffering with” gays and lesbians institutions like the United Church of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and other denominations, have come to realize that the spirit of the law in their Holy book is one of love and acceptance of everyone instead of the bullying, compassionless, soul-ki…