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Religious Leaders Pressure Congress To Support Religious Discrimination

By Sarah Posner

…odriguez believes evangelicals need to “repudiate the spirit of Herod, the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah, the spirit of Jezebel.” Both believe taxpayer dollars can help support such beliefs — since, by signing the letter, they’ve indicated that an evangelical organization receiving federal faith-based grants could decline to hire someone who shared those views, or who might be one of those evil, wicked people. “Religious organizations desiring such…

Gay Rights, an Evangelical Thing?

By Janet Edwards

…ath and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It means that LGBT Christians have the same place at Christ’s table as anyone else. The chorus of the praise song, “We Are One in the Spirit,” echoes Paul (Galatians 5:22) when it repeats the refrain, “And they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love, Yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” It is in this Spirit that we can “out-evangelize the ev…

Sacred&Profane: The Sacred Pelvis

By Gary Laderman

…ly image and familiar spirit. The Elvis born poor in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1935 and who died rich in Graceland in 1977 fades from view with each passing year, each new generation. But that Elvis, the physical man with the guitar and lips, hip-shakes and sideburns, the one embalmed and displayed before crowds and crowds of people congregating around the corpse, is only half man now, less and less significant compared to the spiritual body that, un…

Immigration As A Progressive Game Changer—Without Evangelical Support

By Sarah Posner

…His central tenet of theo-politics: to “repudiate the spirit of Herod, the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah, the spirit of Jezebel.” Rodriguez, like the Catholic bishops, opposes immigration reform with LGBT equality. But a bloc of House Democrats are opposed to letting that critical piece of justice fall away from comprehensive immigration reform. As Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), a supporter of immigration reform with LGBT equality, told me a few weeks ag…

Stop Policing the Borders of Christianity

By Brandy Daniels

…in queer people and relationships are analogous to the pouring out of the Spirit on the Gentiles? In Romans 11, Paul warns those who have been grafted in to God’s covenantal relationship with Israel not to be arrogant. Note the kindness and severity of God, he admonishes in verse 22. The kindness of God to us depends on our kindness to others. Otherwise, Paul tells us, we will be cut off. So what might this mean for how we are to understand Chris…

No Garden to Get Back to: Understanding Post-Avatar Ecological Depressive Disorder

By Ryann Croken

…in your mind: the film has inspired you to believe that somewhere in your spirit you, like the Na’vi, have a “port” that is intended to connect with nature, but as you frantically search your surrounding environment, you simply don’t know where to plug this port in. You long to commune with a holy, green, transpersonal home, but you realize that you are destroying the closest thing you’ve got to that. It’s time to get back to the garden, your spi…

Homophobia an “Atrocity,” LDS Bishop Tells Gay Mormon Conference

By Joanna Brooks

…bian people have gone through, I quoted a scripture in Zechariah [Zechariah 13:6] where someone—who Mormons interpret as Christ—comes and shows wounds, and he says, “I was wounded in the house of my friends.” I used that imagery to characterize the scars of gay and lesbian people. I know it’s strong imagery. I just feel really mournful about what they have been through. All of these realizations are very new to me, and it’s still quite raw. I was…

Make Way For The Homo Superior: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 6

By Mark Dery

…, some sources reject this tale as mere Christian libel, meant to discredit pagan beliefs. 9. Mircea Eliade, Mephistopheles and the Androgyne (New York, NY: Sheed and Ward, 1965), p. 104. 10. Mircea Eliade, Mephistopheles and the Androgyne, ibid. 11. Eliade, ibid. 12. Eliade, ibid. 13. Ibid. 14. Eliade, ibid., p. 101….

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

By John P. Slattery

…Schiwy, Teilhard de Chardin: sein Leben und seine Zeit. 2. (München: Kösel, 1981): 105. “I hate nationalism…” : Günther Schiwy, Teilhard de Chardin: sein Leben und seine Zeit. 2. (München: Kösel, 1981): 261. “The philosophical…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Letters to Léontine Zanta. Translated by Bernard Wall. (London: Collins, 1969): 117. “For a complex of…”: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “Human Energy” in Human Energy. (New York: Harcourt Brace J…

Don’t Let Bigoted Campaigns Sour You to the Revolutionary Idea of Religious Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson

…e following year; and later for it to be included in the First Amendment in 1791. Commemorative proclamations called for by Congress and issued by presidents annually, have been generally true to the spirit of the occasion. That is, until Donald Trump, who’s used the occasion to promote the Christian Right’s idea that religious freedom allows for ad hoc exemptions from the laws that apply to everyone else. The Framers knew there’d be days like the…