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“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…a executives, hired a media executive with a history of publishing anti-Semitic material, and retained a senior advisor who is under federal investigation for discriminating against Jewish employees. Wikileaks has taken to dropping anti-Jewish tweets. And as a report about anti-Semitism on Twitter recently charted, there has been a dramatic uptick in the harassment of Jewish journalists online. For young American Jews, this kind of public, sanctio…

Vatican Instruction on Cremation Rankles Many, But Give it a Second Look

By Karen E. Park

…s at least. So after the funeral, her partner brought a cardboard box containing her ashes into the house and set them on the kitchen counter. Seized with what was perhaps the instinctive desire to be in physical contact with her again, I asked to see them. When the box was opened for me, I was overwhelmed. Here in a box on the counter was what was left of the body of someone I loved, someone I used to stay out all night dancing with, someone who…

Not All American Muslims Feel the Dread I Do

By Huma Mohibullah

…Trump’s America, and guessed (correctly) at the uncertainty consuming me. Similar messages poured in by phone, email and social media throughout the day. It was as if someone in my family had died and people felt compelled to offer me condolences. The reality of living in a country in which the most blatant expressions of Islamophobia and other forms of hate are normalized does worry me. Even as Trump flip-flops on his promise of a “total and comp…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ingle person Trump has announced his intention to nominate to a cabinet position has a documented history opposing marriage equality, nondiscrimination protections, equal access for trans people, and, most frequently, supporting “religious liberty” laws that grant a wide-ranging “license to discriminate.” Even his transition team is stocked with right-wing activists already deeply familiar to those of us who have been covering the fight for LGBT e…

Good Mourning Modeled by Chaplains and Clergy at the Oakland Ghost Ship Fire

By Kaya Oakes

…hip. Chaplains are not there to proselytize or convert, and many times, religious conviction comes second to a ministry of presence to the grieving and worried. The Federation of Fire Chaplains explains on their web site that they are “non-denominational, non-sectarian,” and do not compromise people’s “belief or convictions.” When it became clear that many people in the Oakland warehouse known as Ghost Ship were young artists, Landeza and other ch…

These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump

By Sunnivie Brydum

…Each time the Administration asserted its conclusion that Title IX, Title VII, and the Fair Housing Act’s prohibitions on sex-based discrimination in education, employment, and housing (respectively) also therefore protects transgender people, it established a legal precedent that could be built upon. By the end of this year, Obama’s Departments of Justice and EEOC had both filed lawsuits on behalf of transgender people who were targeted by state…

William Barber And The Religious Left Join Forces. Will It Work?

By Daniel Schultz

…r a strategy call with Rev. Jennifer Butler and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and leader of the Moral Mondays movement, to outline steps we can take right away to protect our neighbors and our nation from suffering and privation. We need to mobilize now, and this call is the first step. This healthcare bill is not a Republican versus Democrat issue. The attack on poor and vulnerable childre…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…published its 2017 Global Attitudes Survey on Sexual, Gender and Sex Minorities, which it calls “the largest investigation of attitudes towards sexual, gender and sex minorities around the world ever conducted.” A section of the survey asks whether people believe it is possible to respect their religion while accepting people who are romantically or sexually attracted to people of the same sex: Data included in this report shows that knowing some…

The “Marginalization” of Tim Keller: When Anything Short of Adulation Is Oppression

By Anita Little

“Marginalized” was the word Religion News Service columnist Jonathan Merritt used to describe the treatment of NYC celebrity pastor Tim Keller after Princeton Theological Seminary rescinded his Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Witness this week. The decision to not give Keller, Redeemer Presbyterian Church founder and prolific church planter, the award came after an outcry from many PTS students, faculty and alu…

Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

In conjunction with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference, the University of California Press blog republished “Why Do Some Countries Disapprove of Homosexuality? Money, Democracy and Religion,” which was originally published on The Conversation earlier this month. The article was written by Amy Adamczyk, a sociology professor at City University of New York and author of National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitud…