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Its the Spiritual Economy, Stupid: Why the Gay Marriage Fracas Isn’t About Either

By Nick Street

…and the legal disenfranchisement of gay folks their life’s work. After the California Supreme Court ruled last week against the constitutionality of state laws creating special marriage rights for heterosexuals, the New York Times reported that activists from the Family Research Council and other Christian conservative groups were mobilizing to amend California’s constitution to include the phrase, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid…

It’s the Catholic Bishops, Not Those Who Toppled Junipero Serra Statues, Who Have Failed the Test of History

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…e as part of a more expansive attack on colonizing symbols. Last month, In California, protesters targeted a symbol of anti-Indigenous and anti-Mexican violence (bearing in mind that these can be both distinct and overlapping forms of racism and ethnic discrimination), toppling a statue of St. Junípero Serra in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The next day, activists shouting, “this is for our ancestors,” pulled down another iconic Serra statue,…

Federal Court Overturns California’s Prop. 8

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples.” With those words (as well as the words of Groucho Marx), 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Stephen Reinhardt and Michael Daly Hawkins have struck down California’s Proposition 8 outlawing marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, and set the s…

Fed. Court Rules Prop. 8 Unconstitutional

By Peter Montgomery

…udge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Prop. 8, a California ballot initiative stripping same-sex couples of the right to marry, violated the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. The decision, affirming an August 2010 ruling by US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, will almost certainly be appealed to the US Supreme Court. Today’s ruling states: All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same-sex couples…

“Religion, O Diabolic”: Lamenting Religious Violence, Then and Now

By Ed Simon

…Marlowe’s “The Massacre at Paris,” a character declaims, “begin those deep engendered thoughts / to burst abroad, those never dying flames, / which cannot be extinguished but by blood.” In a century ravaged by religious violence, the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre marks a tragic extreme. It disrupted the uneasy peace between French Catholics and Huguenots, defying European efforts toward pluralism. Then, and now, the event represents the evil peop…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of them. For many in the party, giving in on gay rights would be the equivalent of selling the silverware. Several C.D.U. members have defected to the upstart, far-right Alternative for Germany Party, which upholds the biblical family model and rejects marriage for all… A result, at least for now, is an odd reversal of Western Europe’s league tables for social progress. Traditionally, it is the Protestant countries of the north that have led on p…

UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…c performs the work of comparative religion through the generation of equivalences. A rather disparate collection of bodily disciplines, habits, aesthetic sensibilities, and material affordances for the cultivation of piety disappears behind the surface of signs that function synecdochally as markers of one’s religious identity and affiliation. Not unlike the sumptuariae leges of Ancient Rome, in which different colors and types of clothing serv…

Thoroughly Modern Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…ance of Christian service, forgiveness, and obedience, and offering spiritual encouragement to families caring for children with disabilities. Which image is correct? The sharp split between two reflects a persistent divide in representations of Mormons. Nineteenth-century stereotypes depicting Mormons as secretive, deluded, and possibly dangerous persist, while contemporary Mormon efforts have promoted friendly, hardworking, family-oriented, well…

Pope Francis Walks With LGBTQ People, One Step Forward, Big Steps Back

By Kaya Oakes

…servative clergy, this emphasis on walking with LGBTQ people “is quite a challenge.” Martin is correct that Francis’ calls for accompaniment are a challenge for priests, even in the sense that a rapidly shrinking number of clergy means most Catholics barely get to know their pastors at all. But is he evolving on gender issues? That depends on whom you ask: Ruby Almeida of the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics acknowledged that the pope is “softe…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…g the time of the “Castro Clone,” three men went out into the streets to challenge the world. They went in full, traditional habits through the streets of our city and down to the nude beach. One even carried a machine gun and smoked a cigar. They were met with shock and amazement, but captured everyone’s interest. Their next appearance was at a softball game where their pompon routine all but stole the show and by the time the Castro Street Fair…