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A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…blame immigrants—instead of the country’s failed immigration and economic policies—for our economic woes. Given the significance of the immigration crisis, the religious community’s values around welcoming immigrants and the substantial role immigrants play in congregations throughout the nation, one would expect that denominations would be leading in every action around the nation. Unfortunately, the formal denominational leadership has not play…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ammed American evangelicals who continue to promote anti-gay attitudes and policies. The U.S. last summer cut aid to Uganda and imposed a travel ban against officials in the African country who are responsible for anti-LGBT and other human rights abuses. The Center for Constitutional Rights in 2012 filed a federal lawsuit against Scott Lively, an American evangelical pastor, on behalf of SMUG for allegedly exploiting anti-gay attitudes in Uganda b…

Gandhi Fired for Careless Israel Remarks

By Ira Chernus

…rror but for generalizing about Jews, when he was really talking about the policies of the government of Israel (or so he said). But that wasn’t good enough for the University of Rochester, whose president publicly chided Gandhi on the WaPo’s On Faith site. Now Gandhi is gone from Rochester for good. The big question that Gandhi’s original post raises is whether we should ever talk about the “identity” of a group of people, for example an ethnic g…

Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…d, even scarier, is seemingly encouraged. As victims of failed gun control policies, African Americans who are overly concentrated in urban areas with the most stringent gun laws, along with inequitable enforcement of conceal carry laws, place Black folks in a most vulnerable position as white vigilante violence threatens largely unarmed citizens. However, it would be a mistake to believe this turn towards to gun ownership amongst non-whites can m…

Does a Candidate’s Religion Matter?

By Tamura Lomax

…y, education, poverty, age, etc.—through the implementation and support of policies that will better the over all quality of life and allow for human flourishing, recent history tells us that the “religious,” in many cases, will do the opposite. In fact, if we are not careful, those of us who happen to be marked by the aforementioned categories (or: those of us who are not white, male, heterosexual, Christian and wealthy) could very well find ours…

Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…obvious way, religious. Most recently there’s been talk of how regulation policies for shipping North Dakota crude may have contributed to the derailment and explosion of a train in West Virginia. What’s happening on the oil patch is, in essence, an environmental crisis. So it would make sense if the bulk of oil boom news were related to these metamorphoses in the land, and the landscape. But nothing alters the natural world without changing life…

Conservative Christian Teenagers Prepare for Politics

By Robert Kunzman

…lar) are well organized and can mobilize impressive resistance to proposed policies perceived as threatening homeschool freedoms, but the fierce independence that leads many families to homeschool in the first place also creates more diversity within their ranks than outsiders might assume. It’s also worth recognizing that communicating a compelling narrative about the world is the job of every parent, religiously-motivated or otherwise. We might…

Boy Scout “Perversion Files” Raise Questions about Abuse in Mormon Contexts

By Joanna Brooks

…the experience of gay LDS Boy Scouts impacted by BSA’s LGBT discrimination policies—this week.) Today, a whopping 34% of Boy Scouts troops nationwide are co-sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But sources who have scrutinized the BSA’s so-called “perversion files” report that fewer than 2% of the cases documented therein are connected with Mormons. It is believed that LDS Church may have handled child abuse cases intern…

As a Latina Millennial I Have to Ask, Does the Catholic Church Stand a Chance?

By Fabiola Carrión

…xt falls short of fully resonating with young people’s concerns, resisting policies that protect “reproductive health” (in quotes in the manuscript). What Pope Francis and his Church fail to understand is that reproductive health and rights are very much an issue of justice for the poor and women of color. Those who have means and want to end their pregnancies are able to go ahead with their decision, but women struggling financially, who are more…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…the WCF wants to be sure people know that it still loves Russia’s anti-gay policies: The foregoing is not meant to reflect negatively on the Russian people, churches or individuals who have taken a leadership role in the fight to preserve life, marriage, and the natural family at home and as part of the international pro-family movement…. We are proud of the accomplishments of our Russian Partners, and applaud the moves of the Russian people, thro…