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LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…k News: However following an intense backlash on social media, including a Change.org petition, Bishop Zornoza has changed his mind. “I am very happy because of what this means for me, but above all, because what is good for me is good for other transsexuals who are Catholic and want to be part of the Church,” Salinas said. United Kingdom: MP says anti-extremism laws threaten Christian teaching A Conservative Member of Parliament, Mark Spencer, is…

World AIDS Day: Sacralizing Change

By Susan Henking

…llions with AIDS/HIV is itself sacralizing—let us hope that it is sacralizing hope, sacralizing justice, sacralizing change….

Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered

By Peter Laarman

…below? At present most people (including progressives, sadly) believe that change has to be implemented from the top down. They then become disappointed when things do not change, when appealing young presidents are not able to make much of a difference, and when promising leaders in all spheres end up letting them down. We should know by now that effective and lasting change is rarely implemented from the top, not even through the visions of the…

LGBT Mormons Ask in Historic Temple: “If they could just see us, don’t you think they would change their minds?”

By Joanna Brooks

…they could just see us”—Liam wiped his face and swallowed hard—”if they could just see us here, don’t you think they would change their minds?”…

Healed of the Sin of Religion: At Church with Sara Miles

By Lisa Webster

…this is not an original thought, St. Paul had this thought—people want to change and people don’t want to change. People profoundly want to be made new, and people profoundly want to be clothed in Christ, to be born again. And they profoundly want to cling to everything old—about the world, and about themselves. The thing is, that church, as it’s set up, is not usually a way to change; it’s a way to cling to the way things are. I just read an art…

A Republican House Will Launch “Witch Hunt” on Science

By Lauri Lebo

…I suspect it’s unlikely that the attacks on science would end with energy policy. Many of the same people who question the scientific validity of climate change also seem to drink from the same trough as fundamentalist creationists. As science writer Chris Mooney pointed out in a Friday piece in Miller-McCune, this time the attacks on science will be coming from the bottom up, driven by a general conservative anger, as opposed to the Bush Adminis…

Rick Perry, the Christocrat Favorite for President?

By Sarah Posner

…ime trying to legislate defeat in Iraq, we hope you will attend a Pastors’ Policy Briefing that will equip you to walk point in the war of values and ideas. Rediscovering God in America-Austin is intended to remind us that excuses are not the proper strategy when facing evil and confronting enemies. Instead, we must rally godly people and seek God’s provision for the resources, the courage, and the strength necessary to win and, ultimately, glorif…

Perry Taps Anti-Gay Crusader and “Prayer Lady” for Florida Team

By Sarah Posner

…same year. He helped organize the “Rediscovering God in America” Pastors’ Policy Briefing by the Florida Renewal Project, which focused on engaging pastors in the presidential campaign and was widely seen as supportive of Huckabee. One of the key organizers of the Renewal Projects was David Lane, who told me in early 2008, “What we’re doing is the mobilization of pastors and pews to restore America to her Judeo-Christian heritage. That’s our goal…

Obama Changes Course on Islam

By Hussein Rashid

…rimarily refers to Muslims, the NSS acknowledges other types of domestic terrorism more than Brennan does. Overall, I see this administration as living up to many of points Obama spoke about in Cairo, almost a year ago. But I agree with Marc Lynch, writing at Foreign Policy: the foreign policy may be good, but the domestic policy with respect to our rights and torture leaves much to be desired. We need more engagement as an informed citizenry that…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…ly, like it or not. The interventions we are witnessing have fundamentally changed “the coordinates of the situation.” In other words, the past is not a guide to the future and we cannot call on it to define this particular revolution. 3. We cannot know what new Islamic energies will be unleashed. Until now, Islamic political philosophy has failed to answer the question of why Western-style democracies are more effective than rival political s…