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Romney’s Religion of Happiness vs. Gingrich’s Religion of Grievance

By Sarah Posner

…ss of life as a gift of God.” (emphasis added). Keith Mason, of Personhood USA, extrapolated from the recent Massachusetts case, in which a judge ordered a bipolar woman to undergo an abortion and sterilization, to claim that there is a “growing” eugenics movement in America. (The judge’s decision, it should be noted, was reversed, and has not, you might have noticed, blossomed into a growing eugenics movement.) Gingrich took the question quite se…

Are Evangelicals Suffering From Buyer’s Remorse with Obama?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ess evidence of a criminal defendant’s possession of cocaine, a ruling that, alas, was unanimously reversed by the Seventh Circuit? With ‘moderates’ like Hamilton, imagine what Obama’s ‘liberal’ nominees will look like.” Curt Levey, executive director of the Committee for Justice, said that the Hamilton pick was being touted “as an example of how moderate their picks will be. If this is what the Obama administration considers ‘moderate’ then I thi…

Is the Prochoice Religious Community a Sleeping Giant?

By Frederick Clarkson

…he Episcopal Church, the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. As is most of organized Judaism. There are also deeply considered prochoice theological traditions within all of major world religious traditions present in the United States, including Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Taken together, they have vast resources, institutional capacity, historic and central roles in many town…

Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students

By Jonathon Sawyer

…and powerful figures in the nation’s capital: those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or—especially—transgender. NAR leaders have exerted great influence on today’s Christian Right, but the tenets most prominent in today’s public square have been carved out of the NAR’s most extravagant elements: that spiritual warfare against actual demonic entities (which are believed to cause LGBTQ identity) is necessary to conquer the Seven Mountains of…

Tell It All, Sister! NJ Female PCUSA Pastor Gets Married—To Another Woman!

By David Gillespie

…l proceeding against her. We’ll just have to wait and see. More importantly, however, the announcement — and the recent case of Lisa Larges in San Francisco Presbytery — focuses attention on that pesky “fidelity and chastity” clause. Not only does it raise the issue of conflicts between state definitions of marriage and ecclesiastical ones, it raises the issue of what exactly “chastity” is. It also raises fundamental questions of sexual ethics for…

Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Spit on Inhuman Gay Scum: This Week’s LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…zech Republic,” the Czech father, who works as a financial director in the USA, is quoted as saying. “Our travelling across Europe will be easier and the boys will have their door to Czech schools open,” he added. The Post says the ruling was possible based on a new law giving Czech courts the ability to recognize foreign rulings on adoption. Lawmakers have resisted efforts to pass legislation allowing the same-sex partner of a biological parent t…

Giving RD The Finger?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…sociated with the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, US News & World Report, and USA Today. This is all brilliant in its quiet, descriptive way. Silk is especially mindful of the ways in which we are bombarded by news and information from the time we wake to the time we retire. He has structured his response by simply walking us through his day, reminding us that we are always (both actively and semi-passively) receiving such information, sometime…

Russian Operative Maria Butina, Who Leveraged Christian Right Connections, Sentenced For Conspiracy

By Becky Garrison

…o overload Twitter, which is read. We need to build relationships with the USA, but there are many who oppose this! . . According to Butina, this other Russian national referred to was another member of the Russian government whom Butina feared would overtake her and the Russian Official as the primary Russian point of contact for the National Prayer Breakfast. While this sentencing memo focused on Butina’s role in the 2017 National Prayer Breakfa…

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

By Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky

…t goes double for our leaders, who should be held to a higher standard. Why, then, do conservative evangelicals continue to support Trump? As the popular religion journalist Jonathan Merritt put it during the last presidential election, “Donald Trump is immodest, arrogant, foul-mouthed, money-obsessed, thrice-married, and until recently, pro-choice. By conventional standards, evangelical Christians should despise him.” The basic assumption that Tr…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to be able to grow up in an environment that provides them with protection, love, and opportunities for personal growth – regardless of their differences,’ he said. GayStarNews also reports that last week the capital of Dili hosted the country’s first Pride parade, and said, “A Catholic nun who runs a shelter for vulnerable people, including LGBTI people, opened the proceedings with a prayer.” Turkey: Gay Iraqi refugee stranded by Trump freeze on…