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Will the US Naval Academy Grant The Satanic Temple Equal Rites?

By Becky Garrison

…on to a ‘no head covering’ rule. Conversely, TST advocates that religious accommodations can be good but only if they are enjoyed by everyone–not just the dominant religion.” Finally, Laycock is not aware of any Pastafarians receiving death threats, having their families “doxxed” by Neo-Nazis, or otherwise demonstrating a willingness to take tremendous risks for their beliefs. “TST leaders have experienced these things and accept them as the price…

‘High Church’ Chronicles: Will Anglican Blessing of Medical Marijuana Open the Door to a Royal Strain?

By Becky Garrison

…dopting this resolution, the Episcopal Church has remained largely silent. San Leandro’s All Saints Episcopal Church did offer an educational presentation on medical cannabis on June 10, 2018, a few weeks before cannabis became legalized for recreational use in California. (A full list of religious denominations supportive of medical marijuana can be found here.) So do these moves point to the advent of a new form of high Anglican church? Here the…

The Theology That Inspired the Poway Synagogue Shooting (and New Zealand) Remains Strikingly Commonplace

By Ivan Strenski

…e? If so, why bother with preaching, teaching or theologizing at all? In fixating on Earnest’s Orthodox Presbyterians, let’s not forgot the Christian figures and denominations that have countered the notion of the replacement of the Jewish people by their alleged divine abandonment. Prominent here is Pope John Paul II’s 1980 statement that God’s covenant with the Jewish people had never been revoked. This and the earlier work of Vatican II reverse…

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

By Chrissy Stroop

…uthern Baptist Convention, recently uncovered by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News, we should pause to take stock of the culpability of the broader conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture—not just churches in other evangelical denominations, but also educational institutions, parachurch ministries, parallel information and entertainment industries, and political lobbying organizations. As I have argued at RD and elsewher…

What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018

By Joseph Laycock

…ll. At Central Michigan University, a journalism professor hosted a debate between Jex Blackmore and representatives of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. May: TST filed a formal complaint against Twitter with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. TST accepted an offer from First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza to represent them pro bono. Randazza has represented a number of far-right figures including Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich…

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

By Patricia Miller

…ce children for adoption with gay couples because it violates the church’s sanctions against homosexuality, Miracle Hill is arguing that it should be allowed to discriminate against Jews and other non-Christians who don’t adhere to its beliefs and still receive state and federal funding for its foster program. “The issue, as we see it, is that we’ve been threatened that if we don’t open our Miracle Hill foster care families to non-Christians, we c…

Trump’s Pathological Devotion to Border Walls Isn’t Political, It’s Theological

By Alana Massey

…in 250,000—some of whom are going to have problems, big problems—is just insane. We have to be insane. Terrible,” he said at a rally in Beaumont. It was noted that the 250,000 number was seemingly pulled from thin air, a ghastly specter of invasion at a scale larger than most of our cities. There were later comments about poisonous Skittles made by one of his idiotic children. *** Consider the travel ban clearly targeting Muslim-majority countries…

Welcome to the Gayborhood: Jason Brown on This New Era

By The Editors

The following is an exclusive excerpt from Kaleidoscope, a podcast featuring conversations on religion with the people often left out of conversations on religion and politics hosted by Deborah Jian Lee. As each new episode is released, Religion Dispatches will be featuring special remarks from the show’s guests that reveal how their worldview has changed in this new era. In 2013, Jason Brown was a queer student at Biola University, a conservativ…

Australians Vote Overwhelmingly For Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…challenge that sought to declare as unconstitutional, laws which ban homosexual sex. Free Community Church Executive Pastor Miak Siew told The Straits Times: “He was the first religious leader to voice support for LGBT people. He discerned that in the time of his retirement, he was called to minister to the lost sheep of the LGBT community – to speak up for the voiceless and the marginalised.” Dr Yap was consecrated the first Asian bishop of the M…

Gimme Shelter: Queer Space Is Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…a virginal Catholic school girl in a neatly pressed kilt. Queer space was sanctuary for friends and lovers; queer space was also a sanctuary for me. I was their guest, my uncomfortable but flirt-worthy boyfriends were their guests, but this was the sanctuary we shared. And they became my family, and they became the people I trusted most, and some of them died, and some were beaten, and some wake up every day to a pile of pills that keeps them ali…