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When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…ould have acted then to make it more difficult to buy a weapon that can easily kill so many people. But they didn’t. And now five more people are dead and twenty-five more injured. The system is working perfectly. And late 2022 is bearing the fruits of a violent summer and fall. Did you know that twice as many transgender people were murdered in 2021 than in 2019? Here’s another fact: Did you know that, contrary to right-wing fears about its ubiqu…

303 Creative Is Not a ‘Religion v. Gay Rights’ Case — But Here’s Why the Christian Right is Happy with the Media Suggesting Just That

By Heron Greenesmith

…s to deny goods or services to LGBTQ people. It’s way bigger. Anti-LGBT legal goliath Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is representing Lorie Smith, a conservative Christian web designer who doesn’t want to make websites for weddings other than those between one cisgender man and one cisgender woman. Smith has never made a wedding website, nor have any non-approved couples asked for her services. But she wants to and she wants to be able to turn aw…

Clues in the Data Suggest That Increase in LGBTQ Acceptance May Be Skewed By Conservative Desire For ‘Respectability’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ren’t in conflict? Maybe they’re outright told that being gay shouldn’t be illegal, but it’s not allowed under their parents’ roof. Or maybe they’re told that it’s kind of sort of okay to be gay in our family, but please don’t bring your partner to Thanksgiving, because Uncle Max couldn’t handle that, and for God’s sake stop posting all those pictures of you and your partner to Instagram I mean why do you have to just throw your gayness in everyon…

Exactly 30 Years Before Illinois AG’s Devastating Sexual Abuse Report, a Plan for Prevention was Implemented, Then Scrapped

By David Clohessy

…strategies deployed over the past few years by clerics who commit and conceal child sexual abuse have successfully intimidated many victims and whistleblowers, keeping them silent for fear of retribution. These factors, and others, led Belleville Bishop James Keleher and later, Bishop Wilton Gregory, to temporarily chart a surprisingly bold new course. For decades, perhaps even longer, when abuse reports were made, most predator priests were shuff…

Following Republican Playbook, German Conservatism Breaks the Post-WWII Taboo

By Annika Brockschmidt

…g it “the deconstruction of identity and family.” German conservatives are also all in on the authoritarian “law and order” rhetoric. In Munich, climate activists were sent to jail after a peaceful protest. For climate protesters of the group calling itself “The Last Generation,” for example, Markus Söder demanded: “punishments that are effective, not light fines, but, for example, arrests, or an appropriate prison sentence when it comes to partic…

Overnight Sensation ‘The Rich Men North of Richmond’ isn’t Just a Window into a Forgotten America — It’s an Invitation into a Worldview

By Bradley Onishi

…in order to destroy American life as we know it. And, lo and behold, journalists and Internet sleuths discovered that one of Anthony’s public playlists contains a number of videos propagating 9/11 trutherism, antisemitic tropes, and Q-adjacent conspiracies, as Ernie Piper at the Daily Dot observes: One of the singer’s public playlists on his YouTube channel, “videos to make your noggin get bigger,” contains several videos that promote 9/11 truthe…

Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch

By Ed Simon

…els with New Age goddess worship, an embodiment of the endlessly shifting malleability of the angel as a signifier. Furious angel Francis Lawrence’s 2005 Constantine, a film adaptation of Alan Moore’s DC graphic novel Hellblazer, details the work of its titular character, a metaphysical noir detective who lives in a Los Angeles that exists in a space equally with the dimensions of Heaven and Hell. As with Dogma and Good Omens, Constantine engage…

Resurrection of ‘Comstock Laws’ Would Threaten Access to Abortifacients — But Even That Fear Misses Bigger Picture

By Gillian Frank

…birth control. Authorities also conducted raids on establishments selling “illegal” contraceptives, including cafes, gas stations, pool halls and taverns. Newspaper reports indicated that in some cases, the buyers were high school age. But the market for birth control extended far beyond the young and the unmarried. In the absence of access to reliable reproductive healthcare resources, women availed themselves of dangerous and ineffective contrac…

The Year of the Abusive Priest

By Anthea Butler

…ion. These are people who trade in words, who argue incessantly in ecumenical dialogues about a word’s meaning. The problem is, the Vatican and its minions haven’t figured out that we are past the days of the monastic scribe, slowly chiseling out each word. The internet age has assured that their choice, ill-crafted words can be made available to everyone (assuming the church hasn’t shredded or put them under seal). No one is going to be put on th…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…renders this section moot. There’s something so perverse about a group of male, allegedly celibate clerics opining about surrogacy that makes me glad so few people read these documents. I suggest instead reading Professor of Ethics Grace Y. Kao’s recent book My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Professor Kao, tenured at Claremont School of Theology, describes her experie…