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Utah Rejects Arizona-Style Anti-Immigrant Politics

By Joanna Brooks

…they’ve seen on the ground in the way the Church has moved over the last decade from counseling members in Mexico against immigration to adopting the equivalent of a “don’t ask don’t tell policy” on matters of immigration status in the United States. As I’ve written before here at RD, I see this as evidence that the LDS Church is showing a willingness to move away from the ultraconservative and nationalistic politics that have defined its multige…

New Poll Shows Strong Catholic Support for Gay Rights

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tempt to pass marriage equality in Maryland. “They’re not going to be distracted by any polls and certainly not what the laity says about these things. We’ll certainly see a lot of activism on the part of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to try to keep at bay the move toward increasing laws favoring same-sex marriage,” Dillon said. Another surprise in the report is the strong Latino Catholic support for same-sex marriage with 45 percent…

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Re: Creationist Tactics Pre-Dating the Exposure of ID as a Fraud

By Lauri Lebo

…bills rely on such creationist code words as “teaching the controversy,” “academic freedom,” or “critical analysis.” His argument is that the Discovery Institute was promoting “critical analysis” long before intelligent design was exposed as nothing but revamped creationism. (One of the most problematic elements of intelligent design is its proponents’ argument that those searching for proof of God’s existence no longer need faith, since ID provi…

Bryan Fischer’s and the GOP’s Special Christian First Amendment

By Sarah Posner

…ward on Fischer’s boss, Don Wildmon, which deemed Wildmon “one of the most effective Christian leaders of our time.” In spite of all this — or probably because of it — none of these Republicans have any compunction from sidling up to the microphone of Fischer’s radio show. As one of the former AFA employees, Allie Martin, told me last year, speaking of some of his former co-workers, “They have bought into this idea of Americanized Christianity, th…

5 Reasons We Shouldn’t Be Surprised that Catholics Support LGBT Rights

By Paul Gorrell

…e condoms to help prevent HIV/AIDS. The Church authorities seemed more connected to the consistency of their ideology than sympathetic and responsive to the lives of people who were in trauma. You might say that Catholics responded with a collective eye roll at its leaders when they failed to allow for condoms in Africa within marriages when one of the spouses had HIV. On this, the Church teaching was unrealistic, rigid, and irresponsible. (5) The…

Vatican: Gay Rights Opponents are Real Victims

By Joseph M. Palacios

…o “a disturbing trend in some of these social debates: People are being attacked for taking positions that do not support sexual behavior between people of the same sex… they are stigmatized, and worse—they are vilified, and prosecuted.” He never addressed the reality of actual violence (killings, torture, rape, criminal sanctions, violence, bullying) against gays, lesbians, and transgender persons taking place around the world. Natural Law vs. So…

Shari’ah (Panic) Threatens the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…are true, and also agree that Jones’ Qur’an burning was unpopular but protected free speech, and that the angry mobs in Afghanistan don’t represent all Muslims. If you want to game all the possible Constitution-threatening ramifications of the Obama administration’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before a military commission, read Dahlia Lithwick: [M]ake no mistake about it: It won’t stop here. Putting the administration’s imprimatur on t…

Orthodox Jews Begin to Reckon with Sexual Abuse

By Paul Berger

…o investigate and to prosecute.” For many years, Orthodox rabbis have dissuaded victims and their families from going to the secular authorities with their claims of abuse. But as the Catholic Church has discovered at great cost, suppressing abuse allegations only makes the issue more damaging to the religious institution when it is finally exposed. At the recent sentencing of an Orthodox abuser in Brooklyn, the mother of one victim, who did not w…