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Searching for Sex, Life and Abortion on Catholic Google

By Kate Childs Graham

…Catholic Church stance on the subjects. Surprisingly, the editors of this site must have forgotten to block out those renegade progressive Catholics (note the sarcasm). When I searched for “women’s ordination” two pro-women’s ordination groups, Roman Catholic Women Priests and Women’s Ordination Conference, were the first sites that came up The same happened with when I searched “LGBT” and DignityUSA, a group working for LGBT rights in the Church…

Can Art Save Us From Fundamentalism?

By Philip S. Francis

…so many of the post-evangelicals in this book come to refer to the arts as sites of “transcendence” and a “stand-in for faith” is in keeping with the times. This book gives us a chance to see how that untidy “substitution” of art for religion takes place within the course of one lifetime. The misconception that evangelicalism is monolithic, and that all evangelicals are against good (modern) art. This relates to a broader, common, lazy assumption…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…hs in prison. Two men accused of having kissed in early June on a historic site in Rabat, Morocco, were sentenced Friday to four months in prison. Lahcen, 38, and Mohsin, 25, who were being prosecuted for insulting public decency and act against nature with an individual of the same sex, were sentenced to four months in prison and a fine of 500 dirhams each ( about 45 euros), according to gay advocacy groups. The two men arrested on June 5 were ac…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…ple in. (Indeed, I’m aware of a number of churches whose social networking site pages are closed to outsiders. Hmmm?) A modestly tech-savvy minister will eventually come to the conclusion that engagement with believers today has to be both digital and mobile. Thus, I wasn’t surprised to read about an Anglican priest in Nova Scotia who offered a “grace for gadgets” service over Labor Day weekend during which the faithful had to opportunity to have…

Naked Mormon Women Go Viral, Talk Back

By Holly Welker

…t and in how many countries they’ve appeared,” Anderson said. “I’ve had website hits from every continent except Antarctica. Seeing the site stats has been quite the lesson in geography!” Much of the response has been positive. A recent editorial by Salt Lake City art historian Alexandra Karl in the Salt Lake Tribune called Anderson’s work “truly groundbreaking” in the way it “diverges from her [LDS] contemporaries and predecessors, by specificall…

Satanic Temple Considers Legal Action Against School Censorship

By Joseph Laycock

…utive ministry received two emails from students complaining that TST’s website is blocked on school computers, though they were able to access the websites for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim organizations. Jarry reached out both to the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the ACLU and letters were sent to the school districts informing them that this was a form of religious discrimination. The school districts, Southwest Dubois County Schools in I…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…n government anti-HIV policies. Since the early 1990s, the CBCP has issued official statements vilifying condoms, campaigned against legislation that would expand condom access, and levied personal attacks against government officials who favor inclusion of condoms in HIV prevention programs. The Church, backed by conservative lawmakers, has obstructed efforts to expand public education and awareness of the value of condoms in HIV prevention on th…

When Mormons Mobilize: Anti-Gay Marriage Prop. 8 Effort ‘Outed’?

By Joanna Brooks

…dertake the same donor-identification project for Proposition 8 at the Web site mormonsfor8.com. In early September, a surge of $25,000 donations began to appear in campaign finance records compiled by the California Secretary of State. Hansen and a crew of Mormon supporters of same-sex marriage began to comb large donor records to identify Mormon Church members. By Election Day, mormonsfor8.com volunteers had successfully identified more than 50%…

RD News Round-Up: October 27, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…s “Judgement Houses.” At the Clearwater, Florida-based Judgement House Web site you can find everything you need to stage a truly frightening event, including an informational how-to video and 10 different scripts. Each scripts is “unique in its setting, characters and story and is a relevant interpretation of events happening around the world today. However all of our scripts ask the same important question, ‘What will you do with God’s offer of…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…moments which led to the characterization, by an unnamed State Department official, that the President acted like “a drunk tourist… Loud and tacky, shoving his way around the dance floor.” Of this, too, there were photographs, and video clips. Much has been written on Trump as a “reality TV president,” from the way his background on The Apprentice helped him into the White House to how that show was echoed in the theatrics of the transition proce…