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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…off the southern tip of Spain. United Kingdom: Former Tory leader opposes ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools Lord Norman Tebbit, a former Conservative Party chair, spoke out against “promotion” of homosexuality in the schools, saying “I think it is damaging to children to introduce uncertainty into their minds.” Kenya: Activist profiled The Star’s Lydia Matata wrotes about gender non-conforming activist Joji Baro. China: Most LGBT people fear…

Women of Opus Dei Explain “True Feminism”

By Kate Childs Graham

…shrouded in secrecy, came into the spotlight after Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code hit the New York Times bestseller list. The novel suggested that the women in Opus Dei are “forced to clean the men’s residence halls for no pay,” and remarked upon the broad subjugation of women in the order. And while the novel is fictional, the alleged “misconceptions” that arose in the fallout of the media attention surrounding The DaVinci Code provided much of the…

Do Not Attack the Writer

By Peter Montgomery

…dismay turned to laughter when I saw immediately below Winters’ screed the code of conduct for comments on National Catholic Reporter. His post is a primer on violating NCR’s own rules for respectful conversation. Maybe someone at NCR can give him a much-needed tutorial. NCR Comment code: Be respectful. Do not attack the writer. Take on the idea, not the messenger. Use appropriate language. Avoid vulgarities and slurs. Keep to the point. Deliberat…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…an anything or anyone I can think of,” King said this week. (Remember, the Republicans love the Constitution! Especially the First Amendment!) But while King’s planned hearings on the “radicalization” of American Muslims made headlines before the holidays, there’s a subplot in that narrative that will no doubt find its way into Republican “oversight” and “protection” of (selective) Constitutional principles: the supposed threat of shari’ah law to…

Church Attendance is (Once Again) Correlated with Authoritarianism — So Why Do We Refuse to Acknowledge It?

By Chrissy Stroop

…an personalities are disproportionately clustered in the following groups: Republicans (67%), White evangelicals (54%), White Catholics (54%), those who adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalism (74%), and, importantly for the argument I’m making here, weekly churchgoers (55%). (These numbers are derived from the RWAS, but the CRAS data revealed the same broad pattern.) By contrast, there are far fewer authoritarians among Democrats (28%)…

Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…gregationist senator of South Carolina, a former Democrat who had become a Republican in 1964. Thurmond helped him win the Republican nomination and the presidency by vouching for the Nixon/Agnew ticket to other former Southern Democrats. It was Reagan, who later cemented the alliance between White Southerners and the GOP. This so-called “Southern Strategy” would not only remake the GOP but the entire political landscape of the U.S. And, as was em…

Good (Enough) Christians — Russell Moore in The Atlantic Illustrates the Limitations of ‘Christian Nationalism’ as Category

By Chrissy Stroop

As a transgender person who grew up evangelical and is now an atheist, I feel the consequences of the “myth of Christian innocence” that profoundly shapes American society in ways that many Americans do not. Fully two-thirds of LGBTQ Americans are nonreligious (compared to about one-third of the general population), for what seem like obvious reasons—and yet it’s not the LGBTQ Christians who leave the religion, but rather those who reclaim it as…

Attacks on Tim Walz’s Lutheran Denomination are Undermined by Reality — I Mean, Is ELCA Even Exciting Enough for Controversy?

By Daniel Schultz

…tor-in-Chief of The Federalist, a right-wing publication with a history of promoting false information about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and climate change, showed no such restraint, proclaiming on Twitter: As a confessional Lutheran, I’m getting a lot of questions about Tim Walz possibly being Lutheran. FWIW, Walz is ELCA, an extremely left-wing sub-denomination. You may be familiar with the ELCA due to some of their congregations using the “spa…

Election Reporters: Here’s Why Simply Descriptors Like ‘Christians’ Can Have Enormous Consequences

By Daniel Schultz

…e a subset of a subset. If Trump were to address a convention of Log Cabin Republicans, would any reputable journalist describe them simply as “Republicans” with no qualifier? Similarly, if Harris spoke to a group of Democratic Socialists: would they be called “Democrats,” or would they be identified as a left-wing bloc within the party? Any reasonable interpreter can see that a subset claiming the mantle of the whole is a power grab. It goes for…

Already Beatified by the Right for Surviving an Assassination Attempt, Must We All Pray for Donald Trump?

By Daniel Schultz

…s, including nine-year-old Milwaukee resident Jonael Zambrano, whose death Republican Congressman Bryan Steil cited in defense of Trump labeling Milwaukee a “horrible” city? The answer, of course, is that the MAGA movement reveres Trump as a quasi-messianic figure who represents their political aspirations. An attack on Trump is an attack on the MAGA whole—and that whole is quick to bluster that mere bullets cannot stop their triumphal march to so…