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Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

…e a caucus proposed a stop fracking resolution. We spent hours on national phone calls debating when fracking should be stopped. We finally proposed 2030 as the last fracking date. It was a compromise after many “brackets,” what COP21 calls the matters that are kept in that famous parking lot where we put the things we don’t know how to decide. The Synod amended our so-called radical proposal and unanimously passed 2017 as the final date. We were…

Making ‘The Link’: AIPAC’s New Crises

By Matthew Duss

…k, the disagreement escalated. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a 45-minute phone call to Netanyahu. Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, after being summoned to the State Department for a dressing down, reportedly called the dispute a 35-year nadir of the US-Israel relationship. Subsequently, in an attempt to tamp down concerns, Oren took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to deny that he had engaged in such a characterization, and to mi…

Mel Gibson’s ‘To-Do’ List

By Becky Garrison

…n wafers 2. Get a little behind in work 3. Party like it’s 1483 4. Two-four-six-eight, who should I excommunicate? 5. Order Mother Teresa sticky buns 6. Fine vendors selling Pope on a rope Bristol Palin 1. Pray for mom’s soul 2. Buy Revolve 2010 (Biblezine) 3. Get Promise Keepers application for Levi 4. Become a True Woman 5. Baby Making Time! 6. Refill prescription for Prozac Spencer Pratt 1. Get saved again by Stephen Baldwin 2. Buy soul from eB…

Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

By Michael Schulson

…f racially discriminating against his tenants. And she talked about the alt-right. Of course, the alt-right was thrilled. It’s not every day that a major presidential candidate calls out your fringe movement, even if there’s some murkiness about what your fringe movement actually is. (Quoting the Wall Street Journal, Clinton described it as “a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that ‘rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism an…

Two Former Nuns Get Civil Union in Italy; Kenyan Govt Partners with World Congress of Families; Mexican Activists Debate Outing of Priests; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lice force cancellation of film festival after arson threats Police in Port-au-Prince ordered organizers of what was to be Haiti’s first LGBT film festival to cancel the event after death and arson threats were made by phone and social media. According to Reuter’s Makini Brice, “A senator added to the pressure to cancel the Massimadi festival, saying it would promote homosexuality and that impoverished Haiti had other priorities.” Australia: Poll…

Culture Wars Masquerading as Social Science: New Survey Illustrates Evangelicals’ Election Year Anxieties

By Chrissy Stroop

…agreed with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (an SPLC-designated anti-LGBTQ hate group), on the solution to America’s “spiritual deficiency”: rather than discuss politics overtly, churches should simply better instruct their congregants in “the biblical worldview,” which will naturally lead to orthodox social conservative politics. Thus, according to Barna, evangelicals have a responsibility to make sure their children develo…

Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement

By Annika Brockschmidt

…all these different groups. I think that Mike Johnson comes across as a non-native speaker of that lingua franca. Roger Stone is a non-native speaker of that language. But he’s trying, right? Tom Parker sounds to me like a native speaker. Lauren Boebert is a native speaker of that stuff… So you do have politicians who’ve grown up in these circles, or judges have grown up in these circles, but then you also have people who are trying to kind of lat…

The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion

By Andreea Nica

…es her coming out as a nonbeliever to family as “difficult and still a work-in-progress” and further explains: During my several years [in] transition from religious to nonreligious, I didn’t feel comfortable talking about my beliefs with family and friends. Since discussing matters of faith had been a focal point of these relationships (i.e., praying for each other, encouraging each other with scriptures, etc.), my silence created feelings of dis…

Introducing the Dr. Who Media Club

By James F. McGrath

…ckground: The Doctor (his name does not seem to actually be “Who”) is a 917-year-old Time Lord, an alien time traveler. His time machine is the Tardis, which looks like a police box—think phone booth—but it’s bigger on the inside than the outside, can fly, and may actually be a living creature. He adventures through time and space, usually accompanied by one or more human companions who assist him in righting wrongs, liberating the oppressed, figh…

400 Churchgoing Mormons March in SLC Pride Parade

By Joanna Brooks

…says Barrus, who came to march in support of his gay nephew and gay sister-in-law. “People really felt compelled to come out no matter how miserable. And it was hot.” Meredith Hudson LeSueur, a straight LDS mother of two from Herriman, Utah, started to cry when she arrived at the Mormons Building Bridges meeting spot to find what she described as a “sea of Sunday best and strollers,” including her own—festooned in rainbow streamers. It was import…