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Gun Ownership: ‘An Obligation to God’

By Julie Ingersoll and Sarah Posner

…courts of jurisdiction to hear cases challenging a government entity’s or official’s “acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government.” This clear articulation of the religious right’s dominionist aims, framed as a challenge to what the Right asserts is the excessive power of the federal government, did manage to receive Republican support. It had nine co-sponsors in the Senate and was introduced in the House by Alaba…

No Buddhists in Washington?

By Danny Fisher

…ncil on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (which just launched its official Web site) currently lacks a Buddhist representative, despite the presence of at least one appointee from the other four major world religions. That said, it bears mentioning that Buddhists have been conspicuously absent from many of the administration’s conversations about and efforts around religion in America. We were not included, for example, in President Obama…

Reports of the Death of the Episcopal Church are Greatly Exaggerated

By Becky Garrison

…earthed the real reasons why evangelical Wheaton College was chosen as the site to announce this split instead of a more Episcopal setting. In particular, these bishops’ evangelical focus on sola scriptura topples the three-legged stool of scripture, tradition, and reason which forms the basis for Anglican theology. Such a theological shift raises far more concerns than questions about consecrating women bishops or openly gay clergy. (Emphasis on…

Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…a: Writers and artists commemorate anti-gay law with anthology Pop culture site Konbini reported this month that Nigerian artists and writers had responded to the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act by creating a “safe space for resistance and expression” called 14, a reference to the 14-year jail term for homosexual acts included in the law. This month, on the second anniversary of the law, 14 launched We Are Flowers, an anthology of queer art, inc…

Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ssion at the UNESCO forum extremely limited. Catholic Church: Some Vatican officials embrace new LGBT-friendly book; conservatives unhappy The conservative LifeSiteNews published a column complaining that the Vatican “has selected a prominent LGBT-pushing Jesuit priest to be a consultor to its communications office.” The priest in question is James Martin, editor-at-large of America magazine, who in 2016 received a Bridge Building Award from New W…

‘Hardwired’ for Hetero Marriage, LDS Tension Mounts Over LGBT Rights

By Joanna Brooks

…al October 2010 address to the worldwide church, LDS Church Public Affairs officials were tasked with receiving and responding to protest petitions from the Human Rights Campaign, and Elder Packer’s denial of possible biological origins for homosexuality was later edited out in published versions of the talk. LDS Church Public Affairs has also been credited with the development of new web materials that present homosexuality as a “complex issue” d…

Muslim Students Shocked By Professor’s Column

By Haroon Moghul

…you take the issue up with him. There is space for feedback on the Forbes site. Do what you do, then walk away from the consequences. Other than the earth-shaking irony of a University Dean accusing alumni of that same university of being unable to understand the idea of free speech (whom should we blame for that conceptual illiteracy, and when can I expect my tuition refund?) this cold-hearted dismissal suggests to American Muslims that their co…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…ant than the fact that they had garnered a degree of independence from the official English church, but over the course of the seventeenth-century their new home at the terminus of the western world took on a profound typological importance. As the historian Sacvan Bercovitch wrote, the Puritans eventually “identified America as the new promised land, foretold in scripture, as preparatory to the Second Coming.” It was at the end of the seventeenth…

LDS Church and the Birth Control Controversy

By Joanna Brooks

…birth control options, and affordable contraception is dispensed at the on-site pharmacy. Deseret Mutual Benefit Association (DMBA), however, a nonprofit corporation that provides health and other benefits to employees of the LDS Church and its affiliates (including Brigham Young University), lists among its exclusions “family planning, including contraception, birth control devices, and/or sterilization procedures,” unless the patient meets narro…

“Equality is Not a Feeling”

By Joanna Brooks

…her Olsen Beal of Nacogdoches, Texas. When the truck pulled away, a church official had drawn a barrier across the Tabernacle doors. Participants returned to a local park to listen to Conference on their cellphones—the first time in history that Church officials permitted broad media access to the event, a move some have characterized as a concession to ticket requests from Ordain Women leaders. Inside the Tabernacle and the nearby Conference Ce…