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Global LGBT Recap: Catholic Polling, Religious Violence, International Advocacy

By Peter Montgomery

…ions. Neither is there scientific support for theories that claim sexual abuse or recruitment causes homosexuality. Most people who have been sexually abused do not later try homosexual behavior nor do they become homosexual. Some Ugandan scientists are arguing otherwise. February 10 was a global day of action designed to encourage Museveni not to sign the legislation. Among the protests was one in Nairobi, Kenya, outside Uganda’s High Commission…

Op-Ed: The Other: Dimensions of Resistance to Obama’s Candidacy

By Michael L. Hays

…r “McNasty” to explain his ends-justifies-the-means attacks, many of which use darkened images conventional to political advertisements to even greater effect in depicting a black man. I do not deny that the choice in this election is between candidates who differ greatly in both personality and policies. Likely McCain voters accept his temper, impulsiveness, and campaign conversions on long-held views; like his bellicosity in foreign affairs and…

Memo To Kathleen Parker on ‘Father Sky’ Reference in Tucson Memorial

By Daniel Schultz

…fs. That’s all right, I understand. Religion isn’t your beat. Besides, New Mexico and Arizona are exactly alike. How is a major CNN contributor like you to know what they do out in the sticks? And sure, “Father Sky and Mother Earth” isn’t exactly “In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” It’s downright weird, isn’t it? It’s almost as bad as “Brother Sun” or “Sister Moon,” or “Brothers Wind and Air.” Really? How about “Sister Wa…

When Medicine and Religion Conflict Around Children: The Case of Daniel Hauser

By Wendy Cadge

…diabetic daughter Madeline died. Boston television stations covering the Hauser story interviewed Billy Best who in 1994, at the age of 16, fled Massachusetts rather than receive chemotherapy and radiation for his Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Best spoke to the Hausers before they fled, telling the press that the authorities should leave Daniel alone. Cases like Daniel’s, Madeline’s, and Billy’s raise complex ethical questions. How much latitude should pare…

A Pastor Takes on BP in New Orleans

By Brentin Mock

…against the mega-corporation BP. Right now roughly a third of all Gulf of Mexico areas available for commercial fishing (where roughly a third of the US mainland’s seafood comes from) are closed. The impact of this, according to a report from the Mississippi Coalition of Vietnamese American Fisherfolk and Families, is that 80 percent of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian families in the Gulf will feel some economic squeeze. Of the 40,000 Vietnamese f…

RDBook: Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa

By Luke Ssemakula

…k international connections are reluctant to advocate political reform because they have nowhere to turn for help in case of state persecution; some of these welcome the patronage of politicians. Others still refuse to buy into the dualism of sacred versus secular, preferring instead to see God as fully invested in humanity’s full experience—these consider democracy an arena in which they can be the salt of the earth and light to the world and the…

Is Religion the Only Tool Left for Legal Discrimination?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…twist themselves into knots to avoid admitting that the same argument was used to oppose interracial marriages—which it definitely was. Of course, modern “religious freedom” has been interpreted so broadly that it now covers all manner of sins. Are you a business owner who doesn’t want to employ trans people? Just say your faith doesn’t allow you to recognize your trans female employee as a woman, which means she’s violating the dress code when s…

What Makes Mormons Weird?

By Joanna Brooks

…at weird was, in fact, code for Mormon, and that Obama and team planned to use the word “weird” as a dog-whistle to stoke voters’ antipathies towards Mormonism in 2012. The news set off a wave of cringes among Mormon politicos as well. Because Mormons do recognize “weird” as a word that sticks to us in the American imagination. In 1995, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley declared in an interview with Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes, “We are not a…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…ons but, like the Bush Administration before it, the administration has refused because of Mugabe’s ongoing human rights abuses, including controlling the country’s diamond wealth by military force and violence, and repression of political opposition and free press. Legalizing Homosexuality Could “Bring a Curse” The EFZ/ACLJ pamphlet also calls for constitutional prohibitions on both abortion, by defining life as “beginning at conception,” and on…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…Christian society and a form of religious politics that will make biblical code the law of the United States. These activists are quite serious about bringing Christian politics into power. Bray said that it is possible, under the right conditions, for a Christian revolution to sweep across the United States and bring in its wake Constitutional changes that would allow for biblical law to be the basis of social legislation. Failing that, Bray envi…