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The Quiet Passing of Fundamentalist Mormon Prophet Lynn A. Thompson Suggests Polygamy Recognition Remains a Distant Hope

By Cristina Rosetti

…crimes remains a felony. The bill passed by an astronomical margin. At the center of the bill’s debate was harm reduction, and further integrating polygamous families into wider Utah society. Among supporters were several of Thompson’s children who left the faith as adults, and who recognized the criminal status of polygamy as contributing to a childhood marked by isolation, even within a more “progressive” fundamentalist movement. While Mormon fu…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on which has been in the news for its use by Australia as a grim detention center for asylum seekers, decriminalized homosexuality by overturning an 1899 law. Switzerland: Same-sex partner adoption law approved Legislation allowing a member of a same-sex couple to adopt a partner’s children was approved by the House of Representatives on Monday; it had already cleared the Senate and was supported by the government. It will apply to cohabiting coup…

Rodriguez on Nativism in the GOP and Socially Conservative Latinos

By Sarah Posner

…endent movement that will be right of center, not hard-right, but right of center, independent movement that will run a counter narrative, or an alternative narrative to the Republican Party and even to the progressive, liberal, the Democratic Party. There’s a brand new movement emerging in America. It’s center-rght, it’s not hard right, it’s that cricle of protection but with social conservative values that do not alienate or polarize. It’s diffi…

A Revolutionary Plea in the Wake of Attempted Synagogue Bombing

By Hussein Rashid

…York, since, according to one suspect, “the best target” — the World Trade Center — “was hit already.” The disturbing calculus of these men can only be understood in the context of hatred, ignorance, stereotypes, and bad theology. The best antidote to this plot – and future plots like it – is more interfaith activity. We are not naïve enough to think that simply knowing folks across lines of faith will prevent violence. However, we have seen over…

God is My Co-Belligerent: Avatar Priests, Hijacked Theologians, and Other Figures of Right-Wing Revolt

By Frederick Clarkson

…cCloskey is a member of Opus Dei, and once headed the Catholic Information Center. McCloskey recently published an update of his essay. “I—or perhaps my thesis” he wrote, “received quite a bit of vitriolic criticism from the elite mainstream media and even from the late Tim Russert on Meet the Press. A goodly number of faithful Catholic writers also found it dark and threatening, however, although I had intended it to be positive and optimistic.”…

Abortion Still Issue in Senate Health Care Reform Bill

By Sarah Posner

…Senate bill or in conference. Meanwhile, a new poll from the Pew Research Center shows opposition to abortion funding ranking very low in reasons opponents of health care reform oppose passing legislation. The poll also found a 55% majority believes “abortion should not be included as a guaranteed medical benefit if the government health care reform plan passes.” But the way that question was framed doesn’t really resolve whether people are in fa…

Palin Goes ‘Hopey-Changey,’ But Don’t Call it Political

By Julie Ingersoll

…oney on the basis of “reports” that the developers of the Park51 community center “may seek taxpayer dollars” (in the form of tax-free bonds) to build the center. The Evening of Hope event itself bounced back and forth between efforts to promote access to abortion alternatives in the form of charitable services and political campaigning aimed at legally prohibiting abortion—a position the Republican Party’s platform. Palin and others invoked the n…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…have been designated as anti-LGBTQ hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The international chapters of both organizations submitted pro-referendum legal opinions to Romania’s Constitutional Court while the body assessed whether the civic initiative could be considered by parliament. … Liberty Counsel’s vice president of legal affairs, Horatio Mihet, said his organization “provided legal support and shared lessons we have learned while ad…

New Anti-Trans Strategies Floated at Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand Summit

By Heron Greenesmith and Asia Korkmaz

…l. Brewer, Duncan, and a third panelist Jennifer Bauwens, Director for the Center for Family Studies at FRC, cautioned attendees about the “affirmative care” model, despite gender-affirmative care being the standard set by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Psychological Association. Each of the three panelists added color to the picture…

The Washington Post’s New Religious Right Now Blogger

By Sarah Posner

…an Sekulow, a Republican activist and lawyer with Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice (led by Sekulow’s father Jay), would be blogging for its On Faith section on the religious right. This is not, of course, like hiring a reporter to cover the religious right. Sekulow is the religious right, and deeply embedded and committed to its ideology and causes; giving him a blogging platform gives an unvarnished platform to the ACLJ (which…