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Indie Catholicism is Real: Married Clergy, LGBT Ordination, and Sacramental Justice for All

…t happens to have all the scholarly apparatus, too. There are endnotes and—online at Columbia’s web page for the book—a full bibliography and bibliographic essay. Are you hoping to just inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I have heard from people who said they were reading the book and laughing out loud, so apparently it has moments of humor or at least delight. I assume that some readers will feel suspicious, disturbed or angry. Indepe…

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Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

…st at the Mexican embassy in Washington, D.C. Hazteoir.org, a conservative online organizing platform affiliated with Brian Brown’s CitizenGo, organized a similarly small event at Mexico’s embassy in Madrid. Hazteoir told El Universal that demonstrations were also being held in Paris, Rome, Budapest, Brasilia, Quito and Bogota. Reminder: Journalist Rex Wockner explains and tracks the complex march of marriage equality through Mexico’s federal cour…

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Why Kaepernick’s Refusal to Stand Is an Act of Religious Dissent

…ort of vitriol Kaepernick’s action inspired, simply scan the comments from online news reports, which call him un-American, selfish, naïve, treasonous, and dangerous. Donald Trump even laid into him, “I think it’s a terrible thing, and you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him.” As a scholar of religion what interests me in this instance is the power of the flag as symbol—particularly in the way that people have reacted. T…

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Hillary Clinton Feeds the Trolls

…eet Journal, Clinton described it as “a loosely organized movement, mostly online, that ‘rejects mainstream conservatism, promotes nationalism and views immigration and multiculturalism as threats to white identity.’”) Richard Spencer, the white nationalist who came up with the term “alternative right,” told Slate columnist Michelle Goldberg that the moment was “hugely significant.” “When a presidential candidate—and indeed the presidential candid…

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Will Church Attendance Reduce Bigotry? A Response to Peter Beinart

…Sunday. People often forget the brotherhood of humanity when they go back online or watch cable news. That’s true even when they tell you how much they worry about partisanship. The religious realm—not just Christianity, but all sorts of faiths—can moderate conflict and even help create the conditions for reconciliation. But it’s never perfect; it’s always subject to outside forces, and it takes a long time. In 1844, the Methodist church split ov…

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Douthat’s Wager: Go to Church, Even If You Don’t Believe

…the Trump agenda will need more than yoga, composting, and the occasional online donation to be effective. Self-improvement is a worthy aim, but as Jain says, the political reality of the day demands that liberals undertake “concrete acts of collective resistance.” In that case, mainline churches seem to have just what secular liberals need. As Douthat points out, mainline denominations are already committed to gender and racial equity, LGBTQ rig…

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Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…ained after being lured to meet in the city by the police, who were posing online as gay or transgender people looking for dates, the activist added. Many of those affected lived in rented apartments, which their landlords told them to vacate after the raids, the activist said. Some fled for Turkey or went to hide in other regions of Azerbaijan. Eurasianet also reported on the “rising” persecution of LGBT people: Dozens of similar incidents have o…

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Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…parade in Jerusalem, police arrested a man from central Israel for making “online threats” against attendees. From i24 News: While Tel Aviv’s gay pride parade, the second largest in the world, is one of the city’s annual highlights, it’s counterpart in Jerusalem, a city sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians, is always smaller and more controversial. Jerusalem’s pride parade was the target of violence in 2015, ultra-Orthodox extremist Yishai Shlis…

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Reconsidering “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”: An Interview with Ethicist Eric Reitan

…e a measure of self-protection and self-love and a recognition, especially online. I’m trying, with my book, to help to lay the groundwork so this kind of positive dialogue becomes a real possibility. I find it fascinating that, in the book, you view Kim Davis through this Christian ethic lens and come to her defense in some ways in an effort to help readers understand where she was coming from according to her particular strain of Christianity. I…

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Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

…he decision. Ivete Sangalo, one of Brazil’s most popular singers, wrote on Instagram: “The sick ones are those who believe in the great absurdity.” … Evangelical Christians have been avidly protesting the novela, “A Força do Querer,” or “Willpower,” because of its storyline that depicts the struggles of transgender people in their day-to-day lives. Langlois notes that while “Brazil is far more liberal than many other Latin American countries when…

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