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Homosexual Thoughts and Feelings Not a Sin, Says New LDS Handbook

By Joanna Brooks

…the internet reveal significant changes to Church policy on homosexuality. Websites are reporting changes (in CHI Book 2) as follows, with deletions marked in strikeouts and additions in italics: Homosexual behavior violates the commandments of God, is contrary to the purposes of human sexuality, distorts loving relationships, and deprives people of the blessings that can be found in family life and in the saving ordinances of the gospel. Those wh…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nvestigate claims that clerics had posted nude photos of themselves on gay websites, sexually harassed the faithful and stole church funds. Two years later the pope replaced the leader of the diocese, Bishop Mario Oliveri. Germany: Some Merkel allies to push for marriage equality A January poll by the federal anti-discrimination agency found that 83 percent of Germans support marriage equality, but opposition by conservative Christian Democrats an…

How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump

By Eric C. Miller

…divided over their trusted sources, forming rival camps according to which websites they are willing to read and which channels they are willing to watch. Along the way, the possibility of knowledge seems to have fallen into a fog of beliefs. In his new book, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, Kurt Andersen situates this state of affairs atop five centuries of American belief and imagination, tracing this legacy all the way back to its religio…

You Gotta Have Heart: A Response to Critics of “Why I’m Not an Organ Donor”

By Kristel Clayville

…If, like me, you’re more systems oriented, then get involved in the conversation. Organ transplantation policies undergo review fairly routinely, and public comments are always requested. Check the OPTN and HRSA websites monthly to see if there are policies up for review. Then read the proposals and leave a comment. But, if you opt to be a donor and don’t choose to work for a better system I won’t judge you….

Israeli Forest Fire as Divine Punishment, Religious Leaders (From Both Sides) Agree

By Ira Chernus

…s. The fire in Israel clearly sparked that temptation. Arab newspapers and websites carried comments like “O Allah, burn them before the Day of Judgment,” “O Allah, destroy them and all the enemies of Islam,” and, condemning Arab governments that helped Israeli firefighters, “May Allah take revenge against them and displace them together with our corrupt governments.” Hamas occasionally echoes such ancient voices as it tries to make itself the par…

Telling the World a ‘Big Story’: RD in Conversation with Karen Armstrong

By Laurie Patton

…, they are calling us to lay aside the egotism that holds us back from our best selves and from the divine. This is certainly true of the doctrines of Trinity and Incarnation, for example. They also insist that the best way of achieving this is by compassion, in which, “all day and every day” we have to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there. The doctrines and mythos of religion only make sense if we put them into pr…

“The Slut Assumption”: Myths About Jewelry Reveal Diamonds Aren’t Always A Girl’s Best Friend

By Wendy Doniger

…ve a woman a ring if he loves her (which is a very old myth throughout the European world), de Beers just slipped in the word “diamond,” and the motto, A Diamond is Forever, and voila! An instant new myth! And so they bamboozled hundreds of thousands of men into believing that it was—indeed, that it always had been—absolutely essential to spend $10,000 on a diamond engagement ring instead of using the money for a down payment on a condo. This is a…

To Pray or to Protest? The Both/And-ness of Black Christianity

By Jamall Andrew Calloway

…tending were “weak and impotent responses.” So instead of going to church Best was, as he explained, “… at home frustrated by the inability of those spaces—deeply conservative as many of them are—to truly bring about social and political change.” I do not agree with Best and, in fact, I think indulging in personal frustration at home about other people’s responses is more of an impotent reaction to injustice than praying at an altar. I want to p…

Nostalgia Voters? Not Really. Trump and His Supporters Value This More Than the Past

By Samuel Perry and Andrew Whitehead

…eep America Great” isn’t just an empty phrase or trite repackaging of the ubiquitous MAGA slogan. Trump’s supporters believe it. They believe it because the appeal of “MAGA” was never really about returning to some golden age when America was at its best. On the contrary, to Trump’s supporters, America is at its best whenever their cultural and political influence is strong. To the extent that such influence can stay strong, from their perspective…

In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?

By Peter Montgomery

…or disillusioned members could post their work without fear of discovery. European Union: Report on fundamental rights adopted On Tuesday the European Parliament adopted a report on fundamental rights in the EU. The Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights reports (citations removed): The report calls for action in the field of homophobic and transphobic hate crime; non-discrimination; free movement between Member States, including for same-sex cou…